IAEA Visit May Be Iran’s Chance to Stem War Concerns Over Nuclear Program

[Purveyor]

By Jonathan Tirone - Sun Feb 19 20:00:02 GMT 2012

United Nations investigators begin two days of meetings in Iran today, offering Tehran’s government a chance to stem growing speculation the country’s nuclear program will spark a military conflict.

Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency flew to the Iranian capital yesterday for their second round of talks in a month. The visit begins a week after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country will boost production of 20 percent enriched uranium at a mountainside location in Fordo.

“This meeting is a crucial opportunity for everyone, including the Iranians, to get serious,” Arms Control Association Director Daryl Kimball said in a telephone interview from Vienna. “Getting serious means focusing on the near-term problem that 20 percent enriched uranium represents” which drives the “hysterical war talk in some quarters.”

The simmering conflict over Iran’s nuclear work has driven oil prices higher. Israel and the U.S. have refused to rule out military action against Iranian nuclear sites to prevent the country from acquiring a weapon. Iran, which hid its work for more than a decade before 2003, says it wants nuclear power for peaceful purposes.

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[PDJane]

1. If history is any predictor,

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It won't matter.

Iraq had a full and complete investigation of its 'weapons programme,' done with care and intrusive precision. As I remember, Scott Ritter was inolved in said inspections, and did everything in his power to avert the Iraq war, because he found no weapons of mass destruction. Yeah, he's in jail on sex charges, which are a tried and true method to silence the inconvenient, along with "suicide" by shotgun.

You went to war in Iraq anyway, committed war crimes there, stole oil and monies (which are still owing), and finally got the hell out, leaving chaos behind. A marshall plan for the area is NOT forthcoming.

A certain percentage of the powers that be want a war there. The main reason that Iran is an enemy is that they threw out a US backed dictator, one the US had installed.

If this works in the long run, I'll be the first to cheer.

[jberryhill]

2. It'll take them forever to get that furniture together

It looks great in the catalog, but it always ships with one screw thingy missing, and you don't find that out until step J.