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| 2006-11-15 |
| The latest report on Iran from the International Atomic Energy Agency, circulated to diplomats in Vienna on Tuesday, shows once again that Iran has failed to comply with the demands of the international community, as expressed by the United Nations Security Council. The IAEA report documented that Iran was continuing to enrich uranium on a large-scale in defiance of UN Security Council resolution 1696. It also said that IAEA inspectors had found stashes of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) and plutonium hidden at an Iranian nuclear waste site. Both materials are directly useful in building atomic weapons but cannot be used in Iran’s declared nuclear power program. (Download a PDF file of the complete report here). UN Security Council resolution 1696, passed on July 31, gave Iran until the end of last August to suspend all enrichment and reprocessing-related activities in a verifiable manner. If Iran complied, the resolution opened the possibility of economic aid and technology assistance. But if Iran failed to comply, it called for economic and diplomatic sanctions. Nearly three months have passed since that deadline. Instead of complying, Iran’s leaders have chosen open defiance – bolstered in no small way by the support they have received from Russia, China, and IAEA Secretary General Mohammad ElBaradei, whose rosy pronouncements of Peace in Our Time would be comic if the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran were not so real. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #1 We don't have a nuclear weapons program. We have a lot of pacemakers being powered by Pu. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2006-11-15 13:28 |