CAMPUS PROTESTS ACROSS IRAN
"Campuses across Iran erupted in protests Monday as defiant college students chanting anti-government slogans clashed with security forces armed with clubs in a forceful new round of confrontations over the nation's disputed June presidential election... amateur videotape posted on the Internet showed thousands of anti-government students chanting slogans and gathering on various campuses around the country... in the central Iranian cities of Esfahan, Shiraz and Kerman, in the eastern city of Mashhad and in the western cities of Tabriz, Kermanshah, Hamedan and Ilam as well as in Rasht on the Caspian Sea... Fewer of the slogans were aimed at Ahmadinejad and more at Iran's theocracy-based political system, a shift that could... destabilize the Islamic Republic..."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-iran-protests8-2009dec08,0,7136715.story
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
IRAN DEBATES LEAVING NUCLEAR TREATY
"... Parliament speaker Ali Larijani said there was little point in Iran staying in the treaty if it was liable to be reprimanded by the International Atomic Energy Agency for exercising its right to develop peaceful nuclear energy... However, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's atomic energy agency... (said) Tehran had no wish to leave the NPT... (saying) "Our spiritual leader says that to obtain nuclear weapons is a sin -- if we wanted to obtain nuclear weapons we would leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty. We are naturally enduring a lot of pressure but we will remain in the treaty..."
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSHAF93199320091130
"... Parliament speaker Ali Larijani said there was little point in Iran staying in the treaty if it was liable to be reprimanded by the International Atomic Energy Agency for exercising its right to develop peaceful nuclear energy... However, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's atomic energy agency... (said) Tehran had no wish to leave the NPT... (saying) "Our spiritual leader says that to obtain nuclear weapons is a sin -- if we wanted to obtain nuclear weapons we would leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty. We are naturally enduring a lot of pressure but we will remain in the treaty..."
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSHAF93199320091130
Sunday, November 29, 2009
IRAN TO BUILD 10 MORE ENRICHMENT PLANTS
"The Iranian government approved a plan... to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities... just two days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency censured Iran, demanding it immediately stop building a newly revealed enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom and freeze all uranium enrichment activities...
"... the new sites (will) be on the same scale as Iran's only other industrial-scale enrichment plant currently in operation, near the town of Natanz in central Iran. About 8,600 centrifuges have been set up in Natanz, but only about 4,000 are actively enriching uranium... The facility will eventually house 54,000 centrifuges...
"Iran,... says it seeks only to generate electricity... (and) aims to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power plants in the next 20 years... the new plants are needed to produce enough fuel for its future reactors... Iran will need to install 500,000 centrifuges throughout the planned enrichment facilities to produce between 250 to 300 tons of fuel annually..."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_nuclear
"The Iranian government approved a plan... to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities... just two days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency censured Iran, demanding it immediately stop building a newly revealed enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom and freeze all uranium enrichment activities...
"... the new sites (will) be on the same scale as Iran's only other industrial-scale enrichment plant currently in operation, near the town of Natanz in central Iran. About 8,600 centrifuges have been set up in Natanz, but only about 4,000 are actively enriching uranium... The facility will eventually house 54,000 centrifuges...
"Iran,... says it seeks only to generate electricity... (and) aims to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power plants in the next 20 years... the new plants are needed to produce enough fuel for its future reactors... Iran will need to install 500,000 centrifuges throughout the planned enrichment facilities to produce between 250 to 300 tons of fuel annually..."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_nuclear
Saturday, November 28, 2009
IRAN'S TRUE NUCLEAR AMBITION: BREAKOUT CAPABILITY
"... Iranian leaders say that nuclear weapons are contrary to the Islamic law of war, that they do not want them and could not legally deploy them. They hold that the enrichment facilities are intended to produce fuel for a string of nuclear reactors that will keep Iran from having to use its precious petroleum, a key earner of foreign exchange and guarantor of national independence, for domestic power generation...
