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rajavi rigiLast year, the Obama Administration reviewed whether Jundallah should be designated a foreign terrorist organization, but decided not to do so. Why was that? And, even though the Muhahedin-e Khalq (MEK) retains its designation as a foreign terrorist organization, the Obama Administration continues to push the Iraqi government not to consider longstanding a longstanding Iranian request that MEK cadres in Iraq—which were granted special protective status by the George W. Bush Administration—be deported to Iran. Why is the Obama Administration trying to protect members of a U.S. government-designated terrorist group?
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran and its peaceful nuclear program
soltaniyeh
In a statement at the IAEA Board of Governors' session (Vienna, March 1-5) on Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soltaniyeh recalled the fact that after the most intrusive verification in the history of the Agency, with over 3000 man-day inspections in Iran, there is no evidence of diversion of nuclear material and activities to prohibited purposes.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran sanctions
China is opposed to US sactions against Iran and would not go ahead with the vote, thus emboldeing Turkey, Brazil and Lebanon. US is thinking on a strategy to exempt China but this move will annoy other US allies who have been divesting from Iran in the previous years- to see Chinese firms take up their market share in Iranian market.
Susan RiceUnited States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice denied on Thursday reports that a draft resolution on Iranian sanctions was circulating among members of the UN Security Council. "We are not at the present circulating a draft text of a resolution to Council colleagues here in New York," she told reporters after a closed-door Council meeting on Sudan and Iran.
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Communication dated 1 March 2010 received from the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Agency regarding the implementation of safeguards in Iran.
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While the ongoing U.S. military "surge" in Afghanistan continues to capture the headlines, Iran's nuclear programme – and how best to deal with it – is rapidly emerging here as this year's biggest foreign policy challenge.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran and its peaceful nuclear program
soltaniyeh
In a statement at the IAEA Board of Governors' session (Vienna, March 1-5) on Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soltaniyeh recalled the fact that after the most intrusive verification in the history of the Agency, with over 3000 man-day inspections in Iran, there is no evidence of diversion of nuclear material and activities to prohibited purposes.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on brazil iran sanctions
Iran brazilPresident Lula: I want for Iran the same thing as I wish for Brazil: To use the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. If Iran is in agreement with that, Iran will have Brazil's support.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on newspaper editorials
End Media Bias Against Iran"Dear colleague!
You know that there has been a deep misunderstanding between the nations and the governments of both Iran and USA. Now as a professional media should we clear up this misunderstanding or deteriorate it?
Do you want to inform the lawmakers and the officials on Iran realities or present untrue news which is on the benefit of the enemies of Iran and West relations?"
Yukiya Amano, the new director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has raised hopes that a "confidence-building" plan for a swap of nuclear material between Iran and a third party could still be salvaged. At the same time, Amano used his opening speech to the Vienna meeting of the agency's board of governors on Monday to reaffirm that Iran hadn't provided "the necessary cooperation" to confirm all such material in Iran is for peaceful activities.
China today insisted there is still room for talks to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear program. The comments by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang came after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow is ready to consider new sanctions against Iran for its refusal to comply with international demands to halt uranium enrichment.
John KerrySenator Kerry, who is privy to the details of efforts to impose sanctions on Iran, hinted yesterday at a press conference in Jerusalem after a meeting with the prime minister that Biden's visit to Israel, and that of other senior administration officials, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michael Mullen, aims at restraining Israel against the possibility of unilaterally attacking Iran.
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Bank Mellat of Iran on Wednesday won a preliminary court ruling against sanctions imposed by the British government. The government has accused the privately owned bank of providing financial services to companies involved in Iran's nuclear and missile programs. The Treasury acted in October to forbid any U.K. financial companies from doing business with the bank.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on US Iran engagement
The United States either can accept a nuclear Iran or risk an attack that might fail outright, impose only a minor delay on Iran’s nuclear program or trigger extremely painful responses even if it succeeds. When neither choice is acceptable, it is necessary to find a third choice. The third choice is US-Iran engagement as it has benefits for both sides as well as precedence when US has engaged arch-rivals such as Soviet Union and China before
The Japanese (officials) proposed during the visit that Iran start interaction with Japan for purchasing the 20% enriched fuel, considering Iran's good will.
