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Oct 9, 2005, 11:02:14 PM10/9/05

AntiWar
October 8, 2005

Saving Face

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

Iran will not be deterred "by anything short of a threat of force", said Arieh Eldad,
a member of Israel's right-wing National Union Party, part of a delegation of Knesset
members visiting Washington this week (Email: aeldad[AT]knesset.gov.il /
http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=752).

What programs is he threatening?

Well, apparently the same ones Assistant Secretary Stephen G. Rademaker
(http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/12813.htm) has been threatening, at the 2005
Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (7th
RevCon), and most recently before the UN committee which deals with disarmament
issues. http://www.un.org/events/npt2005

"In the case of Iran, IAEA investigations have exposed almost two decades of
clandestine nuclear work, as well as a pattern of evasion and deception, that can
only be explained as part of an illegal nuclear weapons program.

"Earlier this year, the United States lent its strong support to the efforts of
the United Kingdom, France, and Germany to negotiate objective guarantees that would
assure the international community that Iran has given up the pursuit of nuclear
weapons.

"In August, however, Iran spurned these negotiations by violating the 2004 Paris
Agreement (http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/2004/infcirc637.pdf)
on which the negotiations were founded.

"This, in turn, led to the adoption by the IAEA Board of Governors
(http://www.iaea.org/About/Policy/Board), just one week ago, of a resolution finding
Iran in noncompliance with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations, and committing
the Board to report Iran's noncompliance to the United Nations Security Council and
to the General Assembly, as required under the IAEA Statute
(http://www.iaea.org/About/statute_text.html).

"We applaud this exercise in effective multilateralism, and hope that it will
persuade the Iranian government to return to the negotiating table on the basis of
the 2004 Paris Agreement.

"Should Iran decline to do so, however, the Board of Governors will have no
alternative but to fulfill its obligation under the IAEA Statute and the recently
adopted Board Resolution
(http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Board/2005/gov2005-77.pdf) to report the
matter to the United Nations.

"In the meantime, we hope that all governments will take note of the Board's
finding of noncompliance and adjust their national policies accordingly.

"We think it self-evident, for example, that, in the face of such a finding, no
government should permit new nuclear transfers to Iran, and all ongoing nuclear
projects should be frozen".

(See the statement of Stephen Rademaker at RevCon-2005 on May 2, 2005:
http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/statements/npt02usa.pdf)

Stephen Rademaker's harangue is chock-full of what might charitably be described as
"misleading statements".

But Stephen Rademaker – perhaps inadvertently – revealed the real significance of the
September 24, 2005 Resolution of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic
Energy Agency.

In October 2003, Iran entered into an agreement with Britain, France, and Germany
(E3) with the "explicit expectation of opening a new chapter of full transparency,
cooperation and access to nuclear and other advanced technologies".

Iran agreed to a number of important transparency and voluntary confidence building
measures, including the voluntary suspension of all uranium-enrichment related
activities.

In November, 2003, IAEA Director-General Elbaradei reported that "to date, there is
no evidence that the previously undeclared nuclear material and activities … were
related to a nuclear weapons program".

In November, 2004, ElBaradei reported that "all the declared nuclear material in Iran
has been accounted for, and therefore such material is not diverted to prohibited
activities".

So, that same month, under the so-called "Paris Agreement", Iran voluntarily extended
the negotiations with the E3 and the suspension of uranium-enrichment activities.

But, Iran made it clear that any attempt to turn their "voluntary" suspension of
uranium enrichment activities into a cessation or long-term suspension would be
"incompatible with the letter and spirit of the Paris Agreement and therefore
unacceptable to Iran".

When the E3 finally got around to submitting their proposal to the Iranians on August
8, 2005, it did explicitly require Iran "not to pursue fuel cycle activities other
than the construction and operation of light-water power and research reactors".

(See the Brits-French-Germans proposal dated August 8, 2005:
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/2005/infcirc651.pdf)

Now, the IAEA was NOT a party to the Paris Agreement, so the failure of the Paris
Agreement was literally none of the IAEA's business.

However, because Iran's Safeguards Agreement specifically cites the NPT as its reason
for being, the demand by the E3 that Iran forfeit its "inalienable rights" under the
NPT to pursue any and all fuel cycle activities is the IAEA's business.

It is the E3 – not the Iranians – who have not only "violated" the Paris Agreement,
but the NPT, as well.

(See the text of NPT dated April 22, 1970:
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/infcirc140.pdf)
(See the Iran-IAEA agreement dated December 13, 1974:
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/infcirc214.pdf)
(See the Paris agreement dated November 26, 2004:
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/2004/infcirc637.pdf)
Furthermore, Stephen Rademaker has just revealed that the U.S. effectively
strong-armed the Board into disgracefully making Iran's "violation" of the Paris
Agreement the rationale for referring Iran's Safeguarded nuclear programs to the UN
Security Council as a "threat to international peace and security".

ElBaradei wants Iran to resume negotiations with the E3 so someone can save face.

Who? Well, the entire IAEA Board, for starters.

