Heading to Vienna to meet with officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley intends to demand that the agency begin conducting thorough inspections of Iranian military sites, claiming the P5+1 deal gives them authority “to look at any suspicious sites.”
This is likely to be a matter of serious dispute, as before the P5+1 deal was signed, the IAEA had already confirmed all issues surrounding Iran’s military sites were resolved, and the public version of the P5+1 text does not give them any access to random military sites for inspections.
Despite Haley’s claim that the IAEA has such authority, she goes on to accuse Iran of having something to hide, likely because she knows full well Iran isn’t going to comply with these demands, even if the IAEA capitulates and asks for access to the sites.
This might be part of the Trump Administration’s ongoing plan to try to undermine the P5+1 nuclear deal, providing some pretext to declare Iran “in violation” and withdraw from it. Iran has in the past complained that IAEA searches of their conventional military sites have been tantamount to US spying operations, and that details about their defensive systems tend to get leaked to US officials almost immediately.
Repeated searches of the same Iranian military sites in the past were a major source of tensions,and when Iran would finally declare enough is enough after several visits turning up nothing and the US demanding another look, the US would claim it as proof Iran had secrets to keep. The Trump Administration appears to be renewing this approach, though how successful they’ll be with the P5+1 deal in place remains to be seen.
The woman is demented and an embarassment.
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Haley needs to register as a foreign agent in the employ of the Likud.
She is a proud agent .
Not surprising to watch her behave this way. She has no other way to behave . This has worked before . The workers did not get punished .The project did yield results inimical to the interests of the parties involved . There is no moral hazard . Nothing to lose . But is it so ? Nothing has worked to the advantage of this administration run by the foreign administration That failures encompass some 14 yrs in a row .Failures are seen as advantages by the foreign administration running this administration . But so many failures might not have dampened the zeal and might not have struck circumspection even in the most ardent opportunistic careerists .But it has throughout the world . This time it is different .
How about some inspections of Israel’s nuclear weapons sites for once, Nikki?
Israel has ‘nothing to hide’ . Never did.
The Iranians made the mistake of saying they didn’t have a weapons program – tat made them liars. It made Israel an ‘atomic power’.
Not true, Mikronos .. It was Israel that refused to grant IAEA inspectors permission to enter the Dimona Nuclear Facility, despite then President John F. Kennedy’s demands to do so. That was one reason he was assassinated, to get him off their backs. So, contrary to your statements, Israel had everything to hide, and it still does. Have any inspectors ever received any permission from the Israeli Gov’t. to inspect it for nuclear weapons? Of course not.
On the other hand, Iran has opened its nuclear facilities to IAEA inspectors, and those inspectors never found any evidence of nuclear bomb-making. The Iranians did try, but they failed and gave up – using the enriched uranium for both medical isotopes and energy production.
Mikronos, israel for decades claimed it had no nuclear weapons, we now know that, that was a complete lie! you may stop shilling for israel.. you’re lies won’t work here!
Just arrest Netanyahu for stealing nuclear materials from NUMEC at Apollo town of Ohio. Charge him for polluting the water and leaving the soil still irradiated .
What is it with these warmongering women who have had a lock on our UN Ambassadorship for two successive Administrations.
Nicky isn’t inspecting in person is she? Does she fear the ‘kavorka’?
claiming the P5+1 deal gives them authority “to look at any suspicious sites.”
Indeed it does. That means suspicious sites, in good faith suspicion. It does not mean just any sites.
What Haley is doing here is trying to pick a fight by demanding things, things she knows they won’t do and don’t have to do. Then she’ll lie about it and claim they are in violation.
The process is so obvious it has been predicted and expected since the agreement was signed.
The other signatories are not stupid. The US will end up isolated.
She is only doing the work demanded of her by her Zionist masters.
When if ever, will anyone demand that the IAEA inspect Israel’s military and nuclear sites and now admitted nuclear weapons that it has in it’s arsenal?? .. I would further demand as to why Israel refuses IAEA inspections and absolutely refuses to sign the nuclear non proliferation treaty?