From the New York Times
Iran’s alleged research into designing nuclear warheads remains a matter of serious concern and needs “substantive explanations”, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also said in its latest report on Iran that Tehran had 3,500 uranium enrichment centrifuges working at its Natanz underground nuclear facility, a slightly higher number than earlier this year.
The agency said it had not been given access to Iranian nuclear-related sites that it asked to see in April.
Wait a minute. The IAEA talked to Iran and asked them to let them see the sites and Iran . . . refused? But I thought talking was the stuff of Hope and Change. It must be because President Obama hasn’t actually sat down for a chat with old Mahmoud yet.
But even if Obama were the president, we’d still have a fly in the ointment. Apparently the Iranians don’t want to talk to the United Nations. Barack never told us what would happen if our enemies didn’t want to talk to us. I thought Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela were just waiting for us to talk to them, but because George Bush refused, they were sitting home pouting and waiting for The Talker to be elected in November.
The IAEA has been pressing Tehran for answers after Western intelligence alleged that Iran had covertly studied how to design atomic bombs. Iran has dismissed the intelligence as baseless, forged or irrelevant.
“Substantive explanations are required from Iran to support its statements on the alleged studies and on other information with a possible military dimension,” the agency said in its report.
“We have not got substantive answers and we could have gotten those earlier,” a senior U.N. official said. “It’s up to Iran (now).”
Now what Senator Obama?
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No, actually, if you bother reading the IAEA report and if you knew something about the subject rather than relying on the media to explain it all to you, you’d know that Iran did NOT refuse inspections. It refused to allow visits that EXCEEDED what it was legally required to allow. Visit IranAffairs.com to get the facts straight.
And Ahmadinejad has nothing to do with it. Iran’s nuclear program started under the Shah, with the support and participation of the United Staets, and Iran is building the same nuclear technology that several other nations such as Brazil and Argentina are developing — and THEY DO have a record of seeking nukes.
Barry will just talk to the media and tell them what they want to hear. He will just declare peace and move on to his social agenda. Let’s pray the voters wake up come November! God bless! Padre Steve
“Ahmadinejad has nothing to do with it.” Good one Hass. And they just want to power their tricycle factories with the nuclear power plants too. You sound like a junior varsity Iranian diplomat.
The presidency of Iran is mostly a figurehead position similar to that of Israel. The real power lies in the council of mullahs. The President of Iran does not have the same type of powers as say the President of the United States, he is not the military leader of Iran.
Right, and those Mullahs authorize every “wipe Israel off the map” comment he makes. He doesn’t say a thing that is not pre-approved policy.
A “figurehead position” is pretty powerful in & of itself. Just watch the “Death to America/Death to Israel” rants & tell me there is no power there.