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ElBaradei Calls on Iran to Cooperate With IAEA
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency urged Iran yesterday to provide full transparency and to comply with an Oct. 31 U.N. deadline to allay international concerns over Tehran’s alleged nuclear weapons development (see GSN, Oct. 9). “They’ve promised information will be forthcoming but it has not yet been provided,” said IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei. “The central question is whether Iran has any (uranium) enrichment activities that we have not been informed about. On that question I haven’t got satisfactory information,” he added. ElBaradei said, however, that U.N. inspectors in Iran last week were given access to sites that they had requested to visit and were provided with new information by Iranian officials (Roula Khalaf, Financial Times, Oct. 9). A top U.S. State Department official, meanwhile, said yesterday that the threat of nuclear weapons in Iran had to be “eliminated.” “There is awareness of the threat posed by Iran and consensus that threat has to be eliminated,” said U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton. Iran, he said, “will try and throw sand in our eyes … to conceal as much as they can, to delay and to avoid having the issue referred to the Security Council.” Bolton also predicted that Iran could develop a nuclear weapons capability “probably towards the end of the decade” (Richard Norton-Taylor, London Guardian, Oct. 10).
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