@@ Gordon Prather: Iran's INALIENABLE RIGHT to uranium enrichment @@
Arash
June 25, 2005
ElBaradei Wins
Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
Nuclear bomb tester at Lawrence Livermore
Technical director of nuclear bomb testings at Sandia
Chief scientist of the U.S. Army
U.S. Navy veteran
The French, British, German and Iranian foreign ministers met in Tehran back in October of
2003, emerging to announce that the Iranian government had been persuaded to sign an
Additional Protocol to its Safeguards Agreement and – as a "confirmation of its good
intentions" – had "VOLUNTEERED" to begin complying with it, pending ratification.
Furthermore, even though Iran had the "INALIENABLE RIGHT" – as a NPT signatory – to
develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, Iran announced that – as a further
"confidence building measure" – it would "TEMPORARILY" suspend all uranium enrichment and
processing activities already planned or under way.
The IAEA was officially notified of this "VOLUNTARY" suspension and "INVITED" to verify
and monitor it.
The IAEA Board of Governors was officially notified that the "VOLUNTARY" suspension by
Iran was not a legal obligation and would be sustained only so long as the EU-Iranian
talks continued.
But, Bush – who wasn't even a party to the "talks" – said that if Iran resumed the
activities it had voluntarily suspended, he would take the matter to the Security Council
for possible action.
But here is what ElBaradei had to say last week, following his re-election:
"On the positive side, again I have made it clear that Iran has facilitated access to
nuclear material and facilities under the Additional Protocol and the Safeguards
agreement.
"They have also maintained in full the suspension of all enrichment related and
reprocessing activities, which is again positive."
[Nothing but Rats!]
"As you know the EU is supposed to provide comprehensive proposals to Iran by the end of
July, beginning of August. I think that's an important, delicate phase of that
negotiation. I very much hope that that dialogue will continue.
"I was very pleased to see the U.S. today saying that they are also lending their full
support to the European dialogue. So, I very much hope that the diplomatic solution to the
Iran issue will continue and will yield full results."
What did ElBaradei mean by that last remark? Could he be referring to the manner in which
Bush cut short his "support" for the "diplomatic" solution to the Iraqi "issue," which
Bush had sought and the Security Council had provided in Resolution 1441?
Dr. Prather's radio interviews
May 7, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather4.mp3
April 9, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather3.mp3
February 5, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather2.mp3
December 4, 2004
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather.mp3
February 16, 2005
Part 1
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-02-16-Charles-04.mp3
Part 2
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-02-16-Charles-05.mp3
* Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for national
security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research and
Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of
Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant
for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Okla. -- ranking member of the
Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate Energy Committee and Appropriations
Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (http://www.llnl.gov) in California and Sandia National
Laboratory (http://www.sandia.gov) in New Mexico.
http://www.antiwar.com/prather