If you think the various allegations against Iran’s nuclear program in last week’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report were flimsy and backed by little but vague speculation, imagine what they left out.
We don’t know what was left out, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s complaints suggest there were even more random allegations to be made, and his anger that “only things that could be proven were written” suggests the case for the new allegations was even weaker.
Netanyahu, however, insisted that the IAEA report wasn’t nearly accusatory enough, and that he believed Iran was much closer to getting a nuclear weapon than even the fanciful IAEA tale made them out to be.
Netanyahu ended his comments by demanding the world “stop Iran’s race to arm itself with a nuclear weapon before it is too late,” again fueling speculation that his government may follow through with decades of threats to attack Iran.
Where is the IAEA report on Israel 'secret' WMDs stash. Iran has voiced its commitment to a Nuclear Free Middle East. while Israel baulks at the idea. Someone should tell the Liar to STFU
Bibi seems utterly blind to the possibility the world may actually prefer a nuclear armed Iran– one which will force Netanyahu to forgo his incessant whining in favor of legitimate statesmanship, . . or failing that, one which will simply force him to stop his incessant whining.
Oops, wrong spot. I had meant to reply to Druthers below.
Where, oh where are the men in the white jackets when they are so desperately needed
They're all a strike cause Bibi don't pay 'em enough.
This extremist is a LIAR! Go lie to American congress not the world you despicable and characterless thingy!
Gee I do not understand why bibi would not like the report. I thought he ghost wrote the report with his staff providing the computer games which the report was based. I think nothing tells more that people have learned that these reports are nothing but toilet paper which has already been used. Bibi stick with playing the holocaust victim even if you grew up as the rich kid of a university professor on the mainline of Philadelphia. How you play the victim shows how quickly your side will accept anything no matter how strange. One guy actually got caught as a liar and his statement that it might have happened as a defense to his lies about his life as a kid.
Jeez, you mean that the stooge they installed at IAEA didn't believe EVERYTHING Netan-yahoo gave him to put in the report? All that work – ignored? Now, how can Bibi convince the world to invade Iran if all the fiction they provided is left out of the justification report?
Poor Netan-yahoo…no one wants to play with him anymore…What's that old story about crying wolf too often?…
I wonder if the Israeli government is explaining to the Israeli people how bad it will be for them if Israel attacks Iran – and Iran retaliates. I can't imagine that the generic Israeli is peachy-keen with that. They're surrounded…there's no place they can run to get out of the way. Really stupid.
Oh, yes, the IAEA is sooooooooooooo anti-semitic™. And this is fact, particularly, after Israel discovered that Elbaradei is an Iranian spy.
~snicker, snicker~
It's a sad commentary that IAEA worked so hard to show that Iraq had no WMD and the new leadership at IAEA is so gullible to accept the Israeli lies about Iran sent through proxy nations and the US State Department. The American public should be furious that almost all the Republican candidates are willing to demagogue the issue and wave the sabers. Most voters are too naive to understand that the Israelis are pulling the lever from behind the curtain.