IAEA Chief: Bush Responsible for Nuclearization of Iran

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Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency took "ignorance and arrogance" of the Bush administration responsible for Iran's nuclearization.

In an interview with the New York Times, Mohamed ElBaradei said the previous US administration failed to seize countless diplomatic opportunities to engage Iran over its controversial nuclear program.

ElBaradei blamed the Bush administration for the fact that "Iran now has close to 5,500 centrifuges, and they have 1,000 kilos of low enriched uranium, and they have the know-how."

The IAEA chief criticized US policies of the Bush era for only consisting of two mantras - "Iran should not have the knowledge and should not spin one single centrifuge. They kept saying, wait, Iran is not North Korea, it will buckle. That was absolutely a mistake."

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