Has the above highlighted statement been checked for accuracy ...both in context and connotation?
This is why. Iran refuses to show the parts of their program that would let the inspectors determine whether they are or were trying to build a bomb or not? Why would they hide that you ask? Because they're probably trying to build a bomb.
UN watchdog accuses Iran of refusing to reveal nuclear aims
"Iran continues to withhold information needed to establish whether the country has attempted to build nuclear weapons, an allegation that remains a matter of "serious concern" the UN's nuclear watchdog reported last night.
In a sternly-phrased report, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that Iran had failed to provide the documentation and other evidence required to examine apparent anomalies in its nuclear activities that raise questions about a possible covert military programme.
The report also said that Iran had not complied with UN Security Council demands for it to suspend the enrichment of uranium, but had instead expanded its enrichment efforts adding an extra 500 centrifuge machines to the 3000 it has installed already and applying improved technology.
The tone of the report increases pressure on the Iranian government ahead of a scheduled visit to Tehran by the designated negotiator for the international community on Iran's nuclear programme, Javier Solana.
"I hope that I will be going to Tehran soon. I cannot give you the date, but I hope that it will be within the month," Solana told reporters after a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Solana, who is also the EU's foreign policy chief, is due to be accompanied by senior officials from Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, who will present a revised package of incentives intended to persuade Tehran to suspend enrichment.
Iran insists it has the right to conduct every component of its nuclear programme. Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA claimed yesterday that the report vindicated Tehran's position.
"Once more it has been explicitly underlined that there has been absolutely no evidence regarding the diversion of Iran's nuclear activities or materials toward military purposes."
The new report could lead to new discussions on sanctions in the Security Council, but there is resistance to further punitive measures from Russia and China, and scepticism over whether they are effective. It will also renew speculation on whether the Bush White House would consider taking military action aimed at slowing down Iran's nuclear programme, before George Bush's term expires next January.
The IAEA director general Mohamed ElBaradei agreed an action plan with the Iranian government last year, by which Iran would answer a string of questions the agency inspectors had failed to resolve. However, the new report makes clear many of those issues remain outstanding.
Those issues include a document found in Iran on how to manufacture uranium metal hemispheres of the kind used in nuclear warheads, as well as evidence that Iran may have looked into high explosives of the sort used in 'implosion'-type nuclear bombs, and explored modifications to missiles consistent with making them capable of delivering a nuclear weapon.
"The agency is of the view that Iran may have additional information, in particular on high explosives testing and missile-related activities, which could shed more light on the nature of these alleged studies and which Iran should share with the agency," the report said.
Iran's research into "high explosives testing and the missile re-entry vehicle project remained a matter of serious concern", the report said.
"Substantive explanations are required from Iran to support its statements on the alleged studies and on other information with a possible military dimension," it said.
The IAEA report said it asked for access to sites allegedly linked to the manufacture of uranium centrifuges, research and development of uranium enrichment, and uranium mining and milling.
"To date, Iran has not agreed to the agency's request," the report noted."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/27/iran.unitednationsYou should do a little reading before you try to act like you know what you're talking about.
