Hey Congress! "IAEA States Iran's Nuclear Activities Remains in Peaceful Use"

[leftchick]

have any western media even reported this?

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH30Ak02.html

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That is rather strange, seeing how cooperation is growing between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to a point where the United Nations' nuclear watchdog has virtually normalized Iran's nuclear dossier. A just-released note of understanding between the two sides reaffirms, among other things, the following:

The agency has been able to verify the non-diversion of the declared nuclear materials at the enrichment facilities in Iran and has therefore concluded that it remains in peaceful use. <1>

Details of a working document agreed between Iran and IAEA inspectors were released this week. The two sides want to resolve questions about Tehran's nuclear program and set a timetable for "transparency" by December. Iran has already drawn several rounds of sanctions from the UN Security Council over its nuclear program.

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"If they take an irrational move, then Iran's cooperation with the agency will be sterile," Iran's nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, has stated. Both Larijani and Ahmadinejad have said that Iran's nuclear file should be "normalized", since the lingering questions about Tehran's nuclear activities are being "cleared up" and the IAEA has full-scope monitoring of Iran's nuclear facilities.

Various IAEA officials, as well as a number of European diplomats, have told this author that the IAEA would be able to detect any military diversion, or for that matter any uranium enrichment above a low grade, as long as the Iran-IAEA safeguard agreement remains intact.

[Homer Wells]

1. Kicked and Recommended n/t

[leftchick]

2. Iraqi Inspections were working in 2003 as well

(sigh)

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. And for all those who say "But they have oil! Why do they need

nuclear power?" I have two words.

Peak oil.

They have a lot, but it is a finite amount. Cheap oil may build up their economy, but to keep it up they will eventually need something else - particularly if they want to keep exporting oil as long as possible. Look at us. We were once the largest oil producer in the world. Now, we import a vast majority of our oil. We have hit our own peak oil, and have been dealing with it for decades.

Why wouldn't they plan to do the same? To not do so would be stupid. Their ancestors owned goats and sand, and without power infrastructure to replace oil, their grandchildren will do the same.

[MadHound]

7. I have two more words for you

No refineries.

Sure, they have the oil, but they can't run anything with it until it is refined. No refineries, no gas or diesel or anything else.

Thus the need for nuclear plants.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. That too.

I am so tired of hearing people say that because Iran has oil they are obviously wanting nuclear technology to make bombs, and that nuclear energy is just a ploy.

[Supersedeas]

4. Congress....how about the GOP/Media Establishment--not a word to be heard

Buried....the real news will be buried.

[annabanana]

5. It's the SAME ROAD we were lead down before. . SAME ONE!

Exact same script, exact same cast...
nononononononononononononononononononononon

[leftchick]

6. exact same non-opposition party!

:argh:

[Summer93]

9. Kick and recommend

If we here on DU know these things how many in the outside world know these things too?

The problem is that the current administration Bush/Cheney are so detached from reality that what othere know and/or think mean little to them. They are blindy going where they have decided to go completely detached. They have chosen to be above the law and it has worked for them so well.

How can they be stopped even if all the people in America wanted to stop them?

[leftchick]

11. it is a repeat of 2002/03

the media drum beat/ the neocons terra card/ the complicit dems in congress/ ...

It is all there! We knew Iraq was not a threat! The UN weapons inspectors told us so! You could not hear them over the NYT/WaPo/Faux/abcnbccnnmsnbc Rally Cries for an Iraq Attack!

Same shit different country. :(

[slipslidingaway]

10. Thank you! n/t