Fresh off of signing their own cooperation deal with Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s chief Amano Yukiya confirmed the agency’s willingness to help with the implementation of any deal between Iran and the P5+1.
“If there is some agreement between the P5+1 and Iran and if we are requested to implement some verification measures, we are prepared to implement them,” Amano insisted.
The IAEA has been able to repeatedly confirm the non-diversion of any of Iran’s nuclear material from its civilian program to any undeclared activities, and has gained access to additional facilities above and beyond those required by Iran in their safeguards agreement.
Iran is widely expected to agree to additional protocols to their safeguards agreement as part of a final agreement with the P5+1. In years past Iran had voluntarily implemented some of those additional protocols, but never ratified the deal because of international disputes over their program.
'Evidence' 'proving' that Yukiya is an 'anti-semite' (TM)(SP)* should appear pretty quickly
* SP = smear pending
Iran has only offered access to sites where there is no suspected nuke arms development. The sites identified as potential weapons development sites are off limits to UN Inspectors. Yet another example of empty promises to get sanctions relief in order to buy time and get funds to complete weapons production.
U.S. government should take a “distrust an verify” approach with the Iranians, continuing to put pressure on the Iranian regime through sanctions until Iran’s enrichment and reprocessing facilities are completely and verifiably dismantled.