ElBaradei Accepts Nobel Prize
Yeah, what he said: I believe it is because our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has…
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Whoops.
A couple of days ago, IAEA DG Mohamed ElBaradei revealed that the AQ Khan network provided Iran with a number of documents in 1987, including one “related to the … casting and machining of enriched, natural and depleted uranium metal…
Iran To Convert 150 Drums of Yellowcake
Francois Murphy at Reuters reports that Iran has notified the IAEA it will convert 150 drums of yellowcake (below, right) into uranium hexafluoride (UF6): Iran has begun processing a new batch of uranium despite Western pressure on it to halt…
Iran Dope Concerns RV Not Warhead
I spent most of the weekend mulling over how best to respond to this collection of half-truths, pablum and recycled news penned by David Sanger and Bill Broad. In case you missed it, Sanger and Broad recycle old stories about…
Give An Inch, They Swim All Over You
The United States and Europe may let Iran continue converting uranium. This is a really bad idea. David Sanger at the New York Times reports that IAEA DG Mohamed ElBaradei and SECSTATE Rice discussed a new proposal that would allow…
Why I Support ElBaradei's Nobel Prize
Chris Matthews—in his “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment—was shocked (shocked!) when Andrea Mitchell learned that the United States had intercepted Mohamed ElBaradei’s telephone conversations as part of the campaign to oust him. Clarence Page looked aghast. Under what…
IAEA BoG Refers Iran … Kinda
The IAEA Board of Governors has voted in favor of a resolution that finds Iran’s noncompliance with its NPT obligations to be “within the competence of the Security Council,” but does not appear to refer the issue the Security Council…
Former IAEA DDG Goldschmidt: Refer Iran
Did you hear the one about the dehydrated Belgian … Pierre Goldschmidt, former IAEA DDG and now visiting scholar with the Carnegie Endowment, pens an op-ed in the New York Times calling for the IAEA Board of Governors to report…
Gchine (Gehine)
Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2005/67) has several paragraphs devoted to Iran’s the Gchine uranium mine and mill, near Bandar Abbas. ElBaradei provided some background on the Gchine mine in 2004: In the…
Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, GOV/2005/67
IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has submitted a report concerning the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2005/67). The full text—marked “restricted distribution”—fell off a truck, digitally speaking. George Jahn with AP led with the…