By: Marcos

Marcos — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:48:20 +0000

Eric:Sometimes I merely state what I blveeie. In that case, I was actually quoting the IAEA Board resolution.I’m not a lawyer and do not find these things as fascinating as you, but I’m sure in every resolution that had the word requirement before the UNSC resolutions it was clearly pointed out that this requirement was in the context of non legally binding steps Iran could take.In one of the later ones, the context language was moved away from the requirement language, but the voluntary language was still there. And still expressly applied to the requirement.The IAEA never sent to the UNSC a statement that Iran had not met a requirement without also stating that the requirement was within a voluntary context.Interestingly, Baradei did not but Amano would have lobbied and maybe made an executive decision to get rid of the voluntary language. I don’t think that would have changed anything and don’t think that if he had and Iran exposed that he did so wrongfully in an arbitration that exposure would change anything.There is one and only one argument that Iran is not upholding its international obligations. That is that Iran is not following the UNSC resolutions. No American has said otherwise ever to my knowledge, though they all use broad rather than specific language to mislead their audiences.The IAEA at least until the UNSC resolution never claimed that the requirements were not voluntary.If Iran wins an arbitration saying that the IAEA was right in calling the measures voluntary at that point, parties sympathetic to Israel’s regional nuclear monopoly at the very bare least will describe it as a nitpick that does not change the fact that Iran is not in compliance with its international obligations.They will to a large degree be right. The ruling would not remove the international obligations and there’s no reason to think anyone following the story will have new information or a new basis to evaluate Iran’s cooperation with the IAEA that they do not have today.Even worse, Amano is as anti-Iran as Gary Samore. This is a new process that offers opportunities for strategic action on the US’ part. If it gets a favorable judge appointed by the head of the ICJ, which is well within the realm of possibility, then the US can get a wishlist of binding changes made to the NPT without any negotiation or input from the non-weapons states. That would be a disaster for the non-weapons states.I don’t see any upside for Iran at all, just possible downside.

By: Keelan Balderson

Keelan Balderson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:34:03 +0000

Yeah and they weren’t required to.
The US have known about this for ages, they chose the other week to start the hype. It’s all BS.

By: Walker

Walker — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:04:49 +0000

of course the IAEA has no proof. there is entire sites they never have been to or even knew about before last month.

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