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November 15, 2007 (LPAC)--The IAEA report on Iran's nuclear program issued today said that Iran has been cooperating and truthful about its nuclear program, and this has Vice President Cheney and his war party faction frantic to accelerate a propaganda drive for war, based only on the fact that Iran has not stopped its nuclear enrichment program--as the hoked-up UN Security Council resolutions of 2006/2007 demanded.

The Nov. 15, 2007 IAEA report (GOV 2007/58), which EIR has reviewed, found that there is no evidence whatsoever that any of Iran's nuclear facilities that the IAEA inspectors reviewed, are connected to weapons development, nor is there any evidence that any nuclear materials have been diverted. However, the summary of the report has IAEA Director General Mohammed El Baradei reiterating his previous request that Iran return to the "Additional Protocol" that it had voluntarily accepted from 2004 to 2006 which allows the IAEA greater access to inspections.

Predictibly, the report's conclusions were not welcomed by the Bush/Cheney White House. CNN immediately interviewed the Iranian ambassador to Vienna Ashgar Soltanieh, trying to bait him, by saying that after all, Iran was still refusing to ratify the additional protocol, etc. Soltanieh pointed out that over 100 countries have refused to sign such a protocol. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad, meanwhile, was shown calling on China to join in pushing for stronger sanctions against Iran.

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said that the report sadly makes clear that Iran seems uninterested in working with the rest of the world and that the U.S. will "work with our partners [sic] on the UN Security Council and Germany as we move towards a third set of Security Council sanctions."