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Brief On Iran
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Iran Working on P-2 Centrifuges in Secret: Exiles |
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Friday, 28 April 2006 |
By MATTHEW BIGG, REUTERS
BOI - Iran is working at secret military sites to develop a type of centrifuge machine that would enable it to make fuel for an atom bomb faster than current estimates, an exiled opposition group said on April 27.
The exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran, which has reported accurately on hidden Iranian nuclear sites in the past, said Tehran was researching "P-2" centrifuges in secret areas of its Natanz enrichment plant and the Ab-e Ali site near Tehran.
The NCRI, which is on a U.S. list of terrorist groups, told a Paris news conference that both areas were linked to Iran’s defense ministry. Tehran says its nuclear program is only for generating electricity and has no links with the military.
"They need months and not years to produce these (P-2) centrifuges," Mohammad Mohaddessin, a leading NCRI official, told Reuters in Paris where the group is based.
He said testing P-2s had yet to begin and Tehran was attempting to conceal the work from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by carrying it out on military sites and frequently relocating the work.
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Iranian exiles call for all-out sanctions against Tehran |
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Thursday, 27 April 2006 |
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Agence France Presse - The main exiled Iranian opposition group called Thursday for the United Nations to impose all-out sanctions on Tehran, claiming the regime was 18 months from the ability to build a nuclear bomb. "It is not too late. The international community can still stop the process" through sanctions, Mohammad Mohaddessin, head of foreign affairs for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told reporters in Paris. "The Iranian Resistance calls on the Security Council to swiftly impose comprehensive sanctions against the Iranian regime," he said, a day before the UN deadline for Iran to suspend sensitive nuclear work expires. Mohaddessin repeated claims by the NCRI -- which has in the past provided accurate information on Iran's nuclear work -- that "the regime is currently producing or procuring the necessary components to build a nuclear bomb". If nothing is done to stop it, "by the end of 2007, the Iranian regime will be in a position to build a nuclear bomb," he charged. more |
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Iran opposition group slams Germany over World Cup |
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Thursday, 27 April 2006 |
Agence France Presse, BERLIN - The main exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday that Germany was putting its members in danger by exchanging information with Iranian authorities for this summer's World Cup finals.
The German branch of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) claimed that August Hanning, a senior official in the German interior ministry, agreed on a recent visit to Tehran to provide "a continuous exchange of information" between Iran and Germany.
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Iran: Mullahs' leader vows to inflict harm against US interests |
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Thursday, 27 April 2006 |
BOI – The leader of the Iranian regime, Ali Khamenei, threatened the United States with terrorist attacks on its interests around the world if Iran was attacked.
His threat today comes just two days before the U.N. nuclear watchdog reports on whether the clerical regime is complying with U.N. demands to halt uranium enrichment.
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Iran: Conference on mullahs' terrorism at UK Parliament |
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Thursday, 27 April 2006 |
BOI – In a conference titled, "Mullahs: Paymasters of Terrorism" at the UK Parliament on April 25, members of parliament from both houses condemned the clerical regime's terrorist threats and underlined the need for democratic change in Iran.
The conference was held on the anniversary of the assassination of Prof. Kazem Rajavi, former representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran to the United Nations and Switezerland 16 years ago in Coupe, near Geneva.
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Iran's presence shadowy in Iraq |
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Thursday, 27 April 2006 |
By Iason Athanasiadis
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES - BAQOUBA, Iraq -- It is early evening when the call comes through to the Joint Command and Control office at the coalition outpost in central Baqouba. An Iraqi intelligence officer reports that 50 Iranians have been spotted inside a civilian compound in a nearby village.
Spc. Ryan Boschert, on his second tour of duty in Iraq, immediately instructs his Iraqi co-worker to have the Iraqi army investigate.
The telephone tip said the Iranians were at a village on the outskirts of Baqouba, the capital of Diyala province on the border with Shi'ite Iran, which is contested territory in the escalating strife between Iraq's Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. In recent months, the province has experienced an increase in the presence of Shi'ite militias and in sectarian attacks.
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West wants UN to pressure Iran |
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Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - With Russia and China opposed to sanctions against Iran, the West wants to ratchet up pressure bit by bit in the U.N. Security Council next week to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
But China and Russia are contemplating a meeting of the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency before any U.N. consideration of a report due by Friday by IAEA director Mohammed ElBaradei.
"There are proposals that the IAEA board of directors should have a meeting first before the council takes it up," China's U.N. ambassador, Wang Guangya, disclosed to reporters on Monday.
In Berlin, a European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Russia and China wanted to emphasise the primacy of the Vienna-based IAEA board.
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Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
By Steve Forbes
The Washington Times - At a Feb. 15 briefing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared Iran is "in open defiance" of the world community for violations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran's persistent and flagrant development of a uranium enrichment program, despite enormous international pressure, is just one more disquieting incident in Iran's long history of troublemaking on the international stage.
Miss Rice suggested there are a "number of levers" that could be used for dealing with Iran, speaking generally of diplomatic and economic sanctions. But the question must be raised: How seriously will Iran take warnings of future retribution when we still hesitate to enforce punishments that are already on the books?
