There is no way the I.A.E.A. can verify these claims unless Iran accepts inspection arrangements it has long resisted.
He demanded that North Korea accept inspections.
To this end, Washington must work with Security Council members to maintain and if necessary tighten sanctions so long as Baghdad refuses to accept inspections.
In the near term, the priority should be to require signatories to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, like Iran, to accept inspections of suspected but undeclared nuclear facilities.
"There is a readiness to accept inspections that did not exist before," Hans Blix, chief of the United Nations inspection commission, said at a news conference with his Iraqi counterpart after the talks adjourned.
After two days of meetings with an Iraqi delegation in Vienna, Hans Blix, the leader of the United Nations weapons inspection team, said, "There is a willingness to accept inspections that has not existed before".
It was only after appeals by the secretary general and Arab states and pressure by the United States and other member states that Iraq declared on Sept. 16 last year that it would again accept inspections without conditions.
For Iraq, by contrast, the administration was continuing to threaten to use force as a way of bludgeoning President Hussein to accept inspections of its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs, followed by disarmament.
The United Nations' new chief arms inspector for Iraq today left the government of Saddam Hussein no hope of getting a better deal on the monitoring of its weapons programs, and said it would have to accept inspections.
Iran's promise to suspend its uranium enrichment program is no guarantee against future resumption at its known facilities -- and surely fails to protect against its proclivity to build clandestine plants and accept inspections only after being found out.
