IAEA Chief Walks out on EU session in Protest
I have been waiting for this news to make it to mainstream media, but so far there is nothing... I suppose that Zionist-mainstream prefers to hide from the American people and the world in fact that the IAEA is in disagreement with the Ziocon agenda for Iran... and that its Secretary General is not bending down to the pressures exerted on him by the war-mongers...
Please look at those 3 articles. The first one is "the news". The second one is because I unfortunately need to back up "my" news with something from mainstream to prove that the first article is real news.. because somehow mainstream media still enjoys a certain undeserved credibility! The third article is to elaborate on the subject of the session which the IAEA chief walked out on and to show how Reuters deliberately chooses to omit certain news (which it know happened).. while it insists on developing other "news" which will be somehow more 'supportive' of its masters in Washington and Tel Aviv.
This is how the entire Middle East is handled by mainstream.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=22768§ionid=351020104
ElBaradei protests at EU statement
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:20:44
Agencies
The IAEA chief has walked out of a session to protest at an EU statement against Iran.
The UN nuclear chief Mohammad ElBaradei has left an IAEA meeting in protest at an EU statement on Iran, diplomats say.
ElBaradei walked out of an afternoon session of his IAEA in Vienna on Tuesday to voice his anger at a statement issued against Iran by the EU, the diplomats attending the meeting said.
"The Europeans issued a nasty statement against Iran, so Mr. ElBaradei left the meeting," said one diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity.
IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming declined comment but several diplomats confirmed that ElBaradei had left the session.
ElBaradei has been under pressure as the US and other Western powers warn that a timetable for new inspections in Iran agreed by the IAEA and Tehran last month provides Iran the opportunity to delay new UN sanctions.
Still, the United States and ElBaradei had closed ranks on the first day here Monday of a regular meeting of the IAEA board in urging Iran to meet the timetable and also to do more to show the world it does not seek the bomb, such as suspending uranium enrichment.
The European Union speech was given by Portuguese ambassador Joaquim Duarte, as Portugal is the current EU president.
After walking out, ElBaradei stayed away until the session was adjourned at its regular time until Wednesday. The Portuguese speech was followed by speeches from Canada and Norway.
Just before the Portuguese speech, ElBaradei had received a rousing statement of support from the Non-Aligned Movement, in a speech by Cuban Ambassador Norma Miguelina Goicochea Estenoz as the NAM leader.
She said "NAM shares the view that this work plan (timetable) is a 'significant step forward'" and "reiterates its full confidence in the impartiality and professionalism of the Secretariat of the IAEA and its Director General, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei."
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This is how Reuters manipulates the real news by hardly mentioning it.. although it should have been in the headlines! This is how Reuters puts the lid on an important part of a story while it develops another it might prefer people to hear! Imagine that the chief of the IAEA walks out of the European Union and it is barely part of a sentence in an entire article...
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1154089720070911
Developing states rap "interference" in Iran deal
Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:10PM EDT
By Mark Heinrich
VIENNA (Reuters) - Non-aligned nations on Tuesday rejected "interference" in Iran's nuclear transparency deal with U.N. inspectors, countering Western criticism the pact eases pressure on Tehran not to seek technology with bomb potential.
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) of developing nations, which includes Iran itself, endorsed the deal at a gathering of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) 35-nation board of governors.
The August 21 "work plan" commits Iran to answer five-year-old IAEA questions one by one over a rough timeline of a few months, while leaving untouched Tehran's expanding enrichment work.
The United States and its major European allies said the deal diverted attention from U.N. Security Council demands that Iran suspend uranium enrichment and grant broader inspections to defuse mistrust over its nuclear intentions.
The West fears Iran wants to make nuclear bombs while Tehran insists its program is aimed solely at electricity production.
A European Union statement to the board focused on demanding Iran comply with Security Council resolutions and suggested that its pledge to answer questions about past, hidden nuclear work, while welcome, was worth little unless Tehran honored it.
The EU "took note" of the "work plan", which in diplomatic terms means reserving judgment, short of approval. IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei walked out of the meeting after the EU statement, said several diplomats who were present.
"The EU statement was short-sighted..., overly hardline and not helpful," said a Vienna diplomat working on the Iran file. "It's harmful for the IAEA as an institution."
Ambassador Norma Goicochea Estenoz of Cuba, speaking as current chairman of NAM, said it "strongly rejects any undue pressure or interference in the agency's activities ... which could jeopardize its efficiency and credibility". Continued
She was alluding to suggestions by Washington and some allies that Iran bulldozed inspectors into a flawed deal.
STEP FORWARD
The United Nations has imposed two sets of sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt nuclear fuel work. Iran's agreement with the IAEA has delayed a fresh set of tougher sanctions meant to deter Tehran from pursuing enrichment.
"NAM believes this work plan is a significant step forward, as (ElBaradei) said himself," Goicochea said. "NAM believes it will facilitate negotiations between Iran and other concerned parties toward a peaceful settlement of Iran's nuclear issues."
