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Note: The following blog entry is a quote: http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/20268.htm Iranian Nuclear Chief: We'll Progress In Nuclear Fusion Iranian Atomic Energy Organization director Ali Akbar Salehi has said that Iran is researching nuclear fusion and that it will make great progress in that area. Source: ISNA, Iran, September 22, 2009 Posted at: 2009-09-23 ### ### Note: The following blog entry is a quote: http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/20234.htm Blog Details Iran: We've Started Producing Improved Centrifuges Iranian Atomic Energy Organization director Ali Akbar Salehi says that Iran has begun to produce a new generation of improved centrifuges, and that he assesses that Israel is not...

Iran is vigorously pursuing several missile and space programs at an almost feverish pace with impressive achievements. Iranian missile technology now seems to be more advanced than that of North Korea. A recent report claims that it will take the Iranians just six years to develop a nuclear warhead that could be carried by a ballistic missile.

Mossad head Meir Dagan assured Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Saudi Arabia would allow IAF jets to fly over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran's nuclear facilities, The Sunday Times reported. The British paper reported that Dagan held talks with Saudi officials earlier this year on the topic. However, the Prime Minister's Office issued an official denial on Sunday morning, saying the report was "completely false and baseless." The Israeli media has already carried unconfirmed reports that high-ranking officials, including former prime minister Ehud Olmert, held meetings with Saudi officials, but the kingdom has denied the reports. "The...

Ahmadinejad has called on the United States and Britain to stop interfering in Iran's internal affairs, threatening to deprive them of a place in "the circle of friendship with the Iranian nation." Ahmadinejad evidently took his lead from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had already warned foreign leaders not to meddle in Iran's domestic affairs. Khameni declared that continued interference would lead Iran to respond "in other fields". Clearly a reference to the country's nuclear or advanced missile capabilities. So while the world's attention is riveted on the drama playing out on the streets of Iran where courageous opponents of Ahmadinejad...

On Sunday June 14, 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be going before his nation, and before the world, to deliver his much anticipated foreign policy speech. The two issues he is certain to focus on are Iran’s nuclear threat and Israel’s negotiations with the Palestinian Arabs As he prepares to lay out his vision, this man is under unimaginable pressure to succumb to the will of the entire international community, of many Israelis, and even of his own defense minister, Ehud Barak.

A strong majority of the Israeli people this week messaged their prime minister to withstand US pressure aimed at bulldozing the creation of an Arab state on historic Jewish lands. According to the results of a poll published across the local press Friday afternoon, shortly before the start of the Sabbath, nearly six out of every 10 Israelis think Benjamin Netanyahu should reject the Obama administration's demands to end completely the construction of communities in the biblical heartland of Samaria and Judea.

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Preventing the Islamic Republic of Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is the core of this new online advocacy campaign. As individuals, each of us is powerless. However, together - thousands and thousands of us - we have a chance. That's where you come in. Our community - you - can have an impact. But we need to grow quickly. And we need to be financially self-sustaining. We will provide the infrastructure and a general course of action, but it is the DeNuke Iran community - thousands and thousands of people - who will drive this campaign with zeal and energy...

As insurgents close in on Islamabad, The Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner reports that Taliban forces are on the verge of seizing Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal—which has the capability to hit India, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. This morning Taliban units took control of the Buner region of Pakistan, bringing their burgeoning insurgency within 60 miles of the capital city of Islamabad. The government called the advance a breach of a recently-signed peace agreement. But what did they expect? Any store owner who has ever faced ever-increasing protection payments to local gangsters could have told the Pakistanis that their recent string of capitulations...

As Iran marks the 30th anniversary of its Islamic revolution, its regime has finally entered the space age with technology available in the West for more than 50 years. American intelligence officials and private arms specialists said that a new satellite and the rocket that launched it on Tuesday were the equivalent of Sputnik era technology, so named for the satellite launched on Oct. 4, 1957 that sparked the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Iranian satellite, named Omid or Hope, was the same kind of low altitude elliptical orbit technology long surpassed by faster...

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Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years. This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and...

Jun. 21, 2007 17:38 | Updated Jun. 21, 2007 17:46 House urges UN to charge Ahmadinejad By BY HILARY LEILA KRIEGER AND JTA The US House of Representatives urged the UN Security Council Wednesday to charge Iran's president under genocide conventions. The non-binding resolution, initiated by Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Steve Rothman (D-N.J.), passed by 411-2. It cites an October 27 speech in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad allegedly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and calls for the Security Council to charge him under its 1948 convention for the prevention of genocide. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) attempted...