"Iran's leadership is seeking what is sometimes called the "Japan option" or a "rapid breakout capability." Unlike North Korea, India and Pakistan... Tehran genuinely does not want to actually construct and detonate a nuclear device. India and Pakistan are such large and important countries that they defied the First World nuclear club successfully and so joined it. North Korea, much smaller, weaker and poorer, has made itself an international pariah in this way, and is suffering more and more severe UN sanctions... most senior Iranian leaders wish to avoid those heavy sanctions, having seen what they did to Iraq...
"But having a rapid breakout capability-- being able to make a bomb in short order if it is felt absolutely necessary to forestall a foreign attack-- has a deterrent effect. So Iran would have the advantages of deterrence without the disadvantages of a bomb if it could get to the rapid breakout stage.."
http://www.juancole.com/2009/11/iaea-condemnation-of-iran-omen-of-new.html
"... Iranian leaders say that nuclear weapons are contrary to the Islamic law of war, that they do not want them and could not legally deploy them. They hold that the enrichment facilities are intended to produce fuel for a string of nuclear reactors that will keep Iran from having to use its precious petroleum, a key earner of foreign exchange and guarantor of national independence, for domestic power generation...
"Iran's leadership is seeking what is sometimes called the "Japan option" or a "rapid breakout capability." Unlike North Korea, India and Pakistan... Tehran genuinely does not want to actually construct and detonate a nuclear device. India and Pakistan are such large and important countries that they defied the First World nuclear club successfully and so joined it. North Korea, much smaller, weaker and poorer, has made itself an international pariah in this way, and is suffering more and more severe UN sanctions... most senior Iranian leaders wish to avoid those heavy sanctions, having seen what they did to Iraq...
"But having a rapid breakout capability-- being able to make a bomb in short order if it is felt absolutely necessary to forestall a foreign attack-- has a deterrent effect. So Iran would have the advantages of deterrence without the disadvantages of a bomb if it could get to the rapid breakout stage.."
http://www.juancole.com/2009/11/iaea-condemnation-of-iran-omen-of-new.html
Thursday, November 26, 2009
IRAN CONFISCATES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE MEDAL
"Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal... from a safe-deposit box in Iran... They also seized her Legion of Honor and a ring awarded to her by a German association of journalists... Authorities froze the bank accounts of her and her husband and demanded $410,000 in taxes that they claimed were owed on the $1.3 million she was awarded... the government also appears intent on trying to confiscate her home. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize. Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts in promoting democracy."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/shirin_ebadi_nobel_seized
"Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal... from a safe-deposit box in Iran... They also seized her Legion of Honor and a ring awarded to her by a German association of journalists... Authorities froze the bank accounts of her and her husband and demanded $410,000 in taxes that they claimed were owed on the $1.3 million she was awarded... the government also appears intent on trying to confiscate her home. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize. Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts in promoting democracy."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/shirin_ebadi_nobel_seized
AHMADINEJAD VISITS BRAZIL
"... The most concrete result of the visit was the signing of eight cooperation agreements in areas like science, technology, agriculture and industry, which reflect the desire of both Brazil and Iran to strengthen South-South cooperation and increase bilateral trade, which currently stands at around two billion dollars, while the goal is to raise that amount to 10 billion dollars in the near future. Some 200 business leaders accompanied Ahmadinejad on his visit…"
"... the visit made it clear that both Brazil and Iran are keen on playing a more active role on the world stage, based on each nation's clout in their specific areas of influence.... Iran enjoys significant territorial, linguistic and cultural cohesion, added to its abundant natural resources and considerable technological development - it launched a domestically made satellite in 2008, and 48 percent of the population has access to the internet - all of which give it a strong sense of national pride and a central role in Middle Eastern geopolitics. Brazil, for its part, buoyed up by strong economic indicators, besides its position as Latin America's giant, has expanded its influence on the international scene..."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49403
"... The most concrete result of the visit was the signing of eight cooperation agreements in areas like science, technology, agriculture and industry, which reflect the desire of both Brazil and Iran to strengthen South-South cooperation and increase bilateral trade, which currently stands at around two billion dollars, while the goal is to raise that amount to 10 billion dollars in the near future. Some 200 business leaders accompanied Ahmadinejad on his visit…"
