Israel Matzav: ElBaradei protects the 'Iranian brothers'

ElBaradei protects the 'Iranian brothers'

Last week, I reported that the IAEA was covering up information that indicated that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons capability. In Wednesday's New York Times, a similar story is presented in which outgoing IAEA director Mohammed ElBaradei is trying to protect the 'Iranian brothers' by resisting pressure from the United States and Europe for a public airing of the evidence against Iran.

The request has touched off an internal debate in the agency over how directly to confront Iran over its continued refusal, over several years, to answer questions about documents and computer files suggesting military-led efforts to design a nuclear weapon. Iran has charged that the documents, many of which came from American, Israeli and European intelligence services, are fabrications. The agency, according to current and former officials there, has studied them with care and determined that they are probably genuine.

“What we and all the allies are pressing for is for the full case to be laid out, in public,” one senior Obama administration official said last week, speaking anonymously because he was discussing intelligence data.

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Israel Matzav: ElBaradei protects the 'Iranian brothers'