That's if the UN cancels the sanctions against Iran. "Iran ready for 'full' UN oversight if sanctions go," from Reuters, September 5:
TEHRAN - Iran would be ready to grant the UN atomic watchdog "full supervision" of its nuclear activities for five years if UN sanctions were lifted, a senior official was quoted as saying on Monday, an offer the West may greet with skepticism.
One would hope.
Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, did not spell out whether he meant unrestricted access for the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in its probe into Tehran's nuclear program.
Since talks between global powers and Iran foundered in January, Russia has advocated a phased plan in which Tehran would address concerns that it may be seeking nuclear weapons, and be rewarded with an easing of sanctions.
But Abbasi-Davani made clear Iran has no intention of suspending its uranium enrichment program, a condition enshrined in a series of United Nations sanctions resolutions passed against Tehran since 2006.
Western nations suspect Iran is trying to use its nuclear program to develop atomic weapons. The Islamic Republic has denied the charge, saying it wants to produce nuclear energy.
The IAEA, which in a report last week said it was "increasingly concerned" about possible nuclear weapons development work in Iran, has long complained of a lack of Iranian cooperation with agency inspectors.
It has called on Tehran to implement the IAEA's so-called Additional Protocol, which would give the UN agency unfettered access to Iranian sites, even those not declared to be nuclear-related, at short notice.
While granting inspectors regular access to its declared nuclear facilities, including the Natanz enrichment site, the Islamic state has so far refused to allow the Vienna-based agency wider inspection powers.
Some analysts believe the West may have to accept some continued enrichment in Iran for any chance of an end to the standoff over Tehran's nuclear aims. In return, Iran would have to accept much more intrusive inspections.
Iran has recently sought to demonstrate increased openness about its nuclear program, allowing a senior IAEA official rare access to a research and development facility last month.
But Western diplomats have dismissed this as a "charm offensive" and an apparent maneuver by Iran to ease world pressure on the country, while forging ahead with an enrichment drive that can have both civilian and military purposes.
"By lifting the UN sanctions ... the International Atomic Energy Agency can have full supervision over Iran's nuclear work for five years," Abbasi-Davani told ISNA....
Iran reminds me of Pakistan. This is a rickety regime pasting itself together with a nuclear program designed to blackmail its neighbors. The Iranian regime is mortally threatened by water-gun fighters, and yet feels it necessary to develop nuclear weapons.
It may yet be necessary for Israel and/or the US to take military action. The last gasp of a dying regime may yet be dangerous, particularly when nuclear weapons are concerned. It would be far better to let the regime strangle itself, as the young people and the intelligent people become increasingly disgusted with the violent enforcement of fundamentalist Islam.
Go Israel go, let us see some fire works over Iran...common baby...
Iran's latest offer to UN on nukes: You can watch us do what we please.
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Now *that's* an offer we can't refuse...
Well, actually, we could—but I doubt we have the spine for it, at this point...
The distinguished Japanese gentleman, Yukiya-san, (the IAEA chief Yukiya Amano), is honestly doing his job, speaking the full truth. But our disgraceful United States of America and other Western democracies, united in NATO, the largest and by far the most armed military alliance in the history of the world, are failing to act. All of them together are cowarding out, cowarding out, cowarding out of taking on the stand-alone Iran, not YET armed with the nuclear weapon. And the clock is ticking out to the ultimate horror of the Global Nuclear Jihad. This is cowardice without precedent in the entire world history. This cowardice is not logical, it is pathological. This is committing suicide out of fear of death. Murdering Serb Christians and brutally eradicating Christianity from Kosovo to please the Muslims world over is all the Western democracies are good for.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.