International Atomic Energy Agency head Amano Yukiya today noted that Iran efforts to attempt to generate electricity at the Bushehr power plant are taking place under full international safeguards.
The Bushehr plant has been an extremely long time in the construction, and Russia, whose engineers constructed the plant, insists there is absolutely zero risk of any weapons proliferation from the energy generating facility. Iran began moving fuel into the reactor core today, with expectations to start generating electricity in January.
But despite Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s insistence that she has no problem with Bushehr in and of itself, top Obama adviser Dennis Ross, speaking today before AIPAC, condemned the plant as a provocation.
“Iran’s own behavior has demonstrated that it prefers defiance and secrecy to transparency and peace,” Ross insisted. Members in good standing of the IAEA, of which Iran is one, have every right under international law to generate electricity, and the IAEA has repeatedly verified Iran’s non-diversion of nuclear material to any non-civilian purpose.
Ross is again doing the business of Israel and not of the USA. Why they keep that turn-coat on in such an important position is beyond my imagination. Send him to Israel and let him continue his work there.
The ONLY place Iranian nuclear weapons exist is in the hallucinations of psychotic Israeli's and their supporters.
self proclaimed experts on middle-east see Obama's decreasing popularity as an opportunity to attack iran: http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2010/10/26…
For any aspiring wonks on this issue, the Leveretts posted a new detailed legal analysis by Eric Brill on why the referral of Iran to the Security Council by the IAEA was without legal basis, as is the UNSC trying to enforce the NPT. Definitely worth a look.
http://www.raceforiran.com/the-iran-nuclear-dispu…
Transparency and peace? The Iranis are firing-up their first nuclear powered electrical generator. In just a few short years they'll be able to make depleted uranium ammunition just like the big boys. Or they might even be able to use the electricity to concentrate plutonium for atomic weapons.
Given their track record, I would wait for the abrogation of the NPT before I started to suspect secrecy and defiance. For unlike it's critics even the mad mullahs have been scrupulous in attending to the terms of the international agreement.
Transparency and peace? The Iranis are firing-up their first nuclear powered electrical generator. In just a few short years they'll be able to make depleted uranium ammunition just like the big boys. Or they might even be able to use the electricity to concentrate plutonium for atomic weapons.
Given their track record, I would wait for the abrogation of the NPT before I started to suspect secrecy and defiance. For unlike its critics, even the mad mullahs of Iran have been scrupulous in attending to the terms of the Shah nShah's international agreement.