ElBaradei Springs Into Action, Suggests Capitulation
Charles Johnson
Sun Feb 19, 2006 at 10:26 am PST • Views: 145
Mohamed ElBaradei, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and head of the UN’s blind nuclear watchdog the IAEA, says we just need to stop worrying and learn to accept some Iranian atom work.
VIENNA (Reuters) - The crisis over Iran’s atomic agenda is deepening, but the world’s nuclear watchdog chief has warned there may be no choice but to accept limited uranium enrichment by Tehran, diplomats say.
For a mistrustful West, the quid pro quo would be to give U.N. inspectors more intrusive powers via a Security Council resolution to prevent suspected atomic bomb projects.
Tehran in turn would have to pledge no industrial-scale enrichment of uranium. …
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei will make no recommendations in a broad report on three years of probes in Iran he is to give to board members on February 27, a week before they convene to weigh whether to urge a course of action by the Security Council.
But he has already suggested in diplomatic circles that a compromise may lie in accepting small-scale enrichment in Iran in exchange for guarantees of no full nuclear fuel production that could enable diversions into bomb-making, diplomats say.
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