In a letter to the UN body, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), cited three instances on which Western countries failed to meet their commitments and provide Iran with nuclear fuel. The letter referred to the American firm AMF, which was stopped by the US government from supplying fuel for the Tehran research reactor in 1980 despite an agreement between the two countries.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on ayatollah khamenei; iaea
khameneiAyatollah Khamenei: "The power and effectiveness of diplomacy is not less than military, propaganda and monetary power and even is more in many cases, thus in order to implement the policy against the hegemonic system, one should make use of a strong and effective diplomacy that is based on logic, wisdom and the morale of self-confidence."
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The Times imputes to the IAEA report statements, declarations, and conclusions that just are not there. One can see this easily, just by reading the report and comparing it to the story. You do not need a degree in nuclear physics or chemical engineering to see that the New York Times story is, quite simply, false.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on sanctions
Amid fears that Moscow remains intent on weakening a planned Security Council resolution punishing Tehran for its nuclear programme, western diplomats are seeking to convince Russia to support much more robust measures. They hope the West's case for robust action will be strengthened on Monday when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, meets in Vienna to discuss a damning new report on Iran's atomic intentions.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran's nuclear programme
Obama administration is thinking of revising 2007 NIE which had judged that Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003. The new NIE has been expected for a while, but now seems to be close to release, perhaps within two weeks or so, according to the pervasive chatter in national-security circles this week. In addition to the expectation that the new estimate will declare that Iran is on a path toward weaponization of nuclear material, multiple sources said they are being told there will be no declassified version and only those cleared to read the full 2007 NIE (pdf) will be able to see the new version.
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The Iranian government is celebrating the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of a violent group called Jundallah (Arabic for Soldiers of God), which Tehran says is a terrorist organization supported by the United States, Great Britain and Israel.
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Russia's Foreign Minister says there's no evidence Iran plans to build a nuclear bomb - and that further sanctions against it are unlikely to produce results. In an interview for RT, Sergey Lavrov says atomic inspectors are keeping a close eye on Iran.
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The capture of Rigi represents a serious setback for the US-UK strategy of using false flag state-sponsored terrorism against Iran and Pakistan, and ultimately to sabotage China’s geopolitics of oil.
Ehud Barak and Hillary ClintonIsraeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: We felt very proud that we never asked the Americans to come and fight for us. We basically ... to paraphrase Churchill, we said, 'Give us the tools and we will do the job'.
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Both Israel and the United States believe that Tehran may obtain the uranium fuel needed for nuclear weapons by the same process to purify uranium. But Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purpose. Israel has labeled Iran's nuclear program as a major threat to its security, and refuses to rule out the possibility of launching unilateral military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
IAEA LogoIran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), rejects the allegations of having military objectives in its nuclear program as politically motivated and says its nuclear work is totally peaceful and within the framework of the NPT.
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Tehran says it is ready to hand over the construction of five nuclear power plants to Toyoko, if Japan is truly determined to shoulder the undertaking.
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RigiThe captured ringleader of the Jundallah terrorist group, Abdolmalek Rigi, has confessed that the US administration had assured him of unlimited military aid and funding for waging an insurgency against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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President Bashar al-Assad, at a joint press conference Thursday morning with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, said that in spite of big frustrations and stumbles that did harm to the region and to its people, yet the outcome during the past stage was in favour of the resistance forces in the region which resisted, and defended the rights and causes of their peoples.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran sanctions
Security CouncilUS and its allies may have the numbers to pass UN resolutions on sanctions but there are cracks in the alliance and at least 4 countries are opposed to the move.
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Hillary Clinton's visit to the Persian Gulf countries was aimed at involving these countries into the process of exerting pressure on Iran, but the creation of a coalition against the Islamic Republic is unlikely today, the experts.
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There has been much talk in recent weeks about the possibility of another war between Israel and Hizballah and/or HAMAS (the Middle East’s two most prominent resistance movements, both supported by Iran) in coming months.
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A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran has raised the temperature of the nuclear standoff with Tehran a couple of degrees by claiming there is credible data that "raises concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile".
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Iran's nuclear programme
Iranian nuclear programme is neither a threat to Arab world nor to Israel. Efforts should be made to stop US efforts for campaign against Iran's nuclear programme.
