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Iran
UN flexes its humid windstorm muscles
2003-11-26
Hat tip LGF. EFL.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog condemned Iran on Wednesday over an 18-year cover-up of sensitive atomic research and said any future breach of non-proliferation obligations would not be tolerated.
"The UN said it! Eek!"
The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stopped short of reporting Iran to the Security Council, which could have imposed sanctions. However, some countries think Tehran has more secrets and will eventually face the U.N.’s supreme body.
"We will have to answer to the UN! Oh hold me Fatimah!"
The IAEA governing board adopted a resolution that "strongly deplores" Iran’s cover-up over the past 18 years of a program that involves uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing — both of which could be pointers to a nuclear arms program.
It walks, like a duck, it has webbed feet, it quacks, it lives on the lake.
"Hmmm...," Kofi said. "It must be an emu."
The resolution, which passed after more than a week of tough negotiations between its sponsors France, Germany and Britain, and Washington over how to balance encouragement and condemnation, also praises Iran’s promises of "active cooperation and openness."
And its ink falls off.
The United States has described Iran as part of an international "axis of evil" — together with North Korea and pre-war Iraq — and believes it has been using a secretive atomic energy program to hide development of nuclear arms, which Tehran denies.
*twang* *sprong* "Oh shit, that damn harp."
IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei told a news conference he was pleased with the resolution, but added: "The board is sending a very serious and ominous message that failures in the future will not be tolerated and that the board will use all options available to it to deal with these failures."
"Oh hold me, Fatimah! Then you Aisha
"
Iran’s Foreign Ministry hailed the resolution as an "achievement" for Tehran. However, Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA was disappointed the text left out the IAEA’s conclusion in a recent report on Iran that there was "no evidence" of a weapons program.
Posted by:Atrus

#2  I just noticed some ambiguous phrasing. It's the Mullah's harp that broke here.
Posted by: Atrus   2003-11-26 1:47:08 PM  

#1  The United Nations nuclear watchdog condemned Iran on Wednesday over an 18-year cover-up of sensitive atomic research and said any future breach of non-proliferation obligations would not be tolerated.

Are the mullahs cowering in their turbans at the thought of UN action? I seriously doubt it.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-11-26 1:42:56 PM  

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