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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Iran's enrichment of uranium to 20 percent "is our right" and "is not a step toward a bomb," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday in an interview with the satellite television network France 24. The enrichment activity, which world powers...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday he did not expect talks next month with six world powers in Moscow on Iran's nuclear program to yield any major breakthroughs. The six powers the U.S., Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
U.N. nuclear inspectors displayed new satellite imagery on Wednesday indicating that some small buildings had been dismantled and other possible clean-up work undertaken at an Iranian military site they want to visit. One image from May 25 showed...
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Haaretz
| 12 months ago
Iran continues to strive for a nuclear weapon since it is not convinced the West is seriously contemplating a military strike against its facilities, Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon said in a conference on Wednesday, adding that Tehran was "...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
UN nuclear watchdog shows new satellite imagery in closed session indicating Iran may be removing incriminating evidence, including "ground scraping activities," removal of building, at nuclear site. The UN nuclear watchdog showed new satellite...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Russia said it will safeguard the plant to prevent material from the site from being used to make nuclear bombs. May 30 (UPI) -- Russia is ready to help Iran construct a second nuclear power plant...Security Council permitted this issue in sanction...
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Russia Today
| 12 months ago
Iran has celebrated the launch of the Bushehr nuclear power plant on Monday. The facility, which was completed with Russia's help, came on line last year and has been connected to the national power grid in early September. Stringer Iran) Russia's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Iran's UN mission has strongly denied a US newspaper report alleging evidence existed implicating Tehran or its Lebanese proxy militia Hezbollah in international assassination plots, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. "Iran has always condemned any...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Japan cut oil imports from Iran by 65 percent in April while boosting shipments from Saudi Arabia, official data showed Wednesday, amid Western efforts to squeeze Tehran over its atomic program. Resource-poor Japan, which relies heavily on Middle...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
An Iranian security man stands next to journalists outside the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran. Iran warned Western countries Tuesday that pressuring Tehran with sanctions while engaging in nuclear talks would jeopardize...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Iran, which denies any decline in its oil exports, is subject to US and EU measures making it more difficult for it to ship out its oil. Those sanctions are to be ratcheted up further on July 1 when an EU embargo on Iranian oil comes fully into...
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Eurasianet
| 12 months ago
Iranian naval vessels have conducted maneuvers close to the border with Azerbaijan, and high-ranking Turkish officials are visiting Baku as a show of force against Iran, according to a report in Regnum.ru. The Regnum report cited the Azerbaijan...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
| 12 months ago
A Russian-based internet security firm says a powerful computer virus with unprecedented data-snatching capabilities has attacked machines in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East. Iran has not disclosed any damage done by the new spyware virus,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Russia is ready to help Iran build a new nuclear power plant alongside the first one Moscow helped construct in the city of Bushehr, a top official at the state nuclear firm Rosatom said on Tuesday. "If it is not forbidden and if it is advantageous,...
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Fox
| 12 months ago
In an apparent slip-up, an Iranian general has admitted that special forces have been deployed from Tehran to Syria to assist the Assad regime's crackdown against the anti-government uprising. General Ismail Qa'ani, deputy commander of the Iranian...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday he was "misquoted" in reports purporting that he said Tehran was conditionally prepared to negotiate with world powers on its higher uranium enrichment activities. "That was not what I said,"...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Foreign ministry spokesman for Iran urges easing of sanctions, saying, "This approach of pressure concurrent with negotiations will never work"; new sanctions due in June, July. Iran on Tuesday warned Western countries that pressuring Tehran with...
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The Jakarta Post
| 12 months ago
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters on Tuesday as saying that Iran has a right to produce nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes. The West is concerned that uranium enriched to 20 percent, used for fuel in Iran's medical reactor,...
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Vail Daily News
| 12 months ago
Perhaps the most controversial issue within the international community today is Iran's nuclear program...The precise nature of Tehran's nuclear activities is unknown. Its uranium enrichment element is the most antagonizing variable. The main purpose...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
In an apparent slip-up, an Iranian general has admitted that special forces have been deployed from Tehran to Syria to assist the Assad regime's crackdown against the anti-government uprising. General Ismail Qa'ani, deputy commander of the Iranian...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Sanctions aimed at crippling Iran have been very good for business, at least on the shady side of informal banking, says a grey-market currency trader in Tehran. A few thousand dollars is easy, even a few million dollars is no problem, Sattar, the...
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China News
| 12 months ago
Iran to improve dialogue and cooperation, so as to accommodate international concerns over Iran's nuclear program, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday...Iran's Fordow nuclear fuel enrichment plant, and satellite images showed "extensive...
