Thursday, December 02, 2004

Diplomats: U.N. Lacks Right to Inspect Sites in Iran

Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog would like to visit a secret military site in Iran.
"The IAEA simply has no authority to go to sites that are not declared nuclear sites," a diplomat close to the IAEA inspection process told Reuters. He said that the IAEA had not asked to inspect Lavizan II, although they would like to.

"If a country has a strategy for hiding its nuclear program, then the Additional Protocol is of little use," http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.bold.gif
insert bold tagsa U.N. diplomat said, adding that the IAEA would not have been able to prove that Libya had an atomic arms program if Muammar Gaddafi had not confessed and handed over his atom bomb designs. more
Captain's Quarters has a few thoughts as well.

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