MSN: Iran moves to curtail scrutiny of nuclear sites (remove cameras)

[Festivito]

Tehran tells IAEA to remove cameras, seals following referral to U.N.

Updated: 3:43 p.m. ET Feb. 6, 2006
VIENNA, Austria - Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove surveillance cameras and agency seals from sites and nuclear equipment, the U.N. watchdog agency said Monday.

Iran's demands came two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Tehran to the Security Council over its disputed atomic program.
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"We ended all the voluntary cooperation we have been extending to the IAEA in the past two-and-a-half to three years, on the basis of the president’s order," Mottaki said. "We do not have any obligation toward the additional protocol (anymore)."

The action was required under a law passed last year.

more
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11203937/

CNN: hourly played that Iran removing its cameras.
This is made to sound like provocation.

[endarkenment]

1. Gee I guess actions have consequences.

There was deal on the table last week with the IAEA over Iran: establish a middle east nuclear free zone including Israel and Iran would comply with the latest demands for no enrichment. We vetoed it and forced the decision to take Iran to the UN.

Push is coming to shove.

[Tempest]

3. Bush would have voted for it

If it didn't include Israel.

[Heewack]

4. Iran agreed to no such deal.

The Middle East nuclear-free zone discussions were between Egypt and the U.S.. Egypt demanded that Israel be included so that they could gain other arab nation votes for Iran's referral. The last I heard the U.S. agreed to softer terms before the final vote, which Egypt ending up going along with. But there was nothing in regards to Iran agreeing to no enrichment.

"VIENNA, Austria - Iran moved closer Friday to referral to the U.N. Security Council but a U.S.-Egyptian dispute over linking fears over Tehran's atomic program to a Middle East nuclear-free zone — and indirectly to Israel — threatened to delay a decision.

European diplomats expressed annoyance with both sides as negotiations dragged into the late evening and language on a nuclear- free Middle East was first inserted, then deleted and finally reinserted in compromise language meant to be acceptable to both sides.

A Western diplomat at the meeting said America felt strongly that its ally Israel should not be linked to nuclear concerns in the Middle East when it considers Iran the real threat in the region. Egypt, whose support of the resolution is key to swaying other Arab board members, was looking to make the linkage to satisfy broad domestic concerns, said a senior European diplomat."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_agency_iran_56

[Tempest]

2. This is the same thing North Korea did

Right after Bush included North Korea in his "axis of evil" speech.

Bush sure is a uniter.

It's everyone against the U.S.

[leesa]

5. It is not unlawful for Iran to have nukes...any nukes.

[hughee99]

6. As a signee to the Non-proliferatin treaty...

I believe it would be unlawful for Iran to have nukes.

[Psephos]

8. Lawfulness is not the problem

Ultraconservative fundamentalists hoping to finish the Holocaust are. Ahmadinejad has explicitly stated his conviction that Israel must be wiped off the map multiple times. He also thinks he's supposed to initiate the End of Days to make way for the apocalyptic Twelfth Imam. This is seen as the final war between Islam and the infidels, after which a global caliphate will be established.

When global Sharia is the law, will you still be a stickler for legal arguments?

It's something to think about.

Peace.

[HuffleClaw]

7. those cameras were a VOLUNTARY thing

but of course the corporate media is making it sound like this is a violation of some sort. but hell, at this point an iranian sneeze or hiccup is being played as a threat.

[depakid]

9. CNN would LOVE another war

Dishonest yellow journalists that they are.

It'd be good for their freefalling ratings....