Archive for September, 2008
The debate on Iran – not much
On the subject of Iran, Friday’s debate between John McCain and Barack Obama was pretty depressing. John McCain pitched his tent on the far right, declaring he would never sit down to talk with President Ahmadinejad (whose name he never could pronounce), a sworn enemy of Israel. Most of McCain’s attack on Obama was an [...]
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So, what does the US economy have to do with the Iran crisis? Well, since Ahmadinejad has ventured forth with his own observations of the US economy and whose to blame, this is my excuse. By the way, McCain reiterated in a CBS interview on Monday that if he believes that Iran has acquired nuclear weapons, [...]
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Into the media abyss
Judging from Monday’s headlines, I must have read the wrong IAEA report, and that MSM editorial desks got their hands on something far more alarmist. The 15 September IAEA report of Iran’s performance under the Safeguards Agreement did not accuse Iran of ongoing development nuclear weapons, and appeared to focus, as the two previous IAEA reports this year, on documents and [...]
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Deadlock at the IAEA
As the September 15 report on Iran attests, the International Atomic Energy Agency can neither move forwards or backwards. Having been forced by the US and EU-3 to investigate whether some old documents and photos prove a pastnuclear weapons program (a task the IAEA was never really intended for), the IAEA is wallowing in a [...]
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Missile envy
Hot off the press: at today’s meeting of the 35-member board for the IAEA, Iran was confronted with documents and photographs that the US claimed showed that Iran tried to modify the Shahab-3 intermediate-range ballistic missile to carry a nuclear payload. The Iranian delegation countered that the materials were fabricated.
The “evidence” pertained to alleged work which preceded [...]
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IAEA Report on Iran
The entire IAEA report of 15 September 2008, “Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007) and 1803 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” is available here.
As with the previous report, it is good news and bad news. Taking the good news first, the IAEA’s inspections, [...]
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Happy days are here again
Every ten years I pull out and re-read my yellowed copy of A Canticle for Lebowitz by Walter Miller, which I nominate as the best post-apocalypse novel ever. For those who have never read it, the general idea is that humankind is doomed to repeat a cycle of nuclear war – dark age – renaissance [...]
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Amazing Bat Boy seen in Tehran
The vast level of unadulterated horse manure on the subject of Iran is a sight to behold. But then again, after watching the McCain campaign at work this week, no one ever lost a US election by misunderestimating the intelligence of the “uncommitted” voter. Witness Sarah Palin’s debut interview this week – she had no [...]
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Not going to the funeral
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General ElBaradei announced that he will not seek another term and will depart when his present office expires in December 2009. It is hard to imagine the IAEA without ElBaradei at the helm – he has been in charge since 1997, and has had to endure being kicked about [...]
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RNC links Iran to Osama and 9/11
You have got to see this video shown and televised at the Republican National Convention. This is outrageous. If anyone thinks that the dominant elite is incapable of insane falsehoods regarding Iran, guess again. It reflects a chasm of exploitation and distortion that is breathtaking in its cynicism. For once I am not even amused.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDx80bnFrVs
The Republican National Convention video [...]
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