woensdag, februari 10, 2010
U.S. Eyes Tougher Sanctions Over Iran Nuclear Program
he Obama administration is working on a series of sanctions that would take aim at the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran, publicly singling out the organization’s vast array of companies, banks and other entities in an effort to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.Senior White House officials described what they said would be a “systematic” effort to drive a wedge between the Iranian population and the Revolutionary Guards, which the West says is responsible for running Iran’s nuclear program and has a record of supporting militant Islamist organizations and cracking down on antigovernment protesters.
Read more >> | The New York Times
Labels: Foreign Policy, Iran, Nuclear energy, Nuclear weapons, United States
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dinsdag, februari 09, 2010
Iran starts processing nuclear fuel towards weapons-grade strength
ran today started to enrich its existing nuclear fuel stockpile towards weapons grade strength.The move caused international alarm and gave new impetus to Western calls for new sanctions on Tehran despite opposition from China, which insists that negotiations could still succeed.
"Today we started to make 20 per cent enriched nuclear fuel... in the presence of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) inspectors at Natanz," an unnamed official told Iran's Arabic-language state television, al Alam.
Read more >> | Iran starts processing nuclear fuel towards weapons-grade strength - Times Online
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zondag, januari 17, 2010
Be Like Reagan
n Iran, Obama should talk about democracy and support the demonstrators—but give the regime a chance to negotiate.Iran is the new Eastern Europe during the last phase of the Cold War. Like Poland during the heady days of Solidarity in the early 1980s, the protestors in the streets of Iranian cities are not crazed ethnics demonstrating on behalf of some illiberal blood-and-soil nationalism, but enlightened, technologically savvy multitudes crying out for universal values of democracy and human rights. As such, they have captured the imagination of liberal intellectuals in the West.
By Robert D. Kaplan
Be Like Reagan - The Atlantic
(January 16, 2010)
Labels: Foreign Policy, Iran
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vrijdag, juni 19, 2009
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei elections were fair
ran's Supreme Leader has issued a stern warning that protests against the country's disputed presidential election results must end.Labels: Iran
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dinsdag, juni 16, 2009
Doctors and nurses are protesting in a major hospital in Tehran
t 1:41 one of nurses is shouting "7 people died in this hospital last night". other 1 died by a headshot...which said that poor brave man shoted by sniper. at 1:35 you can see on that board which writen in persian "28 wounded...8 died"Morning of 16 June...Rasoul Akram Hospital's doctors and nurses are protesting about what happened in the last night gunshots by Goverment's militia (basij) and police. 36 people shots By Gun 8 dies and 28 injured .
Labels: Iran
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The Twitter Revolution in Iran
he Internet by means of Twitter and Facebook are fueling the revolution in Iran.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Labels: Iran
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zondag, juli 06, 2008
The Problem Iran
eymour Hersh on the latest developments in the US policies towards Iran and the risk of war. The Bush administration wants, before their term ends, to end the nuclear program of Iran, or destroy it by bombing their nuclear facilities.Report
Part 1 Seymour Hersh interview
Part 2
Part 3
Labels: Foreign Policy, Iran, United States
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dinsdag, juli 01, 2008
Cheney in search for a Casus Belli with Iran
tar reporter Seymour Hersh from The New Yorker writes in this weeks issue about the "preparing of the battlefield" by means of secret operations in Iran, conducted by the White House. He describes the growing concern of political leaders inside congress of the secret way the White House is dealing with the Iran issue.Vice- president Dick Cheney is said to look actively for a Casus Belli.
Read the article in The New Yorker and view here an interview with Hersh on his latest scoop.
Labels: Foreign Policy, Iran, United States
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