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LulaCANCUN, Mexico — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva said the global community, in its quest for peace, should avoid isolating Iran over its controversial nuclear program.
Ali Asghar SoltaniehIran is ready to simultaneously exchange the fuel required for the Tehran research reactor with its low-enriched uranium within Iranian territory if the I.A.E.A. lacks the ability to fulfill its duties.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on Zbigniew Brzezinski
BrzezinskiWhat I have said repeatedly is that an Israeli attack on Iran through U.S.-controlled airspace would make the United States complicit, and the United States would then become the target of Iranian retaliation. That is why the United States should make it clear that its airspace is not available for a unilateral Israeli attack, and that a violation of it could lead to an incident reminiscent of the attack on the USS Liberty, about which I added "it is nothing to be wished for."
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on sanctions
Iran Russia Russia: "We are not going to work on sanctions, on measures which should lead to political, economic or financial isolation of that country."
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MehmanparastAs an IAEA member, Iran has certain rights. One of them is that its peaceful nuclear demands should be met. So the IAEA has to supply the nuclear fuel for Tehran’s reactor. This is our right. Countries which do not possess the nuclear fuel cycle know-how should expect IAEA’s help. The agency should have paved the way for our access to the fuel, but with the unreasonable concerns of some powerful countries about our peaceful nuclear program, which is political driven of course, it turned into a nuclear swap deal.
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Ali LarijaniIran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has criticized the UN nuclear watchdog for failing to carry out its responsibilities to transfer know-how and technology to its member states.
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RigiThe Iranian government is reporting today that Abdulmalek Rigi, the founder and leader of the Jundallah militant group, was turned over to their custody today following his arrest. Rigi was reportedly arrest on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on double standard
Why the double standard? Simply because Israel is the privileged ally of the United States in the Middle East -- the country that receives the most US aid in the world -- whereas Iran is in opposition to the United States. Plain and simple.
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Here we go again. A report issued Thursday by the new director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano, has injected new adrenaline into those arguing that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon.
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CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus stated on Meet the Press yesterday that the United States is now pursuing the “pressure track” as a means to halt Iran’s nuclear program.
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"The language of American threats demonstrates a colonialist mentality. Threatening Iran with the Security Council, with more sanctions or military action further complicates the issue. It just doesn’t work.”
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on russian general talks about us attack on iran
Juan ColeTop Russian general talks about consequences of US attack on Iran. Such an attack,he opines, would lead to US collapse and also have negatives consequences for Russia as well as the region.
By http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii on war game simulation
War game simulation at Brookings Institution shows that neither US nor Israel would be able to achieve their objectives through a war with Iran and it can spin out of their control
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has launched a massive drone that can fly non-stop for 20 hours, and is capable of reaching Iran. Marking a new stage in Israel’s long-range operations, the Israel Aerospace Industries-made Heron TP (dubbed “Eitan”) was unveiled at the Tel Nof air base near Rehovot. “The air force has marked another important milestone in the development of UAVs,” The Jerusalem Post quoted OC Air Force Major General Ido Nehushtan, as saying.
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A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful.
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Amano
Those agitating for war with Iran claimed a major victory today when a draft IAEA report on Iran contained unsubstantiated references to “possible” Iranian work on a “nuclear payload for a missile.”
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The USG Open Source Center monitored Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's speech at the christening of an Iranian destroyer, Jamaran, on Iranian official radio, in which Khamenei again denied that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons and affirmed that they are illegal in Islamic law because they kill large numbers of innocent non-combatants.
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The race for sanctions has become a struggle for superpower prestige with a life of its own and with Iran playing the role of director. Any doubt about imposing sanctions is sacrilege.
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MehmanparastTEHRAN, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said Sunday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should not surrender to the will of certain states over Iran's nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Ayatollah KhameneiWith the usual calls for Israel, France and Germany leading the way, the Obama Administration today expressed hope that a leaked IAEA report speculating on Iran’s nuclear program would help with the international push for additional sanctions against Iran.
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Around the world, anti-war activists are preparing for major protests this spring to oppose the continuing U.S.-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, a storm of developments is dramatically increasing tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In response, the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) is issuing this appeal to the anti-war movements in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries to raise the demands of “No war, no sanctions, no internal interference in Iran!”
