Nuclear watchdog chief accused of pro-western bias over Iran
The Guardian / Julian Borger
23-Mar-2012 (one comment)

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear watchdog at the heart of the growing Iranian crisis, has been accused by several former senior officials of pro-western bias, over-reliance on unverified intelligence and of sidelining sceptics.

Yukiya Amano, a veteran Japanese diplomat, took command of the IAEA in July 2009. Since then, the west's confrontation with Iran over its nuclear programme has deepened and threats of military action by Israel and the US have become more frequent.

At the same time, the IAEA's reports on Iranian behaviour have become steadily more critical. In November, it published an unprecedented volume of intelligence pointing towards past Iranian work on developing a nuclear weapon, deeming it credible.

However, some former IAEA officials are saying that the agency has gone too far. Robert Kelley, a former US weapons scientists who ran the IAEA action team on Iraq at the time of the US-led invasion, said there were worrying parallels between the west's mistakes over Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction then and the IAEA's assessment of Iran now.

"Amano is falling into the Cheney trap. What we learned back in 2002 and 2003, whe... >>>

Simorgh5555

Western bias

by Simorgh5555 on Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:58 AM PDT

Concentrating on Iran's possession/capacity to possess nuclear weapons is a non-issue. This regime is a danger to the region regardless of what weapons it carries. It is a terrorist regime which executes 'officially' almost several hundred people in 2011 alone, murders dissidents and conducts a terrorist warfare on Israel's borders. 

Instead of trumpeting up Iran's nuclear issue and relying on dodgy evidence all over again which could discredit the West, it should take Meir Dagan's advice and pursue a vigrous policy of regime change. The regime in Iran is an illegitimate terrorist state which must be removed by force. The democratic system in Iran is a sham and the reform movement has no prospect of success. Iran must be liberated even if it means surgical strikes and target assassinations. 



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