UN General Assembly Reaffirms Support for IAEA's Work

Yesterday the United Nations General Assembly reaffirmed its "strong support for the indispensable role of the Agency in encouraging and assisting the development and practical application of atomic energy for peaceful uses, in technology transfer to developing countries and in nuclear safety, verification and security."

This is interesting because next week the IAEA is due to put out it's report which will implicate Iran in having capabilities to build an atom bomb or dimensions for military use.

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The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), due next week, has exposed divisions among world powers on how to best handle the long-running row over Iranian nuclear activities the West fears are aimed at developing atom bombs.

The IAEA document is expected to bare detailed intelligence pointing to military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme but stop short of saying explicitly that Tehran is trying to build such weapons.

UN General Assembly Reaffirms Support for IAEA's Work

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The United Nations General Assembly today reaffirmed its "strong support for the indispensable role of the Agency in encouraging and assisting the development and practical application of atomic energy for peaceful uses, in technology transfer to developing countries and in nuclear safety, verification and security."

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano at the United Nations
General Assembly, New York, USA, 1 November 2011.


Now if we take into all consideration the recent aggitation being committed in the effected areas and the news of a possible strike on Iran's nuclear sites by from what sources say will be a U.S. NATO led incursion.

When this happens IMO it will ramp up the efforts of coalition forces to take action against Iran.

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The sudden rush of military news Wednesday, Nov. 2, was part of an orchestrated Western performance to persuade Tehran that the US, Britain and Israel are on the verge of a military operation against its nuclear installations. The show, directed from Washington, was meant to warn Iran that military punishment was in store unless it gives up its drive for a nuclear weapon. If Tehran continues to hold out, President Barack Obama may decide to strike Revolutionary Guards Corps, the bulwark of the Islamic regime, as well as its strategic infrastructure, thereby removing key props holding up the regime of the ayatollahs.

If you read a little further down in the article sourced above,there is a part within the second paragraph which mentions a " stress test."

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IAEA Member States have recently endorsed a 12-point Action Plan on Nuclear Safety, including agreement for a "stress test" of nuclear power plants in all countries with active nuclear programmes, the strengthening of the IAEA peer review system on operational safety, and a review of relevant safety standards and conventions.

What are they planning to do during this " stress test "

Draft IAEA action plan on Nuclear safety

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Nice spread and I agree. Although, I'm not certain which military forces would form the coalition to prosecute military action against Iran, save America, Israel, & possibly the UK.

Another piece to that is the irony of very recent chatter in the media about Iran following Colonel Gaddafi's dismal fate and America's military withdrawal from Iraq. It could just be coincidence, but I don't to discount that design factors into the grand scheme of timing, either. But if nothing else I get the impression that a media blitzkrieg is being waged to establish new support for military action against Iran. Maybe it would be fitting to call that kinetic propaganda?

According to a new United Nations Resolution, a planned nuclear stress test of all of nuclear power plants in all countries with active nuclear programmes will go underway.

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The 12-point IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety, was endorsed in September by the 151 member states of the IAEA at the group's General Conference.

One part of the plan, said Amano, consists of an agreement that all countries with nuclear power capabilities will conduct so- called "stress tests" of their power plants.

" Despite the Fukushima crisis, the number of nuclear reactors in the world will steadily rise in the coming decades, with the most growth happening in countries like India and China who need to meet their growing energy demands, the international atomic watchdog estimates. "

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Mr. Amano stressed the need for countries to learn the “right lessons” from the Fukushima Daiichi accident, saying nations with nuclear power programmes need to promptly undertake “stress tests” of their plants as nuclear safety is their individual responsibility.

October 31-November 6

" This week in 1986 reports emerged that officials in the Reagan administration were involved in the covert shipping of arms to the Islamic Republic of Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini, a regime then embroiled in the seventh year of brutal war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. "


" The clandestine operation, a violation of an arms and trade embargo on Iran, was first exposed on November 3 by the Lebanese news magazine Ash Shiraa, which revealed that National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane had been in Teheran negotiating a deal to trade arms for the release of US hostages held by Iranian-backed Shiite militants in Lebanon. "

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On November 6, the New York Times reported that the National Security Council, operating out of the White House, was organizing the secret transfer of arms to Iran, that Israel was involved in the arms shipments, that the trade had been going on for one-and-a-half years, and that centrally involved was “Lt. Col. Oliver North, a specialist in counterinsurgency.”

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Russia urges IAEA to name ‘content provider’ for its report


Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in a press conference Monday, urged the IAEA to provide a list of contries which submitted information and was used to determine the eventual outcome of their report.

He noted that the IAEA claims the report was developed based on documents which were submitted by another country.

" We urge the IAEA to name 'another country' so that we could investigate the case," Lavrov said.

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Russia urges IAEA to list countries which provided documents for the report on Iran, which 'contains no new details', RIA Novosti quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying on Monday.

Russia urges IAEA to list countries which provided documents for the report on Iran, which 'contains no new details', RIA Novosti quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying on Monday.