British Activist Says US Has Infiltrated IAEA

London, Nov 23, IRNA - UK peace activist William J Spring says the IAEA resolution regarding the organisation's suspicions of a possible military dimension to the Iranian nuclear program, indicates US infiltration of the IAEA. Spring, who is the executive director of an independent ecumenical foreign policy monitoring unit CANAUK (established 1999 as 'Christians Against NATO Aggression'), added: 'This is regrettable.' 'International bodies like the IAEA should be transparent, above reproach, untainted by corruption, working without hidden agendas and concerned only with empirical facts,' he added. Talking to IRNA in London, Spring said that the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is intellectually disreputable, a rearranged concoction of old news, and mixed in with calumnies. 'My suspicions of the IAEA are well founded, while the IAEA's suspicions of Iran have no solid basis.' A secret State Department cable publicized by Wikileaks and referred to by Mehdi Hassan in the November 14th 2011 issue of the New Statesman says that Yukiya Amano now the IAEA's Director General told the US administration in 2009 that he was solidly in the US Court on every key strategic decision, from high level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. One can understand the Israelis feeling upset on their nuclear monopoly in the Middle East being even implicitly threatened, he noted. The UK activist further said he was 'very impressed that Iran's Supreme Leader explicitly ruled out nuclear weapons and after numerous inspections there is no indication from the IAEA of any on going weapons program.' However, he regretted the double standard treatment of nuclear issues in the world. “Israel which never signed the NPT is allowed to continue building its already overwhelming nuclear arsenal, while Iran, which does things by the book and is seeking purely a peaceful use, is threatened both by Israel and the USA and the UK.” Spring also warned the world that “war propaganda against Iran in the West and from the UK Government and the official media, the BBC/Sky conglomerate, has reached new and alarming levels.”/end