The nightmare scenario of a nuclear attack happening in the US would be catastrophic, causing millions of deaths, our own refugee crisis, abandoned cities, and economic collapse. Adrian Morgan documents the shocking truth that no government agency will: just how real and close the threat is. Read this chilling article here: Click Here to read NOW !

WASHINGTON: Every week, a group of experts from agencies around the U.S. government - including the CIA, the Pentagon, the FBI and the Energy Department - meets to assess Washington's progress toward solving a grim problem: If a terrorist set off a nuclear bomb in an American city, could the United States determine who detonated it and who provided the nuclear material? So far, the answer is maybe. That uncertainty lies at the center of a vigorous, but carefully cloaked debate within the Bush administration. It focuses on how to refashion the U.S. approach to nuclear deterrence in an attempt...

Report Supports Sea-, Space-Based Missile DefensesGlobal Security Newswire, August 4, 2006 The United States should focus on developing sea- and space-based missile defenses rather than expanding ground-based systems beyond the interceptors already deployed in Alaska and California, according to a experts’ report issued last month (see GSN, May 11).“Near-term options exist for developing viable sea-and space based defense within the next decade resulting in a comprehensive, global layered missile defense system,� says the 202-page report from the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense, the Space Relationship and the 21st century.“This option would complement the [Ground-based Midcourse Defense] system currently being...

Iran issued a stark warning on Sunday that it would change its nuclear policy for the worse if the West continued to apply pressure on it to abandon uranium enrichment. “Naturally, if Europe goes down the wrong path, we will definitely change our path and act proportionately”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi told reporters during his weekly press conference. His remarks were reported in the state-run news agency ISNA. The United Nations Security Council adopted a legally-binding resolution earlier this month ordering Tehran to freeze all its uranium enrichment activities by August 31 or face possible sanctions. “The Islamic Republic...

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea loaded booster rockets onto a launch pad and moved about 10 fuel tanks to a launch site in preparation to test-fire a long-range missile that could reach as far as the U.S. mainland, a newspaper reported Saturday. South Korea and the United States made the assessment after analyzing satellite images, the Chosun Ilbo reported, citing an unnamed high-level South Korean government official. On Friday, a U.S. government official said Pyongyang was accelerating preparations for testing the missile.

Thursday, April 20, 2006 The Insanity of the United Nations The United Nations has finally responded to the Iranian nuclear threat. Believe it or not elected Iran has been elected to be Vice Chair of the U.N. Disarmament Commission. Iranian Ambassador Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi used his ascension to claim that Israel's nuclear stockpile is among "the major sources of concern with regard to global peace and security." Arutz Sheva quotes Danesh-Yazdi's statement: "The continued existence of thousands of nuclear warheads in the stockpiles of the nuclear-weapon States, which could destroy the entire globe many times over, and the increasing resort to...

Most Westerners read the map of the world like a Broadway marquee: north is top of the bill—America, Britain, Europe, Russia—and the rest dribbles away into a mass of supporting players punctuated by occasional Star Guests: India, China, Australia. Everyone else gets rounded up into groups: “Africa,” “Asia,” “Latin America.” But if you’re one of the down-page crowd, the center of the world is wherever you happen to be. Take Iran: it doesn’t fit into any of the groups. Indeed, it’s a buffer zone between most of the important ones: to the west, it borders the Arab world; to the...

Apr. 12, 2006 8:19 | Updated Apr. 12, 2006 8:30 Peres: Israel should stay out of Iran conflict By JPOST.COM STAFF Kadima MK Shimon Peres said Wednesday that Israel should stay out of the Iran conflict, saying that if Israel were to take preemptive military measures it would isolate itself in the campaign against the country. Peres told Army Radio that Israel should to be patient and allow the US to manage the situation. "The US has placed the Iran (nuclear) issue at the top of its agenda and, despite the worrying state of affairs, Israel doesn't need to get...

Response To An Ignorant Young American Woman (Parts 1 & 2) Posted by Chana | Tue, Apr 04, 2006, 5:11pm On a closed mailing list I participate in a young American woman posted a long diatribe claiming the United States and its allies are about to invade and or nuke Iran. It went on to describe the United States and Israel as the two most dangerous nations on Earth and as terrorists and to defend the right of other nations (i.e.: Iran) to develop nuclear weapons to stand against American and Israeli imperialism. My first instinct was to ignore such...

