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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan, addresses the media during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 22, 2018.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan, addresses the media during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 22, 2018.
In a confidential quarterly report distributed to its member states and reviewed by The Associated Press, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran has been abiding with key limitations set in the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA.
The U.S. pulled out of the deal in May and been pressuring remaining signatories to abandon it as well.
Every IAEA quarterly report issued since Washington withdrew reported Iran remained in compliance.
Comment: Does the United States want Iran to begin developing nuclear weapons? That's what it looks like. And it dovetails nicely with Israeli paranoia, justifying the U.S.-Israeli alliance's belligerent fantasies about Iran. There are legitimate reasons to criticize Iran's government; but those don't matter to the neocons. As long as the government of Iran is strong and not in bed with Israel, the U.S. and the Jewish State will invent countless reasons to battle the Islamic Republic. "Maintaining Israeli hegemony in the Middle East" is bad PR, so they must create the image of the Persian bogeyman to justify Israel's stance. In reality, Iran has no interest in nukes (unlike Israel), and no interest in war (unlike Israel).