The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today formally closed the books on their long-standing investigation into pact nuclear weapons work by Iran, with chief Amano Yukiya saying they’ve resolved the investigation as well as they’re ever going to.
The move follows the release of a report earlier this month resolving all questions on Iran’s nuclear past, confirming that Iran scrapped its weaponization program in 2003, and carried out no studies even tangentially related after 2009.
Amano went on to praise Iran for working “at quite high speed” on implementing their requirements under the P5+1 nuclear deal, saying that the verification of Iran’s finishing all these steps could come in a matter of weeks.
US officials have previously expressed annoyance at how fast Iran is implementing the deal, saying they aren’t prepared to live up to their side of the deal, lifting sanctions, so quickly. Iran seems to be hoping to have sanctions lifted before the February elections, and likely will with European nations. The US reaction, however, is likely to take awhile.
Beyond that, the Israeli Foreign Ministry expressed outrage at the IAEA ending the probe of Iran’s pre-2003 activities, saying the report confirmed that they had such activities and that in and of itself proved the probe needed to continue, and that any end to the investigation was “unwarranted.”
"Beyond that, the Israeli Foreign Ministry expressed outrage at the IAEA…"
but this is very good news. this means the path is open to starting a
security council investigation/session on any other possible (careful
not to name them, it wouldn't be fair!) countries with illicit nuclear
programs, and guilty of nuclear proliferation.
once that (no names, please) country has been sanctioned and
properly dealt with, we can finally declare a nuclear weapons free
zone in the middle east.
The EU will certainly want sanctions lifted fast. It wants to break Putin's energy stranglehold on the Union and countries like Ukraine. Since Gulf oil normally travels to Europe in supertankers, the infrastructure is already there, so there'll be no time lost building pipelines.
We'll probably hear a completely different spin from political hacks
and stenographers in the corporate media on AIPAC's bankroll.
After all, this is the same hapless, worthless MSM that lied about
Saddam Hussein's so-called WMDs, and made an American (hero)
out of the drug dealing scum and liar Oliver North.
What a surprise! Israel is outraged that Iran has fulfilled all of the deal's requirements and that they are closing the investigation. Maybe the IAEA should begin an investigation of Israel's nuclear program…