War and Peace by Yashiko Sagamori Three weeks ago, while discussing Iran's nuclear ambitions, I wrote: If one Middle Eastern country is not allowed to have nuclear arms, then the same must be true for another, unless we decide to resort to discrimination and profiling. And since we have denounced any form of discrimination against all enemies, foreign and domestic, it's not that difficult to predict where IAEA will pitch its tents next. In Israel, of course. A few days later, as if on cue, Jack Straw, the British foreign minister said: If you want to see a nuclear-free Middle...

Iran’s Ahmadinejad: West opposes our nukes to let Israel live on Wed. 15 Mar 2006 Iran Focus Tehran, Iran, Mar. 15 – Iran’s radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the circumstances were ripe for the “collapse of the Zionist regime” and that the West was highlighting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in the world arena in order to “divert attention away from the issue of Palestine”. “The regime occupying Qods (Jerusalem) was set up to create insecurity and confrontation in our region. If one day tranquillity came about, it would mean the death of this regime”, Ahmadinejad said...

Tuesday, March 14, 2006The Straw Man Yesterday I turned on CNN International and promptly saw British Foreign Minister Jack Straw once again equivocating the Iranian nuclear threat with the "threat" posed by Israel's nuclear weapons and saying that once Iran is dealt with Israel will have to be dealt with. I don't know if this was merely a rebroadcast of his statement last Thursday or something new since I didn't catch the story from the beginning. Last week he added: If you want to see a nuclear-free Middle East, you've got to remove that threat from Iran, including the rhetorical...

Pre-empting Iran's ambitions TODAY'S COLUMNIST By Ilan Berman March 3, 2006 With some sort of showdown with Iran over its nuclear ambitions looming on the horizon, a divisive new foreign policy debate has sprung up in Washington. At issue is whether the United States can and should carry out a pre-emptive attack on Iran's numerous nuclear facilities. Proponents of military action contend that the United States is capable of quickly and effectively neutralizing Iran's nuclear program through a few surgical aerial strikes. Detractors, meanwhile, say that such steps are not feasible, and if attempted will create catastrophic regional consequences. Few...

Saturday, February 25, 2006Iran, Hamas, and the Threat of Nuclear Holocaust The front page of the Arabic website of the military wing of Hamas, the Ezzedeen alQassam Brigades, features an animated graphic at the top on the right hand column. It's a black rectangle with a red Star of David. The Jewish star shatters with a nuclear explosion. This graphic is notably missing from the English language website. Only the Jerusalem Post and a few pro-Israel blogs found this particularly newsworthy. Interestingly enough this graphic appeared on the exact same day Iran offered to fund the Hamas-lead Palestinian government. For...

by Mark Finkelstein February 21, 2006 - 11:27. You can take the man out of CBS and NBC, but apparently you can't take the MSM out of the man. Long-time MSMer Marvin Kalb, former moderator of Meet the Press, is now a Fox News contributor. But the specialist on foreign affairs is still offering up opinions that would put him in the mainstream back at CBS or NBC. Interviewed by Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, Kalb offered a very grim take on the nuclear stalemate with Iran, suggesting that any diplomatic or economic sanctions aimed at the country could result...

Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal—maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.When the latest Osama bin Laden tape aired on al Jazeera last month, Michael Scheuer's phone was one of the first to start ringing off the hook with calls from journalists seeking a quick soundbite for that day's news cycle. Scheuer has credentials on the subject that few can match: By the time September 11 happened, he had been studying and trailing bin...

DAVOS - UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Friday called on the United States to provide Iran with nuclear reactors, and urged Tehran to declare a moratorium on enriching uranium for at least eight years. He said eight or nine years would enable the country to earn the confidence of the international community that it was really interested in nuclear energy - not nuclear weapons.

Saturday, January 14, 2006 On Iran: President Bush Gets It Right Yesterday, after a meeting with new German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Bush made some comments on Iran that clearly demonstrates that on this one issue he clearly understands what the stakes are: Iran armed with a nuclear weapon poses a grave threat to the security of the world [...] The current president of Iran has announced that the destruction of Israel is an important part of their agenda, and that's unacceptable, and the development of a nuclear weapon, it seems to me, would make him a step closer to...

Israel denies it's about to bomb Iran nuke site Jan 2, 2006 Israeli military chief Dan Halutz has discounted an imminent air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities as Iran's President delivered a diatribe against the Jewish state. "I don't think an operation by the Israel defence forces against the Iranians will be necessary soon," General Halutz said. "All political options for halting the Iranian program must be exhausted before other options are considered." He appeared to be toning down the implications of recent statements by Israeli leaders that Iran was only three months away from achieving the technological know-how...

