The IAEA is angry that Iran has refused to stop building nuclear weapons, so it’s really going to stick it to the Mullahs. Teach them a lesson they’ll never forget. But this is the United Nations, so that lesson will come in the form of a strongly-worded letter.
And to think some people don’t take the UN’s nuclear watchdog seriously any more.
One day after the director general of the United Nations nuclear watchdog castigated Iran for blocking inquiries into its nuclear program, the organization’s governing body added a further rebuke Friday, demanding that the country freeze operations “immediately” at a once-secret uranium enrichment plant.
In an overwhelming display of disapproval, the governing body also expressed “serious concern” about potential military aspects of Iran’s nuclear program.
The resolution censuring Iran was approved overwhelmingly by 25 votes to 3. It came after Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, declared in unusually blunt language on Thursday that Iran had stonewalled investigators about evidence that the country had worked on nuclear weapons design, and that his efforts to reveal the truth had “effectively reached a dead end.”
I’m sure Ayatollah Khamenei is shaking in his sandals. Maybe next week the IAEA will send Tehran a cease-and-desist order.
by Stephan Tawney on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:36 am