Iran Renews Demand for U.N. Atomic Evidence
Iran Renews Demand for U.N. Atomic Evidence – Global Security Newswire.
(There are good jokes. There are bad jokes. And then there is the Iran interrim deal.
Police officer: “You are suspected of having illegal weapons in your car. Please, open your car, Sir.”
Suspect: “Show me first your evidence!”
– Artaxes)
Feb. 13, 2014
Iran reaffirmed its call for a U.N. agency to provide records being cited to justify suspicions about the nation’s nuclear ambitions, Agence France-Presse reports.
Iran last weekend agreed to supply new information for an International Atomic Energy Agency investigation into allegations that the Middle Eastern nation once pursued experiments capable of supporting nuclear-arms development. The long-stalled U.N. probe is intended to clarify whether the Middle Eastern nation has ever considered tapping its peaceful nuclear program to build weapons.
Iranian Atomic Energy Organization head Ali Akbar Salehi said his country “will not accept any of the [International Atomic Energy] Agency allegations unless its documents are proven and the person who presented them clarifies on what basis we have been accused.”
“The authenticity of each allegation should be proven first, then the person who submitted it to the agency should give us the genuine document. When we are assured of the authenticity, then we can talk to the agency,” Salehi said in a Wednesday report by the state-run Mehr News Agency.
Washington is commonly thought to have provided the records to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, according to AFP. However, the Vienna-based organization has only said they came from an IAEA “member state” and “participants in a clandestine nuclear supply network.”
In remarks to Mehr News, Salehi said Iranian officials “told the IAEA negotiators that we would not accept any evidence as authentic and thus accept the accusations made in the evidence.”
Meanwhile, a new International Monetary Fund analysis suggests Iran could reinvigorate its stagnant economy with help from an international nuclear deal finalized with six other countries in November, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
The United States and other governments hope the half-year deal will help negotiators hammer out enduring restrictions on Iranian activities that could support nuclear-arms development. However, the new IMF finding may support arguments that Tehran accepted the agreement largely to gain relief from financial sanctions, according to the Journal.
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WarSclerotic 
February 13, 2014 at 8:45 PM
Cute effort to track down the scientists who are leakers.
February 14, 2014 at 12:56 AM
There is a long history of fabricated ‘evidence’ of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. I recall the laptop computer that some 10 years mysteriously ‘fell into the hands’ of a Western intelligence agency. This laptop was said to contain irrefutable evidence of Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program. However, analysis proved that virtually everything on that laptop was not real. Iran has no reason whatsoever to trust the USA or its stooge, the IAEA.
February 14, 2014 at 3:42 AM
renbe,
Just a thought, perhaps if Iran stopped inciting and calling for Israel’s extinction things might cool down. What say you?