U.N. Nuke Chief Not Sure Iran's Honest

IAEA Director Says Agency Can't Guarantee Tehran Isn't Hiding Weapons Program

(AP)  Lack of full remote monitoring means the agency cannot keep tabs on all activities at the bunker, said one diplomat, who demanded anonymity because he was not allowed to discuss the issue. Iran continues to assemble individual centrifuges in the hall, he said.

Iran's decision in late January to bar 38 inspectors from entering the country also was burdening relations with the agency, said another diplomat. In taking such action, Iran claimed to have found one senior expert "spying for his home country" by using wiretapping equipment to collect information, the diplomat said.

IAEA officials said they would not comment on the claim.

Up for review will be a Feb. 22 report from ElBaradei finding that Tehran has expanded enrichment.

The board was expected to approve last month's decision by ElBaradei to suspend nearly half the technical aid his agency provides to Iran. Only North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq have faced such punishment in the past.

The decision would be in line with existing U.N. Security Council sanctions.

ElBaradei, in an internal report circulated to board members last month, had called for full or partial suspension of 18 projects that he deemed could be misused to create nuclear weapons. His agency had already suspended aid to Iran in five instances in January.

The board has often been split on what action to take against Iran. The United States, its key allies and most European nations have usually been opposed by nonaligned board members who were against harsh punishment.

But the diplomats said that even nations normally backing Tehran — including key U.S. critics such as Cuba and Venezuela — would likely agree to the suspensions because they were backed by the U.N. Security Council.

Soltanieh said Iran was "fully prepared to remove ambiguities and ... assure that these activities are and will be exclusively for peaceful purposes." Still, world powers have rejected renewed talks unless Tehran first freezes its enrichment program — something Tehran dismisses as an unacceptable precondition.

The board will also be reviewing another key nuclear issue — North Korea's apparent willingness to ultimately dismantle its nuclear arms-making capabilities.

ElBaradei plans to go to Pyongyang March 13 as part of the six-nation agreement under which North Korea agreed to allow a return of his agency's experts under its commitment to eventually scrap its nuclear program in exchange for economic aid and security assurances.

North Korea kicked IAEA monitors out in late 2002, at the beginning of the current nuclear standoff, withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and reactivating its mothballed nuclear program, which led to its first-ever atomic weapons test in October.

The meeting also was presented a letter from 17 Arab nations plus Palestinian authorities submitted to the IAEA and made available to The Associated Press that called for Israel to be put under IAEA inspections, asserting that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last year acknowledged that his country had nuclear weapons — something Olmert has denied doing.

[lars008-2009]

then i guess you won't be voting for billary....lol
the king and queen of liars.....

"Everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it%u2019s troubling,%u201D Geffen said.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003548043
hahahaha people paying to listen to a proven, convicted, impeached, disbarred liar%u2026lol
For Clinton, New Wealth In Speeches
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022202189.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022100993_pf.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17263999/

[randalds]

"U.N. Nuke Chief Not Sure Iran's Honest"

I agree, we can't be sure if Iran is lying. In fact the only world leader we KNOW is an out and out bold-faced liar is George W. Bush. He's shown time and time again that he is INCAPABLE of telling the truth under any circumstance. So Iran's president MIGHT be lying, but we know Bush is every time his lips move.

[lars008-2009]

grazinggoat.....
nope......... it is not smearing when it is the truth..... but you knew that already.......

fascist nazi islam still practices slavery, aparthied, genocide, etc etc etc.... but then you alo knew that already.....

What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad

Thomas Jefferson knew about fascist nazi islam..... he killed plenty of them....

In 1786 Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves. Jefferson reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:

The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet (Mohammed), that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm
http://www.khouse.org/articles/2007/691/
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2002_winter_spring/terrorism.htm

[grazinggoat]

EXTRACTED FROM THE HOLY BOOK REGARDDING SLAVERY...
Genesis 9:25-27: "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers. He also said, 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

http://users.binary.net/polycarp/sla
ve.html

Another site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4694896.stm

'He added that when the emancipation of slaves took place in 1833, compensation was paid not to the slaves but to their owners.

In one case, he said the Bishop of Exeter and three colleagues were paid nearly UK 13,000 pounds in compensation for 665 slaves.'

-Jews, says Lewis Browne, "traveled everywhere from England to India, from Bohemia to Egypt. Their commonest merchandise in those days, beginning with the eighth century, was slaves. On every high road and on every great river and sea, these Jewish traders were to be found with their gangs of shackled prisoners in convoy."
and here is the link:

http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/08slave.htm

-Arse007, Stop smearing others with your stupid comments. Humanity history has hideously been full of shameful practices from all point of views and by all humnas, if we can call them humans. Your attitude of stirring-sh*t will pop-up back in your face...

[lars008-2009]

What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad

Thomas Jefferson knew about fascist nazi islam..... he killed plenty of them....

In 1786 Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves. Jefferson reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:

The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet (Mohammed), that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm
http://www.khouse.org/articles/2007/691/
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2002_winter_spring/terrorism.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+Thomas Jefferson barbary
http://http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q= Thomas Jefferson islam
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q= Thomas Jefferson muslim

[wildhorsesfilm]

"as a result the international community will continue to express concern" quoting ElBaradei...wow, the UN uses such harsh language!

I'll bet Tehran is shaking in their boots.