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world news Diaranson 20 october 2021

UN atomic agency head to visit Iran as nuke talks uncertain

(AP) — The head of the November. Some countries his comments came as world
U.N.’s atomic watchdog are pushing for the board to powers are stepping up pres-
plans to visit Iran before condemn Iran’s nuclear ac- sure on Iran to return to talks
the end of next month tivity, including violations of intended to bring both Iran
amid questions about the nuclear deal known as the and the United States back
whether Iran will return Joint Comprehensive Plan of into compliance with the
to negotiations aimed at Action or JCPOA. deal.
reviving the languishing
2015 nuclear deal. Grossi, who met on Monday Since former President Don-
with Secretary of State Anto- ald Trump withdrew the
International Atomic Energy ny Blinken, would not pre- U.S. from the nuclear deal
Agency chief Rafael Grossi dict whether the IAEA board and began a “maximum pres-
said Tuesday he intends to would take such action, say- sure” campaign on Iran by
visit Tehran “soon” to discuss ing it will likely depend on reimposing severe sanctions,
and hopefully resolve specific what Iran does in the mean- Tehran has been blowing
concerns about Iran’s nuclear time. through limits on uranium
program. Iran is in violation enrichment and the use of
of several aspects of the 2015 “I think it will all depend on advanced centrifuges. In ad- in question but the method Iran’s new hardline govern-
deal that the IAEA is charged what happens from now to dition, IAEA surveillance and timing of the move have ment led by President Ebra-
with monitoring and has sus- the third week of November. cameras at at least one sen- yet to be settled. At the time, him Raisi, which took power
pended some elements of So many things will happen,” sitive nuclear site have been Grossi called the agreement a in August, has hinted it will
other cooperation with the Grossi said, referring to his dismantled, destroyed or “stopgap” measure that must return to the nuclear talks in
watchdog. upcoming visit and the po- damaged. be enhanced. The IAEA has Vienna but has balked at set-
tential for a resumption in said its activities have been ting a date. In the meantime
On a visit to Washington, the nuclear talks, which have After Grossi’s last visit to “seriously undermined” it has called for an interim
Grossi told reporters that he been stalled since June. Tehran in September, Iran since February by Iran’s re- meeting with the European
expects to go to Iran before had agreed to allow IAEA fusal to let inspectors access Union and the other re-
the next meeting of the IAEA Grossi’s visit to Tehran has inspectors to install new their monitoring equipment. maining parties to the deal in
board of governors in late not yet been scheduled but memory cards in the cameras Brussels before it commits.

Jumping onto trucks to get to Britain: A migrant’s day

(AP) — Mohammad and Jaber of commercial trucks that pass each are discovered, they are forced out
spend every day looking for the week between France and Britain. Once aboard a rig, the jumpers pay of the vehicles by police. More than
right truck, and this afternoon it close attention to the truck’s route. 18,000 were discovered in trucks last
feels like it could happen. Many of the migrants in Calais want Only one sequence of left and right year, and 11,000 so far in 2021.
to reach the UK in search of econom- turns will lead them to the promised
This truck seems right. They scream ic opportunity or because of family land across the Channel. If the com- Refugee advocacy groups and human
to their friend to jump. He runs, and community ties. French authori- bination is the wrong one, they get rights observers report receiving calls
latches on to the moving rig between ties say another big draw is lax British off and start over again. for help from migrants in refrigerated
the cab and the cargo compartment, rules toward migrants without resi- trucks who say they are suffocating
and squeezes in. The truck doesn’t dency papers. Mohammad twice managed to get on or about to die from hypothermia.
stop, meaning the driver hasn’t no- a truck unnoticed but had to jump off Some say they have been roughed up
ticed. Only young and fit migrants unen- when he realized it was not going to by police when caught.
cumbered by other family members the UK.
The truck and its stowaway then dis- dare attempt the truck-jumping. It’s Some suffer broken bones or worse
appear down a French highway to- a team effort. Some ride in the space between the from trying to jump onto moving
ward the English Channel tunnel, the cab and the cargo. Some climb into trucks. In late September, 20-year-old
man’s friends hoping he makes it to On a cold autumn day in Calais last the cargo compartment if they can Yasser Abdallah was crushed to death
his destination: Britain. week, five young men crouched by a pry the doors open. by a truck.
roundabout at a muddy construction
Mohammad and Jaber are young Su- site, watching as trucks emerged from And even if the vehicle is going in the Abdallah, too, had fled Sudan. He
danese refugees who escaped war in a warehouse. A sixth young man hid right direction, more challenges and dreamed of being a taxi driver in
their country, endured kidnappings close to the road. danger await the stowaways. Police Britain. The Calais migrant commu-
or beatings in Libya, and crossed the use technology at the Channel tun- nity grieved for him, and a week later,
deadly Mediterranean to Italy. They When a promising-looking truck nel to scan trucks for body heat and more than 300 came out to march in
are now in the northern French town came out, the other men screamed at moving shadows. If the stowaways his memory.
of Calais, and like hundreds of other him to jump on.
people mostly from East Africa and
the Middle East, they are trying to get There’s a code to tell jumpers which
to Britain by hiding in trucks in what one of the exiting trucks they should
has proved to be a dangerous and po- grab onto.
tentially lethal method.
“We tell them number one, no, num-
Politicians on both sides of the Eng- ber two, no, number three, yes!” Mo-
lish Channel are arguing about how hammad explained, giving only his
to make them stop, after thousands of first name for fear of arrest or expul-
people crossed into Britain by various sion for trying to cross borders ille-
means in recent months in a flow that gally.
has been met with heightened anti-
immigrant rhetoric. The truck drivers check to see that
no one enters their rigs, or stop to tell
While those with some money can would-be stowaways they they’re not
pay to go to Britain on flimsy, over- going to Britain and that there’s no
crowded boats in often dangerous point in climbing aboard. Police in
waters, the ones who can’t have to patrol cars come by often, too, their
jump on one of the tens of thousands sirens blaring, to deter the men.