The US sway over the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has increased during the tenure of incumbent Director General Yukiya Amano, a political analyst tells Press TV.
“Unfortunately, the IAEA has become heavily politicized, largely under pressure from the United States. It was much more neutral under [former IAEA chief] Mohamed ElBaradei.” said William Beeman in a Saturday interview.
“Under the current administration, it has become very heavily politicized and they are being called upon to do things with regard to the control of and inspection of nuclear technology that falls well outside of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),” he added.
The analysts pointed to IAEA’s numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear energy facilities, noting, “The IAEA has in its reports continually referred to technology that ‘might possibly’ be used for a nuclear weapon or might ‘lead to’ a nuclear weapon - this is completely outside of their purview. And so the actual functioning of the IAEA is really called into question.”

On Wednesday, the IAEA wrapped up its Vienna meeting on Iran's nuclear energy program with the Agency failing to provide any evidence on a potential diversion in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities.

During the meeting, however, the IAEA accused Tehran of building a reactor in the central city of Arak with a design not previously approved by the Agency.

The IAEA expressed dissatisfaction with the negotiations that have been going on for over a year to find a solution to the outstanding issues, saying the talks “are going around in circles.”

The United States, Israel, and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program and have used the unfounded accusation as a pretext to impose illegal sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

Iran rejects the allegation, arguing that as a committed signatory to the NPT and a member of the IAEA, it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

In addition, the IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Iran’s civilian nuclear program has been diverted to non-civilian purposes.

By Press TV

 

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