Nuclear Agency Head Pushes for Iran Honesty

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned Monday that he cannot determine whether Iran is hiding some nuclear activities, comments that appeared to reflect a high level of frustration with stonewalling of his investigators.

IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei said Iran's stonewalling of his agency is a "serious concern."

"Iran needs to give the agency substantive information" to clear up suspicions, he said at the start of a 35-nation board IAEA meeting, in comments made available to reporters.

Diplomats at the gathering described ElBaradei's comments as unusually blunt.

['unusually blunt' - now wonder Prez. I'manidiot just laughs at these folks. How about this one: "prove you're clean, or we'll assume you're dirty and act accordingly." Now that would be 'blunt' {and at least stand some chance of averting the coming violence}]

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