Friday, 20th November 2009
Storm clouds in the East
Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Authority, has come under fierce attack from Scottish Tory Euro MP, Struan Stevenson, who has accused him of being an apologist for the Iranian regime.
Addressing the Model UN Society, an academic simulation of the UN, at Dundee University, Scots Tory MEP Struan Stevenson said:
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has continued the expansion of his nuclear project with over 3000 centrifuges now operating in cascade to enrich weapons-grade uranium. If this enrichment process is purely for peaceful purposes, for the generation of electricity as the regime claims, then where are the nuclear power stations?”
Struan’s comments follow the statement made earlier this week by Ivan Oelrich, acting President of the Federation of American Scientists, who said that Iran "won’t be able to produce a reactor's worth of fuel every 90 years, but it will be able to produce one bomb a year."
Mr Stevenson continued:
“Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Authority, has been exposed trying to stitch up a secret deal that would have allowed Iran to keep the bulk of its nuclear programme in return for the West lifting all sanctions! It is almost unbelievable that such craven appeasement could even be contemplated."
Concluding his lecture, entitled ‘Storm clouds in the East’, Mr Stevenson, President of the Delegation for Relations with Iraq in the European Parliament and chair of the Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup, called for an end to the West’s policy of appeasement, urging Europe to slap tough and effective sanctions on Iran.
