The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,” according to a report by the UN watch-dog.
The report states that “the Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of [Iran’s] declared nuclear material,” but that “Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation” for the IAEA to completely rule out a military dimension to Iran’s nuclear program.
The report charges Iran with being slow to respond to IAEA requests for further information “concerning the construction of ten new uranium enrichment facilities,” the sites for five of which have been decided and only one of which has begun construction.
Based on information provided to the IAEA primarily from Member States (especially the U.S.) and a 2007 interview with a leading figure in the clandestine nuclear supply network, the report claims that there are “indications that some activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device continued after 2003, and that some may still be ongoing.”
Summarizing the conclusions regarding the possible development of a nuclear explosive device, the report notes:
- Efforts, some successful, to procure nuclear related and dual use equipment and materials by military related individuals and entities;
- Efforts to develop undeclared pathways for the production of nuclear material;
- The acquisition of nuclear weapons development information and documentation from a clandestine nuclear supply network; and
- Work on the development of an indigenous design of a nuclear weapon including the testing of components.
The report provides circumstantial evidence, provided by Western intelligence sources, that Iran has engaged in research and development activities which are “strong indicators of possible weapon development.” No direct evidence, however, is provided of an active weaponization program; the report’s concerns mostly arise from the absence of evidence disproving weaponization.
Iranian officials have dismissed the report as inaccurate and politically motivated. They charge the IAEA’s new Director General, Yukiya Amano, has a pro-Western bias. Indeed, the Guardian’s Julian Borger has compiled a series of U.S. State Department diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks which reveal a similar evaluation of Amano by the U.S.
In October 2009, as Amano was coming in as Director General, the U.S. State Department wrote that he was “DG of all states, but in agreement with us.” Amano reminded the U.S. ambassador that he would have to be “fair-minded and independent, but that he was solidly in the U.S. court on every key strategic decision, from high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.”
If the IAEA’s concerns about an Iranian nuclear program are correct, close watchers of the Persian Gulf region will not be surprised. U.S. policy influences Iran strongly towards attaining a nuclear deterrent, so that Iran may have have such intent has been predictable for years.
The U.S. has waged two aggressive, unnecessary wars directly along Iran’s east and west borders, constantly floods the Persian Gulf with fleets of navy warships, props up client states surrounding Iranian territory with weapons systems and money, and heaps restrictive sanctions on Iran’s energy and banking industries.
In addition, the Bush administration had received from Congress funding for a program of support for rebel ethnic groups in Iran to work to undermine the government. For years now, a concerted covert U.S. campaign of cyber-terrorism, commercial sabotage, targeted assassinations, and proxy wars has been under way in Iran.
Lastly, the close U.S. relationship with Iran’s two adversaries – Saudi Arabia and Israel – have contributed to the implication of an impending U.S.-led attack on Iran. Israel has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran and the Saudi King was revealed in leaked diplomatic cables to have explicitly urged the U.S. to attack Iran.
In such an environment, Iran is acting out of a perception of threat and is much more likely to pursue nuclear weapons capabilities to ensure against an attack from the outside.
The Obama administration has responded to the IAEA report by encouraging more sanctions to be placed on Iran. But the potential for a preemptive, unilateral Israeli strike are raising concerns. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing his cabinet to support a unilateral attack on Iran, and last week Israel tested a ballistic missile while making public statements about an Iranian nuclear threat.
But an attack on Iran is likely to trigger regional war of successive retaliatory attacks. It would also be against the strategic interests of the U.S. and Israel in that it would likely cause Iran to dig in its heals and fully engage in a nuclear weapons program.
“is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,”
What is that for a Logic??
Are these scientists or just another bunch of Politicians?
It sounds to me that they can't prove that Iran is NOT doing it??
That doesn't mean anything if they cant prove that Iran would do so.
I was already suspecting such "science" when this Japanese puppet got in charge of IAEA.
W9
Too much of the information provided to IAEA has come from State. They have been caught a number of times willing to lie on behalf of the Israelis. All the war mongers at State, the US Congress refuse to accept the findings of both the Mossad and CIA that there is no evidence that Iran is building Nukes.
STATE
All the federal agencies of Empire USA and the corporate rich who rule over them.
CORRECTION
STATE
All the federal agencies of our government that have a monopoly on the use of force and violence, and the corporate rich who rule over them.
sounds like the usual bs to me
iran must be guilty because it cannot prove it is innocent
Iran must be guilty because we say it is
So the bottom line with the IAEA report is, bullsh*t and innuendo. Toss in a side order of pretense and disingenuous misdirection and there you go. Nothing from nothing leaves…WAR?
ABSOLUTELY NOT — IRAN HATES NUKES
Iran would never build a nuke, Israel will never bomb Iran and the US will do nothing to Iran beyond sanctions.
