U.N. Lacks Right to Inspect Sites in Iran, via LGF:
Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog would like to visit a military complex in Iran that an exile group said housed a nuclear weapons site, but they lack the legal authority to go there, U.N. diplomats said.
...several military sites inspectors would like to inspect are legally off-limits to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which only has clear rights to visit facilities declared to it as nuclear sites. Access to other facilities must be negotiated and can be highly problematic.
"The IAEA simply has no authority to go to sites that are not declared nuclear sites," a diplomat close to the IAEA inspection process told Reuters... He said the agency needed Iran's permission to inspect undeclared sites.
So, inspectors can only go where Iran tells them to go. This is beyond a farce.
And, Europe is feckless as usual:
Diplomats and weapons experts said the IAEA inspection process had been dealt a severe blow this week when France, Britain and Germany gave in to Iranian demands that a clause demanding Iran grant the IAEA "unrestricted access" to sites in Iran be removed from a draft resolution.
The article also mentions the NCRI, who have been telling us where some of Iran's nuclear sites are, yet the toothless IAEA can't inspect there, and now Iran knows so they're stripping those sites clean anyway.
Thursday, December 2, 2004
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