IAEA chooses Japanese as new head

Friday 03rd July, 03:12 PM JST

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LIBERTAS at 08:14 PM JST - 3rd July

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under the previous administration, hailed Amano’s victory in comments indirectly critical of Elbaradei.

Dear God in heaven! A N Y T H I N G that John Bolton supports must be bad for the rest of the world. This is not a good-news appointment. This means that the IAEA is clearly in Washington DC's clutches. Next thing you'll have Yellowcake documents coming from Tehran! I smell a war people!
wanderlust at 08:28 PM JST - 3rd July

IAEA hopefully will not be wanting Japan's advice on nuclear safety. As the only country to have achieved a fission reaction in a metal bucket, endangering the whole of a nearby village and killing off their own workers, their advice should be filed in an appropriate place, away from lethal doses of gamma radiation.
some14some at 11:04 PM JST - 3rd July

bought or won through free and fair election?
NeoJamal at 12:09 AM JST - 4th July

It takes the appointment of a Japanese person as the Head of the IAEA to sound the hollow ring to the purpose of the organisation itself. "Prevention of the spread of nuclear arms" may at first appear to be a noble task, but it fact is no more than a shameless enforcement of the status quo of the oligopoly of the 5 nations that can 'legally' possess it under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Just what nation might be one of these 5? THE UNITED STATES that actually used it against civilians of Amano's country that did not possess nuclear weapons.

Hence, let us drink to the enforcement of nuclear blackmail. As for myself, being a citizen of one of those 5 nuclear states, I will drink to delude myself that the concept of the 'nuclear umbrella' is reliable and sound.
OssanAmerica at 12:58 AM JST - 4th July

What a crappy job. Nobody listens to the IAEA anyway.