The Iranian Parliament approved a bill on Sunday that requires the government to block intrusive inspections of Iran's facilities if the UN nuclear agency refers the Iranian program to the UN Security Council. Of 197 lawmakers present, 183 voted in favor of the bill. The session was broadcast live on state-run radio, four days in advance of an International Atomic Energy Agency board meeting to consider referring Teheran the council for possible sanctions. When the bill becomes law, as is expected, it will strengthen the government's hand in resisting international pressure to abandon uranium enrichment, a process that can be...

Arab States Silent on Iran's Remarks By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 6 minutes ago CAIRO, Egypt - Arab governments remained silent Thursday as international condemnation grew over a call by Iran's new president for Israel to be destroyed. Despite the silence, analysts in the region said Tehran's Arab rivals may quietly be pleased to see the radical regime further isolated by its extremism. However, some Palestinians — who would have the task of destroying Israel according to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — rejected the remarks. "We have recognized the state of Israel and we are pursuing a peace...

Military action against Iran is inconceivable and diplomacy could still end the international standoff over Tehran's nuclear program, said British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, whose country plays a key role in negotiations. Iran insists its nuclear program is designed for generating electricity, but the Bush administration believes Tehran intends to produce atomic weapons and has refused to rule out military strikes. "All United States presidents always say all options are open. But it is not on the table, it is not on the agenda. I happen to think that it is inconceivable," Straw told British Broadcasting Corp. radio on Wednesday....

China has been selling its relatively cheap but lower quality products with ease both to US and EU. With US, China is running a trade deficit of about $100 billion a year. A similar trade deficit exists with the EU. The Chinese do not feel obliged to balance the trade. They use FDI and dollar reserves in US and elsewhere as a tool to enhance their trade position. Though the US does not like it, only recently it has started to flex its muscles. Trade imbalance discussions have been going on for the last five years but the US took...

That figure is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who became mayor of Tehran less than two years ago. He won the presidency in a landslide, crushing the mullah-cum business tycoon Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the pillars of the regime since its inception in 1979. Ahmadinejad's victory means that Khamenehi, who has established himself as head of the most radical faction within the Khomeinist establishment, now controls all levers of power for the first time. He will now be able to put his own men in charge of all key government departments. Any idea of Western-style reforms to please the restive middle classes...

WASHINGTON -- Iran is not only covertly developing nuclear weapons, it is already testing ballistic missiles specifically designed to destroy America's technical infrastructure, effectively neutralizing the world's lone superpower, say U.S. intelligence sources, top scientists and western missile industry experts. The radical Shiite regime has conducted successful tests to determine if its Shahab-3 ballistic missiles, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, can be detonated by a remote-control device while still in high-altitude flight. Scientists, including President Reagan's top science adviser, William R. Graham, say there is no other explanation for such tests than preparation for the deployment of Electromagnetic Pulse...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Almost six out of 10 adults in Britain, France and Germany say that Iran does not pose a nuclear threat to Europe, according to the findings of a new CNN/TIME poll.Iran says its nuclear program is nothing for the world to fear and will only be used to generate much-needed electricity. But Washington and the EU fear Iran could use its nuclear plants to produce bombs.In his State of the Union Address in February, U.S. President George W. Bush named Iran as "the world's primary state sponsor of terror."He said the United States must "confront regimes...

Israeli officials said on Friday U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's comments about a possible Israeli strike on Iran was a message to Europe to take a tougher stance against Tehran's nuclear program. The comments came as European leaders sought to diffuse tensions, stressing that diplomacy would remain the strategy pursued. Cheney said on Thursday in an interview that there was concern Israel might attack Iran if it "became convinced the Iranians had significant nuclear capability" due to Tehran's stated goal to destroy the Jewish state. Israeli officials said Cheney's remarks were not aimed at Israel but were intended as a...

As Iran's possession of nuclear weapons looms ever closer, the threat these weapons pose to Israel has received much attention. Those who attended AFSI's {Americans For A Safe Israel) national conference on December 5 heard Professor Louis Rene Beres describe the Daniel Project, a group of privately funded experts who concluded that weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a "rational" enemy (not an irrational nonstate enemy) were the single most urgent threat to Israel's survival. Iran clearly fits that bill. But the threat is not limited to Israel. In November 1990 I wrote an editorial in Outpost entitled...