"NAM also expects all concerned parties to avoid taking any measures which put at risk the recent constructive process between Iran and the Agency," she said.
There are 115 nations in the NAM, 15 of them on the IAEA's board, which makes decisions based on consensus.
Iran has few staunch allies in NAM -- Cuba, Syria, Bolivia and Venezuela, all foes of Washington. Many members are disenchanted with Iranian intransigence, diplomats say.
But many also resent what they see as efforts by some Western powers on the board to isolate rather than negotiate with Iran to head off a slide into conflict.
Ambassador Joachim Duarte of Portugal, current chairman of the EU, said the bloc appreciated "impartial efforts" by the IAEA to uncover Iran's nuclear history, but also called for regular status reports to board governors.
Some Western diplomats have suggested IAEA inspectors should have consulted governors before sealing the deal.
Duarte said the EU remained open to negotiations on trade benefits for Iran if it shelved enrichment activity first. Iran has rejected that precondition as undermining its sovereignty.
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EU Session that El Baradei (IAEA Chief) walked out on:
http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=79585
EU Expected to Demand Iran Shelve All Nuclear WorkThe European Union is expected this week to renew demands on Iran to shelve all nuclear work.
Reuters The European Union is expected this week to renew demands on Iran to shelve all nuclear work, despite a deal between Tehran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog meant to assuage fears about its atomic programme.
Sharing U.S. scepticism about Iran's limited agreement to be transparent for U.N. inspectors, a draft EU statement highlights Iranian defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions ordering it to suspend uranium enrichment, a process that can yield atom bombs.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday assured agency governors meeting in Vienna that the deal's lack of references to demands for suspension and wider IAEA inspections did not mean Tehran was free to develop sensitive nuclear technology.
But the EU statement, to be delivered during debate on Wednesday, said that, while progress towards uncovering Iran's nuclear history was appreciated, the agreement did nothing to rein in Tehran's expanding enrichment programme.
"Full and timely implementation of the work plan (to resolve past activities) would constitute a significant step forward," said the statement, obtained by Reuters.
"But we have been informed by the IAEA that Iran has further increased its enrichment capacities" since an agency report on Aug. 30 showing that Iran was close to being able to start producing usable amounts of enriched uranium.
The EU condemned Iran's continued refusal to grant wider ranging inspections of sites not declared to be nuclear in order to verify that Tehran has no covert military project parallel to its official quest for nuclear-generated electricity.
ANSWERS NOW NOT LATER
The statement implicitly criticised a rough 2 to 3-month timeline in the agreement for Iran to answer questions one by one, saying it should be "fully implemented without delay".
Washington has said it and many board members will press for swifter responses to questions outstanding for five years.
Diplomats on the board said IAEA negotiators had told them that Iran was adamant about the staged transparency procedure. "The IAEA told us this was the best they could get, take it or leave it," one Western diplomat said.
Elbaradei defended the pact in a speech opening the 35-nation meeting to counter suspicions raised by Iran's announcement after agreeing the deal that its nuclear dossier was now "closed".
For that to happen, he said, it was "indispensable" for Iran to permit broader, intrusive inspections and suspend enrichment-related activity as required by repeated IAEA board and Security Council resolutions.
The transparency deal stalled a U.S. push to isolate Iran by reducing European support for, and stiffening Russian resistance to, a swift resort to tougher U.N. sanctions.
Iran won the reprieve by threatening to exclude the IAEA if Security Council pressure intensified, diplomats said.
But the U.S. and close EU allies have softened initial scathing criticism to avoid being seen as wreckers and lending weight to Iran's argument that it is being bullied by a few big powers more interested in confrontation than peaceful solutions.
Published: September 11, 2007 13:17h
is repeating itself as prelude for yet another preemptive war. What this confirms is that westerners are chosen people who have right on technologies that "primitive" ME nations do not. Israel is western bastard so it can have nuclear weapons to deter angry Arabs who are sick of watching war crimes committed against Palestinians daily for the last sixty years of UN world. El Baradei is obviously regretting bowing down to Zionist in case of Iraq as it is not easy to carry even partial responsibility for atrocities in Iraq. Atrocities in Iran would be much greater and spread all over the ME so he may as well quit if he does not want to share responsibility for millions to die in war on Iran. Zionist will go ahead no matter what he or IAEA says. The whole nuclear treaty is bullshit devised to keep oppressed nations in permanent subservient and ineffective status till the end of world. Even if they want to make nuclear weapons so what, they are not the last one who are perhaps pondering about it, having in mind this aggressive and oppressive nature of so called civilized western democracies. Godlike big powers have one standard for themselves and then another one for the rest of international midgets. Suck it up Zionist devils you have opened Pandora's box now live with its consequences. If you don't believe that you have ushered atomic era than go and read CIA project Paperclip. You have no right telling people what they can and can not have. Either everyone should have nukes or nobody. Its your call to decide how you want to wage wars if you nuke your opponents its just fair that they nuke you back.
"Let there be Light!"