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Iran threatens to end cooperation with the IAEA, quit NPT
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by snuffysmith | November 27, 2009 at 06:03 am
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Iran threatens to end cooperation with the IAEA, quit NPTfrom DEBKAfile
Tehran may well break off cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency-IAEA and withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty after the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors Friday, Nov. 27 approved a resolution voicing serious concern about its failure to comply with international obligations and referring the issue to the UN Security Council.
IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei capped his 12-year tenure with the admission that the agency's cooperation with Tehran had reached "a dead end."
The IAEA director's "dead end" statement applies equally to the six powers' bid to engage Iran in negotiations on its nuclear program and the wholesale concealment of its activities. Israeli leaders, including president Shimon Peres, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, defense minister Ehud Barak, presented an equally false face when they reiterated that Iran's nuclear aspirations are the business of the international community rather than Israel. They knew all the time that world powers were spending more time fabricating a false picture of Iran's nuclear attainments the facts than dealing with them. The IAEA director has finally come clean for them all.
Iran's withdrawl from the NPT would be the final nail in the coffin of the NPT and a disaster for the world.
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Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpokeat 06:19 on November 27th, 2009
Should we be surprised?
at 06:34 on November 27th, 2009
Iran Censured At UN Nuclear Meetingfrom The Huffington Post by The Huffington Post News Editors
VIENNA — The U.N. nuclear agency's board censured Iran on Friday, with 25 nations backing a resolution that demands Tehran immediately mothball its newly revealed nuclear facility and heed U.N. Security Council resolutions calling on it to stop uranium enrichment.
Iran remained defiant, with its chief representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency declaring that his country would resist "pressure, resolutions, sanction(s) and threat of military attack."
The resolution – and the resulting vote of the IAEA's 35-nation decision-making board – were significant on several counts.
The resolution was endorsed by six world powers – the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany – reflecting a rare measure of unity on Iran. Moscow and Beijing have acted as a traditional drag on efforts to punish Iran for its nuclear defiance, either preventing new Security Council sanctions or watering down their potency.
They did not formally endorse the last IAEA resolution in 2006, which referred Iran to the Security Council, starting the process that has resulted in three sets of sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Their backing for the document at the Vienna meeting thus reflected broad international disenchantment with Tehran.
It also appeared to signal possible support for any new Western push for a fourth set of U.N sanctions, should Tehran continue shunning international overtures meant to reach agreements that reduce concerns about its nuclear ambitions.
Strong backing for the resolution at the meeting was also notable. Only three nations – Cuba, Venezuela and Malaysia – voted against the document, with five abstentions and one member absent.
at 07:22 on November 27th, 2009
Israel Is Preparing For War
at 07:30 on November 27th, 2009
IAEA votes to censure Iran over nuclear cover-up
at 11:58 on November 27th, 2009
Could you please place all secondary material in highlight? Othewise it looks like it's original reporting.