During a Friday vote, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) unanimously endorsed their role in monitoring the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran.
IAEA chief Amano Yukiya said he was encouraged by the pledges from nations for extra funding to pay for the additional monitors, as the deal will essentially have the IAEA doing daily inspections in the country.
The interim deal came into effect last Monday, and the IAEA confirmed at the time that Iran is complying with the terms of the deal, halting the last of its 20 percent uranium enrichment.
The IAEA had estimated the additional monitoring would cost $7.5 million in 2014, and while they didn’t say exactly how much was pledged, Amano says he is confident the goal will be reached.
The IAEA is not a UN agency. I
The IAEA was created to serve NPT monitoring requirements.
The IAEA under Amano Yukiya has been a bad-faith actor in this whole charade. Despite zero evidence of Iran currently pursuing a nuclear weapons capability, the IAEA has continued to mouth the US-Israeli party line. What the IAEA will find during their inspections is the same thing they have found thus far: no diversion of nuclear materials.