A key aspect of the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran is a resolution of the outstanding questions about Iran’s past nuclear activities. According to IAEA Chief Amano Yukiya, this is going as expected, and will be completed on time, with the probe wrapping up mid-December.
Amano confirmed that “much work needs to be done,” but that Iran has provided all the information asked of them and that there is no reason that the IAEA can’t sift through all the data by their tentative timetable of December 15, when the P5+1 hopes that stage to be completed.
Iran provided a massive cache of documents to the IAEA back in mid-August, and while IAEA officials have refused to get into specifics about what was in those documents, today’s comments suggest that they got everything they wanted, as it affirms the December 15 deadline.
Amano still didn’t offer any details, but did say there would be a list of follow-up questions sent to Iran on September 15 seeking clarification. He similarly did not make this appear to be an issue, suggesting these questions will be pretty limited.
What is this all about? It is to prove that the UN/IAEA sanctions on Iran were not "false sanctions" (an international analog of false arrest) but were justified no matter how thin the justifications were.
Has Mr. Amano become an honest broker? I do not believe that he has. When Washington barked "be tough on Iran" Amano was tough on Iran. Now that Washington whispers "be reasonable on Iran" Amano is reasonable on Iran. When in the future Netanyahu yells "Iran cheats" Amano will find that Iran probably cheats. He remains the lapdog of the West.
The IAEA is a fat bloated well paid bureaucracy, that while in the past was supposed to “protect ” the world from rogue nations or groups of terrorist, it has instead become a world wide Corporate monster that represents what amounts to a monopoly that is much more powerful than the old oil cartels ever were.
Today the uranium from Africa is connected to the uranium that is mined upon Native American lands, processed by internationals in France Canada Japan and the major buyer of enriched weapons grade uranium is USA.
So that when Japan/US illegal under IAEA laws weapos grade processessing was discovered(uncovered) the IAEA covered for over 15 of the worlds largest corporate interest.
They say little but trash in support of Japans comments of nothing to worry about and applaud Japan law that says jIl if one even talks of fukushimaUS removed over 200 US tons of weapons grade from Fukushima to hide possibly inPhillipies, and then left the people of Japan and all Pacific Coast residents of US and
Canada to suffer from nuclear poisons that still from 4 years now are spreading death .
The IAEA is organized International Syndicate that keeps populaces paying for a dource of enrrgy that enriches a few and harms millions.
Once we understood the power of when a body of people stood and turned their backs upon corrupt poitical peoples. Today we just bend over and curtsy for them.
A key question will be what the IAEA will say about the mass of forged documents fed to them for the last few years. We've had the fake Niger yellowcake and Curveball repeated many times. The Israeli laptop alleged to show things they don't dare reveal is an important one, but not the only one.
If the IAEA ends those, then maybe we will be making progress. If it gives them credibility, then we are in for a rough ride on "Iran cheats."