Before Nuclear Regulators’ Meeting, Iran Allows Inspectors Access to One Site
After more than a year and a half of resistance, Iran has given inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency access to a razed military site, but it has failed to meet other demands under its international treaty obligations, officials knowledgeable about the inspections said Sunday.
The concession seemed aimed at derailing an American and European initiative to immediately send Iran’s nuclear case for judgment by the United Nations Security Council.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the foreign ministers of Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany will meet in London on Monday to plot a joint strategy on how best to curb Iran’s nuclear activities. Then on Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-country board will hold an emergency session in Vienna to decide whether and how the case should be considered by the Security Council.
But the limited cooperation given to the inspectors leaves open a number of major issues about the nature and scope of Iran’s nuclear program that have been raised by the United States and Europe.
What a lame attempt on the part of Iran – - but then with the UN Security Council this may just buy them a decade or so.
that place needs a H-Bomb before we see a city up in smoke.