Tuesday, January 31, 2012

IAEA-Iran Talks End - UPDATE

Talks between Iran and the IAEA ended today. The IAEA inspectors wrapped up three days of visit to Tehran, even though on Monday the Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi had said that the IAEA team could extend the visit and inspect Iran's nuclear sites. The IAEA has not yet explained the reason for the early end to the visit.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Press TV quoted a member of the country’s parliament, Majlis, as saying that Iran will ban IAEA inspectors from re-entering the country if they publish an unreal report.

“Iran to ban IAEA inspectors if they lie,” said MP Mostafa Kavakebian [Press TV, 31 January].

The warning could be a sign that the talks in Tehran did not go all that well and the Iranian lawmaker was already positioning the country to characterize the report to be issued by the inspectors after their departure from Iran as simply “lies.”

UPDATE: The IAEA mission leader Herman Nackaerts announced after arriving in Vienna that the IAEA team plans to revisit Tehran “in the very near future.” The announcement indicates progress in talks with Iran.

“We had three days of intensive discussions about all our priorities, and we are committed to resolve all the outstanding issues,” Nackaerts told reporters in Vienna. “And the Iranians said they are committed, too. But of course there's still a lot of work to be done," he added. "So we have planned another trip in the very near future." [AP, 1 February 2012].

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

WHY SHOULD IRAN LET THE iaea DO ANYTHING THEY WANT ITIS TIME TO LET BAN ON IAEA GET OUT OF NPT WHICH EVERYONE KNOW IT THEY ARE JUST SOME PONCH OF CON ARTEST COMMING THEIR HAVE GOOD FOOD AND AFTER PESS ON YOU JUST BUILD YOUR NUCLEAR BOMB AS I KNOW FOR SURE IRAN AT LEAST HAS 60 TO 90 NUCLEAR WAR HEADS DURING THE 1990 UNTIL NOW FORGOT IT AS IRAN PREPEARED FOR WAR DOES NOT NEED THOSE SPY TEL THEM WHAT TO DO WITH THEM INTEREST GET READY TO MESS OUT INTIRE MIDLEAST AND FINAL WAR AS LEADER SAID WE ARE IN THE BATTEL OF BADR AND GHABAR WHEN THE PROFET MOHAMMAD HAD THE HARD TIME AND FINALY HAS VICTORY AGAINEST THEM IN TWO WAR.

Anonymous said...

Israeli sponsored media claim no results..... independent and IA>EA themselves claim a good start and further contacts planned.

Thats the kinda press that is destroying syria and killing people in Bahryin silently to safeguard US bases.

DO NOT forget the murdered Iranian scientists. always mention them and always remember them.

Nader Uskowi said...

5:06 AM,

The Iranian media actually carried the report on the member of Majlis's very negative take on the expected IAEA report. I don't believe Press TV, for example, is an Israeli inspired media, as you like to put it, or is it?

The media is killing people in Bahrain and Syria? And I assume you believe that Assad and the Bahraini king are only innocent bystanders, and we should take media editors to International Court of Justice for crimes against humanity!

My suggestion to you: your point of departure for a good analysis should be the actual situation on the ground, even if the reality runs against your ideology.

Anonymous said...

I say follow the money on the editors dear Nader