Few are aware that International Atomic Energy inspectors are in Iran year-round.
Inspectors’ Year-round Presence in Iran Complicates Israel’s Attack Plans
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West Falls for Iran’s Show of “Sanitizing” Parchin
To Iran, uranium enrichment is a bargaining chip.
Current Chief of IAEA Releases Its Brakes on Rush to War With Iran
The International Atomic Energy Agency under Yukio Amano has no qualms about publicizing unproven allegations about Iran.
As Always, Good News About Nukes Soon Eclipsed by the Bad
Important as preventing nuclear proliferation is, it’s second to nuclear risk.
Iran: Willing to Deal
Determined to lift the economic siege and avoid a potential conflict, Iran has shown an increasing interest in reviving talks. Not only has Iran welcomed successive rounds of IAEA visit to its nuclear facilities, but it has also shown interest in engaging in substantive talks, with Turkey and Russia acting as primary interlocutors. It is high time for the West to rethink the sanctions track and craft a real strategy by finally giving true diplomacy a chance. This might be our last opportunity to avoid tragedy.
Is Iran Iraq All Over Again?
For at least the past two decades, political leaders in the United States and Israel have warned that Iran was on the threshold of building a nuclear weapon. From what we’ve been hearing lately from the media, ‘Iran is once again…still on that threshold.
Do Iran’s Objections to the IAEA Report Deserve Consideration?
The mainstream media fails to provide the public with the evidence used to support the IAEA’s latest report about Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran: No Smoking Gun Found for Ticking Time Bomb
It’s difficult to make the case for attacking Iran based on the new IAEA report.
Flogging a Dead Agreement
The Indian government suddenly finds itself under intense and mounting U.S. pressure to complete a nuclear agreement during the present U.S. administration. “We don’t have all the time in the world,” Nicholas Burns bluntly said this month. One of the chief architects of the agreement and the U.S. undersecretary for political affairs, Burns was referring to the India-specific agreements with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and change of rules at the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) that are necessary for the export of nuclear plants and equipment to India. He reminded the Indians that “this is an election year” in the USA and hoped “very much that this process can now be completed.” David C. Mulford, U.S. ambassador in New Delhi, similarly pressed for the conclusion of the agreement during the Bush administration. He suggested that it is almost “now or never” for New Delhi to get behind such a deal before non-proliferation groups force additional conditionalities.
Postcard from…Brussels
Unlike in the United States, the issue of Afghanistan ranks high on the priorities of the European (and Canadian) peace movement. With NATO headquartered in Brussels, the Belgian peace movement has taken a particularly strong stand against the new deployment. “Instead of a humanitarian intervention, we see an unacceptable amount of collateral damage,” a coalition of Belgian peace groups wrote in an open letter to the Belgian defense minister. “Human rights and women rights are violated at large scale whereas the massive opium production finances the corruption and the warlords. What kind of objectives, then, can Belgian defend there?”