"... the visit made it clear that both Brazil and Iran are keen on playing a more active role on the world stage, based on each nation's clout in their specific areas of influence.... Iran enjoys significant territorial, linguistic and cultural cohesion, added to its abundant natural resources and considerable technological development - it launched a domestically made satellite in 2008, and 48 percent of the population has access to the internet - all of which give it a strong sense of national pride and a central role in Middle Eastern geopolitics. Brazil, for its part, buoyed up by strong economic indicators, besides its position as Latin America's giant, has expanded its influence on the international scene..."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49403
Sunday, October 18, 2009
U.S. CONTINUING TO BE STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM IN IRAN
2009
"... At least five commanders of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were killed and dozens of others left dead and injured in two terrorist bombings...The bombers struck early Sunday as the Guards prepared to bring together leaders of the region’s Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities to try to reconcile differences... A terrorist group calling itself Jundallah — or Soldiers of God — took responsibility for the attacks, according to the state-owned Press TV. The group is made up of ethnic Baluchis... and Iranian officials say it has been encouraged, financed and armed by the United States..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/world/middleeast/19iran.html?_r=1&hp
2007
"... American intelligence has been training and equipping anti-Iranian terrorists belonging to the so-called Jundallah in camps inside Afghanistan. The Voice of America recently interviewed Jundallah leader Abdul Malek Rigi. He is a wanted by Tehran for several kidnappings and over 50 killings. In the latest incident, on March 25, Jundallah terrorists blocked the Zahedan-Zabol highway in Sistan-Balochistan province, killing 22 people, injuring six others and taking eight people as hostages. Later, four of these hostages were killed and the video footage of their killing was broadcast on a number of Arab television channels..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID21Ak01.html
2007
"A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005... The group, called Jundallah, is made up of members of the Baluchi tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan, just across the border from Iran. It has taken responsibility for the deaths and kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials. U.S. officials say the U.S. relationship with Jundallah is arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would require an official presidential order or "finding" as well as congressional oversight.."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html
2009
"... At least five commanders of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were killed and dozens of others left dead and injured in two terrorist bombings...The bombers struck early Sunday as the Guards prepared to bring together leaders of the region’s Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities to try to reconcile differences... A terrorist group calling itself Jundallah — or Soldiers of God — took responsibility for the attacks, according to the state-owned Press TV. The group is made up of ethnic Baluchis... and Iranian officials say it has been encouraged, financed and armed by the United States..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/world/middleeast/19iran.html?_r=1&hp
2007
"... American intelligence has been training and equipping anti-Iranian terrorists belonging to the so-called Jundallah in camps inside Afghanistan. The Voice of America recently interviewed Jundallah leader Abdul Malek Rigi. He is a wanted by Tehran for several kidnappings and over 50 killings. In the latest incident, on March 25, Jundallah terrorists blocked the Zahedan-Zabol highway in Sistan-Balochistan province, killing 22 people, injuring six others and taking eight people as hostages. Later, four of these hostages were killed and the video footage of their killing was broadcast on a number of Arab television channels..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID21Ak01.html
2007
"A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005... The group, called Jundallah, is made up of members of the Baluchi tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan, just across the border from Iran. It has taken responsibility for the deaths and kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials. U.S. officials say the U.S. relationship with Jundallah is arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would require an official presidential order or "finding" as well as congressional oversight.."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html
Friday, October 09, 2009
IAEA SAYS NO EVIDENCE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY IN IRAN
"... the IAEA's Safeguards Department... only has suspicions - not real evidence - that Iran has been working on nuclear weapons in recent years... the agency "assesses that Iran has sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device". But other passages indicate the authors regard such knowledge only as a possibility, based on suspicions rather than concrete evidence... The IAEA affirmed that it has found no evidence that Iran ever acquired such technology..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KJ08Ak05.html
