The headline difference tells you all you need to know about the New York Times and the AmeriKan MSM!
"Iran seen slowing nuclear activities; But enrichment growing, UN says" by Borzou Daragahi/ Los Angeles Times August 31, 2007
CAIRO - Iran has slowed its nuclear activities and is cooperating more fully in clearing up questions about its efforts, but the country continues to expand its enrichment of uranium, according to a UN agency report.
The International Atomic Energy Agency distributed limited copies of its report ahead of a Sept. 10 meeting of the 35-member group's board.
The findings reflect an Aug. 21 agency agreement with Tehran that Iranian officials began publicizing several days ago. That accord said that there were "no other remaining issues and ambiguities regarding Iran's past nuclear program and activities."
"The work plan is a significant step forward," the IAEA report said of last week's agreement, according to Reuters. The news agency quoted a senior UN official as saying Iran's efforts to enrich uranium had slowed.
[So why the strident rhetoric about the threat from liar Bush?]
Iran took the diplomatic offensive yesterday, highlighting its cooperation with the IAEA in apparent hopes of staving off a further round of international sanctions.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's representative to the IAEA, told Tehran's Fars News Agency:
"The report emphasized once again that there exists no sign or evidence indicating diversion of Iran's nuclear activities and that all Iran's nuclear materials have been audited."
Assertions by Iranians and the UN agency that there were "no other remaining issues or ambiguities" outraged some nonproliferation specialists, who said the IAEA was ceding too much to Iran.
Arms-control specialists David Albright and Jacqueline Shire, of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, wrote in a criticism published this week:
"The agreement does not specify that Iran would provide the IAEA access to key people, facilities, and documents that are needed to verify Iranian answers to the IAEA's questions."
Most Western nonproliferation specialists said the latest agreement contained little that could dissuade key policymakers in Washington, London, Paris, and Berlin from pushing forward with another round of Security Council sanctions."
Now the Times' version:
"Report Showing Rise in Iran’s Nuclear Activity Exposes Split Between U.S. and U.N." by Elaine Sciolino and William J. Broad/New York Times August 31, 2007
[How about that?
Iran slows its activities, and the Times makes it seem like they accelerated.
But if you just scan a headline like the week-ender shit-eaters, the point is taken: Iran a threat!
Zionist-controlled piece of shit!]
VIENNA, Aug. 30 — A report released Thursday showing a slow but steady expansion of Iran’s nuclear technology has exposed a new divide between United Nations arms inspectors and the United States and its allies over how to contain Tehran’s atomic program.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in its report that Iran was being unusually cooperative and had reached an agreement with the agency to answer questions about an array of suspicious past nuclear activities that have led many nations to suspect it harbors a secret effort to make nuclear arms. The agency added that while Tehran’s uranium enrichment effort is growing, the output is far less than experts had expected.
[Output is less than expected, huh?
And yet, there the fucking asshole is on TV warning about a non-existent threat!
I am SO SICK of the LIES!]
Mohamed ElBaradei, the I.A.E.A. director general, in an interview: “This is the first time Iran is ready to discuss all the outstanding issues which triggered the crisis in confidence. It’s a significant step.”
But the Bush administration and its allies, which have won sanctions in the United Nations Security Council in an effort to stop Iran’s uranium enrichment, saw the latest report as more evidence of defiance, not cooperation.
[Seeing shit they want to see, the fucking deranged nutcases!]
Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman, said Thursday: “There is no partial credit here. Iran has refused to comply with its international obligations, and as a result of that the international community is going to continue to ratchet up the pressure.”
[One word for you, Casey: ISRAEL!]
In Paris, Pascale Andreani, the French Foreign Ministry spokesman, said that as long as Iran did not give a clear decision about suspending its enrichment activities, France would work with others to investigate the feasibility of further sanctions.
[That explains Sarkozy's recent statements]
In the interview, Dr. ElBaradei suggested that he would welcome a delay in the American-led strategy to impose new sanctions:
“I’m clear at this stage you need to give Iran a chance to prove its stated goodwill. Sanctions alone, I know for sure, are not going to lead to a durable solution.”
The report released Thursday, a quarterly update of Iran’s nuclear activity, said the country was operating nearly 2,000 centrifuges, the machines that enrich uranium, at its vast underground plant at Natanz, an increase of several hundred from three months ago. More than 650 additional centrifuges are being tested or are under construction, the agency said.
That number is far short of Iran’s projection that by now it would have 3,000 centrifuges up and running. The I.A.E.A. also reported that uranium being processed by the working centrifuges at Natanz was “well below the expected quantity for a facility of this design.” In addition, the agency said that uranium was enriched to a lower level than the Iranians had claimed.
[So the enrichment level doesn't even approach that needed for a bomb, huh?
Well, this case for war -- for the benefit of the shitstink state of Israel obviously; otherwise, the US would be talking (not threatening) to Iran.
I'm sick of stink Zionist lies, hey!]
These results have raised questions among private experts and officials at the atomic agency about whether Iran is facing technical difficulties or has made a political decision to curtail its nuclear operations. Low enriched uranium can fuel power reactors, and highly enriched uranium can fuel a bomb.
[And that is what the Iranians have: LOW enrichment!]