* 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

IAEA and Iran
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/IaeaIran/index.shtml

UN is doing the bidding of Israel
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dc61badc9989575a?hl=en

After 2 years of intrusive go-anywhere see-anything ask-anybody inspections!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a545047699722ca7?hl=en

West does not seek the elimination of nukes, but rather the establishment of nuclear
monopoly
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/502efbdfaa7622f7?hl=en

Unratified additional protocol
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1b2b77819b38d9e3?hl=en

The high price of hounding Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7c854d944d6e061d?hl=en

Such a Blot
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/43ee2e2149e17310?hl=en

Weapons of Mass Murder
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0f3f87b645a72fde?hl=en

Neocrazies Foiled
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/86df9c0e9c38d475?hl=en

Iran knocks Europe out
By Pepe Escobar
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/497a81cb3c315c65?hl=en

UN opens a Pandora's Box of "Iran exceptionalism"
Dr. Kaveh Afrasiabi
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/24bfe5a318d9a222?hl=en

There is Nothing to refer to UN Security Council
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/76824d9387903d4a?hl=en

WMD Postmortem
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d02537756cafca8?hl=en

No wonder the West is so mad at Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/83e63797f1a1af3b?hl=en

Bolton in a China Shop
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9927bb4f65924e34?hl=en

JEW media sycophants & 36% HEU - IRAN told the truth, yet JEW keeps lying
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f90a6eef507f10a0?hl=en

Past Arguments Don't Square With Current Iran Policy
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f53d3a05bc5403c1?hl=en

The fuel behind Iran's nuclear drive
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2fcf81313deb4ae0?hl=en

The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d0dcf76abbaafb1?hl=en

NO Nuclear double standards
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8e41f4a8a1a3e04c?hl=en

Backlash Builds Against Cheney's 'Guns of August'
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8286b2b389247d0a?hl=en

An offer Iran MUST refuse
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/743b96400831f8a1?hl=en

Zero Tolerance
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1641ae424fde5b89?hl=en

Sino-Russian Guarantees?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bd8f5389ab0e8956?hl=en

More neo-crazy media sycophant LIES about Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d3fe84a9b64d20bc?hl=en

What The Neo-Crazies Knew
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6b45fabf57726a03?hl=en

EU vs. Iran - Who's Right?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/cbce70a3093360fb?hl=en

Iran should refer U.S. to Security Council for violating UNSCR-984
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d54ef8e41b971bf?hl=en

Castration of NPT - U.S. instantly tore up NPT for India, so why should Iran obey a
torn up agreement!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c234f4a148cd298?hl=en

U.S. ripped NPT into pieces; Iran must withdraw from this annulled treaty
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fbf55e939908b2c2?hl=en

U.S. proliferation rhetoric and reality
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7d8c268ee51c07be?hl=en

Ambassador Bolton's Agenda
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1ca916601b7a7bc8?hl=en

Iran's INALIENABLE RIGHT to uranium enrichment
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/245f6081b4e3d019?hl=en

A Palliative for Neo-Crazy Lies
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Inalienable right without discrimination
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/5012a673328fa044?hl=en

U.S. doesn't want to disarm even though it promised to do so
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c0b86cad11cb9413?hl=en

UN Referral – Not
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bddc928154c8c96a?hl=en

What Iranian obligations? What breaches? America's lies, lies, lies...
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9535c4a90df98471?hl=en

Memo to slimy senators
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7065ffd57b51a959?hl=en

U.S. promised in 2000, to get rid of it's nukes!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1e23bafecdac9e82?hl=en

U.S. has violated Iran's NPT rights!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/02f1f48fafcac2b6?hl=en

Iran's diplomatic masterpiece
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f532352654efee1d?hl=en

Bush to sabotage NPT
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West's repeated violations of "Article IV & I" against Iran
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Israel guns for Iran - Why?
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U.S. wants definition of NPT 'noncompliance' changed!!!
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NTP for dummies
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer & David Albright: Jews global campaign against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/44fcd2a53218eb52?hl=en

The Real Threat From John Bolton
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81-mm smoking rockets
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U.S. plans to destroy NPT
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Nuts to Bush
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Iran's logic proven correct to the entire World
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Sandbagging the NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group)
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What Noncompliance?
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Sandbagging the EU
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Bye-Bye, NPT
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Jew tells Bush to lie about Iran
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Bay of Pigs part 2, CIA-Israeli-MEK
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Virtual Nukes
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Iran's having the capability to enrich uranium is not even tantamount to having the
capability to produce the essentially pure uranium-235 required to make a nuke
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/303c3ca53b67c0a7?hl=en

Dangerous Delusions About Iran
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Thwarting the Neo-Crazies
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Trashing the IAEA Again
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U.S. keeps lying about Iran again & again
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Iran's Stealthy Nukes
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Uranium-Enrichment Myths Busted
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Iran Plays by the Rules - No Fair!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/25be300601cc8984?hl=en

Nuclear Bait and Switch
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a0dc80ca3b8e98f?hl=en

The myth of Iranian nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bf78503a661673e9?hl=en

North Korea has what Iraq didn't
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/56f613221080276e?hl=en

Iran has absolute right to enrich uranium
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a8ac2dc599976ba?hl=en

Iran is in full compliance with NPT & IAEA
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/737b74e86ba897cb?hl=en