ElBaradei Hopes Iran Will Be Nice

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Good lord.

If this nincompoop is really in charge of preventing nuclear proliferation, we’re doomed.

IAEA chief ElBaradei hopes Iran has told the whole nuclear truth.

“I trust, I hope that this was the last time that something would come trickling down again from their past activities,” ElBaradei said in an interview with the BBC’s Newsnight programme.

“Large or small, it’s important that they declare everything to build the confidence,” he said.

The IAEA said late last month that Iran had failed to report possibly weapons-related atomic activities despite promising full disclosure.

It said Tehran had not told the IAEA it had designs for sophisticated “P-2” centrifuges for enriching uranium, nor that it had produced polonium-210, an element which the agency said could be used as a “neutron initiator (to start the chain reaction) in some designs of nuclear weapons.”

ElBaradei told the BBC he “would not have conceived” proliferation on the scale that emerged in February when Pakistan’s Abdul Qadeer Khan admitted supplying nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea.

“I think it is coming as a total shock to pretty much everybody,” he said.

“It was really beyond anybody’s imagination, at least beyond my imagination, that this — such a sophisticated complex network of black markets in nuclear facilities, in even bomb design — has been going on underground,” he said.

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