Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei, says five years of US and international efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions are a failure. He told the Los Angeles Times Sat. Dec. 6: "We haven't moved one inch toward addressing the issues."
The UN official bluntly marked the sanctions-incentives policy "a failure."
The same mark automatically applies to Israel's leaders and their dogged reliance on the international community to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons – a line favored by president Shimon Peres, ex-prime minister Ariel Sharon, incumbent Ehud Olmert, foreign minister Tzipi Livni and defense minister Ehud Barak.
The IAEA director stressed: "Tehran continues to acquire nuclear technology and stockpiling sensitive material" after three sets of international sanctions and the US-European offer of economic and security incentives.
In retrospect, the sanctions may have led to "more hardening of the position of Iran," ElBaradei said. "Many Iranians who even dislike the regime [are] gathering around the regime because they feel that their country is under siege."
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So where is this ... law failing?
When the United Nations votes to impose sanctions, when the EU abide by that international standard / law, when the world body says with one voice - we will not permit you to push ahead and we will do everything we can, short of anything substantive, to prevent you from getting nuclear weapons - and a nation goes ahead anyway ... that nation is in violation of international law.
What is more amusing - Mohammed El Baradei works for the world body through his 'work' at the IAEA.
For more than five years, the UN and the IAEA have demanded that the world body allow sanctions to work. Don't be hasty, don't do anything aggressive, let sanctions work, wait, negotiate, discuss, let the sanctions have an effect ... and now, five years later, he has the temerity to tell us the sanctions haven't worked.
Mr. El Baradei, five years ago many people could have told you that it would not work.
Iran lied the entire time. They deceived. They fooled, tricked - in other words, beguiled, and it worked.
That dear people is what happens when you rely upon talk and negotiation and remove from the table the use of force.
Iran just punked the EU, UN, the WORLD ... and now, the reprecussions.
Ira
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