Iran: Wie? Wat? Waarom?

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Blix: US, Israel source most of IAEA allegations

A former chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency has challenged a report delivered by the IAEA in November on Iran’s nuclear activities, pinpointing that the agency receives unverified intelligence, mostly from the US and Israel.

In an exclusive interview with Qatar-based news network, Al Jazeera, on Saturday, Hans Blix stated that the IAEA received information from a variety of sources, mostly from the United States and Israel.

“My view is that they must assess it very carefully and critically because otherwise they can be pulled by their noose,” he asserted.

“I remember from inspections in 2002 and 2003 that there was a famous document that allegedly to be a contract between Iraq and Niger for the import of yellow cake of uranium oxide quoted by [former US] President [George W.] Bush in his State of the Union message. The IAEA had it for one day and concluded that it was a forgery. [Former IAEA head, Mohamed] ElBaradei then announced it was not authentic. That shows how careful you have to be,” Blix stated.

The UN nuclear agency’s current Director General Yukiya Amano issued a report on November 8, accusing Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program.

Iran dismissed the report as “unbalanced, unprofessional, and prepared with political motivation and under political pressure mostly by the United States.”

Tehran argues that, as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the IAEA, it is entitled to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

The IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities, but has never found any evidence of diversion in the country's nuclear activities.

Regarding the Western hype over Iran’s Parchin military site, Blix said, “They (the inspectors) have been there several times,” adding, “Parchin is a military site with thousands of buildings. Any country would be reluctant to let international inspectors go anywhere near their military sites.”

“In a way the Iranians have been more open [about their nuclear activities] than most other countries would be,” he added.

Blix also questioned the Israeli warnings of Iran’s bid to build a nuclear bomb, saying according to Tel Aviv, Tehran should have had a nuclear bomb a long time ago.

“If you ask the Israelis, it (the Iranian nuclear bomb) is just around the corner all the time, but they have said that for years, so I think one ought to be a bit cautious about it,” he said.

The former IAEA chief further criticized Tel Aviv’s rhetoric regarding a potential bid to launch a strike on Iran.

"When I hear [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu saying it’s not a question of days or weeks, but also not years, I think that sounds like a terrible threat," he said.

Israel, always vociferous in its accusations against Iran’s nuclear energy program, is itself widely known to possess between 200 and 400 nuclear warheads. Tel Aviv, however, refuses to allow its nuclear facilities to come under international regulatory inspections and rejects all the regulatory international nuclear agreements.

Blix also called on the Western powers to alter their “menacing” and “threatening” attitude toward Iran so that the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear energy program might be resolved.

“Very frequently I think the western world has been unwise in the way they treat Iran. They say that Iran must behave itself as it were a minor they were talking to” Blix said, adding that they should not expect Tehran to "kneel" before them as this is “a hopeless way” of arriving at an agreement.

Blix further called on the Western states to support Iran’s bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) and assist the Islamic Republic’s civilian nuclear program.

The former IAEA chief also condemned the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists, describing such acts as “terrible” and “counterproductive” as they “blur the border between civilians and combatants.”

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Op zondag 1 april 2012 15:10 schreef Blue_Panther_Ninja het volgende:

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Serieus??? Ironie ten top_O-

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Member States of the IAEA
Eighteen ratifications were required to bring the IAEA's Statute into force on 29 July 1957.

As of February 2012, the IAEA has 153 Member States. (See Notes for relevant explanatory information).

1957 Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Holy See, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Socialist Federal Rep. of Yugoslavia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam
1958 Belgium, Ecuador, Finland, Iran, Luxembourg, Mexico, Philippines, Sudan
1959 Iraq
1960 Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Senegal
1961 Lebanon, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1962 Liberia, Saudi Arabia
1963 Algeria, Bolivia, Côte d´Ivoire, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Syria, Uruguay
1964 Cameroon, Gabon, Kuwait, Nigeria
1965 Costa Rica, Cyprus, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar
1966 Jordan, Panama
1967 Sierra Leone, Singapore, Uganda
1968 Liechtenstein
1969 Malaysia, Niger, Zambia
1970 Ireland
1972 Bangladesh
1973 Mongolia
1974 Mauritius
1976 Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Tanzania
1977 Nicaragua
1983 Namibia
1984 China
1986 Zimbabwe
1992 Estonia, Slovenia
1993 Armenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia
1994 The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Marshall Islands, Uzbekistan, Yemen
1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina
1996 Georgia
1997 Latvia, Malta, Moldova
1998 Burkina Faso
1999 Angola, Benin
2000 Tajikistan
2001 Azerbaijan, Central African Republic, Serbia
2002 Eritrea, Botswana
2003 Honduras, Seychelles, Kyrgyzstan
2004 Mauritania, Togo
2005 Chad
2006 Belize, Malawi, Montenegro, Mozambique
2007 Cape Verde
2008 Nepal, Palau, Papua New Guinea
2009 Bahrain, Burundi, Cambodia, Congo, Lesotho, Oman, Rwanda
2011 Laos People's Democratic Republic, Tonga
2012 Dominica
Total Membership: 153 (As of February 2012)
Year denotes year of membership. Names of States are not necessarily their historical designations.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which joined the IAEA in 1974, withdrew its membership of the Agency 13 June 1994.

For States in italics, membership has been approved by the IAEA General Conference and will take effect once the State deposits the necessary legal instruments with the IAEA.

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Op maandag 2 april 2012 21:39 schreef NDAsilenced het volgende:

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waar pleit VS voor genocide?

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volkerenhaat?

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Bush labeled Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the axis of evil.

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welke landen zijn weggevaagd?

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de ''truth''community samen met dit forum is 1 grote circlejerk, je ziet wat je wilt zien en kan niet verkroppen dat we in een wereld leven van fuckups, nee liever een zondebok die je makkelijk kan aanwijzen, en iedereen maar stom zijn joh? nee want de waarheid zit binnen jullie kleine gemeenschap.

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idiots.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2012 09:21 schreef opgebaarde het volgende:
Dus Amerika bezet Afghanistan en Irak?

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Hoog verrijkt uranium kan je niet gebruiken bij een kerncentrale maar wel voor atoomwapens

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Due to the low cross sections of most materials at high neutron energies, critical mass in a fast reactor is much higher than a thermal reactor. In practice, this means significantly higher enrichment: >20% enrichment in a fast reactor compared to <5% enrichment in typical thermal reactors. Since enrichment is the most expensive step in the fuel cycle, this significantly increases the initial costs of a fast reactor.