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Sur ce sujet un tres interessant article de Der Spiegel.
“SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH MOHAMED ELBARADEI”  05/18/2009
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,625600,00.html

A noter qu’ElBaradei dit trés clairement que l’Iran a fait 2 fois des propositions d’arrét à un niveau excluant la fabrication de bombes, et que les US les ont rejetées. L’objectif US n’a jamais été de trouver un accord. Rien de bien nouveau, mais jamais dit clairement dans un journal MSM.

Le journaliste de Der Spiegel essaye de faire dire à ElBaradei “ce qui va bien” pour Israel et autres Neo-cons, ElBaradei finit par s’énerver et on a droit à ceci:
(extraits partiels)

“ElBaradei: The world has ignored our warnings. Take the case of Iraq, for example. Even though we had no evidence of weapons of mass destruction, they were used as justification for the war—the most dangerous moment of my tenure.
And the dialogue with Tehran was tied to preconditions that were unacceptable to the Iranians.

SPIEGEL: It was because of assessments like these that you were accused of being naïve, especially by the administration of former US President George W. Bush.

ElBaradei: That’s unfair.  And we have consistently pressed the Iranians to respond to unanswered questions about their nuclear program. The world has the IAEA to thank for almost everything it knows about Iran’s nuclear progress.

SPIEGEL: Information coming from the exiled opposition led to the discovery of the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.

ElBaradei: Unlike some nations, we do not have our own satellites for aerial photographs. Sometime they give us something because it suits their geopolitical goals, and sometimes they withhold things.

SPIEGEL: The Bush administration was so suspicious of you that US intelligence agencies tapped your phones.

ElBaradei: That didn’t bother me so much because I never had anything to hide. On the contrary, it gave me a shot in the arm because I knew that I was doing the right thing.

SPIEGEL: Would you have thought the Bush administration was capable of that sort of a wiretapping campaign?

ElBaradei: It didn’t really surprise me.
What can you expect from an administration that—in a mixture of ignorance and arrogance—passed over countless diplomatic opportunities to conduct a dialogue with Tehran?
The entire Middle East was turned into a complete mess. “

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“ElBaradei: It is true that the Iranians have given us false information in the past and have not declared facilities and materials that they were required to declare. This led to a trust deficit. However, it was the Americans’ mistake to insist on the suspension of all forms of uranium enrichment as a precondition for talks. This should have come at the end of negotiations. As a result, Washington stayed away from the negotiating table…

SPIEGEL: …and the Iranians continued to develop their technology and played for time by conducting half-hearted nuclear talks with the Europeans.

ElBaradei: The Americans thought they could threaten Iran with a big stick and force it to back down. But the arrogance of treating a country like Iran like a donkey led to a hardening of positions. But there were two times when we were close to a solution, brokered by countries I cannot identify.

SPIEGEL: You are referring to the secret plans of the Russians and the Swiss…

ElBaradei: …I can’t comment on that.
Under one of these proposals, Iran would stop when it reached a scale of 31 uranium enrichment centrifuges. That’s enough for research purposes, but not nearly enough for bomb production. In any case, they already have the know-how. What worries me is when a country reaches an industrial capacity that could enable it to turn this knowledge into weapons production.
The United States immediately rejected the proposal because it believed that Iran should not have a single centrifuge.
Later, in 2005, when the Iranians were already much further along, there was a plan drawn up by a European country that called for limiting the number of centrifuges to 360.”

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“SPIEGEL: At what price do we have to negotiate?

ElBaradei: They want to be treated as equals, and they want security guarantees for their country. For them, complete control over nuclear technology is a means to achieve these goals. But I am not certain what that really says about their willingness to compromise.

SPIEGEL: The Israelis would not get involved with such vague hopes.”

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“ElBaradei: It would be completely insane to attack Iran. It would transform the region into one big fireball, and the Iranians would begin immediately with a project to build the bomb—and, in doing so, they could be sure to have the support of the entire Islamic world.”

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“US administration has referred to Israel as a nuclear power and is demanding that the Israelis declare their nuclear weapons. Is this the right approach?

ElBaradei: Yes. We have to stop applying different standards in the Middle East. It is this duplicity that is constantly criticized in the Arab world. The goal should be to turn the Middle East into a nuclear-weapons-free zone.

SPIEGEL: Do you seriously believe that Israel will give up its nuclear weapons?”

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“SPIEGEL: The Israelis accuse you of partisanship because you have sharply criticized the government in Jerusalem for the bombing attack on a Syrian military facility in September 2007.

ElBaradei: What the Israelis did was a violation of international law. If the Israelis and the Americans had information about an illegal nuclear facility, they should have notified us immediately. The fact is that I only learned about it long after the strike was completed. And when everything was over, we were supposed to head out and search for evidence in the rubble—a virtually impossible task.

SPIEGEL: But your inspectors did travel to Syria, and they did find suspicious evidence.

ElBaradei: Yes, traces of uranium. Where they came from is unclear. There are still questions. Syria is not giving us the transparency we require.”
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        NB: En clair, ElBaradei envisage que ces traces d’uranium ont été déposées par les avions israéliens…
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“ElBaradei: You cannot please anyone in this position, and perhaps one shouldn’t try in the first place. Many in the Arab world treated me as an agent of the West; and, in the West, I was considered overly sympathetic toward Muslims. But I have no reason to complain. This work is important, and I have actually achieved quite a bit.”