FoxNews.com is reporting that Iran rebuffed the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday, failing to show up for a meeting to discuss Tehran's plans to move closer to uranium enrichment.
And this right after France asked so nicely on Tuesday for Iran to "adopt a constructive attitude and to make the necessary gestures to establish trust" and to "respond to the concerns of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."
This diplomacy stuff isn't working very well with Iran, is it?
More excerpts from Fox News:
"Iranian representatives already failed to meet El Baradei's request Wednesday for clarification of what they describe as plans to restart research on, and development of, uranium enrichment. But Iran promised to do so Thursday."
"European powers had hoped that a briefing by IAEA officials would help them determine whether to go ahead with planned talks with Iranian officials in Vienna on Jan. 18 or to cancel them and have Tehran referred to the Security Council."
"That path was cleared late last year, when the 35-nation board of the IAEA found Iran in noncompliance of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty for keeping its uranium enrichment program secret for decades and conducting other work that could be used for a nuclear weapons program."
"El Baradei has repeatedly said his agency's nearly three-year probe of Iran's nuclear activities has turned up no conclusive evidence of nuclear weapons activities."
"At the same time, he has been increasingly critical of delays and conflicting information provided to his inspectors — who in November reported finding drawings in paperwork provided by the Iranians of what appeared to be parts of nuclear warheads."
I'm sorry, did that say "drawings in paperwork provided by Iranians of what appeared to be nuclear warheads"?
Yup.
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