UN, Iran head for showdown over nuclear inspections
Source: Associated Press
The chief U.N. nuclear inspector said Monday that Iran has already committed to letting his experts see Iranian military sites and Iranian atomic scientists despite an alleged ban by Tehran, deepening a confrontation over how much openness Iran must accept under any nuclear deal.
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Amano confirmed Monday his agency will not be able to deliver a ruling on the allegations of past weapons work in time for a deal. That means any nuclear agreement will likely keep some sanctions in place until the IAEA submits its findings.
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Specifically, Iran agreed to implement what is known as the IAEA's "Additional Protocol" when it agreed in April to the outlines of the deal now being worked on. More than 100 countries have an Additional Protocol agreement that gives the IAEA greater purview of their nuclear activities.
Among other tools, the protocol gives IAEA experts the right to "ask for short-notice inspections or access to undeclared locations," Amano said.
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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-no-iran-nuclear-deal-without-un-probe-064812484.html
Iran is already bound by the additional protocol, and has been violating it.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)From your link:
That's so wrong it's laughable.
Whoever wrote it is seriously clueless.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)The person being quoted was talking about four orders of magnitude, which is indeed 10,000. The author of the piece was trying to make the point that not only was the discrepancy that large, but it was in fact larger, being closer to 40,000 times.
bananas
(27,509 posts)The blogger makes it absolutely clear he doesn't understand what an order of magnitude is.
You're using a technically illiterate blogger to make an ad hominem attack on an AP journalist.
Which is silly, because nobody expects journalists to be technically literate, they just report what other people say.
And the AP journalist quotes a recognized expert saying the diagram isn't accurate.
It can be corrected with a single word. I'll show you:-
Minor point of clarification:anfour orders of magnitude equals 10^4 or 10,000 times, but Partovi added that the actual discrepancy on the graph is closer to 40,000 times.
The clarification was required because otherwise, the reader might think that the professor is saying four orders of magnitude is 40,000x, whereas it is actually 10,000x, as the author is attempting to point out.
bananas
(27,509 posts)Thanks for proving my point.
You're also ignoring what Amano said in the OP.
7962
(11,841 posts)Iran has no intention of allowing inspections. Or stopping their program
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)I'm surprised to see it coming from someone who has actually been around here a little while.
7962
(11,841 posts)Its the old fall back. Just as many will cry "You support Nazis!" at any criticism of Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
madville
(7,412 posts)I see Israel and Saudi Arabia teaming up to knock Iran's nuclear program out at some point.