Everything that is Wrong with the International Atomic Engery Agency, in a Single Headline
Courtesy of Reuters, this morning we read that the head of the IAEA “took a swipe at Israel on Monday for “allegedly” bombing to rubble a suspected Syrian reactor site in 2007, saying the case should have been reported to his agency instead.” [news.yahoo.com]
This, of course, would be the same IAEA that appears to have had no knowledge whatsoever of the Syrian regime’s unreported work on a nuclear reactor, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (the “NPT”) to which Syria is a signatory, and which was only able to “confirm” that the site was the beginnings of a nuclear reactor nearly 4 years after it was bombed and, not coincidentally, only after the “world community” began to turn to President Assad.
This is also the same IAEA that first reported that Iran was in violation of its obligations under the NPT in 2003, exactly 2,896 days ago, but has done nothing since then to stop that regime’s headlong rush to develop nuclear weapons that it has threatened to use against a member state of the UN. (Of course, knowing which state is threatened will also tell everyone what they need to know about why neither the IAEA nor the UN has done anything meaningful about the threats.) For a full description of the IAEA’s inaction and ineptitude during the 8 years since it cited Iran’s violation of the NPT, there is a detailed summary at Eye on the UN, at the following link: [eyeontheun.org]