The United States and Iran used the United Nations General Assembly’s famous green marble podium on Monday to trade punches over the Islamic republic’s nuclear program, adding sudden drama to the normally staid opening of the international conference to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the only head of state attending a meeting usually left to foreign ministers, defiantly sought to rebuff accusations that Iran was a nuclear outlaw by going on the offensive against the United States.
An Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared while on pilgrimage to Mecca last year has defected to the United States and is living and working there for the CIA, it was reported today
A report on Shahram Amiri’s defection came as President Barack Obama vowed to forge an international agreement on new sanctions on Iran within weeks.
The report described the defection as “an intelligence coup,” claiming that information gleaned from debriefing Dr Amiri had added detail and confirmation to existing CIA intelligence assessments about the Iranian nuclear programme. It also increased the growing international pressure on Tehran.
TALIBAN commanders have revealed that hundreds of insurgents have been trained in Iran to kill Nato forces in Afghanistan.
The commanders said they had learnt to mount complex ambushes and lay improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have been responsible for most of the deaths of British troops in Helmand province.
The accounts of two commanders, in interviews with The Sunday Times, are the first descriptions of training of the Taliban in Iran.
According to the commanders, Iranian officials paid them to attend three-month courses during the winter.
A small group of EU foreign ministers indicate they may tighten sanctions on Iran if the UN fails to take action.
There is a “growing consensus” that the EU will have to take unilateral action if it proves impossible in the United Nations to agree to impose sanctions on Iran for continuing to develop its nuclear power programme, Finland’s foreign minister, Alexander Stubb, said today.
Stubb was speaking at the end of an informal gathering in Finland of six EU foreign ministers, Turkey’s foreign minister and Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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”
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.
