As Bush regime beats war drums, IAEA Chief states this is "a reminder of pre-war Iraq”

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As Bush regime beats war drums, IAEA Chief states this is "a reminder of pre-war Iraq”

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Mohamed ElBaradei chastised the Bush regime on September 7th warning against the sounding of the “war drums” over the Iranian nuclear program. El Baradei stated that the IAEA has a timetable for Iran to disclose its past nuclear activities, but that the Bush administration and it allies were not allowing the IAEA to do its job.

The Bush regime contends that Iran's uranium enrichment program is for producing nuclear weapons and the regime says that all options to stop this are on the table, including nuclear war. In direct response ElBaradei called for stopping the "war drums from those who are basically saying 'the solution is bomb Iran.'" He accurately stated that this is "a reminder of pre-war Iraq…We have not seen any weaponization of their program, nor have we received any information to that effect — no smoking gun or information from intelligence. Based on the evidence, we have, we do not see ... a clear and present danger that requires that you go beyond diplomacy... For the last few years, we have been told by the Security Council ... that we needed to clarify the outstanding issues. We obviously had to welcome Tehran's decision to cooperate with the agency.”

Bush regime State Department spokesman Tom Casey retorted he "would certainly hope that those kinds of comments wouldn't be referred to the United States, because they certainly wouldn't be true. It would be really hard for anyone to say that the United States has been anything but at the forefront of supporting the work of the IAEA to try and resolve these issues." The last thing the Bush regime would ever consider is war, right?

Recently the IAEA and Iran negotiated a plan committing Tehran to report on its past nuclear activities by the end of the year. ElBaradei said, "We have a timeline which would enable us by ... December to check clearly whether Iran is ready to work with us in good faith or whether (as) some like to suspect, Iran is buying time. This is a reasonable time in our view to resolve a number of complex issues." The IAEA plan is to be debated at a 35-nation board meeting of the agency that begins on September 10th.

The Bush regime has been highly critical of the plan and accuses Iran of just trying to direct attention away from is nuclear weapons’ ambitions. While going through the motions of diplomacy, including attempting to increase U.N. sanctions, the administration has been planning military moves against Iran.