Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei was supposed to officially retire as the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the end of last month; however, the month ended on Monday, which was a holiday in Vienna, and hence, Dr. ElBaradei effectively left his office last Friday, or the 27th of November, 2009, after serving three terms full of critical and interesting cases which captured the attention of the whole world. But how do we judge the agency and its director general for their performance in the past 12 years? I personally give Dr. ElBaradei the highest score possible for his performance; however, I am on the same side of the fence that he is on. Israel, meanwhile – and I quote an op-ed published in the Jerusalem Post – believes that ElBaradei's tenure was controversial, and that he succeeded in politicizing his post more than any of his predecessors, since the IAEA is assigned under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to verify that the Non-Nuclear Weapons States are not engaged in the illicit development of nuclear weapons; always according to the Jerusalem Post, ElBaradei failed in particular in what regards Iran and Syria. I want to say here that if this was a failure on the part of Dr. ElBaradei, then I hope he has really failed. I also hope that Iran, Syria and all other countries in the region are developing nuclear weapons, and I hope that they will succeed in acquiring these weapons to confront Israel, the biblical myth state that should have never been established in the first place, and which continues to occupy Palestine and the remainder of the Palestinian territories by force of arms, killing and destroying every day, all while Israel sits on top of a proven nuclear arsenal. If the occupation should continue, then we will definitely get to the day when terrorists acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and then we will all pay the price in the Middle East for Israel's terrorism, the original terrorism which spawned all other terror. In any case, this is another topic, and I want to adhere today to the issue of the IAEA and Dr. ElBaradei. There is a lot of arrogance in the Israeli stance that only these neo-Nazis or fascists in and around the government of Israel are capable of. The talk about Iran and its impending nuclear bomb is pure lies, since what Iran possesses today is uranium that has been enriched to 5 percent only (I read somewhere that the figure stands at 3.5 percent only). In fact, the Geneva and Vienna agreements, upon which Iran rescinded its approval, stipulate that Iran send 75 percent of its uranium to Russia, then France, before being returned to Iran as uranium enriched at 19.75 percent, or in other words, enriched enough to operate a civilian reactor such as the one located near Tehran, and which is designed to conduct medical research. Since a nuclear bomb requires uranium enriched above 90 percent, which is a level that is impossible for Iran to attain today, or tomorrow...this only means that there will be no Iranian nuclear bomb. The above is the truth and anything else is a lie. What Israel is alleging is hence a concoction that was swallowed by some Arabs; between this and that I call on the Arab countries in the Gulf in particular, and Egypt and elsewhere to develop nuclear weapons in order to confront Israel, and not Iran. The Obama administration has inherited the present situation, and as such, I do not hold it responsible. However, during the days of the Bush administration, its imperial dreams – or delusions – and the rule of the advocates of Israeli hegemony, Iran was punished on inexistent future motives, and it three times suffered sanctions imposed by the Security Council, while fascistic Israel and its nuclear arsenal were left without ever being held accountable. At any rate, I thus congratulated Dr. ElBaradei on safely retiring from the IAEA; we had a long conversation regarding his future plans, and what was and what will be, and then I asked him about the biggest failure at the agency, and the biggest achievement during his tenure as its director. He said that the biggest failure was that the agency could not prevent the Iraq war, although all the information in its possession proved that Iraq had decommissioned its chemical weapons stockpiles, and that Iraq did not resume its military nuclear program; yet, the Bush administration went to war – albeit on premises that are different from the declared ones. I have twice before mentioned Lord Chilcott's inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war, and which proved in its first week that Tony Blair and George W. Bush had agreed in mid-2002 to go to war, and that all subsequent information had no effect in shaping this decision. Dr. ElBaradei also pointed out to the forgery made in fabricating letters about Iraq's attempt to purchase uranium from Niger; these letters alone are sufficient evidence to send Bush and the senior members of his administration to the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, and to convict them on war crimes. What happened in fact is that the Bush administration, which ran 16 different intelligent apparatuses, had accepted these letters to be correct, while the IAEA ruled them to be forgeries overnight. I want to say here that it is impossible for the IAEA to know something that the Bush administration is unaware of, but then, it was a predetermined plan to occupy Iraq to serve Israeli interests, and which led to the death of one million Iraqis. Moreover, I want to add here that I know which neo-conservatives forged those letters in Rome, and If I had enough money, I would have tasked some private investigators to follow up this case and unveil the extent of their involvement; however, those who became in power in Iraq with the help of the Americans, and at the expense of their countrymen's lives, are too preoccupied with power, and seeking justice for the victims is the last of their worries. Meanwhile, Dr. ELBaradei said that the best achievement of the IAEA was to prevent the war on Iran by proving that it does not have the ability to procure a nuclear weapon, but that it was instead seeking to acquire the knowledge necessary to build such a weapon. The IAEA also proved that Iraq was free of WMDs without being able to prevent the invasion of Iraq; as such, its accurate reports about Iran would not have been able to prevent the war against Iran either, had the Bush administration been capable of waging such a war. My personal opinion thus is that the criminal terrorism and the legitimate resistance that ensued in Iraq have both defeated the American invasion, which, as a result, could not carry on its “regime changing” policies which would have otherwise have targeted Iran and Syria after Iraq. I expect that Dr. ElBaradei will one day publish his memoirs, and I expect them to be nothing short of an indictment against those war criminals, even if this will not be his intention. [email protected]