"... the IAEA's Safeguards Department... only has suspicions - not real evidence - that Iran has been working on nuclear weapons in recent years... the agency "assesses that Iran has sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device". But other passages indicate the authors regard such knowledge only as a possibility, based on suspicions rather than concrete evidence... The IAEA affirmed that it has found no evidence that Iran ever acquired such technology..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KJ08Ak05.html
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
U.S. STORY ON IRAN NUKE FACILITY DOESN'T ADD UP
"The story... was the official assertion that U.S. intelligence had caught Iran trying to conceal a "secret" nuclear facility.... (but Iran notified) the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the second enrichment facility in a letter on Sep. 21 A major question surrounding the official story is why the Barack Obama administration had not done anything – and apparently had no plans to do anything - with its intelligence on the Iranian facility at Qom prior to the Iranian letter to the IAEA... there had been no plan for briefing the IAEA or anyone... the senior administration official briefing the press was deliberately portraying the new enrichment facility in more menacing terms than the actual intelligence assessment... The circumstantial evidence suggests that Iran never intended to keep the Qom facility secret from the IAEA but was waiting to make it public at a moment that served its political-diplomatic objectives..."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48649
"The story... was the official assertion that U.S. intelligence had caught Iran trying to conceal a "secret" nuclear facility.... (but Iran notified) the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the second enrichment facility in a letter on Sep. 21 A major question surrounding the official story is why the Barack Obama administration had not done anything – and apparently had no plans to do anything - with its intelligence on the Iranian facility at Qom prior to the Iranian letter to the IAEA... there had been no plan for briefing the IAEA or anyone... the senior administration official briefing the press was deliberately portraying the new enrichment facility in more menacing terms than the actual intelligence assessment... The circumstantial evidence suggests that Iran never intended to keep the Qom facility secret from the IAEA but was waiting to make it public at a moment that served its political-diplomatic objectives..."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48649
Monday, September 28, 2009
IRAQ STANDS WITH IRAN AGAINST U.S. SANCTIONS
"Iraq's president said new sanctions against Iran won't work and warned Saturday that Iraq will never allow Israel or any other country to use its airspace to carry out an attack against Iranian nuclear facilities... President Jalal Talabani (said) "I think the Iranian leadership explained that the bomb is against Islam because it's killing innocent people," he said. "So they said openly that they are not for having the bomb but only the use of technology."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090926/ap_on_re_us/us_us_iraq_2
"Iraq's president said new sanctions against Iran won't work and warned Saturday that Iraq will never allow Israel or any other country to use its airspace to carry out an attack against Iranian nuclear facilities... President Jalal Talabani (said) "I think the Iranian leadership explained that the bomb is against Islam because it's killing innocent people," he said. "So they said openly that they are not for having the bomb but only the use of technology."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090926/ap_on_re_us/us_us_iraq_2
Saturday, September 26, 2009
SANCTIONS WOULD BE UNFAIR, ENCOURAGE IRAN TO LEAVE NUCLEAR TREATY
"... sanctions against Iran are deeply unfair if Israel, India and Pakistan are held harmless for ignoring the NPT altogether and for developing their bombs. In fact, the way the UNSC is proceeding against Iran is such as to destroy the NPT, because any country in its right mind would prefer to withdraw from it and just do as it pleases, a la Israel, than to submit to it and have that submission be a pretext for sanctions, even where the signatory country had done nothing contrary to the letter of the law..."
http://www.juancole.com/2009/09/qom-enrichment-facility-revealed-moves.html
"... sanctions against Iran are deeply unfair if Israel, India and Pakistan are held harmless for ignoring the NPT altogether and for developing their bombs. In fact, the way the UNSC is proceeding against Iran is such as to destroy the NPT, because any country in its right mind would prefer to withdraw from it and just do as it pleases, a la Israel, than to submit to it and have that submission be a pretext for sanctions, even where the signatory country had done nothing contrary to the letter of the law..."
http://www.juancole.com/2009/09/qom-enrichment-facility-revealed-moves.html
Friday, September 25, 2009
SECOND SECRET UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR PLANT FOUND, VIOLATES NPT TREATY
"President Obama and leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying the country has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years... The three men demanded that Iran allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to conduct an immediate inspection of the facility, which is said to be 100 miles southwest of Tehran... the new site (is) built inside a mountain near the ancient city of Qum... one of the holiest Shiite cities in the Middle East...
