IAEA Head: Iran Attack 'Act of Madness'

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2007/jun/14/061406698.html

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday an attack on Iran over its refusal to freeze programs that could make nuclear weapons would be "an act of madness," an indirect warning to the United States and Israel.

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei also said Iran could be running close to 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges by the end of next month - a number that IAEA officials have described as the point of no return in the start of a large-scale program.

ElBaradei spoke at the end of a meeting of his agency's 35-nation board, a gathering that focused on Iran's refusal to heed U.N. Security Council demands that it freeze activities that could serve to make nuclear arms and provide answers on suspicious aspects of its program.

He also urged Iran to offer a "self-imposed moratorium" on enrichment, describing it as a "good confidence-building measure" that could launch negotiations on the standoff

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:sarcasm:

You imply he's an idiot in a fair fraction of what you write here, even if he did win the Nobel Peace Prize.

But of course you are silent on the hypocrisy of the Cheney Regime regarding nuclear power and nuclear weapons proliferation.

It's OK for Westinghouse (an eager participant in Cheney's Energy Task Force and a major GOP contributor) to trade nukes for Indian mangoes - and destroy the global anti-proliferation paradigm.

But it's not OK for Iran to develop uranium enrichment for its nuclear power program.

Perhaps if the Iranian Government had met "Behind the Green Door" of Cheney's Energy Task Force and contributed millions to the GOP, there wouldn't be a problem here????

Ya think????

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Hi there bananas -

I guess it's just par for the course to caz-ually dismiss everything that was just said in the post above regarding M. ElBaradei.

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IAEA high and low estimates of nuclear energy through 2030 by region.
ElBaradei is Director General of the IAEA.
Larger versions of these charts are in the pdf
http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/Pess/rds-1/rds-1%282006%29_charts.pdf