David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington that tracks nuclear proliferation, said his own calculations, based on the report’s data, suggested that Iran was operating its centrifuges at as little as 10 percent of their potential: “That’s very low — and we don’t know why.”
[So where is the threat, and why the urgency, reader?]
Dr. ElBaradei said he believed that the Iranian leadership had decided to operate Natanz at less than full capacity: “They could have expanded much faster. Some say it’s for technical reasons. My gut feeling is that it’s primarily for political reasons.”
[Who cares what the reason is?
They are ACTING RESPONSIBLY, not belligerently like the US!]
Dr. ElBaradei stressed that he “did not in any way give a blessing” to Iran’s decision to proceed with uranium enrichment, a program that Security Council resolutions demand must be frozen. But he has taken what he has called a realistic view that the world has to accept that Iran will never halt the program and that the goal now must be to prevent it from expanding to industrial-level production:
“It’s difficult technology, but it’s not rocket science. Through a process of trial and error, you will have the knowledge.”
[But it is rocket science, isn't it?]
Some in the Bush administration have contended that Dr. ElBaradei, whose agency is part of the United Nations, is operating outside his mandate by independently striking the deal with Tehran.
But ElBaradei defended his move, saying: “My responsibility is to look at the big picture. If I see a situation deteriorating, and it could lead to a war, I have to raise the alarm or give my advice.”
[That's because ElBaradei is haunted by the images of dead Iraqis!!
He wants to avoid a horrendous repeat with Iran.
What human being wouldn't?]
The evolving divide places Dr. ElBaradei in conflict with President Bush, and not for the first time. The White House bristled in 2003 when Dr. ElBaradei reported that there was no evidence to support claims that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program. Later the administration tried to block Dr. ElBaradei’s nomination for a second term at the agency just months before he won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. But now the administration needs Dr. ElBaradei, an Egyptian diplomat, more than ever, because his agency’s findings have formed the core of its case against Iran.
[Oh, now we need him, so all that shitting on him, forget that.
The Bush Administration's arrogance is astounding. What ASSHOLES!]
The conflict between the atomic agency and the United States and its allies centers on whether Iran should be afforded a modicum of trust after years of deception about its nuclear efforts.
[ISRAEL!]
In its report, the I.A.E.A. said that Iran had recently provided fresh information that resolved a series of questions about a part of its nuclear program that deals with plutonium, which can also be used as bomb fuel. After Iran resisted agency entreaties for two years, agency officials said, it suddenly provided access to a key expert, documentation and other data that allowed them to declare the plutonium questions answered to their satisfaction.
Dr. ElBaradei defended his plan to get more answers from Iran: “There are clear deadlines, so it’s not, as some people are saying, an open-ended invitation to dallying with the agency or a ruse to prolong negotiations and avoid sanctions.”
[So why did Albright say that? What up, Dave?]
Tehran, in turn, praised the agency, saying it had vindicated Iran.
Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA news agency:
“This report ended all the baseless U.S. accusations against Iran. Once again the agency confirmed the validity of Iran’s stances.”
The agreement, announced Monday, laid out a timetable of cooperation with the goal of wrapping up by December nuclear issues that have been under investigation for four years. By then, Dr. ElBaradei said, the agency will know whether Iran was “serious” or “was trying to take us for a ride.” The plan reflects a shift in focus by the agency to treat Iran with less suspicion, an approach that has been criticized by American, French and British officials.
[Which means we will soon hear rhetoric that the U.N. has failed to live up to its responsibilities, etc, etc, just like against Iraq]
Iran, meanwhile, appears to have embarked on a new strategy to give the impression of full cooperation on resolving past issues and to shift the focus away from its current enrichment activities, thereby undermining a major argument for imposing new sanctions. Under the new plan, the I.A.E.A. hopes to answer a range of questions.
One involves what Western intelligence officials say is a secretive Iranian entity called the Green Salt Project, which worked on uranium processing, high explosives and a missile warhead design. They suspect links between Green Salt and Iran’s ostensibly peaceful nuclear program. If that evidence were substantiated, it would undercut Iran’s assertions that its program’s sole aim is producing electrical power.
[Gee, I wonder where this bogus evidence is coming from, and CUI BONO, reader?]
Iran, while dismissing as baseless the assertions that such a program exists, has agreed to examine documents that the United States uncovered on a stolen laptop which it says pertain to Green Salt. But in a potential pitfall, Iran wants to take possession of the documents, something the United States has not agreed to.
[So we "STOLE" a laptop, huh, and then won't give it back to them?
This sounds like MORE CASUS BELI GARBAGE!]
Dr. ElBaradei, a lawyer by training, said that in fairness, “we have to give them access to the documents.” Another sensitive issue that the agency wants to explore with Tehran is how it acquired the skill to build two types of centrifuges that can enrich uranium.
Iran has also agreed to explain a document it received from the network of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear engineer, showing how to cast uranium into hemispheres to form the core of an atom bomb.
Dr. ElBaradei said he told the Iranians that this was a critical moment for candor:
“I made it very clear to them, if you are not serious, it will backfire. It will backfire in a big way because nobody then will be able to defend or to come to your support.”
[Well, they should get plenty of support because they are telling the truth.
What will truly backfire will be a U.S. attack on Iran!
But madman Bush and his neo-con cabal of mass-murdering vampires are going to do it, anyway.
May God Forgive the United States of America]
