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Counterproductive Sanctions Policy

Posted in IAEA, Iran, LEU, tagged , , , , , , , on January 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Iran’s new Foreign Minister and head of the country’s atomic energy organization had announced yesterday that Iran has now set up a special facility at Esfahan’s Uranium Conversion Plant to manufacture fuel plates for the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR). According to Salehi, the country has now stockpiled 40 kg of up to 20% enriched uranium. TRR [...]

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Bushehr Power Plant

Posted in IAEA, Iran, LEU, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

While, after Jeffrey Goldberg’s lengthy article last week, a heated debate at The Atlantic currently discusses pros and cons of bombing Iran and its nuclear facilities, and former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton warns that Israel and the US are going to miss an almost historical chance to destroy the Bushehr light water reactor before it is loaded [...]

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The Failed Swap Deal

Posted in HEU, IAEA, Iran, LEU, NPT, P5+1, Technetium 99m, Tehran Research Reactor, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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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The Vienna Group Dismisses the Tehran Declaration

Posted in Brazil, Geneva talks, IAEA, Iran, LEU, UN Security Council, USA, tagged , , , on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Just before permanent and non-permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) voted on Resolution 1929 which imposes further sanctions on Iran, Brazil’s representative Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti gave a remarkable statement on why Brazil would vote against the resolution. Of course she extensively referred to the Tehran Declaration of May 17 in which Turkey, Brazil and Iran [...]

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Obama’s Letter to Lula

Posted in Brazil, IAEA, Iran, LEU, Turkey, tagged , , , , , , , on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

President Obama’s letter of April 20 to Brazilian’s President Lula da Silva has been leaked yesterday. Large parts deal with the proposal worked out by former nuclear watchdog Mohamed Elbaradei last October with regard to the fuel swap, Iran’s golden opportunity to get both fuel for its research reactor in Tehran (TRR) and sort of [...]

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