"The United Nations. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
Posted on 09/26/2017 10:30:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s chief urged major powers on Tuesday to clarify a part of their nuclear deal with Iran dealing with technology that could be used to develop an atom bomb, an area Russia said the agency should leave alone.
The 2015 pact between six major powers and Iran restricts its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Compliance with those curbs is being verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano has defended the deal as a major step forward while declining to comment specifically on criticism of it by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has called the accord — reached by predecessor Barack Obama — “an embarrassment to the United States”.
But while Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has infuriated Tehran by saying the IAEA should widen its inspections to include military sites, diplomats say Russia has been trying to restrict the agency’s role by arguing it has no authority to police a broadly worded section of the deal. …
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Why kid ourselves.
No international agency is going to advocate hard ball with Iran.
This is just silly talk.
They’ll chew everyone’s ear off for years and let Iran proceed with whatever it wants.
Then when it’s too late, they’ll confirm that for posterity.
Certainly not this particular one.
"The United Nations. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
Kabuki Theatre
Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has infuriated Tehran by saying the IAEA should widen its inspections to include military sites, diplomats say Russia has been trying to restrict the agency’s role by arguing it has no authority to police a broadly worded section of the deal.It must be okay then, huh, Putin lovers? Thanks Olog-hai.
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