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re: I heard last night

You're talking one speech, Art. I've read dozens.

I'm not in favor of going to war against Iran. But it would be nice if we got one goddam bit of cooperation from the U.N. and all the other "peaceful" methods of dealing with an outlaw nation. The IAEA has been kissing this guy's butt for a couple of years now, while he laughs in their faces and waves vials of nuclear material around on TV.

He just told the U.N. Security Council to take a flying jump.

From the September 17th IAEA statement:

Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Regarding the implementation of Agency safeguards in the Islamic Republic of Iran, I would make four brief points.

First, the Agency has been able to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran. Iran has continued to provide the access and reporting needed to enable Agency verification in this regard.

Second, Iran has provided the Agency with additional information and access needed to resolve a number of long outstanding issues, such as the scope and nature of past plutonium experiments.

Third, contrary to the decisions of the Security Council, calling on Iran to take certain confidence building measures, Iran has not suspended its enrichment related activities, and is continuing with its construction of the heavy water reactor at Arak. This is regrettable.

Fourth, while the Agency so far has been unable to verify certain important aspects relevant to the scope and nature of Iran´s nuclear programme, Iran and the Secretariat agreed last month on a work plan for resolving all outstanding verification issues. These verification issues are at the core of the lack of confidence about the nature of Iran´s programme, and are what prompted actions by the Security Council. Iran´s agreement on such a work plan, with a defined timeline, is therefore an important step in the right direction. Naturally, Iran´s active cooperation and transparency is the key to full and timely implementation of the work plan. If the Agency were able to provide credible assurance about the peaceful nature of Iran´s past and current nuclear programme, this would go a long way towards building confidence about Iran´s nuclear programme, and could create the conditions for a comprehensive and durable solution.


From the news story I linked to above:

Earlier this month, however, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei welcomed Iran’s agreement on a timeline to address all outstanding issues.


Ball-less bullshit. Repeat as necessary until the first test detonation. It's not like ElBaradei is going to lose his job if Iran blows off a nuke.

Nobody wants another war, but you tell me where everyone is supposed to go from here. Wait for Israel to deal with it for us, like they just did in Syria? Like they did with Iraq years ago, which saved us from facing a nuclear Iraq when they invaded Kuwait?

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