The week-long IAEA Board of Governors meeting moved into its second day, with continued focus on Iran, and the US and European allies offering a draft resolution to the body condemning Iran.
The resolution takes aim at the least substantial and most widely discussed issue, the discovery of uranium traces at undeclared sites in Iran. The resolution echoes IAEA position that Iran has not satisfied their questions about the traces.
The uranium traces have been an IAEA topic for years, and Iran very recently turned over what they say were all the documents explaining it. The US was very keen to continue the IAEA inquiry, and subsequently the IAEA was not satisfied with what they were given.
Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammed Eslami issued a statement today questioning the IAEA’s impartiality, saying they need to stop the infiltration of IAEA operations by Iran’s enemies.
Speaking of Israel, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett demanded Iran be sent a clear warning and threatened with a “heavy price” during the IAEA meeting. This is roughly in line with what Israel expects of most meetings.
Iran has expressed concern about IAEA monitoring amounting to de facto spying by Israel and others for years, and with Israel coming up with Iranian documents from spying operations. The undeclared sites themselves had their origin in Israel’s spying.
How much of a “price” the IAEA can inflict at this point is unclear, as the US seems to be backing away from Iran talks on its own, and absent a nuclear deal from those talks, Iran’s obligations are far more limited than the West hoped.
If anything this underscores what Israeli officials have been saying recently, that a nuclear deal with Iran, even a “bad” one, would be more desirable than no deal at all.
The real takeaway on all this is the closely guarded raging hypocrisy of nuclear armed countries like Israel and its sidekick rending their garments at somebody else’s uranium processing. The lack of laughter is deafening.
Given what Israeli intelligence and sabotage efforts have accomplished in Iran, how can we know Israel didn’t plant the radioactive traces? Leaving Iran to invent excuses, as any disclaimer on their part, however true, would not be credible.
It is time to quit NPT…!
Instead of worrying about uranium traces in Iran, let’s investigate the Pentagon run bio-labs in Ukraine.
Iran did everything that was asked of it and complied 100 % with its obligations
regarding the nuclear deal
Iran was rewarded by
US walking away from the deal.
Crippling sanctions imposed by the US
and its puppets in Europe
A wave of assasinations by US and Israel.
The “west” has done everything in its power to convince Iran
that they are just plain stupid and suicidal if they don’t develop nukes.
Mean while the glaring hypocrisy of the “Civilized World” turns its blind eye and blank mind away from the rogue nuclear state that thumbs its nose at any sort of even handed approach to the thorny.proliferation issues.