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Pak Tribune
| 12 months ago
The issue of Iran's enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, and its stockpile of that uranium, were at the centre of talks on Wednesday and Thursday in Baghdad between Iran and six world powers (Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
Iran Iran's Foreign Ministry has rejected the country's alleged role in plotting to topple the regime in Bahrain. Bahrain on Sunday sentenced eight people to prison terms after they were accused of conspiring with suspected Iranian agents to...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 12 months ago
Oil prices edged higher in Asian trade Monday as major crude producer Iran and Western powers failed to reach agreement over Tehran's nuclear programme, analysts said. Markets were also supported by signs Greeks would elect a pro-austerity government...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
After negotiations with world powers made no progress, a top Iranian official said there is "no reason" to end the country's uranium enrichment program. After two days of talks with the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, Russia and...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Iran will not halt its 20 percent enrichment of uranium, the country's nuclear chief said Sunday on state television, backing away from an earlier offer that suggested Tehran might be prepared to cease production of the higher-grade nuclear material.
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Iran announced Sunday it will continue enriching high-grade uranium while adding a nuclear power plant in 2014 and rebuffed calls to let U.N...Share This Story "We have no reason to retreat from producing the 20 percent because we need 20 percent...
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Russia Today
| 12 months ago
Leon Panetta has stated that the US is ready to do everything it can to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. The American envoy to Israel earlier said that the military option is fully available and the necessary planning has been done. ...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
The issue of Iran's 20 percent enrichment program was at the forefront of Western demands seeking to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions during talks on Wednesday and Thursday in Baghdad. Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany.
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B92
| 12 months ago
The construction of the second Bushehr nuclear power plant will begin in 2013, Mehr reported, without giving any further details. Bushehr nuclear power plant, which was built with the assistance of Russia, in 2013. We have already received an...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
US secretary of defense speaks to ABC news, says neither Washington nor international community will allow Iran do develop a nuclear weapon; adds preference for diplomacy over military intervention. Larry Downing The military option against Iran is...
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AP Online
| 12 months ago
Iran (AP) — Iran's nuclear chief says there are no reasons at the moment to halt production of uranium enriched to 20 percent, a key demand of world powers.
Fereidoun Abbasi was quoted by state TV Sunday as saying Iran will continue the...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Iran (AP) Iran's nuclear chief says his country is planning to build at least two new nuclear power plants next to an existing facility that became operational with Russia's help last year. Fereidoun Abbasi was quoted by state TV as saying Sunday...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014, state television reported on Sunday, quoting the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization. "Iran will build a 1,000-...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Iran will not compromise on the West's demand to stop enriching uranium to 20 percent, said Fereydoon Abbasi Davani head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization. One of the crucial demands the western powers put forth is that Iran should restrict its...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 12 months ago
He was referring to the Iranian calendar year, which runs from March 2013 to March 2014. (AFP)
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
P5+1 demands, rejects pleas to halt uranium enrichment, allow Parchin access. Iran seemingly rejected one of the West's key demands in negotiations over the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program, with a senior official saying Tehran has "...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Tehran has "no reason" to suspend its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent one of the key demands of world powers engaging Iran in talks the head of its Atomic Energy Organization said. "We have no reason to cede on 20 percent, because we produce only...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 12 months ago
Breaking News Tehran has "no reason" to suspend its enrichment of uranium to 20% -- one of the key demands of world powers engaging Iran in talks -- the head of its Atomic Energy Organisation said. "We have no reason to cede on 20%, because we...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano and Iran's lead negotiator, Saeed Jalili, hailed intensive and very good talks on Iran's nuclear program yesterday, state television said. The upbeat assessment was seen as significant ahead of...
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Salem News
| 12 months ago
Saturday May 26, 2012 Search About Salem-News.com is the premiere Independent Online Newsgroup in the United States. While Iran and the world six powers wrapped up their talks on Thursday in an atmosphere apparently meant to resolve the nuclear issue,...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
July 2003 The head of the UN's nuclear agency said yesterday Iran should sign up to new treaty obligations allowing tougher inspections to make its nuclear power program more transparent. But Mohamed El Baradei offered Iran an incentive saying if it...
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Ynet News
| 12 months ago
GPO Senior US official privy to West's negotiations with Iran says White House skeptic about their chances, but US needs to be sure it made every diplomatic effort to stop Tehran from getting nuclear weapons Attila Somfalvi The United States has no...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Khazayee added in the letter that Barak's "baseless" remarks about Iran's pursuing of nuclear weapons were made by an official of a regime which threatens international and regional peace with its nuclear arsenal. Iran's reiteration that its nuclear...
