Monthly Archives: May 2010

New Sanctions Underway

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Muller

The New York Times has the draft proposal for a new UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution against Iran. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has obviously worked too hard in previous weeks to get Russia and China aboard for new ‘crippling’ sanctions … Continue reading →

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To Be Ratified

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Muller

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, … Continue reading →

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Finally, a Swap Deal

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Muller

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 … Continue reading →

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Clotilde Reiss

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Muller

See update below. Today Clotilde Reiss has luckily been allowed to leave Iran. The 24-year-old, as has widely been reported, ‘language teacher’ had been arrested on July 1, 2009 at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport when trying to leave the … Continue reading →

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Mordechai Vanunu

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Muller

Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who has been kidnapped in Italy by Israel’s intelligence operatives in Italy in 1986 and has spent 18 years behind bars because of disclosing the country’s covert nuclear weapons program and the Dimona nuclear plant has … Continue reading →

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