Disagreements on the fringes of a statement of understanding are threatening to damage Iran-IAEA working arrangements, with both sides trading angry statements, and the US threatening action against Iran.
Earlier in September, the IAEA and Iran came to an understanding on access to nuclear sites to perform maintenance on equipment. This is working well at all the sites except one, the centrifuge manufactury in Karaj.
The statement was not specific on which sites would be accessed, and the IAEA is assuming it meant all of them. Iran has argued that the site is not a site of nuclear activity as such, and didn’t intend to include it.
This has the IAEA declaring Iran to be in violation of what was realistically a non-binding joint statement in the first place. Iranian officials say they think the IAEA should’ve worried more about Israeli attacks on the sites, endangering IAEA equipment and personnel, and maybe should’ve said something when that happened. They also say the IAEA shouldn’t feel so entitled to access.
The EU and US are both calling on Iran to let the IAEA access Karaj for maintenance. The IAEA could use such access, as Israel attacked that site, and damaged some of their equipment. Iran says not letting them in just now is a political decision.
The US is demanding Iran give up immediate access or face “diplomatic retaliation” at the IAEA in a few days. Iran probably isn’t going to do that just because the US demands it, and the US was threatening to condemn Iran at the IAEA at any rate, this likely doesn’t read as a major new threat.
Clearly the IAEA under its present regime is functioning as targeting intel for Israeli sabotage.
More of the same. The U.S. & their spoilt children can do no wrong, their victims can do no right. In fact, not only keeping the predictors safe with every sort of aid to their klepto apartheid undertaking, but turning a blind eye to their worst acts. There is no justice for their victums in any venue. This access issue is just an other example. These blatantly biased acts of condining every horror that their client pets inflict, and demanding that these perpetrators have no sanctions for all the innocent blood of children they spill, & land they steal, corrupts every thing it touches and diminishes every life on this planet.
When Arab terrorists kill Jewish children in Israel, where is your sense of outrage?
I worry more about my own armed forces killing children in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, etc. etc. …
As far as Serbia, the US held off way too long,when they could have prevented genocide against Moslems.
When Israeli terrorists kill Palestinian children in the Occupied Territories where is your sense of outrage?
Depends on the circumstances. Innocents should never be killed.Stupid kids being used as cannon fodder-those who send them out share the blame. Child with a firebomb-gets blown away-not a happy thing,but understandable.
Both are equally abhorrent. But as always is the case, one side suffers so much more than the other. Maybe the outrage matches the one sidedness in numbers killed.
“Iranian officials say they think the IAEA should’ve worried more about Israeli attacks on the sites, endangering IAEA equipment and personnel, and maybe should’ve said something when that happened.”
And not a peep out of the superpower who is now threatening Iran yet once again.
As long as the US refuses to hold Israel to any standards it expects of other nations, we have no credentials with which to speak on Iran’s nuclear program. We walked away from the JCPOA, and with that we lost our seat at the table.
the EU is such a lapdog to the USA these past years/decades, it’s just disgusting
I might be more sympathetic to any US or Israeli or EU claims against Iran if Israel signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and gave up al its 80-100+ nuclear warheads. I mean you know just in the name of humanity and transparency and equality…..
Until then, color me skeptical of anything and I mean anything the US and it’s Empire-lackeys ‘ask’ for or ‘demand’