Dec. 13, 2004 20:20 Ya'alon: West must be prepared to strike Iran By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon indicated Monday that Israel and the West needed to be prepared for using "other options" against Iran if diplomatic pressures don't prevent Teheran from acquiring nuclear weapons. "We believe that there is a chance of success when talking about the elimination of the Iranian capabilities of weapons of mass destruction, first of all using political and economic resolutions," Ya'alon told a conference on security and economics. "From my point of view and my recommendation, this has to...

Tehran and Moscow are working out technical details of an agreement to bring a nuclear power plant in the Iranian port city of Bushehr on line in 2006, the Chairman of the Russian Federation Council, Sergei Mironov, said here Saturday.Putin is NOT America's friend In August, Iran said the plant would become operational in October 2006, a year behind the schedule. Mironov, who arrived in Tehran Saturday for a one-day visit, stressed Iran's right to peaceful nuclear technology in the framework of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), of which the country is a signatory. During his two-day visit, Mironov...

Hello and Shalom, The following is a very interesting article about the Iranian nuclear program, the Iranian regime, their main target (Israel), what drives them, how can we stop it, what do IDF personel think about it, and what would happen. Pleace take your time to read this, and I would thank you if you post your opinion. Iranian rocket scientist Col. Ali Mahmud Mimand fell into semi-consciousness at his desk. It appeared to be a heart attack. As the brain behind Iran's efforts to produce the Shihab-3 missile capable of reaching Israel, his anxious subordinates rushed him to a...

Kyrgyzstan intercepts 60 plutonium containers BISHKEK: Kyrgyz security forces have foiled an attempt to sell 60 containers of plutonium-239, a substance used in nuclear weapons, a national security committee spokeswoman said on Tuesday. It remained unclear how much plutonium was captured, but an official said its grade was high enough to make a so-called “dirty bomb” that disburses high doses of radiation over large areas. One man was detained during the seizure of the plutonium last week while another suspect escaped, the spokeswoman said. “Plutonium-239 is not used in Kyrgyzstan. The security service is trying to establish how this material...

NEW YORK A reasonable case can be made that the country most critical to the geo-strategic fortunes of the United States these days is one with which it has no diplomatic or significant commercial relations: Iran. The mullahs in Tehran are in a position to be helpful in neighboring Iraq or foment chaos through their Shiite surrogates. To the east, they are well placed to assist another major American undertaking, the democratization and pacification of Afghanistan, or they can undermine the process through support of regional warlords. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran's underwriting of Hezbollah and training of Palestinian militants...

Sep. 28, 2004. 01:00 AM North Korea fuels nuclear war fears Turns plutonium into weapons Accuses U.S. of boosting threats EDITH M. LEDERER ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS—North Korea has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said yesterday. Warning that the danger of war on the Korean peninsula "is snowballing," Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon blamed the United States for intensifying threats to attack the communist nation and destroying the basis for negotiations to resolve the dispute over...

Who will be the first to perish, in a "nuclear sea of fire"? Will it be Israel? Hassan Rohani, the public face of Iran's nuclear programme, has recently boasted of producing uranium hexafluoride gas out of yellowcake in Isfahan, of reaching the last stage of uranium enrichment at a site in Natanz, and of either producing or being able to produce heavy water in Arak. While the regime maintains the diplomatic pretence of seeking only to generate electricity (as North Korea did till the eve of its sudden public declaration that it had nuclear arms), there have been innumerable bloodthirsty...

Last week Robert Meeropol visited the University of Maryland to excoriate the United States’ War on Terrorism. Don’t fret if the name doesn’t ring a bell. Meeropol isn’t a mainstream figure in American politics, academia or the arts. His opinion was sought not for any particular experience or expertise he can bring to the subject. Meeropol was selected for the forum on a more superficial basis: His parents were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the American Communist Party members turned Soviet spies who were executed for helping Soviets acquire the secrets of the atom bomb.Meeropol (he took the name of the...

"The Republicans have allowed a communist dictatorship to flourish eight jet minutes from our borders! We must support anti-Castro fighters. So far these freedom fighters have received no help from our government." -- Democratic presidential candidate, Oct. 1960 "George Bush and the Republicans in Washington have run the most inept foreign policy in the modern history of this country! It has been a failure!" -- Democratic presidential Candidate, April 2004. No, friends, it didn't start with this campaign. Indeed, Kerry apes his idol (JFK) faithfully. Problem was, during the '60 presidential campaign Kennedy left out the sly smile, the shifty...