"ISNA, an Iranian news agency, quoted an “informed source” as confirming the existence of the second uranium-enrichment site, describing it as similar to Iran’s known enrichment facility at Natanz... information unearthed by an Iranian dissident group led to the discovery of the underground plant at Natanz in 2002..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/world/middleeast/26nuke.html?hp
"President Obama and leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying the country has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years... The three men demanded that Iran allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to conduct an immediate inspection of the facility, which is said to be 100 miles southwest of Tehran... the new site (is) built inside a mountain near the ancient city of Qum... one of the holiest Shiite cities in the Middle East...
"ISNA, an Iranian news agency, quoted an “informed source” as confirming the existence of the second uranium-enrichment site, describing it as similar to Iran’s known enrichment facility at Natanz... information unearthed by an Iranian dissident group led to the discovery of the underground plant at Natanz in 2002..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/world/middleeast/26nuke.html?hp
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
IRAN LOSES ITS ONLY AWACS PLANE
"... above a big military parade in Tehran... two air force jets collided in mid-air. One was Iran's only airborne warning and control system (AWACS) for coordinating long-distance aerial operations... it collided with one of escorting planes, a US-made F-5E, and both crashed to the ground in flames... (Iran's) first and only AWACS went into service in April 2008. It was a renovated version of the Russian Ilyushin 76, part of Saddam Hussein's air force before it was transferred to Iran in 1991 during the first Gulf War.
Tehran hired Russian technicians to carry out renovations and install up-to-date radar... Air Force commander Brig. Gen. Ahmad Miqani boasted its new radar systems were made in Iran and able to spot any airplane or missile at a distance of 1,000 kilometers from Iran's borders. The loss of this airborne control system has left Iran's air force and air and missile defenses without "electronic eyes" for surveillance of the skies around its borders."
--DEBKAfile, September 23, 2009
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6280
"... above a big military parade in Tehran... two air force jets collided in mid-air. One was Iran's only airborne warning and control system (AWACS) for coordinating long-distance aerial operations... it collided with one of escorting planes, a US-made F-5E, and both crashed to the ground in flames... (Iran's) first and only AWACS went into service in April 2008. It was a renovated version of the Russian Ilyushin 76, part of Saddam Hussein's air force before it was transferred to Iran in 1991 during the first Gulf War.
Tehran hired Russian technicians to carry out renovations and install up-to-date radar... Air Force commander Brig. Gen. Ahmad Miqani boasted its new radar systems were made in Iran and able to spot any airplane or missile at a distance of 1,000 kilometers from Iran's borders. The loss of this airborne control system has left Iran's air force and air and missile defenses without "electronic eyes" for surveillance of the skies around its borders."
--DEBKAfile, September 23, 2009
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6280
Sunday, September 20, 2009
U.S. STILL FINDS NO EVIDENCE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM
"The U.S. intelligence community is reporting to the White House that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program... U.S. agencies had previously said that Tehran halted the program in 2003... (and) the status of Iranian work on development and production of a nuclear bomb has not changed since the formal National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's "Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities" in November 2007.... (which) had "moderate confidence" that it had not restarted weapons-development efforts..."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/215529
"The U.S. intelligence community is reporting to the White House that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program... U.S. agencies had previously said that Tehran halted the program in 2003... (and) the status of Iranian work on development and production of a nuclear bomb has not changed since the formal National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's "Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities" in November 2007.... (which) had "moderate confidence" that it had not restarted weapons-development efforts..."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/215529
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
ALLEDGED IRANIAN NUCLEAR DOCUMENTS FABRICATED
"... the IAEA has refused to acknowledge publicly significant evidence brought to its attention by Iran that the documents were fabricated.. Iran has submitted serious evidence that the documents are fraudulent. Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations in Vienna, Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh... said he had pointed out to a team of IAEA officials in a meeting on the documents in Tehran in early 2008 that none of the supposedly top-secret military documents had any security markings of any kind, and that purported letters from Defense Ministry officials lacked Iranian government seals..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KI16Ak01.html
"... the IAEA has refused to acknowledge publicly significant evidence brought to its attention by Iran that the documents were fabricated.. Iran has submitted serious evidence that the documents are fraudulent. Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations in Vienna, Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh... said he had pointed out to a team of IAEA officials in a meeting on the documents in Tehran in early 2008 that none of the supposedly top-secret military documents had any security markings of any kind, and that purported letters from Defense Ministry officials lacked Iranian government seals..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KI16Ak01.html
Saturday, September 12, 2009
FRENCH GENERAL SAYS WAR ON IRAN = CATASTROPHE
"The head of the French military... Chief of Staff Jean-Louis Georgelin... has warned that any military attack aimed at halting Iran's nuclear program could cause a "Catastrophe"... because there is no guarantee that 'one shot' would solve the problem.
