The United States has given up on trying to deny him a third four-year term as it has no backing for this from its fellow members on the agency's 35-nation board, diplomats said.
Diplomats had wondered, however, what conditions the United States might put on his getting a third term.
"None at all," his spokeswoman, Melissa Fleming, said when the question was put to her.
No conditions? So, after viewing El Baradei as ineffective, are we giving up on putting an effective leader into the IAEA because we have decided to go along with the Europeans and just accept a nuclear Iran?
Or because we are going to take the mullahs down and the IAEA will soon be irrelevant to the Iran question?
