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Iran strikes secret nuclear mining deal with Zimbabwe's Mugabe regime
Telegraph (London) ^ | Published: 10:00PM BST 24 Apr 2010 | By Itai Mushekwe and Harriet Alexander

Posted on 04/26/2010 7:55:11 AM PDT by Haiku Guy

Iran has struck a secret deal with Zimbabwe to mine its untapped uranium reserves in a move to secure raw material for its steadily expanding nuclear programme.

The agreement was sealed last month during a visit to Tehran by a close aide to Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president who last weekend celebrated 30 years in power, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.

In return for supplying oil, which Zimbabwe desperately needs to keep its faltering economy moving, Iran has been promised access to potentially huge deposits of uranium ore – which can be converted into the basic fuel for nuclear power or enriched to make a nuclear bomb.

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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afp; fakephotos; fauxtography; photoshop; pravdamedia
I posted this, mostly for the outrageously lame-o photoshop attached to the article, attributed to AFP.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe (R) stands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a parade in Bulawayo Photo: AFP

1 posted on 04/26/2010 7:55:11 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
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To: Haiku Guy

I think the folks at AFP actually used paper and scissors to make this one up...


2 posted on 04/26/2010 7:56:20 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gov. Chris Christie (R) won the NJ-6 held by Rep. Frank Pallone (D) by a 15.5% margin!)
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To: Haiku Guy

Oh, and I forgot...
Zero is ineffective...
And Iran just laughs.


3 posted on 04/26/2010 7:58:24 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gov. Chris Christie (R) won the NJ-6 held by Rep. Frank Pallone (D) by a 15.5% margin!)
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To: Haiku Guy

A target rich environment if I’ve ever seen one!!


4 posted on 04/26/2010 8:01:23 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: WellyP
This one joins AFP's Greatest Hits!

In the four-missile version of the image released Wednesday by Sepah News, the media arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, two major sections (encircled in red) appear to closely replicate other sections (encircled in orange). (Illustration by The New York Times; photo via Agence France-Presse)

Latest update at 3 p.m. Eastern Agence France-Presse has retracted the image as “apparently digitally altered.” More developments at the bottom of the post.

5 posted on 04/26/2010 8:05:42 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gov. Chris Christie (R) won the NJ-6 held by Rep. Frank Pallone (D) by a 15.5% margin!)
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To: Haiku Guy; PhilDragoo
I posted this, mostly for the outrageously lame-o photoshop attached to the article, attributed to AFP.

We can do better:


6 posted on 04/26/2010 8:10:37 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 459 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Haiku Guy

All it takes for evil to flourish
Is for good men to stay silent in the face of it.


7 posted on 04/26/2010 8:13:02 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: Haiku Guy
You can actually SEE the 'artifacts' around Ahmadinejad's head.

WORST. PHOTOSHOP. EVER.

8 posted on 04/26/2010 8:19:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Haiku Guy
coming soon
9 posted on 04/26/2010 8:33:58 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Through the annals of time, there has been the Judas kiss, the Brutus stab, and now, the Obama bow.)
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To: Haiku Guy; MamaDearest

I’m so impressed by Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s dip-lunatic finesse. Look at all the good breaking out worldwide.

Filing this in ...
Obama’s Outstanding Record of Dip-lunacy [and leftist dip-lunacy too]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2470815/posts


10 posted on 04/26/2010 8:40:14 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Weakening McCain strengthens our borders, weakens guest worker aka amnesty)
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To: Lazamataz

But those AFP editors passed it right through...


11 posted on 04/26/2010 10:20:09 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gov. Chris Christie (R) won the NJ-6 held by Rep. Frank Pallone (D) by a 15.5% margin!)
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To: Haiku Guy

This is like buying lamp shades from Hitler. MUGabey is a communist thug!!


12 posted on 04/26/2010 12:55:32 PM PDT by rogertarp
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To: Haiku Guy

Couldnt we have gotten the Zibabwe guy for President instead? Robert Mugabe would be doing far less damage to the Republic than the Kenyan Hussein Obama.


13 posted on 04/26/2010 2:37:05 PM PDT by blasater1960 ( Dt 30, Ps 111, The Torah is perfect, attainable, now and forever)
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To: Haiku Guy

Couldnt we have got the Zibabwe guy for President instead? Robert Mugabe would be doing far less damage to the Republic than the Kenyan Hussein Obama.


14 posted on 04/26/2010 3:07:37 PM PDT by blasater1960 ( Dt 30, Ps 111, The Torah is perfect, attainable, now and forever)
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To: null and void; Haiku Guy

15 posted on 04/26/2010 3:10:30 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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