IAEA: No proof of Syrian Nuclear Activity

Source: Al-Manar TV, 18-06-2008

IAEA chief Mohamed El-Baradei says his agency has found no evidence to indicate that Syria has been running a nuclear facility. In an interview with the Dubai-based al-Arabiya television station on Tuesday, El-Baradei said there is no clear evidence Syria has the fuel or the human resources to operate a large-scale nuclear facility, DPA reported.

He added that the IAEA only had pictures of a site in Syria bombed by ‘Israel' last year that resembles a nuclear facility. In the interview, to be aired in full on Friday, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog called on Damascus to cooperate with IAEA inspectors to probe the nuclear claims.

At the beginning of this month, Syrian President Basshar al-Assad said in press remarks that his country would cooperate with UN inspectors due to visit this month. On September 6, 2007, ‘Israel' launched an air strike on a facility in Syria under the pretext that the facility was a nuclear site.