Time for Obama Administration to listen to voices outside of it’s own head

Moscow Slams IAEA New Report
10 Novemebr, 2011 – Local Editor – moqawama.org

Russia has strongly criticized the release of the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran, describing it as a “source of a new increase in tension over Tehran’s nuclear program.”

Considering that “it was so regrettable that the IAEA report turned into media ballyhoo before even being released,” the statement said that the “release of information from the IAEA report was driven by destructive logic aimed at the intentional demolition of the political-diplomatic process.”

“Russia is gravely disappointed and bewildered that the report is being turned into a source adding to the tensions over the problems connected to the Iranian nuclear program,” the statement stressed.

As Iran dismissed the report as “unbalanced, unprofessional and prepared with political motivation and under political pressure by mostly US,” Moscow expressed “serious doubts about the justification for steps to reveal contents of the report to a broad public, primarily because it is precisely now that certain chances for the renewal of dialogue between the sextet and Tehran have begun to appear.”

“The analysis must take place in a calm atmosphere, since it is important to determine whether some new, reliable evidence strengthening suspicions of a military element in Iran’s nuclear program has really appeared, or whether we are talking about an intentional and counterproductive whipping up of emotions,” the Russian ministry said. …source