"If you fail in one shot, it is a catastrophe," Georgelin concluded..."
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=105877§ionid=351020104
"The head of the French military... Chief of Staff Jean-Louis Georgelin... has warned that any military attack aimed at halting Iran's nuclear program could cause a "Catastrophe"... because there is no guarantee that 'one shot' would solve the problem.
"If you fail in one shot, it is a catastrophe," Georgelin concluded..."
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=105877§ionid=351020104
PUTIN WARNS AGAINST U.S. ATTACKING OR SANCTIONING IRAN
"... the US and Israel have never ruled out the option of air strikes on Iran to stop it acquiring an atomic weapon... (but) Russian PM Vladimir Putin has warned against military action targeting Iran or imposing new sanctions... on Iran's oil sector... to curb its nuclear programme... Putin... said any attack on Iran would be "very dangerous, unacceptable" and would lead to "an explosion of terrorism... "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8251531.stm
"... the US and Israel have never ruled out the option of air strikes on Iran to stop it acquiring an atomic weapon... (but) Russian PM Vladimir Putin has warned against military action targeting Iran or imposing new sanctions... on Iran's oil sector... to curb its nuclear programme... Putin... said any attack on Iran would be "very dangerous, unacceptable" and would lead to "an explosion of terrorism... "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8251531.stm
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
IAEA SAYS NO EVIDENCE OF NUKE PROGRAM
"... Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said there was no concrete evidence that Tehran has an ongoing nuclear weapons program... Iran is not going to produce a nuclear weapon any time soon and the threat posed by its atomic program has been exaggerated..."
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5811v1-us-iran-nuclear-elbaradei/
"... Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said there was no concrete evidence that Tehran has an ongoing nuclear weapons program... Iran is not going to produce a nuclear weapon any time soon and the threat posed by its atomic program has been exaggerated..."
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5811v1-us-iran-nuclear-elbaradei/
Monday, August 10, 2009
REPORT DEBUNKS IRAN HAWKS
"... hawks in the US and Israel have argued that there is no time to spare in dealing with the Iranian nuclear program, and that the US should quickly move to sanctions targeting Iran's refined petroleum imports if engagement does not bear fruit by the end of September.... (But) Iran is unlikely to be able to produce enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) for a nuclear weapon until at least 2013, according to a United States government intelligence estimate made public last Thursday... (by) the US State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KH11Ak01.html
"... hawks in the US and Israel have argued that there is no time to spare in dealing with the Iranian nuclear program, and that the US should quickly move to sanctions targeting Iran's refined petroleum imports if engagement does not bear fruit by the end of September.... (But) Iran is unlikely to be able to produce enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) for a nuclear weapon until at least 2013, according to a United States government intelligence estimate made public last Thursday... (by) the US State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KH11Ak01.html
Thursday, August 06, 2009
IRAN AND RUSSIA CONDUCT MILITARY EXERCISE
"Iran and Russia performed... a joint military exercise in the Caspian Sea, aimed at boosting maritime navigation and security... "
http://www.kuwaitobserver.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=255377
"Iran and Russia performed... a joint military exercise in the Caspian Sea, aimed at boosting maritime navigation and security... "
http://www.kuwaitobserver.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=255377
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