Australia pressuring IAEA over Iran
Australia, as the most pro-US of Bush’s allies, and a firm believer in preventive strikes, is writing pressuring letters to Iran. Just like Iran, Australia has a uranium enrichment program, and is talking about a nuclear power program, and has a huge amount of cheap fossile fuels. Extract from Reuters story
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/15A24217-0F99-4E14-8C9D-4109FF258E2A.htm
U.S. and EU officials believe a full report would help them persuade
skeptical Russia, China and developing states on the IAEA board to
vote at the February gathering for referral.
But ElBaradei, replying to U.S., EU and Australian letters, said he had
given Iran until the March meeting to answer questions in IAEA
inquiries into its nuclear project, which it concealed from U.N.
inspectors for almost two decades.
“Due process, therefore, must take its course before (we are) able to
submit a detailed report,” he said in a letter to the U.S., British, French
and Australian envoys to the IAEA, distributed to all board members
and seen by Reuters
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