IAEA a tool subservient to US policy, says Pakistani journalist http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30430261

Pakistani senior journalist on Monday agreed with the statement of Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency that the US is trying to deprive the UN watchdog of its independence. “The US government is trying to take the independence of the IAEA away from it, and control this international organization from New York,” Ali Asghar Soltanieh has said on the sideline of the second International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation in Tehran. 

Speaking to IRNA Ansar Abbasi said that the UN is a puppet of Washington thus the IAEA has become an instrument for political exploitation by the United States. “IAEA has never been an independent organization,” he added.“If you see closely you will find that the IAEA is only focusing nuclear programs of the Muslim countries,” he said.

“They have no reservations over the nuclear programs of non-Muslim countries except North Korea.” He said that the western governments are opposing nuclear program of North Korea because the country is not following the US lead. “They are targeting the nuclear programs of Iran and Pakistan. UN is just a puppet of Washington.” He regretted that majority of Muslim countries have failed to defend their rights.