Israel Demands IAEA Action on Iran, Syria, Not Itself
Israel Demands IAEA Action on Iran, Syria, Not Itself
| Calls for condemnation of Syria for trace uranium find
IAEA: Traces of Uranium Found in Syrian Reactor
IAEA: Traces of Uranium Found in Syrian Reactor | “Manmade” uranium not on previous declarations
Obama Renews Sanctions Against Syria
Obama Renews Sanctions Against Syria | Claims Syria seeks WMDs
US Claims Evidence Growing of Syrian Nuclear Cover-up
Just one day after the Obama Administration declared an end to America’s four-year long diplomatic embargo of the Syrian government, US Ambassador to the IAEA Gregory Schulte claimed there was “growing evidence of clandestine nuclear activities in Syria.” The ambassador demanded that Syria provide all cooperation requested by the IAEA.
The latest charges by the ambassador [...]
Officials: Inspectors Found Graphite, Uranium at Syria Site
In what one senior UN official described as a “significant” discovery, the word now is that the test samples taken from the Syrian site attacked by Israel in 2007 contained traces of graphite and 80 uranium particles, a trivial amount.
The United States had claimed that the Syrian government was building a secret gas-graphite reactor on [...]
ElBaradei: Israel Violated International Law in 2007 Attack on Syria
In an interview with Newsweek magazine, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei was asked why he didn’t condemn Syria and North Korea for “building a nuclear reactor” – referring to the alleged gas-graphite reactor some claim was being constructed along the Euphrates River.
The undaunted ElBaradei replied that it was because the IAEA doesn’t have the evidence to [...]
Olmert ‘Fed Up’ With Pushes for Ceasefire as Death Toll Spirals
Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip continue to net more and more casualties, 635 killed based on the most recent reports, and while the operation continues to fail at its stated goal of bringing rocket fire from Hamas to a halt Israeli officials remain in no mood to talk peace.
“This is the time for [...]
Israel Hopes Gaza Killings Will Establish Deterrence Credibility
According to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s spokesman Mark Regev, the onslaught against the Gaza Strip over the past weekend has revitalized the cabinet, saying “there was an energy, a feeling that after so long of showing restraint we had finally acted.”
Indeed, as the attacks seem unlikely to unseat Hamas from the Gaza Strip, the [...]
Iraq Eyes ‘More Assertive Role,’ Proposes Regional Bloc
Iraq wants a European Union of its own.
ElBaradei: Lack of Satellite Photos on Syria Site ‘Baffling’
Diplomats have focused on Syria’s unwillingness to grant additional visits as stalling an International Atomic Energy Agency investigation into a bombed site which the US claims was a nearly-finished nuclear reactor, but IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei finds the more onerous problem the mysterious lack of commercial satellite images of the site.
ElBaradei says “it is regrettable, [...]