Most profound, billions upon billions each year are poured into the intelligence agencies in USA, Israel, England and all the other Western European nations — yet the only evidence they have against Iran is heresy evidence in a cheep laptop computer with cheep PowerPoint software that no self-respecting scientist would be seen dead with. And a laptop that most Iranian scientists could not use, as all the data recorded in it was written in English.
Please always look what the other side says:
Iran to IAEA: Go ahead and publish 'counterfeit' report
Ali Akbar Salehi says crucial IAEA report on Iran's nuclear programme due in the next few days is based on ‘counterfeit’ claims. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=488…
This is a notorious organisation which over looks the west and is chasing Iran why?
For Israel they are bling and don,t want to see.
Nukes are gaurantee for world peace and if then will be used by america a war loving country in the world.
DARKNESS WORKS — ONLY IN DARKNESS
Foreigners from afar look into the deceitful darkness of the Western world, see most everyone enriching themselves upon the misery of those less educated, and rightly conclude that in any confrontation with Iran — the West stands guilty until proven innocent.
Whereas, in the Western world, propaganda frames Iran guilty of a “provocation” and unless Iran has overwhelming proof of its innocence, the propaganda builds and builds.
So these bozos have rediscovered the principle that you cannot prove a negative and think this is a reason to go to war.
What a bunch of hypocrites the USG , France and other Western Nations who persue Iran are.
They talk of Iran "trying "to acquire nuclear weapons WHILST THE MOST BELLIGERANT NATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST – ISREAL – HAS HUNDREDS OF NUCLEAR BOMBS,
What kind of double standard isthis???
It’s very funny All the claimed reasons in this new report, have been repeated from the last IAEA report.
it’s more funny that Netanyahu refers to this report while his country did’t accept IAEA, and they act aginst all the rules.and USA (the only nukes used country) gather the data and provide the evidence for the report.
what a report !!! 🙂
I don’t know How you western people endure your politicians?
this is their stupid reasoning in an international matter, what it would be on the internal matters?!?
are these people ruling you?
Alas,
you really should occupy everywhere ,before it’s too late.
if any one inside Iran use such reasoning the people surely would not tolerate.
The real problem is that the Pentagon for more than 40 years has been pursuing a Disarming First Strike Capability even if it logically leads to Launch On Warning, probably by 2014. General Harbottle stated for that reason: "They are bloody fools in the Pentagon." Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org-wrote on the missiles in Bulgaria, Romania and Poland: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike." To take out the Russian second strike force, i.e. the missiles surviving First Strike with Minuteman-3 and Trident-2. The US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously according to Bob Aldridge. The missiles in the three countries lead to Launch On Warning, probably by 2014 and Nuclear War by mistake because the Pentagon aims to achieve Nuclear Supremacy, maybe only for Blackmail. By the way, Bob Aldridge-America in Peril (Hope Publishing).
isn't funny how must people who claim to opposed the un on a moral or political basis,
hate it and call evil and totalitarian any time it is work towards conflict resolution and peace
but love and cheer it anytime it helps monger war…
The same old same old, prove the negative prove that you are not doing what Israel or the United States demand you are doing.
Knowing that it is almost impossible to prove a negative!
So what if it is true that Iran is working to acquire a nuclear device. ? I think Iran should ! Israel developed the 'bomb' secretely and has never opened its nuclear facilities for international inspection. I think it would be good for maintaining PEACE in the ME. if both of them have the DETERENT as there will then be a BALANCE OF POWER. During the COLD WAR years PEACE was maintained thanks to the BALANCE OF POWER between WEST and EAST so the (propaganda?) argument went during those years. I am convinced considering Israel's warlike past that she would be more likely to use the bomb than Iran.
Sure, sure, whatever it takes in order to justify the illegal invasion of yet another sovereign peaceful nation on behalf of the Zionist masters.
MORAL IMPOSSIBILITY
For Iran to get nukes, this would be an admission by a devout Muslim theocracy that USA is morally justified in having its 10,000 atomic people vaporizers, in effect canceling all the past condemnation it expressed for our vaporizing 220,000 civilians in Japan after the war had been won.
A complete reversible of things considering that when Iraq used chemical weapons in their invasion and war with Iran, the religious leader who has veto power over all of Iran politics, he issued a proclamation that never under no circumstances would Iran use weapons of mass destruction.
Most Americans being non religious, this is an imperative they cannot even begin to comprehend.
I read some where on the internet that Iran has developed a very high explosive that they tip their missiles with.1 missile can take out at least 10 city blocks of high rises. Maybe this is why they say they don't need nuclear wepons?
TERRORISTS — BORN BY DEADLY FORCE
Think about it, do we have half the wealth on earth because we have 10,000 nuclear weapons, or do we have such deadly force because of all that wealth?
Actually both, for only by such terrorizing force would our victims stand mute while our brutal imperialism plunders their natural resources and cheap labor. And after plunder turns all our victims into terrorists, most get brain-petrified just thinking about what happened when we vaporized 220,000 in Japan.