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Yukia AmanoIn an astounding development, the brand-new director of the International Atomic Energy Agency — who was narrowly elected to the post a few months ago with the strong, one might say insistent, backing of the United States — has just issued his very first report on Iran’s nuclear program. And guess what the new, American-backed director said? Go on, you’ll never guess.
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As any student of foreign and national security policy well knows, the devil is in the details. Back in April 2009, in a speech delivered in Prague, the Czech Republic, President Barack Obama articulated his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. Since that time, however, the Obama administration has offered very little of substance to push this vision forward.
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Iran's supreme leader and armed forces commander-in-chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the country does not believe in and is not seeking atomic weapons, state television reported.
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The following is a Press TV interview with former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter over Iran's nuclear energy program and the West's stance over the issue.
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Yukia AmanoFueled by an unfortunately worded letter by the IAEA about a “technical violation” allegedly made by Iran last week in its civilian nuclear program, CNN’s Rick Sanchez is now speculating about the possibility of Iran “building some kind of nuclear weapon,” even though one of his guests from MIT made it clear this threat was totally illusory.
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TEHRAN, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Iran's deputy speaker of the parliament said Thursday that Iran will stop the enrichment of high-grade uranium if the 20 percent fuel is delivered to Tehran under Iran's conditions, Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) reported.
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It is up to Washington to take the first steps to defuse the crisis that is building by offering Tehran the security guarantees that might undercut the influence of those in its government who seek a nuclear weapon deterrent. Punishing Iran is no solution. It will not work, closes the door to diplomacy, and will only make the worst case scenario that much more likely. Opening the door to a rapprochement by eliminating the threatening language coming out of Washington and creating incentives for cooperation is a far better course of action.
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Iran's supreme leader accused the United States on Wednesday of war-mongering and of turning the Gulf into an "arms depot," hitting back at U.S. accusations that the Islamic state was moving toward a military dictatorship, Reuters reported.
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On February 9 U.S. Department of Defense spokesman Geoff Morrell told the press that his boss, Pentagon chief Robert Gates, wants the United Nations to impose sanctions on Iran within “weeks, not months” and “clearly thinks time is of the essence.”
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NarwaniUS Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs have been on a roll since Friday defending Iran's assertions that it is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
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Underscoring the very real threat that remains of an American war against Iran, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today declared that the Obama Administration will not rule out attacking Iran over its decision to enrich uranium to 20 percent.
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American secretaries of state have been coming to the Middle East to create all sorts of complex alliances against Iran for most of my recent happy life, but every time this show passes through our region I learn again the meaning of the phrase “lack of credibility.” Hillary Clinton is the latest to undertake this mission, and like her predecessors her comments are often difficult to take seriously.
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Admiral Michael Mullen [US army chief] attended a press conference after his arrival to Israel and made it clear that all options are on the table. “We would operate all our forces for Israel”
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Nobel Peace PrizeIs there nothing that is safe from debasement by the propaganda machine of the U.S. and Israel? A full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times of Feb. 7 provides the answer. Sponsored by Elie Wiesel’s modestly named Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and signed by 44 Nobel laureates, 35 of them in the physical sciences, it urges brutal and lethal actions against Iran.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Russia this week on a state visit which he says will be aimed at convincing Moscow to support “crippling sanctions” against Iran.
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Iran’s announcement that it is to start enriching uranium to close to 20 percent, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to produce radioisotopes for its medical reactor in Tehran has triggered a fresh outbreak of hysteria. There have been renewed calls for sanctions to force it to close down its nuclear program.
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In an interview with Russian channel NTV, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for a worldwide nuclear disarmament, declaring that the era of nuclear weapons is over.
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Broad raises alarms about the Iranian decision to go from 4 to 20 percent, calling it an "act of brinkmanship in a standoff with the West" and suggesting that, paradoxically, enriching uranium to 20 percent gets Iran "almost to the finish line" in producing material for a bomb.
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An article in today’s New York Times spins a speech given today by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the anniversary of the nation’s revolution anniversary as a “pugnacious” declaration of “capacity to make weapons-grade nuclear fuel,” even though Ahmadinejad never made any such claims in the speech.
