Iranian Spies At IAEA
Here's an interesting question: If Iran's nuclear intentions are purely peaceful, why have they set up a special nuke-tech team to infiltrate the compliance division of IAEA?
And here's another: How can we trust IAEA to do its job if it staffs itself with representatives of the most highly suspect nations under its watch?
Both questions grow out of a report in the London Telegraph which says:
What Iran is doing is technically legal because any signatory of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty is entitled to have staff on board at IAEA -- but there's a catch. They have to be in compliance.
Despite overwhelming evidence of Iran's 20-year history of non-compliance, the IAEA isn't quite ready yet to jump to that conclusion. So the Iranians are still on staff, and still fly regularly to Tehran to meet with Afarideh ... presumably laughing all the way at the ridiculous ineptitude of IAEA and the UN.
The cause of the ineptitude? The non-judgmental inclusiveness and moral relativity that permiates the UN -- not the character traits normally associated with tough and effective cops.
h/t memorandum
And here's another: How can we trust IAEA to do its job if it staffs itself with representatives of the most highly suspect nations under its watch?
Both questions grow out of a report in the London Telegraph which says:
Iran has formed a top secret team of nuclear specialists to infiltrate the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the UN-sponsored body that monitors its nuclear programme, The Daily Telegraph has been told.The answers to the lead-in questions, by the way, are (1) Of course their intentions aren't peaceful, and (2) We can't trust IAEA.
Iran has formed a top secret team of nuclear specialists to infiltrate the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the UN-sponsored body that monitors its nuclear programme, The Daily Telegraph has been told.
Its target is the IAEA's safeguards division and its aim is to obtain information on the work of IAEA inspectors so that Iran can conceal the more sensitive areas of its nuclear research, according to information recently received by western intelligence.
The operation to target the IAEA is being run by Hosein Afarideh, the former head of the Iranian parliament's energy committee.
Mr Afarideh, reported to have close links with Iran's ministry of intelligence, is in regular contact with a team of Iranian nuclear engineers seconded to work at the IAEA's Vienna headquarters.
What Iran is doing is technically legal because any signatory of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty is entitled to have staff on board at IAEA -- but there's a catch. They have to be in compliance.
Despite overwhelming evidence of Iran's 20-year history of non-compliance, the IAEA isn't quite ready yet to jump to that conclusion. So the Iranians are still on staff, and still fly regularly to Tehran to meet with Afarideh ... presumably laughing all the way at the ridiculous ineptitude of IAEA and the UN.
The cause of the ineptitude? The non-judgmental inclusiveness and moral relativity that permiates the UN -- not the character traits normally associated with tough and effective cops.
h/t memorandum
posted by Laer at 5:23 AM
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