The U.S. wants to lodge a formal complaint against the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency over suggestions that Iran be allowed to keep some elements of its uranium enrichment program, diplomats said Tuesday.
They said this was because of fears that such a concession could undermine U.N. Security Council attempts to pressure Tehran to fully scrap enrichment. The diplomats, who demanded anonymity because of the delicate nature of the issue, spoke to The Associated Press before the release of a report from IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei that could act as a trigger for a third set of Security Council sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear defiance. Their comments on the issue revealed a hardening of positions on how to deal with Iran’s determination to expand its enrichment program, a potential pathway to nuclear arms.
If that sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because it is. The US tried to weaken the credibility of the IAEA when they were pimping for war in Iraq. Last time, they even tapped elBaradei’s phone in an attempt to remove him from a position where he could be an obstacle to their push for war. Of course, he turned out to have been right and the Nobel committee acknowledged the fact.
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