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IAEA report: Iran is co-operating but not enough
By Moritz | November 23, 2007
Mohamed ElBaradei said yesterday, Iran is making progress in resolving suspicions about past nuclear activities but must do more before the IAEA can verify important aspects of the country’s nuclear program. ElBaradei also said that the agency’s knowledge of Iran’s current nuclear activities was diminishing and that he could not declare with certainty whether Iran’s program was peaceful or intended to make weapons.
“The agency has so far not been able to verify some important aspects of Iran’s nuclear program,” Dr. ElBaradei told a meeting of the agency’s 35-country board. Outstanding issues, he said, include “those relevant to the scope and nature of Iran’s centrifuge enrichment activities, as well as those relevant to alleged studies and other activities that could have military applications.”
The result, he added, was that the agency is “unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities.”
The UN Security Council imposed sanctions on Iran after its refusal to suspend its production of enriched uranium, which can be used in nuclear power plants or to fuel a nuclear weapon. Western powers, including the United States, are highly suspicious of Iran’s nuclear program, and their reaction to Dr. ElBaradei’s remarks was predictably negative.
In a statement to the board, Gregory L. Schulte, the American ambassador to the nuclear agency, denounced what he called Iran’s delay tactics, saying, “We fear that the next few weeks will not yield much more from Iran than we’ve seen in the last few months or, for that matter, the last five years.” Speaking on behalf of France as well as Britain and Germany, the French ambassador to the agency, François-Xavier Deniau, said, “We’re disappointed that cooperation by Iran is only partial and reactive,” adding that the Security Council should consider tougher sanctions.
“Waiting is not an option,” he said. “Under these conditions, we believe it is necessary to set a deadline to the process and that that deadline be in a few weeks, as proposed by the director general.” Iran insists its program is peaceful and strictly geared toward the civilian aim of producing electricity, which is its right as a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
In his address to the nuclear agency’s board, Dr. ElBaradei spoke of a “crucial” need for Iran to “restore confidence” in its nuclear program in light of its history of undeclared activity. He urged Iran to “take all the confidence-building measures called for by the Security Council, including the suspension of enrichment related activities.” But he also praised the “good progress” made on some questions Iran had long refused to address, like how it had obtained material to build enrichment centrifuges from the black market.
Under terms of a “work plan” concluded by Iran and the nuclear agency last summer, Iran was to have met a series of deadlines to resolve all unanswered questions about suspicious nuclear activities dating back two decades. In announcing the work plan in August, Dr. ElBaradei said its deadlines proved that the plan was “not an open-ended invitation to dallying with the agency or a ruse to prolong negotiations and avoid sanctions.”
The agreed timeline set November as a target date for Iran to answer all outstanding agency questions about the history of its program to build centrifuges — the tall, thin machines that spin rapidly to enrich, or concentrate, uranium 235, which can fuel nuclear reactors and at highly enriched levels, atom bombs. On the day that the report was released to the agency board last week, one senior official linked to the nuclear agency said that he would not call the centrifuge file “closed.”
But according to Dr. ElBaradei’s remarks on Thursday, Iran’s agreement with the agency “is proceeding according to schedule.” Yet the target date of completing the verification work is fluid. Although Dr. ElBaradei has said that the goal of the work plan was to wrap up nuclear issues under investigation for four years by December, Iranian and other agency officials acknowledge that it may take several more months.
Iran, meanwhile, cast Dr. ElBaradei’s statements in a positive light, saying that they prove the country’s good will and cooperation. “We will continue our work plan, the issue will be resolved soon and Iran has shown and will show utmost cooperation, proactive cooperation with the I.A.E.A.,” Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh, Iran’s ambassador to the agency, told reporters in Vienna after Dr. ElBaradei’s address.
At a conference in Paris on Thursday, the EU’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said Iran’s stated ambitions concerning its enriched uranium output was inconsistent with its acquisition of the civilian nuclear technology that would justify it. “It is a bit like if you were trying to make your own fuel before having purchased a car and learned how to drive,” Mr. Solana said.
Mr. Solana represents the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany in talks with Iran. He is scheduled to report by the end of November whether Iran is continuing to refuse to suspend its enrichment of uranium.
Topics: Iran, UN, global security |
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