IRANS DOUBLE NUCLEAR capacity: IAEA claim Undermines NAM SUMMIT [US & ISRAELI THREATS]
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned threats by Israel and the US to strike Iran. This comes after Tehran rejected as a 'political move' the latest report by the IAEA which claimed the country has doubled its nuclear capacity. For expert opinion on the story, RT talks tofrom Eric Draitser, who's a geopolitical analyst for stopimperialism.com
Iran has dismissed as "politically motivated" a recent IAEA report accusing it of ramping up uranium enrichment. The director of the University of Tehran's Institute for North American and European Studies told RT the report's timing is no surprise.
Iranian lawmakers were quick to reject the highly critical International Atomic Energy Agency report -- released Thursday -- which was published just as Tehran was hosting representatives from some 120 nations for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit. Iranian lawmaker Kazem Jalali said the report was intended to "overshadow the meeting in Tehran."
"It seems that this report is a scenario for psychological warfare, because Iran was able to show its authority and international position at the NAM summit," Jalali, a member of Iranian Parliament's national security and foreign affairs committee, added.
The IAEA report says Iran's stockpile of uranium that's been enriched to 20 per cent -- the threshold for "weapons-usable" quality -- has jumped from 159 pounds to 255 pounds since May.
The report further says that the number of centrifuges at the underground uranium enrichment facility at Fordow, near the city of Qom, more than doubled, from 1,064 to 2,140, in the same period, although the new machines were not yet operational when the report went to press.
The watchdog concluded that "Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation," and that for that reason, the agency was "unable to provide credible assurance" that the Islamic Republic was not engaged in illicit nuclear-related activities.
In many ways the agency represents what Iran's Supreme Leader called the "overt dictatorship of the United Nations," Eric Draitser, a geopolitical analyst for stopimperialism.com, told RT.
"The IAEA is always led by the US-produced think-tank individuals like [IAEA Director General Mohamed] ElBaradei or his predecessors, who will inevitable execute the agenda of the Western powers regardless of whether it contravenes international law," he said.
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