IAEA: Iran Agrees to Nuclear Concessions

[Scurrilous]

Source: The Guardian

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"Iran has lifted its ban on visits to a nuclear facility by U.N. experts and now will allow them to inspect the site, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday.

It also said Tehran was ready to answer key questions on past suspicious experiments that the international community fears could be linked to a weapons program.

The IAEA - the U.N. nuclear monitor - said Iran promised the concessions earlier this week in meeting between its officials and a senior delegation from the Vienna-based agency.

Years of Iranian stonewalling have left the IAEA unable to ascertain whether Tehran is telling the truth in asserting that it has no nuclear weapons ambitions and that its atomic activities are meant strictly to generate power. Its refusal to cooperate with the agency was the trigger that prompted U.N. Security Council involvement last year that led to two sets of sanctions.

Any decision by the Islamic republic to end its foot dragging and cooperate with the agency would thus be a major compromise on its part. As such, it could weaken a push by the United States and its Western allies on the council to impose new U.N. sanctions - even if Tehran continues to defy the council's main demand that it freeze its uranium enrichment program."



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6777274,00.html

[Delphinus]

1. Didn't Saddam do this

in order to save his country from the invasion we undertook back in the early days of the boy king's misadministration?

Makes me wonder if all those rumors of Iran really are true.

[dubyaD40web]

2. Yup.

I saw Hans Blix in Iraq on the tv while * was saying Saddam wouldn't allow inspectors in.

[demoleft]

3. Iran agrees to nuclear inspection

Source: Al Jazeera

Iran has agreed to allow inspectors to visit its Arak nuclear plant after talks on how to resolve questions about Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, the UN's nuclear watchdog said.

Tehran rejects charges that it is not co-operating fully with UN inspectors.

Iran says it has no atomic secrets and that its nuclear programme is for purely peaceful ends.

The IAEA on Friday said in a statement it had also agreed with Tehran to finalise in early August a plan for monitoring the Natanz uranium enrichment plant and to clear up all its questions about the country's past plutonium experiments.



Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8E7B5F2A-6F41-4B0C-83F8-3C75695C7BEB.htm

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Good step.

I read in Italian news that the House in Washington has doubled the reward for getting Bin Laden. Can someone verify the news and post from an English/American source?
Thank you!

[Atman]

4. Uh oh...now they're in trouble

Iraq allowed inspections, too.

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[wtmusic]

5. Where's the REST of that uranium?

Disarm! :crazy:

[TexasLawyer]

10. LOL

It would be even funnier if it wasn't so horrifyingly true.

[MrPrax]

6. Bin Laden?

It's up on Yahoo



Senate doubles Bin Laden bounty to 50 million dollars

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Senate on Friday doubled the bounty on the head of Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden, offering 50 million dollars for his capture, or information leading to his death.

The vote followed a flurry of reports that the group behind the September 11 attacks in 2001, had rebuilt much of its capacity to train and plot terror strikes and was trying to sneak operatives inside the United States.

The bill, boosting the price on Bin Laden's head under the US State Department Rewards for Justice Program, passed by an 87-1 vote.

Yahoo

Another from ABC - Australia

The House did this already ...

[demoleft]

7. Thanks. It's becoming a very big sum...

...if my social condition should worsen it may become a serious chance - a journey in the Middle East, with a "wanted" paper in my pocket, like bounty-killers in the old-West...

[HuffleClaw]

12. they wouldn't pay the bounty before on other bad guys

so who will take this seriously?

[annabanana]

8. This seriously needs kicks and recommends and cross postings

Because it will come as a complete surprise to our elected officials, 3 or 4 years AFTER we invade Iran and it is claimed that IRAN WAS STONEWALLING!!!

[TexasLawyer]

9. kick

[HuffleClaw]

11. Iran could stop (with IAEA verificaton) all atomic research and bush will STILL attack

nothing will prevent bush from launching yet another war to distract from his failed administration. when the press begins using the 'I-word' with regularity they'll attack for sure.