Kuwait’s newspapers report today of exhilarated Kuwaiti ‘freedom fighters’ and ‘activists’ who had been on board the Mavi Marmara of the Gaza Flotilla. Some of them are notorious Islamists such as MP Dr. Waleed Al-Tabtabaie, who, as an example, had expressed his dismay about four brave females elected last year to the Kuwaiti Parliament by walking [...]
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Anti-Semites and Hypocrites on the Freedom Flotilla
Posted in Kuwait, Palestine, Turkey, tagged activists, anti-semitism, Gaza Flotilla, Islamists, Mavi Marmara, Waleed Al-Tabtabaie on June 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
To Be Ratified
Posted in IAEA, Iran, LEU, NPT, Turkey, tagged fuel rods, LEU, Manouchehr Mottaki, swap deal on May 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
See update below. The draft proposal of the swap deal with Iran for sending its 3.5% low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Turkey in exchange for 20% enriched uranium below as presented in a press conference in Tehran today. “Having met in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, the undersigned have agreed on the following declaration: 1. We reaffirm [...]
Finally, a Swap Deal
Posted in Brazil, IAEA, Iran, P5+1, Turkey, USA, tagged crippling sanctions, LEU, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, medical isotopes, Obama administration, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, swap deal, Tehran Research Reactor on May 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It has become clear soon after the failed Geneva Talks of October last year that the P5+1 swap proposal for most of Iran’s low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Russia with the vague hope of receiving fuel rods from France for its research reactor in Tehran somewhere down the road had never been serious. In particular, Iran’s defeated presidential [...]