Underscoring just how impossible it is to convince the International Atomic Energy Agency of anything, IAEA chief Amano Yukiya today insisted that even though the IAEA is able to verify the non-diversion of Iranian nuclear material from its legal civilian program they are “not providing the necessary cooperation.”
So while Iran’s civilian enriched uranium is not being diverted anyplace, and its substantial civilian enrichment program has no military dimension, Amano can’t rule out the possibility that there is a whole separate program, with separate equipment and separate uranium, that he just doesn’t know about.
That’s literally the argument at this point, that even though its 100% proven that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful, it can’t be 100% proven that there’s not a second program somewhere that no one knows about, and “therefore we cannot conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”
And it never possibility could be. Iran is a huge country, and it has natural uranium deposits in the ground, so no matter how extensive the “dialogue” is, there’s no way for the IAEA to have total informational awareness over the entire country and everything theoretically going on in every building.
sounds like Rumsfeld to me, Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns.
This kind of statement is illogical on its face. Of course you don't know something you don't know. But you also don't know if what you don't know actually exists.
None of this makes any sense. It is just like the run up to the Iraq war. Deja Vu all over again.
Too bad, too sad, too stupid for words.
Actually Rumsfeld "Known Unknowns" categorization was pretty much perfectly correct. But in this case, Mr. Amano wants to have proof of a negative. "I cannot prove with absolute certainty that there are no unicorns in my garden shed". Well, indeed, that is impossible. These unicorns may by happenstance or design be out whenever you check the shed. So what one needs is a likelihood value. "There is a 99.999% likelihood that there are no unicorns in my garden shed" sounds pretty definite to me.
Except that Rumsfeld used logic to muddle things.
It also cannot be confirmed that the United States is not harboring battle ready Jedi knights in UFO's bent on world domination!!! Invade now!! Invade!!! WTF, is this what Obummer meant by transparency in government? Thier attempts to explain away the murder of people all over the world for financial hedgemony is TRANSPARENT! The world is watching, that means when the citizens of the earth have had enough of these piss bags, there will be no quarter, no where to hide.
"It also cannot be confirmed that the United States is not harboring battle ready Jedi knights in UFO's bent on world domination!!!'
Yes, and Obama has not even attempted to prove that he doesn't have them…
This is Iraq all over again with the same nonsensical demand to prove a negative.
Saddam couldn't prove that he didn't have nukes and that was used as the "reason" to attack Iraq.
The Iranians are being set up the same way.
Funny how the Israelis have nukes combined with a pattern of belligerance, expansionism and attacking others, but that is not a source of concern.
{ Amano Yukiya today insisted that even though the IAEA is able to verify the non-diversion of Iranian nuclear material from its legal civilian program they are “not providing the necessary cooperation.}
AMANO YUKIYA IS NOTHING BUT A PETTY PUPPET , PUPPET , PUPPET, PUPPET
He should shut up and fu*k off…
When I think of Amano Yukiya I cannot help thinking of a geisha "entertaining" her patrons.
The Old cant prove a negative, If you havent got them prove it, but it is impossible to prove because, you might still have some some where!
Yep. The sad thing is that this person wants people to die because of it.
The most succinct summary of this silliness is that you can't prove a negative.
Because Iran opposes our Empire, either our Empire is criminal or Iran is criminal. And as our voting majority is the 51% with great jobs, terrific homes and deluxe healthcare, they are not about to agree that their votes are sustaining a criminal government.
Therefore, so long as the economy holds good, upper half of our Empire will forever think it is most exceptional and good.
give the 51 per cent schtick a rest, John. It's a wearying rant that grew old long ago. I could pull a percentage of worthless bums out of my rear and argue about that as well but won't.
Amano Yukiya is a buffoon. Iran is signed on to the NPT and does NOT have to prove a thing. Iran is damned for whatever they do. Say Yuki? Where's your "credible" intel?
He could be a buffoon. Or maybe he is just a reliable servant of the Empire who will say whatever he is told to say…
You can't prove the US government isn't holding the parts of a crashed UFO at Area 51 or any other black site.
Calling for proof of a negative is a game for chumps.
The other key point is that you can't just hide a nuclear program in a closet somewhere. These tend to be very big things. The US built a city (Oak Ridge, TN) to house its centrifuge program. We know where Iran's centrifuges are and can inspect them to see if they are processing anything close to bomb-grade uranium in them (they are not). To build and hide an entire complex that's producing nuclear weapons would be very hard. Especially since the gamma rays that come off the material are the radiation that penetrates lead, and all you have to do is to detect those gamma rays and you know not only that there's something radioactive there, but exactly the composition of the material from the energy pattern of the gamma rays.
Someone should ask him if as head of the IAEA that he can guarantee from the information he has that Israel does not have a rogue, illegal nuclear weapons program.
Here we go again; trying to get the target du jour to prove a negative, which they full well know is impossible.
The only reason the US wanted Amano Yukiya installed as IAEA Chief was to have a TOOL they could control and who would say the things the US wanted them to say. The US has a habit of nearly always demanding proof of a negative – they think that no one really listens nor understands what they're doing – when they want to do something nefarious – like invade another sovereign country.
They couldn't control ElBarade and they really didn't like that he was always out front telling the truth…so now they own the mouthpiece.
Is the head of the IAEA a rocket scientist or a nuclear physicist? I'm willing to bet that he also can't prove that god doesn't exist or any other double negatives. But what do I know? Unlike him I ain't a rocket scientist, I just work the door at the local WalMart.
he knows you cannot prove a negative, fire the dork
The more important point is that the IAEA is NOT required by the NPT to prove such a negative. It's SOLE LEGAL FUNCTION is to determine whether declared nuclear materials have been diverted to nuclear weapons development. Only if the Additional Protocol is in place is the IAEA allowed to make any further statement.
For EVERY country which does not have the Additional Protocol in place, the IAEA could and frequently does issue the same sort of statement. It is only for Iran that this statement is trumpeted all over the place by the IAEA and the Western media.
There is nothing new here. Since the US installed Yukiya, the treacherous rat bastard Zionists in DC and Washington gradually have been forcing the stooge to adopt ever-more ominous language and tone in reports that do not change any of the facts that have been reported for close to ten years. Case in point: A standard statement in each of the quarterly reports asserted that questions still existed as to whether the Iranian program was for "exclusively peaceful purposes." Yukiya comes along, takes his stool, and without changing a single fact has this language rewritten to state that questions still existed that that the agency from could not rule out that the program did not have a military dimension.