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IAEA wants clarity on Iran’s nuclear program
Published: 16 November, 2009, 20:55
Edited: 17 November, 2009, 20:22
TAGS: Nuclear, Russia, Middle East
The UN's nuclear watchdog says Iran plans to begin enriching uranium at its recently-revealed second site by the year 2011 – and the IAEA is demanding more clarification from Tehran about the facility.
According to the report published on Monday, the IAEA monitors who recently visited the second uranium enrichment facility in Iran haven’t found anything suspicious there. But the report says the IAEA is going to ask Iran to clearly explain the purposes of the facility.
Meanwhile, Moscow says the Bushehr nuclear power plant it is building for Iran will not go online this year.
“We will reach significant results regarding this issue by the end of 2009, but the plant itself won’t be launched,” said Russian Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko.
Energy Ministry spokesperson Irina Esipova added that launching an atomic power station always occurs in several consecutive phases and “what Russian Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko meant referred to connecting the station to the grid, not launching the station.”
“This is what I would like to draw your attention to: We will not connect the station to the power grid this year, but then this wasn’t the schedule anyway,” she added. “We are on schedule so far and we are sticking to it. Everything depends on the outcome of the installation and startup work. I think that very soon we will be able to give the exact date of launch.”
In 1975, a branch of the German company Siemens started the construction of the Bushehr atomic power plant. The deal was torn up in 1979 because of the Islamic Revolution, and the construction was subsequently halted.
In 1992, Russia got involved in the project. It initially planned to finish the construction of the plant in July 1999, but the date was postponed several times.
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The World community is a broken record player. I am really tired of having this same news story recycled over and over and over again. The fact the US complains about them endlessly makes journalist work easy. Just cut and paste last weeks story and keep doing it every week. This has been going on for years already. The end result will likely be a war, which is what happened last time endless news about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was trumpeted.
Makes me wonder who are the people who interpret what IAEA said, or did not say. IAEA has received more then ample notification of the new facility under construction. In fact, IAEA rules require ONLY SIX MONTHS ADVANCE NOTICE TO IAEA. Iran gave 18 months. After that, Iran can move its uranium to new plant under IAEA supervision. This is really not complicated, but somebody is sure trying to make it. And the gullable journalists take all the words that come out of 'unannimous' sources as a gospel, without having the requisite knowledge to ask appropriate questions. The death of good media is our undoing.
Now I wonder what a facility declared to the IAEA as a Uranium enrichment facility could be, that needs clarrification, could it be: a) A meat processing plant b) A call centre for credit card enquiries c) A fish processing facility ........ What exactly is it, about Uranium enrichment that the IAEA doesn'tunderstand? Are they saying they don't understand the process, so need a lesson from Iran? Could this explain why the IAEA gets used as a tool to initiate war. The IAEA is at this point looking clueless, a joke and a political tool. Some simple advice, if there is no evidence to present of mis deeds, don't try to imply them, because there isn't any evidence. This is a logical absurdity used too often by the west! I suspect something, can't find any evidence, so it must be hidden deliberately, so they must be guilty. Western thinking all the way; pretty dumb and illogical with lethal consequences.