Iran Cleared by U.N. of Atomic Ambitions

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear&cid=540&ncid=716

VIENNA, Austria - A confidential U.N. nuclear agency report criticized Iran for a "pattern of concealment" about its nuclear program but said no evidence has been found to back U.S. claims it tried to make atomic bombs, according to diplomats.

The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency also found that Iran had produced small amounts of enriched uranium and plutonium, the Washington Post reported.


Meanwhile, Iran announced in Moscow that it has suspended its enrichment of uranium and agreed to additional U.N. inspections of its nuclear facilities.

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U.S. officials will likely seize on a passage in the report saying that Tehran's recent disclosures "clearly show that in the past, Iran had concealed many aspects of its nuclear activities, which resulted in breaches of its obligations of the safeguard agreement."

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Diplomats said the United States and its allies would seize on any ambiguity in ElBaradei's report concerning enrichment and other suspicious activities in making a case against Iran. They said the ElBaradei report did not make a judgment on the source of the highly enriched uranium, saying more investigation was needed.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. UN Sees No Sign of Iran Nuke Bomb Plans-Diplomats

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=210775

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog will say in a new report that it has found no signs of a secret atomic weapons program in Iran but that its investigation of Tehran's nuclear ambitions is not over, diplomats said.

"They don't have any indications of a weapons program at the moment," a Western diplomat, who follows the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) closely, told Reuters.

"They have not found anything yet, but that doesn't mean they won't find something in the future," said another diplomat, who said he expected the report to catalog numerous failures by Iran to inform the U.N. of its nuclear activities.

"But the IAEA won't call them failures," the second diplomat said. "They will call them omissions...We are not expecting the new report to be conclusive. It will say that more work needs to be done to reach a conclusion on this and that."
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I'm starting to understand why Bushco doesn't care for the UN. They just want to try keeping on with that damn "truth" concept.

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2. well that clears that up

Bush should start bombing them in about two days then.

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3. Exactly.............

the U.N. is only relevant when Bush wants them to clean up the monstrous messes he makes. I'm sure our "intelligence" says something entirely different and that we'll be having a showdown with them at the next convenient moment. That moment being when (IF) we can get out of Iraq.