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Bush & PodhoretzThey're back! The "Bomb Iran" crowd is making a big return to the political center stage after months of puzzlement over what to do about developments in the Islamic Republic.
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It is possible that by giving the go-ahead for the production of 20% enriched uranium, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has sufficiently jolted the other side to rethink its approach on the nuclear fuel-swap deal.
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BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- China said Thursday it hoped negotiations on Iran nuclear issue would be resumed at an early date and it would continue its efforts for this end.
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Reports coming out of the IAEA indicate that only a tiny fraction of the nation’s uranium enrichment program has been converted to producing 20 percent enriched uranium. The international nuclear watchdog described the effort as modest in nature.
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The NetherlandsA court in The Hague has dealt a blow to the Dutch government's controversial attempts to keep sensitive nuclear technology out of the hands of Iran. Its policy to ban Iranian-born students and scientists from certain master's degrees and from nuclear research facilities in the Netherlands is overly broad and a violation of an international civil rights treaty, the court ruled today.
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Western officials, and the United States in particular, have vowed to rapidly move forward with new sanctions against Iran in the United Nations Security Council. President Barack Obama said the effort is moving quickly and that new sanctions will be in place soon.
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SalehiThe head of Iran's atomic agency said the Islamic Republic would not enrich uranium to a higher level if the West provides the fuel it needs for the Tehran research reactor.
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Until today, the Obama Administration and much of the foreign policy punditocracy in Washington have been overflowing with observations that recent statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki reiterating the Islamic Republic’s interest in a deal to refuel the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) were just another example of Iranian efforts to “buy time” and forestall new international sanctions.
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In a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday, political aspirant and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin confused and conflated the neocon “bomb, bomb Iran” message of Daniel Pipes, founder and Director of the right-wing neoconservative Middle East Forum with the views of conservative MSNBC news commentator and Townhall.com blogger Pat Buchanan.
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Uranium enrichmentIn a widely-circulated article which has further fueled Western hysteria about the prospect of an imminent war with Iran, the Associated Press today claimed that Iran’s uranium enrichment program move, an effort to produce medical isotopes which are rapidly running out in the nation, was a secret plot to build nuclear weapons.
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SCOOver the past three years, Russia has pushed for Iran to be accorded full membership in the SCO. China has quietly resisted this push. In public, Chinese officials say only that the issue needs to be studied, as a formal mechanism through which the SCO can bring in new members does not currently exist. In private, Chinese officials say that including Iran would change the character and function of the SCO in important ways. In particular, Iranian membership would make it harder for Beijing to insist, as it regularly does, that the SCO is not an alliance directed against any specific country—e.g., the United States.
Netanyahu & MerkelGermany can continue sanctioning itself through Iran, the US can pretend to be concerned about the security of the world and democracy in Iran, France can share a desire to destroy Iran's economy and independence, the UK is free to try to sabotage another nationalized Iranian project, and they all can enjoy a ride on the Israeli bandwagon. At the end of the day, however, they all have to be wary of what they are going to lose along the way, just economic interests at best, and moral values at worst.
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Days after announcing that Iran was willing to send its low-enriched uranium for further processing abroad, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad told the country's Atomic Energy Agency to begin the enrichment process in the country. However, Ahmadinejad emphasized that Iran was still open to a "fuel-for-fuel" option.
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Natanz Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered uranium enrichment to a 20 per cent level without giving up Tehran’s readiness to swap domestically produced low-enriched uranium with atomic fuel produced abroad.
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MottakiIranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday he had held a "very good meeting" with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over a nuclear fuel swap proposal.
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Islamophobe Daniel Pipes makes what has to be considered the strongest case ever (and in a manner entirely consistent with his and other hard-line neo-cons notoriously cavalier attitude toward violence and war) for bombing nuclear facilities in Iran in his op-ed on National Review Online Tuesday. Obama should do it for political expediency.
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The U.S. State Department said senior officials from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia held a conference call on the issue.
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Indications of fraud in the June 12 Iranian presidential election, together with large-scale street demonstrations, have led to claims that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not actually win the election, and that the majority of Iranians perceive their government as illegitimate and favor regime change.
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