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Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
A 2008 report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by the then Director-General, Mohamed ElBaradei, thanked Iran's honest cooperation in removing ambiguities about its past activities and confirmed that Iran has answered all the six outstanding questions of the world body about the nuclear material and activities that it had had in the past.
Q: What does Iran need to do so the IAEA can optimally monitor its nuclear programme?
ELBARADEI: In addition to our work, to clarify Iran´s past nuclear activities, we have to make sure, naturally, that Iran´s current activities are also exclusively for peace purposes and for that we have been asking Iran to conclude the so called Additional Protocol, which gives us the additional authority to visit places, additional authority to have additional documents, to be able to provide assurance, not only that Iran´s declared activities are for peaceful purposes but that there are no undeclared nuclear activities. On that score, Iran in the last few months has provided us with visits to many places, that enable us to have a clearer picture of Iran´s current programme. However, that is not, in my view, sufficient. We need Iran to implement the Additional Protocol. We need to have that authority as a matter of law. That, I think, is a key for us to start being able to build progress in providing assurance that Iran´s past and current programmes are exclusively for peaceful purposes. So we have the Protocol issue and we have the weaponization, alleged weaponization studies.
The US attempt to push for stronger Security Council sanctions has been undermined by the country's own national intelligence estimate, published in late 2007, which said Iran is not pursuing a weapons program. Washington's push for additional UN penalties also contradicts reports by the former IAEA Director-General ElBaradei - including a report in November 2007 and the other one in February 2008 - which praised Iran's truthfulness about key aspects of its past nuclear activities and announced settlement of outstanding issues with Tehran.
43. In addition, Iran needs to continue to build confidence about the scope and nature of its present programme. Confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme requires that the Agency be able to provide assurances not only regarding declared nuclear material, but, equally importantly, regarding the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran. Although the Agency has no concrete information, other than that addressed through the work plan, about possible current undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, the Agency is not in a position to provide credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran without full implementation of the Additional Protocol. This is especially important in the light of Iran’s undeclared activities for almost two decades and the need to restore confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme. Therefore, the Director General again urges Iran to implement the Additional Protocol at the earliest possible date. T
The UN nuclear watchdog has also carried out frequent surprise inspections of Iran's nuclear sites so far, but found nothing to support the West's allegations.
The Mehr also reported that Ahmadi-Roshan had met with International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors a few days before he was assassinated.
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
please show where this is proof of "More Lies From Iran"?.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
please show where this is proof of "More Lies From Iran"?.
I see it .. it's more of a misleading and speaking out both sides of it's mouth kinda thing.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
please show where this is proof of "More Lies From Iran"?.
I see it .. it's more of a misleading and speaking out both sides of it's mouth kinda thing.
Iran is going to do whatever Iran wants .. and it'll say whatever it wants to say to get their agenda done. Most every country in the world tries to do that, but for some reason the countries in the West get nailed for it and get called 'intolerant' or some other PC label ... but others get a free pass.
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
reply to post by Deetermined
I consider false accusations from the IAEA based on outdated information that was already known to be incorrect lying so I guess we may not agree on the situation. As for Iran withholding information, they never started doing this until unfair sanctions were put in place while they were still following NPT protocol.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
I see it .. it's more of a misleading and speaking out both sides of it's mouth kinda thing.
Iran is going to do whatever Iran wants .. and it'll say whatever it wants to say to get their agenda done. Most every country in the world tries to do that, but for some reason the countries in the West get nailed for it and get called 'intolerant' or some other PC label ... but others get a free pass.
Originally posted by WozaMeathed
Do you also think Iran lied when it said a few days ago that the USA and Israel has murdered one of its nuclear energy scientist? I dont think that they lied .
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
Iran is doing what Iran wants within it's own borders and leaving other countries alone.
What logic are you using to arrive to the conclusion that Iran is getting a free pass in the tolerance department?
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by WozaMeathed
Do you also think Iran lied when it said a few days ago that the USA and Israel has murdered one of its nuclear energy scientist? I dont think that they lied .
They gave no proof that it was the USA or Israel ... they just used the 'hit' as a major propaganda piece. Which begs the question ... since Iran has a habit of killing off it's own people that it has no use for anymore, why not point fingers right back at IRAN for the hit?? It certainly fit's their M.O.