On Oct. 23, 1983, the barracks of the U.S. Marine Corps were bombed in Beirut, Lebanon: 241 Marines were killed. In October 2001, the families of these fallen soldiers sued the government of Iran in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Ultimately, the Islamic Republic of Iran was found guilty for organizing, funding and managing the attacks. As punishment, the judge ruled Iran is financially liable and is now gathering evidence that will lay the foundation for the enormous damages figure Iran must pay in compensation for this heinous crime.
Since the 1983 bombing and the court ruling in 2003, Iran has not curbed its terrorist activities nor paid for its crimes. A memorial in Tehran actually celebrates the bombers who killed those 241 Marines, and declares Iran's intentions to continue its violent behavior, reading, "Memorial for two Lebanese Muslim youth who at dawn on Sunday, October 23, 1983,... killed 241 U.S. Marines ... [w]e don't know their names but we shall continue in their path."
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Dealing with Iran encourages its nuclear plan -U.S. |
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Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
DOHA (Reuters) - Conducting business with Iran encourages its nuclear ambitions, said U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman on Monday when asked for his reaction to a $7 billion (3.9 billion pounds) gas pipeline deal between Iran, Pakistan and India.
"Doing business with Iran, it seems to me, at a certain level encourages this," he told a news conference, referring to Iran's nuclear program.
The oil ministers of Iran, Pakistan and India told Reuters on Saturday they were very near a final agreement on a planned gas pipeline to pump Iranian gas to India, in defiance of U.S. opposition. Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri said he expected the final deal to be signed in Tehran in June.
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Iran’s president recruits terror master |
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Monday, 24 April 2006 |
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Sarah Baxter, Washington and Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv
Plot for revenge attacks on West
The Sunday Times - IRAN’S president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, according to intelligence experts and a former national security official in Washington.
US officials and Israel intelligence sources believe Imad Mugniyeh, the Lebanese commander of Hezbollah’s overseas operations, has taken charge of plotting Iran’s retaliation against western targets should President George W Bush order a strike on Iranian nuclear sites.
Mugniyeh is on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list for his role in a series of high-profile attacks against the West, including the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and murder of one of its passengers, a US navy diver.
Now in his mid-forties, Mugniyeh is reported to have travelled with Ahmadinejad in January this year from Tehran to Damascus, where the Iranian president met leaders of Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
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Monday, 24 April 2006 |
By ELAINE SHANNON
The Time Magazine - Ahead of this week's U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to abandon its nuclear activities and an expected report from nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, U.S. officials have been mapping a plan to hit the defiant regime. But the attacks will be financial, not military. The U.S. and its European allies will ask the council next month for a resolution that would pave the way for political and economic sanctions. If, as expected, Russia and China threaten a veto or stall, the U.S. intends to work outside the U.N. to isolate Tehran "diplomatically and economically," Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said last week. "Countries that trade with Iran ... ought to begin to rethink those commercial trade relationships."
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Iran launches Islamic dress drive |
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Saturday, 22 April 2006 |
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Authorities in Iran are to crack down on women failing to follow the regime's definition of good Islamic dress.
Some 200 extra police are to patrol the streets of Tehran confronting women who reveal ankles, sport thin headscarves or wear short or tight jackets. more |
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U.S. Wants Embargo on Arms to Iran |
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Saturday, 22 April 2006 |
An official urges nations to 'use their leverage' to halt Tehran's nuclear program. Russia says it intends to proceed with missile sales.
By Paul Richter and Kim Murphy, Times Staff Writers
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — The Bush administration, trying to increase pressure on Iran, called Friday for an international embargo on sales of arms to Tehran until the regime agrees to suspend its nuclear program.
Undersecretary of State R. Nicholas Burns said the United States believed it was "time for countries to use their leverage," including banning the sale of arms and "dual use" technologies that could be employed in Tehran's nuclear program to generate electricity or make a weapon.
Burns singled out Russia, a longtime military supplier to Iran that has announced its plans to proceed with a $900-million sale of Tor M-1 antiaircraft missiles over U.S. objections.
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Iran's "Nuclear Nationalism" |
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Saturday, 22 April 2006 |
By Roya Johnson
A nation advancing in the fields of science and technology usually inspires pride among its citizens. Iranians are no exception. Throughout Iran’s history, the traditional culture has been particularly focused on scientific and intellectual achievement, and these pursuits have been rewarded with extremely high social honor.
Unfortunately, the present regime in Iran is turning the honorable and dignified natural quest for technological achievement into propaganda about progress for peaceful power generation, in order to ineffectively camouflage its pursuit of nuclear weapons technology. They seek to delude Iranians into believing there is something positive in the billions of dollars lavished on a nuclear program while the economy and lives of ordinary Iranians languish. Technological advancement in Iran today serves to advance a war mongering, Armageddon threatening, fundamental Islamist Iranian government.
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Iran Bombs Kurdish Camp in Iraq |
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Saturday, 22 April 2006 |
By Shamal Aqrawi - Reuters
ABC News - ARBIL, Iraq - Iranian forces shelled Iranian Kurdish rebel positions inside mountainous northern Iraq early on Friday to repel an attack, an Iraqi Kurdish official said.
"This morning Iranian Kurdish fighters infiltrated the border into the Iranian side and the Iranian army bombed the area and repelled them. The shelling hit Iraqi land at Sidakan," said Saadi Pira, an official in Iraq's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party.
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