UN nuclear chief says there is no evidence Iran is seeking to make weapons!
NEW YORK (PNN) - December 7, 2012 - The United Nations nuclear chief continues to urge Iran to open up its military base to inspections while simultaneously acknowledging that there may not be any evidence there of suspected weapons development.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its chief, Yukiya Amano, continue to push Iran to allow inspections at the military site at Parchin, following unfounded accusations by political vested interests that Iran was trying to clean up evidence of weaponization of its nuclear program.
However, Amano reiterates what former IAEA chief inspector Muhammad el Baradei said many times. “We cannot say for sure that we would be able find something,” said Amano.
With regard to Parchin, international observers should not be surprised that Iran hasn’t followed every demand and dictate of the inspectors and the Western-led negotiators.
The so-called diplomacy with Iran has been “predicated on intimidation, illegal threats of military action, unilateral ‘crippling’ sanctions, sabotage, and extrajudicial killings of Iran’s brightest minds,” wrote Reza Nasri at PBS Frontline’s Teheran Bureau. “These postures have spoiled the chance to resolve this issue promptly and respectfully.”
After the failed talks in 2009 and 2010, wherein Obama ended up rejecting the very deal he demanded the Iranians accept, the Iranian leadership has good grounds for viewing Obama as inherently untrustworthy.
Former CIA analyst Paul Pillar has concurred, arguing that Iran has “ample reason” to believe, “ultimately the main Western interest is in regime change.”
