He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

matter of weeks and no longer.

It was very clear from our analysis that they were forgeries. We found 20 to 30 anomalies within a day.

in the coming days.

a number of questions, a number of outstanding issues on very specific technical matters — but significant ones — that need to be cleared up.

This is a real massive quantity of explosives that could have reached the hands of insurgents and could be used with deadly force and consequences against people in Iraq,

We decided to focus on countries that have a big nuclear program.

The agency calls on Iran again not to start any activities in Isfahan before the IAEA inspection system is in place.

One would have to assume it’s been stolen by someone who has some sort of nefarious purpose for it.

To put inspectors in place they have to know where they will be and what they will be observing.

There was no explanation. We’re still seeking clarification.

We have expressed clearly to the North Koreans that we expect there will be monitoring of their nuclear activities, and we hope that they will reconsider.

We continue to seek clarifications. This could take a few days.

This will certainly give him more leverage and credibility. It will be much harder to refuse to listen.

We regret that they left. But we’ve kept an open office. We’re storing our equipment there, leaving open the eventual possibility that our inspectors could return.

We’re going to scour through this document word for word, and we’re going to check it against declarations we’ve received in the past,

We have accepted this invitation to go to Baghdad with the clear expectation of action that needs to be taken by Iraq prior to the visit.

Without conditions is a key phrase that we’ve been looking for,

This should (in) no way be seen as an endorsement.

Our immediate concern is that if the explosives did fall into the wrong hands they could be used to commit terrorist acts and some of the bombings that we’ve seen.

He intends to direct it to charity and other good causes. He will not keep it for himself.

We’ve answered that request by saying it would take us more than a week to put our surveillance equipment in place, asked them to refrain from removing any of the seals that would enable us...

We are awaiting the green light from the U.N. Security Council to tell us what are the next steps,

The meeting today was supposed to be about the clarification of Iran’s ‘R&D’ (research and development) intentions in restarting their nuclear program.

It’s obviously a unilateral decision on Iran’s part, taken despite repeated requests from the board of governors to maintain a full suspension.

We are ready to go back immediately. We have been ready for the past four years. We are looking for co-operation in all respects — unconditional and unrestricted — for our inspectors.

We’ll request immediate clarification. We have an emergency system in place if something happened.

The resolution on Iran was just adopted without a vote by consensus, full consensus. All 35 members of the board agreed the language of the resolution text.

We’re not in the position at all to make any kinds of judgment on this document — truth or no truth. We’re in a good position to be able to assess the document in due...

at the highest level. But this is not a condition.

Once this resolution is passed, a tougher stage will begin and we will see what effect the board of governors’ calls on Iran will have.