U.S. Rips Iran for Nuke Program 'Lies'

[Socialist Christian]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=3&u=/ap/20031121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_agency_iran


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VIENNA, Austria - The United States assailed Iran on Friday for "lies" about its nuclear program and voiced unprecedented criticism of the U.N. atomic agency chief, suggesting he glossed over 18 years of deception that included enriching uranium and processing plutonium.


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Slideshow: Iran Nuclear Issues

El Baradei: Iran Is Cooperating With IAEA




"Questionable," U.S. envoy Kenneth Brill said of a section of a report from International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei, adding the agency found "no evidence" of an Iranian nuclear program.


"Disingenuous," replied ElBaradei to Brill's criticism.


The exchange between the American and the Egyptian reflected deep differences at the IAEA board meeting over whether to condemn Iran's past nuclear transgressions or focus on what major European nations say seems to be its newfound openness

[Noordam]

1. From this point on Colon and Bushie have to live with

"the war in Iraq (news - web sites) — the IAEA's credibility was "enhanced," and America's diminished, because there is still no sign of the nuclear weapons program that Washington accused Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) of having. "