With President Trump expected to try to come up with some excuse to weasel out of the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, Ambassador Nikki Haley has been backing his efforts to vilify the deal. Most recently, that’s centered on inspections.
Under the P5+1 deal, the IAEA conducts a massive number of inspections on Iran’s nuclear sites regularly. Haley, however, has been pressing them to conduct inspections against sites with no links to the civilian nuclear program, specifically military facilities.
The P5+1 agreement includes clauses permitting such inspections, if there was evidence of nuclear activity at such sites. The ones Haley is pushing for, however, were sites that the IAEA admitted questions about were resolved years ago. Haley is accusing Russia of blocking these new inspections, and claims the nuclear deal is “empty” without them.
Yet it’s not Russia that’s blocking the IAEA from carrying out the inspections. Rather, and the IAEA has been very public with this, there are no grounds for them to seek access to these sites in the first place, and they have no intention of doing so because the US is offering to reason for such investigations.
The reality is that past IAEA inspections of military sites, while turning up nothing, also publicly leaked a bunch of irrelevant information about Iran’s conventional military arsenal. Knowing Iran would object to more frivolous inspections as tantamount to spying, Haley is pushing the idea explicitly because Iran would likely say no, and that would give the US a pretext to cancel the deal.
This is known as preparing the “casus belli” for the President to say no. This is the most transparent foreign policy of his administration.
Haley is a ranting, raving, raucous, repulsive harridan.
The IAEA is not staffed to inspect military sites, and in any case the IAEA has no authority to inspect military sites.The exclusive purpose of the IAEA under the Nonproliferation Treaty is to prevent the diversion of nuclear material.
Haley is a bloodthirsty warmonger.
Neocon/neolib lunatics want war everywhere.
Absolutely. Trump should immediately fire Haley (send her back to the Waffle House) and replace her with a real diplomat, such as Dana Rohrabacher, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He should’ve chosen Rohrabacher in the first place .. The world would’ve been a better place if he had done so.
Is there anything Russia isn’t to blame for these days? Jesus.
What’s not to want with a no A-bombs deal? Haley wants war but I can tell you this if the US goes in they will be on their own. No other countries in the ‘western alliance’ would have the nerve to go along with it, so what will the US benefit be? Total isolation on the world stage and more money for Lockheed.
Nutty Nikki wants nuclear war. Thus, she’s trying this 2 for 1 bank shot, obviously hoping that she can start a nuclear war between the rogue and illegal nuclear state of Israel attacking Iran, with the secondary effect of trying to move the world closer to war between the nuclear powers of Russia and Amerika.
Somehow the Christian fundamentalists think that starting a nuclear war will get them to heaven and their 72 sexy virgins, while I’m guessing that when they show up at the Pearly Gates they might find that Old Saint Peter ain’t to welcoming to people with the blood of millions on their hands.
For at least the last 20 years, various ‘inspection’ teams have been full of CIA, MI6 agents and other spies. If the IAEA bends to the pressure to do these ridiculous inspections, then its a sure bet that the CIA will come up with some “experts” who volunteer to be the inspectors.