The details and exact wording of former UN watchdog of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei’s swap proposal after last year’s Geneva talks between Iran and world powers (permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, P5+1) have never been made public. Since the Tehran Declaration of May 17 by Iran, Brazil, [...]
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Indecent Proposal
Posted in HEU, IAEA, Iran, LEU, Natanz enrichment plant, NPT, P5+1, Technetium 99m, Tehran Research Reactor, tagged clenched fist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Manouchehr Mottaki, Obama administration on February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Under surveillance of inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran commenced today further enriching its low-enriched uranium (LEU) to just below 20%. This has to be considered a major diplomatic backlash for the West and Israel who have an enormous interest in preventing Iran from further enriching uranium. Iran pretends that it urgently [...]
Nuclear Iran
Posted in HEU, Iran, LEU, Qom nuclear site, USA, tagged Dennis C. Blair, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, NIE, uranium enrichment on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The unclassified part of Director of U.S. National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair’s report for the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence does not present anything new about Iran, nothing which has not been known so far. Of course, it mentions the new enrichment facility in Qom, but whether Iran has made the political decision to manufacture nuclear weapons [...]