Iran #39;s Supreme Leader undergoes successful prostate surgery
Iran #39;s top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has successfully undergone prostate surgery, according to Iranian state media. Mana Rabiee reports. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reute...
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Investigators probing Iran will let national officials from places including the U.S., China and Russia decide if the Persian Gulf country hid a nuclear weapons program, according to two officials familiar with their work.
The International Atomic Energy Agencys inspection team will likely have to make an assessment based on incomplete information and let its board of nationally-appointed governors draw definitive conclusion about the countrys past nuclear work, said the two senior international officials, who asked not to be named because the information isnt public.
Eleven years into the United Nations investigation and two decades after the U.S. warned Iran may make weapons, diplomats are closer than ever to reaching a permanent agreement to limit the countrys nuclear capacity in exchange for sanctions relief. The IAEAs inability to provide a conclusive assessment means the final decision on whether to close the file on Iran will be taken by political appointees rather than scientists.
Under the interim deal running to Nov. 24, the IAEA was put in charge of wider monitoring of Irans nuclear work and continuing to investigate its past activities. The interim nuclear agreement also envisioned a joint commission that would work with the IAEA to facilitate resolution of past and present issues of concern.
It isnt realistic to expect the IAEA to provide a black-and-white assessment showing that Iran either did or did not have a nuclear-weapons program, the officials said. The IAEA will set a time to end the investigation and submit its findings to the 35-member board of governors to make a ruling, they said. The board also includes representatives of France and Germany as well as India, Pakistan and Venezuela.
Whether the directors give inspectors another one, five or seven years to investigate wont help them reach a firmer decision, they added. The officials didnt say when inspectors will deliver their assessment to the board.
Irans engagement with the agency, including the provision of information, and the agencys ongoing analysis are building a better understanding of Irans nuclear program, inspectors said last week in a 19-page report. The IAEA isnt though in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities.
While monitors have verified Iran is living up to its interim agreement with six world powers, the country hasnt given them access to people and places that may have been connected with past nuclear work. Iran denies ever having a nuclear-weapons program and says the IAEA is being led by forged intelligence.
The investigation has been bogged down by Irans development of dual-use technologies that can be used in commercial and conventional military purposes, or for developing nuclear devices. IAEA monitors will again meet with their Iranian counterparts at the end of this month, according to the officials.
The IAEAs board of governors convenes Sept. 15 in Vienna. Their encounter will overlap with the next meeting between Iran and the P5+1 -- China, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K. and U.S. -- scheduled to begin Sept. 18 in New York.
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Published September 08, 2014
August 13, 2014: In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with Iranian ambassadors in Tehran. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's supreme leader underwent prostate surgery on Monday at a government hospital in Tehran, state media said in a rare report on the state of health of the country's top cleric.
The 75-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters in Iran and has been the country's top leader since 1989, was reported to be recovering.
The official IRNA news agency said the operation, which was described as "routine," was successful. There were no immediate details on what had prompted the surgery or the underlying medical condition.
Iranian state TV said that Khamenei told the station just ahead of the surgery that there was "no room for concern" and that it was a routine operation. The TV aired a brief footage of Khamenei just ahead of the surgery in which he asked people to pray for him.
"There is no room for concern, but this does not mean that they -- the people -- do not need to pray," Khamenei said.
Khamenei was a close ally of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei who led the 1979 Islamic Revolution and was later Iran's supreme leader until his death in 1989.
Khamenei served as Iran's president for eight years before becoming the supreme leader in 1989. He has proved a powerful defender of the rule by clerics created by his predecessor.
He thwarted the movement in support of a reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, in 2009, and when hundreds of thousands of Iranians rose up around the country marching in the streets, some overtly denouncing him, he stepped forward to crush the protests.
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