Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Some people actually expected a breakthrough.
One reason was the presence of the “number three” ranking U.S. State Department official, William Burns — which the State Department spokespersons explained as “underscoring the U.S. commitment to diplomacy”, showing that the U.S. “is commited to finding a diplomatic solution”. The State Department spokespersons also said, however, that [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
From Haaretz on Saturday 21 June:
(1) Oil prices jump after report of Israeli drill for Iran attack
Iranian cleric: Israel to receive ’slap in face’ if it strikes; IAEA chief ElBaradei: I will resign if Iran is attacked.
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“Friday’s spike was not the first caused by tensions between Israel and Iran. Oil prices soared $11 on June [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, Global Economy, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Israel
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
The text of IAEA Director-General Mohammed ElBaradei’s remarks to the Agency’s Board of Governors meeting in Vienna today, as released to journalists and reported by the Associated Press, also says that “Iran has not provided the agency with all the access to documents and to individuals requested … nor has Iran provided the substantive explanations [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Since the 6 September Israeli airstrike, the Syrian government first razed the site, then built a new structure there. This, apparently, is considered suspicious.
Today, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that Syria has agreed to “allow in UN inspectors to probe allegations that the country was building a nuclear reactor at a remote site [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board will be considering yet another resolution, on Monday, castigating Iran for questions about its past, present and future nuclear programs, as the Associated Press’s veteran writer in Vienna, George Jahn, reported in a dispatch filed earlier today.
Jahn writes that the growing pressure is aimed at wresting concessions from [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by Marian Houk
ABC reported after the much-anticipated briefing by the U.S. Administration to members of Congress on Israel’s attack on a Syrian target last September that “Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, and ranking member Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., are furious with the Bush administration for failing to brief Congress until eight months after Israeli jets bombed a suspected [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons, Syria
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Only Indonesia abstained when the UNSC voted a third set of sanctions against Iran. Libya, which earlier indicated its opposition, meekly fell in line, as did South Africa.
This is the third set of increasingly tightened UNSC sanctions calling on Iran to suspend its program to enrich uranium.
Like the earlier UNSC resolutions in this series [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Russian Federation Ambassador Vitaly Churkin of the Russian Federation will assume the Council’s rotating presidency for the month of March, the UN Spokesperson told journalists on Friday.
This is interesting.
A vote that the U.S., Britain and France wanted to have either on Friday or on Saturday (in other words, before the Russian presidency in the Security [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons, Russia, UN Security Council
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
I’m going on the possibly wrong assumption that, if the IAEA did not take this evidence seriously, the IAEA would not have asked Iran to give clarifications on the studies that “Member States” and “countries” [in the plural] finally allowed the Agency, as the IAEA likes to refer to itself, to put to Iran in [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Sanctions, UN Security Council
Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Um, according to Agence France Presse, “top Iranian cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani accused the United States of unbalancing IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei’s ‘mental state’ by submitting secret documents just days before the report. ‘The US has submitted a stack of documents to disrupt ElBaradei’s mental state and has been successful to some extent’, said the [...]
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