Continuing to undercut the ongoing nuclear talks, the IAEA issued a statement warning that they can’t assure Iran’s nuclear program is entirely peaceful.
This is a recurring issue, as the IAEA wants to keep the US and others placated. The simplest way to do that is to claim the situation is unresolved, and that means deceptive fear-mongering.
The media are dutifully spreading this narrative, claiming Iran has “almost enough” uranium for a nuclear bomb, accompanied with the same caveats as usual about further processing which isn’t happening.
The reality is that Iran’s civilian program is exactly the same as it has been, and the evidence is that the uranium stockpile grows steadily, with none being diverted to any military purposes.
The stockpile rests at 3,621.3 kg as of August 21, up roughly 10% from the last report in May. The stockpile is not meant to be public, but leaks to the press virtually immediately.
Iran’s enriched uranium is all far below weapons-grade, and they’ve never attempted enrichment to weapons-grade levels. Weapons grade is minimum 90%; Iran’s stockpile is mostly-sub 20%. All indications are that Iran is content with low-level enrichment and civilian purposes. 3.3% enrichment, for instance is used to generate electricity.
The IAEA comments are likely to worsen diplomacy at the talks, since the US will say the IAEA doesn’t trust them, and Iran has yet more evidence that there is no convincing the IAEA.
What about having the IAEA “investigate” the Israeli nuclear programme?
Not gonna happen unless it is permanently cleansed of all its zionist agents…!
As a young nuclear power activist, years ago, it was understood by one and all that nuclear power is a propaganda front for the military to save money making bomb materials.
Agreed, the Energy Department is a subsidiary of the DOD, as is NASA, NIA … and State.
Since WWII and even beyond that there is no DOD, rather DOO, Department of Offense, and before that War Department…!
In fact, excluding set-ups like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, the US has never been attacked; it’s always waged aggressive war.
There are CIA agents embedded in the IAEA.
IAEA True name: Israeli-controlled Atomic Energy Agency…!
The IAEA drives me stark raving bananas. They know better. Iran, up until the US pulled out of the JCPOA, was in full compliance, and the only thing they’re doing by enriching to levels higher than 20% (a small amount, as Jason Ditz noted above) is trying to get the US back to the table. Reminds me of the US insisting that Iraq prove it didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, which is impossible.