IAEA Springs Into Action, Relaxes About Iran
Charles Johnson
Fri Jan 12, 2007 at 10:10 am PST • Views: 207
Whistling past the thermonuclear graveyard: Iran’s caution under sanctions eases heat at IAEA.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Talk of staging a special U.N. nuclear watchdog meeting to pile pressure on Iran has abated because of its moderate response to new U.N. sanctions and a wish to avoid damaging strife within the agency, diplomats say.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is reassessing dozens of technical aid projects in Iran to see if any violate a December 23 U.N. Security Council resolution imposing penalties on Tehran over fears it is secretly trying to build atom bombs.Some Western powers leading efforts to curb Iran’s program to enrich uranium for nuclear fuel originally felt the review would warrant an emergency session of the IAEA’s 35-nation governing board to vote on cutting the aid packages.
But sentiment for a snap meeting in January, two months ahead of the next scheduled session, subsided when it became clear this could wreck the board’s cohesion and Iran was reacting cautiously to the resolution following election losses by nuclear hardliners to moderates counseling restraint.
We wouldn’t want a little thing like global nuclear holocaust to “wreck the board’s cohesion,” now would we?
UPDATE at 1/12/07 10:24:11 am:
Examples of Iran’s “moderate response” to the sanctions:
Iran Will Install 3000 Centrifuges Immediately
Iran: Threaten Us and We’ll Nuke You
Frank says: