Iran Nuclear 'Threat' Hyped: IAEA's ElBaradei

It will be curious to see how much attention ElBaradei gets in the U.S. mainstream media. Peacenik recalls he didn't get much attention in the runup to the Iraq war. That was when Bush et.al. were warning about mushroom clouds at a time when the Iraqi weapons programs were defunct. Any attention he does get will be derisive.

And of course Obama and his neocon buddies are threatening to play hardball (gasoline sanctions) if Iran doesn't stop their non-existent nuclear program. These guys are going to talk themselves into another war if they don't stop with all the posturing. The way things are going they may as well bring Cheney back into the administration ferchrissakes.

In an interview published on Tuesday, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, pictured here in 2008, called the threat from Iran "hyped" and that there was no evidence that Tehran will soon have nuclear weapons. (AFP/File/Samuel Kubani)

VIENNA - Iran is not going to produce a nuclear weapon any time soon and the threat posed by its atomic program has been exaggerated, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in a published interview.

The West suspects Iran wants to develop a nuclear weapons capability under the guise of a declared civilian atomic energy program. Tehran rejects the charge, saying its uranium enrichment program is a peaceful way to generate electricity.

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