Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA’s ElBaradei’s Agenda Criticized

Chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei. Iran said it saw no legal basis for a new UN Security Council resolution over its nuclear activities after the UN atomic watchdog reported it had made progress in its probe.

If evaluation of Iran’s nuclear weapons program is left up to the IAEA and ElBaradei, Iran will soon develop BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.

In a scathing critique of El Baradei’s agenda in leading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Danielle Pletka and Michael Rubin in today’s Wall Street Journal write about the IAEA whitewash of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

IAEA technical experts have complained anonymously to the press that the latest report on Iran was revamped to suit the director’s political goals. In 2004, Mr. ElBaradei sought to purge mention of Iranian attempts to purchase beryllium metal, an important component in a nuclear charge, from IAEA documents. He also left unmentioned Tehran’s refusal to grant IAEA inspectors access to the Parchin military complex, where satellite imagery showed a facility seemingly designed to test and produce nuclear weapons.

The IAEA’s latest report leaves unmentioned allegations by an Iranian opposition group of North Korean work on nuclear warheads at Khojir, a military research site near Tehran. It also amends previous conclusions and closes the book on questions about Iran’s work on polonium 210 — which nuclear experts suspect Iran experimented with for use as an initiator for nuclear weapons, but which the regime claims was research on radioisotope batteries. In 2004, the IAEA declared itself “somewhat uncertain regarding the plausibility of the stated purpose of the [polonium] experiments.” Today it finds these explanations “consistent with the Agency’s findings and with other information available.”

The United States opposed ElBaradei’s appointment as Director of the IAEA. He has undercut and undermined efforts to expose Iran’s nuclear ambitions. This is just the excuse Russia and China require to bog down any talk of sanctions in the United Nations Security Council.

The United States, EU and Israel have an obligation to work outside the obviously biased IAEA, impose their own sanctions on Iran or face the likely probability of a military option.

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