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Why Are the IAEA and Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei Protecting Iran?
[Institute for Contemporary Affairs/Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs] Gerald M. Steinberg - For over three years, the quarterly IAEA reports on Iran contained the details of violations, obstruction of inspector's visits, important inconsistencies between official claims and the results of tests from samples taken from various facilities, and other forms of non-compliance. But the final assessment in each report, signed by IAEA Director-General Mohammed El-Baradei, absurdly concluded that this evidence did not demonstrate that Iran was seeking nuclear weapons. El-Baradei's complicity in the Iranian effort to acquire nuclear weapons is counterproductive. The further that Iran advances, the higher the probability of confrontation and military action in the next two to four years. Instead, if the IAEA and El-Baradei were to join in the effort to warn and deter the Iranian regime, it might still be possible to halt the uranium enrichment and similar activities, without needing to use force.