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The nuclear breakout myth
Several days ago I criticized the latest Brookings Institute report on engaging Iran as fundamentally flawed, based upon its baseline assumption of Iran’s mala fides development of a weapons program despite IAEA reports to the contrary. Since I am just another country solicitor, this observation no doubt had the impact of a hummingbird striking the [...]
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The latest IAEA report on Iran
There is nothing new here. The IAEA finds that there continues to be no diversion of nuclear material, all enrichment remains subject to inspection, and all at low levels.
The report continues to harp on Iran’s non-cooperation over issues and documents brought up by the US in early 2008 concerning legacy military research and applications.
The November [...]
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The unraveling
The rift between the West and the Arab members of the IAEA is becoming serious. In an organization used to consensus, a resolution intended to urge all Middle Eastern countries to renounce nuclear weapons became controversial when most of the Arab delegations boycotted the vote over amendments to take pressure off of Israel, a nuclear [...]
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Thursday’s atomic drivel
Reuters is reporting that Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, indicated that Iran would consider suspending uranium enrichment if there was a legally binding agreement to sell it nuclear fuel. If true, this is a crack – albeit small – in the present deadlock.
Iran would consider stopping sensitive uranium enrichment if guaranteed [...]
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The sound of one toilet flushing
If I could figure out how to import .wav files into this blog, I’d include a flushing toilet.
I am not talking about the US economy (at least for now), but rather the IAEA Safeguard Agreement with Iran. There are now plenty of danger signals that both the US and Iran have now “had it” with the [...]
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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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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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