VIENNA (Reuters) - Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog would like to visit a secret military site in Iran that an exile group said was a nuclear weapons site, but they lack the legal authority to go there, U.N. diplomats told Reuters.
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"The IAEA simply has no authority to go to sites that are not declared nuclear sites," a diplomat close to the IAEA inspection process told Reuters. He said that the IAEA had not asked to inspect Lavizan II, although they would like to.
So the much vaunted UN nuclear watchdogs are only allowed to go to those sites that Iran says they can visit?
Lol.. I suppose this would be rather funny if it were not so pathetic. Supposedly the purpose of the UN, at least according to their own charter, is to prevent future holocausts like the one that took place in Nazi Germany in the late 30's and early 40's. That was their original purpose, at any rate.
But it seems they have become completely useless for this particular mission, they can't even agree that what is happening in Somalia is a holocaust, much less do anything to stop it. Strike 1.
They couldn't do anything about the massive human rights violations in Iraq either while Sadaam was in power. Of course I suppose the billons of dollars Sadaam paid them in bribes via the Oil for Food scam might have had some influence there. Strike 2.
So what else does the UN do? Well, supposedly they are also tasked with monitoring nuclear weapons development and putting a stop to nations, particularly unstable nations, that wish to gain this technology.
Whoops, strike 3, you are outta here. Can anyone give me a single good reason why we are paying huge amounts of our taxpayer dollars to this bumbling, inept and corrupt organization that accomplishes nothing?
