[Peace-discuss] UN watchdog: A recent House committee report on Iran is "outrageous and dishonest"

[Chuck Minne]

          U.N. nuclear watchdog says report on Iran "outrageous"    U.S. House panel found program geared toward weapons    By George Jahn 
The Associated Press
DenverPost.com          Vienna - A recent House of Representatives committee report on Iran's nuclear capability is "outrageous and dishonest" in trying to make a case that Tehran's program is geared toward making weapons, a senior official of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has said.      The protest is spelled out in a letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press outside a 35-nation board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The letter says the House report is false in saying Iran is making weapons-grade uranium at an experimental enrichment site, when it has in fact produced material only in small quantities that is far below the level that can be used in nuclear arms.      The letter, which was first reported on by The Washington Post, also says the report erroneously contends that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei removed a senior nuclear inspector from the team investigating Iran's nuclear program "for concluding that the purpose of Iran's nuclear program is to
 construct weapons."      In fact, the inspector was sidelined at Tehran's request, and the Islamic republic had a right to ask for a replacement under agreements that govern all states' relationships with the agency, said the letter, calling the report's version "incorrect and misleading."   "In addition," the letter says, "the report contains an outrageous and dishonest suggestion that such removal might have been for 'not having adhered to an unstated IAEA policy barring IAEA officials from telling the whole truth about the Iranian nuclear program."'      Dated Aug. 12, the letter was addressed to Rep. Peter Hoekstra, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.   It was signed by Vilmos Cserveny, a senior director of the Vienna-based agency.      An IAEA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the letter, said it was written "to set the record straight."      The dispute was reminiscent of the
 clashes between the IAEA and Washington over whether Saddam Hussein was trying to make weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear arms.      American arguments that Hussein had such covert arms programs were given as the chief reason for invading Iraq and toppling Hussein.     ElBaradei's criticism of the U.S. standpoint on Iraq and subsequent perceptions that he was soft on Iran in his staff's investigation of suspicions that Tehran's nuclear activities may be a cover for a weapons program led to a failed attempt last year by Washington to prevent his re-election.





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