IAEA to report Iran has no nuclear weapons program

independent: The UN nuclear watchdog is preparing to publish evidence that Iran is not engaged in a nuclear weapons program, undermining a warning of possible military action from President George Bush.

The US President told Israeli television that "all options are on the table" if Iran fails to comply with international calls to halt its nuclear program. Both the US and Israel - the Middle East's only nuclear-armed power - were "united in our objective to make sure Iran does not have a weapon", he said.

.. Iran is about to receive a major boost from the results of a scientific analysis that will prove that the country's authorities were telling the truth when they said they were not developing a nuclear weapon

Hardliners on the board - including Britain, the United States and Canada - had hoped that Dr ElBaradei's next report would be sufficiently damning to increase the pressure on Iran.

However those hopes will be dashed by the revelation about the IAEA analysis of the particles from Pakistan, which will remove any chance of Iran being referred to the UN Security Council. Read more

db: Donald Rumsfeld will be relieved to hear the news from the IAEA - the last thing he wants, in common with the chief, is to send young people into another unnecessary war "OK guys, we were wrong. Pack up those drones. Pull out the special forces, and cancel all diarised, budgeted spontaneous uprisings. We're going to North Korea."