The Associated Press track record on Iran is getting worse and worse. After Tuesday’s debacle with a litany of false claims from George Jahn, the AP attempted to save face Wednesday by publishing a transcript of the agreement between Iran and the IAEA on which the allegations were based.
Jahn’s claims and the document didn’t perfectly square in the first place, but the real blow here is that a former top IAEA official, Tariq Rauf, has pointed out a number of glaring errors in the document, labeling it a “crude” forgery attempting to derail the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran.
Rauf, a Canadian who serves as director of the Arms Control program for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, offered an annotated version of the AP’s putative transcript, pointing out among other things that in the second paragraph the transcript actually got Iran’s name wrong, incorrectly labeling them the “Islamic State of Iran.”
That’s more than a minor typo from the Iranian perspective, as the nation refers to itself as the “Islamic Republic of Iran,” and in later cases when they are simply called “Iran,” the preferred shortened version in official documents would be the Islamic Republic.
Ironically they correctly called it the Islamic Republic of Iran at the end, but in the same sentence the IAEA incorrectly identified the title of its own official, calling Tero Varjoranta the “Deputy Director General for Safeguards” as opposed to the “head of the department of safeguards.”
There were other technical errors in the document. An IAEA sample kit contains six swipes, and the text purports that there will be seven samples collected, a figure Rauf suggested was likely arbitrary. The addition of two other swipes outside Parchin, which again is huge, made even less sense, since the whole document is supposed to be about Parchin in the first place.
A lot of the other language just reads wrong, according to Rauf, with a lot of the language inappropriate for an IAEA official document, or referring to things in ways that are not standard IAEA language. The inclusion of a promised visit of the IAEA Director General as a “dignitary guest” likewise made no sense, with Rauf noting he’s “not a tourist” and only goes to countries when there are technical problems to be resolved.
Rauf likens the forgery to “Niger Letter” forgery that emerged ahead of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, and which US officials used as primary evidence for their bogus claims of an active Iraqi nuclear weapons program.
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I hope people realize that this fraud is being perpetrated by the AP and not some shills internet site.
When powerful people can use such a huge institution as a propaganda tool , One that originated in freedom of press and believers in Democratic principles of government, then what does that say about all of the institutions of International governments whose leaders do not come out and voiciferously slam them .
First off if those powers in US deliberately use such tactics as to lie US into wars then they are among those domestic enemies we were forewarned about.
Makes no difference realy as the populace of US are now so brain dead.they do not realize we are seeing warfare of revolutionary coup by a largely Fascist GRouping of individuald from militTy to churvhes and educational rentitys, all that have not one damned thing to do with sovereignty of people but only different temporary sociopathic groupings who are squabbling over national control.
I care not what other nations do as to their own politics, but today it is almost exclusively through foreign sources I can follow truth of my nations total corruption.
And it is not corruption of majors such as Mc Clatchy, Reuters or Ap but the way journalist parade those news as somehow their own creations upon domestic outlets be they printed, video and audio.
Thank goodness gor indrpendent outlets such as antwar.com and its gathering of
journalist in the old school ways.
The Mossad at work – again.
This type of nonsense started with the Albert Einstein letter to Roosevelt in early August 1939, before any war had been declared, advocating the development of the atomic bomb which could be set off in the harbor of a city, causing devastation for miles and presumably with the objective of killing civilians, ostensibly because Germany had suzerainty over Czechoslovakia and Czechoslovakia had yellowcake, ergo Germany was developing an atomic bomb &etc etc etc.
Criticizing Einstein in retrospect is akin to Monday-morning quarterbacking.
Until the summer of 1939 the following was known: an atomic bomb could be produced with U235. It was not known how much U235 was needed for one bomb. Teller estimated 30 tons which was about where all other estimates were until Otto Frisch, a nephew of Lisa Meitner, a nuclear physicist, and a refugee from Hitler Germany working in England suggested shockingly that the so-called “critical mass” of U235 would be only “a pound or two”.
If I had been informed about the Frisch estimate as Einstein, Fermi, and Teller were and had I been asked by President Roosevelt in 1939 “can the Germans produce this amount of bomb-grade U235 in a few years” my answer should have been “almost certainly yes Mr. President”. Why? Because German science with Clusius, Harteck, and Hintenberger was at the forefront of isotope separation. Moreover Germany was known as a superb technological nation. Harteck was in principle the most dangerous one because he studied U235 enrichment by ultracentrifugation, the technique used by Iran today. In the USA it was Harold Urey who advocated this method. He was ignored.
Producing enough U235 was of course not enough. An effective bomb had to be designed and tested. If I had been asked by President Roosevelt in 1939: “once the Germans have enough U235 could they make a bomb” I might not have been as positive but I would certainly not have answered “no way Mr. President”.
Today we have difficulty to understand that Germany was considered in 1939 by most of the world as the number one technological state.
The issue of the Czech yellowcake was not insignificant but it was not the most worrisome issue.
By 1944 it was not known in the Allied world how far Germany had progressed with developing a U235 bomb. Within the Manhattan Project a new group was created named ALSOS which gathered information in every liberated town of Europe after the Normandy landings about Germany's progress on the nuclear bomb front. Soon after Paris was liberated it became absolutely clear that Germany did not even have an operating nuclear reactor at Haigerloch.
I hold the development of nuclear weapons by our nation deeply regrettable. The use on Japan's civil population was a war crime. My Monday-morning quarterbacking.
So are there going to be any consequences for these people? AP evidently is completely corrupt. They're going to double down on the lie. How about waterboarding this Jahn moron and have him tell the whole story about who fed him this stuff and what he got or is going to get in exchange. And then grab his bosses and them why they haven't committed harakiri yet.
The sad things is that these clowns still think that in 2015 they can get away with blatant lies and fabrications, in an era where in a matter of seconds all claims can be verified.
Well, actually, they *have* gotten away with it. The establishment media has largely buried the story. Americans won't remember "Iranian self-inspection" is a lie.
They won't remember it's a fraud perpetrated by a major media institution.
They won't remember AP getting away with it.
They will remember hearing something about Iranians inspecting their own "nuclear" sites and that they are supposed to continue hating Iranians.
Mission Accomplished.
A crude forgery again? Who's paying for this? Did someone let someone's nephew do it?
If one holds that the AP/NYT report on Parchin was not a hoax but a leak from a genuine whistle blower then that was nevertheless a very serious violation of the NPT agreement of the IAEA with Iran. It is very serious because every other NPT signer must now worry that the details of IAEA inspections of its nuclear programs may be leaked.
It does not matter whether the whistle blower, if there was one, was an Iranian or not an Iranian citizen. While the IAEA is an agency independent of state governments it does report real and suspected NPT violations to the UN. Hence if this report is true then all members of the UN and that includes Israel (1) must now demand an immediate UN investigation of this leak and demand measures that this will not occur again.
As long as that has not happened I must conclude that the report was a "yellowcake" hoax.
With regards of Iran's sample taking under IAEA control that is simply a non-issue. All samples will be taken simultaneously at the same spots. The IAEA sample takers will be present when the Iranian samplers take theirs.
(1) In fact PM Netanyahu can now aver that this is exactly the reason why Israel has not signed the NPT agreement: you see, the IAEA cannot be trusted!
Since this is supposedly a draft, the presence of a couple of factual errors and some questionable grammar doesn't make it a forgery, does it?