What IAEA New Report Shows

The IAEA new report, which was released in November in 25 pages, sparked off new worries over the state of Iran’s nuclear activities. Iran’s supreme leader, Khamenei and Ahmadinejad condemned the report, claiming that the director general of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, was following the U.S. propaganda.Iranian government’s lobbies in the U.S. and Europe were also quick to come out and follow the same pattern against the report.

I was therefore put on to find out if the IAEA’s new report was indeed any different from the previous ones and if anything new had been revealed. This is what I found:

The distinctive difference between the IAEA reports in 2011 and 2008 can be summarized as below:

1. In the 2008 report, IAEA had spoken about some abstract points that needed to be clarified. It also stressed on the need for Tehran to cooperate with the IAEA on the matter. In the November 2011 report however, Mr Amano specifies in detail the result of six years of IAEA’s investigations on Iran’s nuclear military activities, noting many facts and the resources, which were looked at by the agency.

2. The result showed that the Iranian regime has indeed continued and progressed its enrichment machinery during the past 8 years.

3. A report from United Nations energy officials claims that Iran has already mastered the steps necessary to build nuclear weapons, putting the nation on the brink of joining the world's nuclear powers.

4. According to U.N. officials, Iran received technological assistance from outside experts to overcome the most difficult hurdles, such as building the highly precise detonators and triggers needed to generate a nuclear explosion. Among those who provided help was a weapons scientist from the former Soviet Union who shared vital research on explosives and warhead design.

5. The IAEA also discovered blueprints for something called a "nuclear inititator" that was designed by A.Q. Khan, the "father" of Pakistan's nuclear program. Other material and designs used by Iran may have come from North Korea (who also received assistance from Khan on their nuclear program.)

6. In the 2011 report, Mr Amano has stressed that the route followed by Iran has been a military one, and that the route has been followed continuously all the time.

In fact, the 2011 report consists of three parts which look at

A. History of Iran’s nuclear enrichments.
B. The resources used by Iran.
C. Summary of Iran’s past and present nuclear and military activities.

Part C, which is written in 12 sections is the most important part, since it refers to the information gathered by IAEA. The military nature of the nuclear activities in Tehran, is clearly shown in this part, and it is shown that the whole path followed by Tehran is one which is being led to military use of nuclear power.

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