Posts Tagged ‘Iranian Nukes’

Toothless UN agency the IAEA and the cowardly West stand by, mutter about ‘sanctions’ and wring their hands:

Western powers have accused Iran of trying to intimidate the UN atomic agency by barring some nuclear inspectors, as the United States warned the Islamic state of possible diplomatic consequences over the allegations.

Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh hit back during a tense meeting of the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday, saying that IAEA chief Yukiya Amano had “completely missed the facts”.

Earlier this week, Amano told the board that Iran’s refusal to admit some experienced inspectors was hampering the agency’s work. Read the rest of this entry »

Security Guard at Iran's nuclear installation at Bushehr

The estimable former US Envoy to the UN has warned that it will be too late after that, as the risks to innocent Iranians could be too high to contemplate:

Israel has “eight days” to launch a military strike against Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said.

Iran is to bring online its first nuclear power reactor, built with Russia’s help, next week, when a shipment of nuclear fuel will be loaded into the plant’s core.

At that point, former [UN Envoy] John Bolton warned Monday, it will be too late for Israel to launch a military strike against the facility because any attack would spread radiation and affect Iranian civilians. Read the rest of this entry »

More indulgence of the world’s worst dictatorships at the irrelevant United Nations. And on your taxpayer $£¥€, etc. Yet you’d think from the mainstream media’s coverage of this latest waste of paper from the UN that something truly significant had just happened:

Signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have agreed to work towards a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East.

The members, meeting at the UN in New York, called for a conference in 2012 attended by Middle Eastern states – including Iran – to establish the zone.

The unanimously agreed document also said that Israel should sign the NPT. US President Barack Obama backed the deal but said he was “strongly opposed” to Israel being singled out. The US says the reference could jeopardise efforts to persuade the Israelis to attend the 2012 talks. Read the rest of this entry »

Former UN envoy Bolton (a straight-talking and incisive commentator and someone we have a lot of time for here at Un:dhimmi) says Washington is pressuring Israel not to strike nuke facilities. On top of the the disrespectful, unpresidential way that Barack Hussein Obama treated Binyamin Netanyahu this week (and by extension Israel herelf), It now appears that he is also getting comfortable with the idea of of Iranian nukes:

Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton expressed concern Sunday that Washington was coming to terms with a nuclear Iran.

“I very much worry the Obama administration is willing to accept a nuclear Iran, that’s why there’s this extraordinary pressure on Israel not to attack in Iran,” Bolton told Army Radio.

The former envoy claimed that this pressure was the focus of last week’s meetings in Washington between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyhau and US officials, including President Barack Obama. Read the rest of this entry »