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El Baradei Warns About "New Crazies who want to bomb Iran"

Comment by Larry Ross, June 3, 2007

Mohammed El Baradei is head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. One of his jobs is to oversee that all states are obeying the terms of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. His inspectors go into countries like Iran, inspect all nuclear facilities and issue reports as to whether Iran is complying with NPT terms and whether or not it has nuclear weapons, or are developing nuclear weapons. They reported that Iran has no nuclear weapons and has no nuclear weapons development programme.

For him to warn about "new crazies who want to bomb Iran" is a very serious unprecedented charge. Everyone knows he is referring to neo-conservatives high in the Bush Administration who are well-known advocates of a war with Iran.

For El Baradei to issue such a warning underlines the seriousness of the situation, and the need for Americans to reign in the Bush neocon Administration before it brings on a major war with Iran. The consequences could be horrific for everyone as El Baradei well knows from his work.

It's well past the time for Americans to do something about the rogue administration leading their country toward new nightmares.

It really is quite sad to see apathetic, hand-wringers who claim they can do nothing to oppose their psychopathetic leader. In fact there are a number of steps that could be taken to stop Bush by impeachment and Congressional actions to declare him unfit to govern and a threat to American and world security. Bush and his Administration are sick if not "crazy" people who Congress and the public should not allow to wreck a great country.

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IAEA chief warns of "crazies" seeking Iran war

by Reuters, June 1, 2007

The United Nations nuclear watchdog chief warned on Friday against the "new crazies" advocating military action to halt Iran's nuclear programme and said he did not want to see another war like that in Iraq.

"I wake every morning and see 100 Iraqis, innocent civilians, are dying," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Mohamed ElBaradei said in an interview for BBC Radio.

"I have no brief other than to make sure we don't go into another war or that we go crazy into killing each other. You do not want to give additional argument to new crazies who say 'let's go and bomb Iran'," he said in a documentary, excerpts from which were published on the BBC's Web site in advance.

Tehran has ignored repeated warnings and resolutions sponsored by world powers in the United Nations Security Council demanding that it cease uranium enrichment.

It was ElBaradei's strongest warning yet against the use of force. He has urged Western powers to consider allowing Iran limited enrichment he believes would pose no bomb proliferation risk and avert a feared slide into conflict.

The powers have rejected his proposal.

Iran says it is pursuing a nuclear programme to provide electricity. The West believes it is trying to build a nuclear bomb and is gearing up to draft a third round of U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Enrichment is a process of refining uranium for power plants, or if taken to a very high degree, atom bombs. A report by ElBaradei's IAEA last week said Iran was expanding a campaign to install 3,000 enrichment centrifuges by mid-summer, laying a basis for "industrial-scale" fuel production.

In the BBC interview ElBaradei said a nuclear-armed Iran would be terrible but added the jury was still out as to whether the country even wanted atomic weapons.

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