Blind, deaf, dumb, stupid and corrupt pandering like this needs to be recorded. These people need to be held responsible when the worst happens.The incoming head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog said on Friday he did not see any hard evidence that Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear weapons. "I don't see any evidence in IAEA official documents about this," Japan's Yukiya Amano told Reuters in his first direct comment on Iran's nuclear program since his election to head the International Atomic Energy Agency, when asked whether he believed Iran was seeking a nuclear weapons capability.
I wonder if he'll change his mind when Tel Aviv goes up in a fireball?
| Why would he? It's only Tel Aviv, not Tokyo or someplace important to humanity. |
Earlier Friday, IAEA members unanimously designated Amano as the organization's next director general, ending a rift between developing and industrialized countries over his nomination. With the official confirmation of his election on Thursday, the Japanese diplomat is now set to assume his post in December, succeeding Mohammed ElBaradei, who retires as director general after 12 years in office.
Amano, Japan's ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna, narrowly won a run-off vote against South African diplomat Abdul Samad Minty. Developing countries backing Minty had for several months blocked Amano's election.
I guess it could have been even worse (shudder).
| I think Dr. Khan of Pakistan is at loose ends these days, other than his newspaper columns. |
Minty congratulated Amano, and offered his country's support, saying that "our future objective is to assist in fostering a cooperative spirit and to focus on what unites us, namely; creating a better life for all free from the threat of the use of nuclear weapons."
Meanwhile, the Japanese government put high hopes in the next IAEA leader. "We hope that Amano will tackle the nuclear issues in the areas of non-proliferation and disarmament," top government spokesman Takeo Kawamura said in Tokyo.
If Amano had been around in 1945:
"I see no evidence the Americans have an atomic bomb. The disaster in Hiroshima was caused by a gas leak. A big one. Yeah, that's the ticket, a gas leak. And the flash was a secondary in a magnesium flare factory."