El Baradei Won’t Seek Fourth Term As UN Nuclear Watchdog Head – I Guess Iran’s Nuke’s Complete
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His work is done….
Iran has their nukes now…..I bet they paid you handsomely huh, El Baradei?
Damn slick of you acting as a “Watchdog Head” on Nukes between North Korea & Iran…
I guess all the information Iran needed from NK is complete..
Way Back Machine: From Iran Daily
December 6, 2005
Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the international community was losing patience, and transparency and cooperation were needed from Iran in the coming year, Reuters reported. “There are still very important remaining pieces of the puzzle that we haven’t yet seen,“ ElBaradei told Reuters in an interview in Oslo where he and the IAEA will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday.
“And we need to provide the assurance to the international community that that program is for peaceful purposes,“ he said.
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Me: Well, at least you acheived that for a little while El Baradei. Bought you time….
September 10, 2008
By Reuters
International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mohamed El Baradei plans to leave office after his third term expires in November 2009, according to an IAEA memo released on Wednesday.
El Baradei who has presided over politically volatile IAEA investigations into nuclear activities of North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria since becoming director in 1997, “is not available for a further term in office”, the memo said.
The 66-year-old Egyptian and the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 just months after the United States tried in vain to foil his election to a third term by the IAEA’s 35-nation board of directors.
El Baradei, who has clashed with the United States and allies over alleged soft treatment of Iran, accusations he rejected, had been expected to leave at the end of his current mandate, diplomats accredited to the IAEA said.
The IAEA memo, sent to IAEA board members on Friday, said the deadline for nominations of candidates to succeed El Baradei was Dec. 31, and informal consultations would ensue in search of board agreement on the next agency director.


