The Intriguer

Olli Heinonen, the Finnish nuclear engineer who resigned Thursday after five years as deputy director for safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was the driving force in turning that agency into a mechanism to support U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran. Heinonen was personally responsible in fabricating a collection of intelligence documents showing a purported Iranian nuclear weapons research program the central focus of the IAEA’s work on Iran. The result was to shift opinion among Western publics to the view that Iran had been pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program

But his persistence, faced resistance because other officials believed the documents were fraudulent. The Bush administration was pushing the IAEA to use the documents to accuse Iran of having had a covert nuclear weapons program The administration was determined to ensure that the IAEA Governing Board would support referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council for action on sanctions, as part of a larger strategy to force Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program. Olli Heinonen was Washington’s man in the IAEA and without any compunctions in the eyes of history for an eventual development that could lead to a massive war, he went ahead and kept fabricating and setting up a set of situations to create tensions and conflicts.

The tensions between Heinonen and the senior officials over the intelligence documents intensified in early 2008, when Iran provided detailed documentation to the agency disproving a key premise of the intelligence documents. However, at the end Heinonen, kept succeeding in twisting and turning the language of the IAEA reports… the report used language that was clearly intended to indicate that the agency had confidence in the intelligence documents:

"The documentation presented to Iran appears to have been derived from multiple sources over different periods of time, is detailed in content and appears to be generally consistent."

The conclusion is, the former head of IAEA, Elbaradai, at least tried to stop Heinonen but failed because he was not strong enough and now with the presence of a US special agent (kidding)“Yukio Amano” it is more than certain that Heinonen’s successor is better trained to lie and fabricate the same line on the Iran nuclear issue and intelligence documents as Heinonen’s.

We now have extra sanctions implemented by the West, but for the Iranians, the issue of Nuclear technology has nothing to do with wars and Bombs…when a country has achieved the technology to generate 50,000 Kilowatt hours of Electricity with just a little under 2 pounds of low enriched Uranium (a household consumes just over 3000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year) then it would be silly to give it up to safeguard the other party’s advantage. It is an Iranian issue and Iranians must endure the hardship if they want the fuel cycle, just like the nationalization of Iran's Oil in the fifties as Iran was put under same kind of sanctions because of fabricated documents like now, just because Iranians wanted a fairer share of their Oil. (With thanks to G.Porter)