Word: iaea
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...drugs and weapons - a move that would almost certainly provoke North Korea to raise the ante through some new reckless gesture. And North Korea announced that it was steaming ahead on its nuclear weapons program, repeatedly claiming it had reprocessed all of the spent fuel rods previously under IAEA seal at Yongbyon, which would provide enough fissile material for up to six bombs. (North Korea is believed to have built one or two crude nuclear bombs during the 1990s...
...powers - including Britain's prime minister Tony Blair - and also, possibly, by the efforts of Jordan's King Abdullah to facilitate back-channel communication between Washington and Tehran. Unlike North Korea, which, if anything, exaggerates its nuclear weapons capability, Iran insists it has no clandestine bomb program. But IAEA investigations have found evidence of secret uranium enrichment facilities, and the UN nuclear watchdog had put Iran on notice to sign an agreement accepting more intrusive inspections by October 31, or else. Again, although hawkish elements in the Bush administration had favored a more vigorous pursuit of "regime-change" in Tehran...
...Axis of Evil" spokes. Iran is another and Iraq is a third. The "stick solution" has been applied to Iraq. It stirred the fears of North Korea. Now diplomacy, facilitated by other countries in the region, must quell those fears. Our European allies and the IAEA are diplomatically working on Iran. Non-aggression, diplomacy and aid can be effective with North Korea but our allies in the region must be strong,willing participants. J. Nolan Chicago...
...Still, the inspectors brought him in for another meeting the next day, but after al-Zahawie protested, they ended the discussion by taking a copy of his signature for further investigation. In a matter of weeks, IAEA chairman Mohammed El-Baradei told the UN Security Council that the letters supposedly detailing a Niger-Iraq uranium transaction had been forgeries...
...plane blown up over Niger in 1989. Burden of Proof IRAN The International Atomic Energy Agency gave Tehran a deadline of Oct. 31 to prove its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, or risk being referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. In the past six months, IAEA inspectors discovered a series of anomalies in Iran's purportedly peaceful program, including weapons-grade uranium particles in centrifuges at a civilian facility. Iranian officials rejected the deadline as a violation of their sovereignty. New SARS Fears SINGAPORE A medical research student became the first person to test positive...