Deja Vu- IAEA: U.S. report on Iran 'dishonest'

Are we going to fall for it? once again?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear_us_2



By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer
Thu Sep 14, 7:07 PM ET



VIENNA, Austria - A recent House of Representatives committee report on Iran's nuclear capability is "outrageous and dishonest" in trying to make a case that Tehran's program is geared toward making weapons, a senior official of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has said.

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The letter, obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday outside a 35-nation board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, says the report is false in saying Iran is making weapons-grade uranium at an experimental enrichment site, when it has in fact produced material only in small quantities that is far below the level that can be used in nuclear arms.

The letter, which was first reported on by The Washington Post, also says the report erroneously says that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei removed a senior nuclear inspector from the team investigating Iran's nuclear program "for concluding that the purpose of Iran's nuclear program is to construct weapons."

In fact, the inspector was sidelined on Tehran's request, and the Islamic republic had a right to ask for a replacement under agreements that govern all states relationships with the agency, said the letter, calling the report's version "incorrect and misleading."

"In addition," says the letter, "the report contains an outrageous and dishonest suggestion that such removal might have been for 'not having adhered to an unstated IAEA policy barring IAEA officials from telling the whole truth about the Iranian nuclear program.'"

Dated Aug. 12, the letter was addressed to Rep. Peter Hoekstra (news, bio, voting record), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It was signed by Vilmos Cserveny, a senior director of the Vienna-based agency.

An IAEA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the letter, said it was written "to set the record straight."

Jamal Ware, a spokesman for the House committee, confirmed they had received the letter and said the chairman had referred it to Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Rep. Rush Hold, D-N.J. They will review it and issue a formal response if necessary, he said.

"All IAEA complains about is a photo caption. If you read the report, it's very clear that what it is saying is that Iran is working to develop the capability to enrich uranium to weapons grade, not that they have done so," Ware said. "They use a string of adjectives, while not pointing to any substantive criticism of the report. There are areas where we would disagree with them. A disagreement does not make what we say erroneous."

The dispute was reminiscent of the clashes between the IAEA and Washington over whether Saddam Hussein was trying to make weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear arms. American arguments that Saddam had such covert arms programs were given as the chief reason for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam.

ElBaradei's criticism of the U.S. standpoint on Iraq and subsequent perceptions that he was soft on Iran in his staff's investigation of suspicions Tehran's nuclear activities may be a cover for a weapons program led to a failed attempt last year by Washington to prevent his re-election.

 

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hI mARKx

thank you for this.......

i do hope the US does not invade Iran..... those poor Iranian people!!

 

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Iran is not free:

"Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." —G.W.Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

But then I guess the US is not free either then.

 

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Gw is an absolute embarrasement what a numbskull

It would be hiliarous if he did not have the pwoer to destroy life on earth several times over!!!!

 

And just how would the IAEA know all this about Iran's nuke program? What proof do they have of anything? Were they premitted unlimited access to all of Iran's nuke facilities? ..even the secret, underground ones (if there are any)?

I just don't get it. How can they make such determinations without evidence or intelligence services?

Just saying something, or making a report, doesn't make it true.

Baron Max

 

Nope but since they have been assigned the job, and are supposedly non-partisan, one would assume that they would do it.

Mostly one would look at the history of an organisation when determining the validity of its reporting.

Has the US proved to be truthful and non-partisan in the past? Or the UN inspectors?

 

In this world, in this era of bias and fervent hatred, one should be very damned careful of "assuming" any-fuckin'-thing! ..especially anything like this report or any report about anything going on in one of the world's most secret regimes!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't "organizations" made up of humans? And aren't humans proven to be bias and opinionated and self-serving?

Sam, the US ain't and never has been "non-partisan" on something like this! Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US is biased in favor of the US. How could you expect anything less?

The UN and all of it's people suck giant donkey dicks, all day, every day .....and they even seem to like it!

The UN is nothing, has no power, has no authority, has no credibility ...it's nothing but a place where the rich diplomats gather to argue and drink fine wine and eat fine food. .....and suck giant donkey dicks!!!

Baron Max

 

Do you have proof of this? Preferably photographic proof?

 

And your suggestion is?

 

Bomb Iran and turn it into a large, smoking ruin ....then cut it off of the continent, pull it out into the Indian Ocean and sink it!

Baron Max

 

And that would benefit who?

 

Thats not feasible. The Indian Ocean isn't deep enough.

 

Okay, sorry. Let's just pull it out there and use it for bombing practice for 4,000 or so years ....maybe longer! would that work?

Baron Max

 

Nope. The US wont be around for 4,000 years.

 

Saying it, or anything else, does not make it so.

Baron Max

 

I wonder how many civilizations have lasted at least 4,000 years. The US and the World may/will most likely change beyond recognition. By then Iran may be the 405th State.

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Now listen baron

we all know that the bush man wants iran......

this Iaea report is not going to boviously help him.... but dont worry the neo-cons will produce the "evidence" one way or the othjer to kill a few more innocents...

this is what their pre-planned hizbollah campaign was all about with their proxies israel.

they were preparing for the iran game!!

 

i find you comments disgusting baron......as it equals a holacaust

 

Good, I'm glad.

So what's wrong with a few good holocausts now and then?

Baron Max

 

What exactly was your complaint against Saddam, then?