Word: elbaradei
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...stronger argument for imposing economic sanctions. Even Pyongyang's nominal ally China might react harshly, concerned that a regional arms race would ensue. On Thursday, U.S. President George W. Bush phoned China's President Hu Jintao to urge him to take firmer action against his neighbor. Meanwhile, Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, spoke of "disastrous" consequences for North Korea if it conducts a test, warning that the international community "has zero tolerance for any new country to go for a nuclear weapon." But for all the threats, intelligence gathering and diplomatic scrambling, nobody quite knows what...
...different from Iraq - Saddam violated 16 UN resolutions, while the Iran matter hasn't even gone to the UN yet. The operative word, of course, is ?yet.? Rice made clear that the U.S. intends to take the matter there, and has been lobbying to unseat IAEA chief Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei to help ease the path to refer Tehran to the Security Council. ElBaradei has refused to endorse Washington's charge that Iran is covertly running a weapons program, despite demanding more transparency and cooperation from Tehran. But the Europeans are opposing Bush administration efforts to unseat him, perhaps more mindful...
Opening The Door After months of wrangling, Iran agreed to allow a team of nuclear inspectors to visit its remote Parchin military facility, which the U.S. says is part of a clandestine nuclear weapons program. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog headed by Mohamed ElBaradei, will this month start gathering environmental samples and interviewing engineering personnel at the highly restricted site in southeastern Iran. U.S. officials have charged that Iran is using Parchin to study ways to weaponize a nuclear device. Tehran says the site is not connected to its nuclear program, which it maintains...
...president of the Nuclear Control Institute. IAEA officials counter that without good intelligence from the U.S. and other nations or the right to conduct spot inspections, they cannot verify a country's claims of compliance. Libya, they say, is proof that arms-control systems need to be strengthened. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA, says the episode should trigger soul searching in countries building nuclear technology and urges a ban on uranium enrichment, except under international supervision...
Some Bush Administration officials would like U.S. and British inspectors, not the U.N., to oversee the dismantling of Libya's program. But unilateral inspections aren't likely to be acceptable, ElBaradei tells TIME. "Inspectors working for a single country have a problem of credibility," he observes. Yet some progress is being made in dealing with another rogue nuclear regime. This week a group of private citizens from the U.S. are scheduled to visit North Korea to examine its Yongbyon nuclear complex--the first such visit since U.N. inspectors were expelled a year...