Egyptian lawyer and diplomat who headed the UN nuclear agency, the IAEA, from 1997 to 2009 and shared the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize with it. In 2013 he was briefly Egypt's interim vice president.
ElBaradei won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting nuclear non-proliferation.
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Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq he told the UN Security Council that the documents said to show Iraq seeking uranium from Niger were not authentic; no revived nuclear program was found after the war. In 2011 he became a leading face of Egypt's uprising.