reuters.com - 30 days ago
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VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors found "nothing to be worried about" in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday. Mohamed ElBaradei also told the New York Times that he was examining ...
nytimes.com - 30 days ago
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NEW YORK — In his last month as
head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei...
finds himself at the explosive crux of the world’s nuclear politics, ferrying messages between the Obama administration and Tehran. “They are talking ...
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Bunkers or Breakthrough?
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 11/1/2009
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It was near the end of a meeting
Wednesday between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a group...
of university students when the man who is Iran's highest political and spiritual authority asked if there were any other questions. He spotted...
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IRAN: Concern over fate of star student who spoke out to ...
jpost.com - 11/5/2009
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Hundreds of tons of weaponry, ten times the
size of the Karine A shipment of 2002, were...
seized in an overnight raid Tuesday by the Israeli navy, some 100 nautical miles west of Israel, officials said. Defense officials said the 140-meter long Francop, ...
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PM: Ship proves Iran's support for terror ...
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IAEA Not Worried About Iran Nuclear Site
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... Mohamed ElBaradei also told the New York Times that he was examining possible compromises to unblock a draft nuclear cooperation deal between Iran and three major powers that has foundered over Iranian objections.
The nuclear site, which Iran revealed in September three years after diplomats said Western spies first detected it, added to Western fears of covert Iranian efforts to develop atom bombs. Iran says it is enriching uranium only for electricity.
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ElBaradei: "Nothing To Be Worried About"
JammieWearingFool —
The UN's Islamic Atomic Energy Administration head assures us that there is nothing to worry about in regards to that newly reported nuclear facility that was revealed earlier this year. In fact he makes it sound like some sort of super sized storage unit, all for peaceful purposes doncha know. ElBaradei was quoted in a New York Times interview as saying his inspectors' initial findings at the fortified site beneath a desert mountain near the Shi'ite holy city of Qom were "nothing to be worried about." "The idea was to use it as a bunker under the mountain to protect things," ...
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