Category Archives: Iran

Begging to Be Attacked

See update below. A computer virus (or worm) hits the front pages: Stuxnet. The piece of “hypersophisticated malware” has apparently targeted the Iranian nuclear program; and might have been successful already. The sharp drop in the number of fed, spinning … Continue reading

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Craving for Attention

The medial hype before and after the couple of interviews given to several mainstream media in the U.S. by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his visit to New York on the occasion of the 65th General Assembly of the … Continue reading

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How Does an Enrichment Facility Look From Space?

When last year, at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, President Obama, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Sarkozy made public a secret uranium enrichment site at Fordow near Qom in Iran, one week after the Iranians had informed the … Continue reading

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Degrading Evidence

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano’s new Iran report contains certain remarkable parts which might deserve some analysis. To begin, there is nothing substantially new to report about Iran’s efforts to enrich uranium to low levels … Continue reading

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Thirty-Five Years Later

The map shows the worldwide distribution of nuclear power plants. Thirty-five years after Iran, under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, had begun constructing the light-water reactor in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr with the help of the German Kraftwerk Union AG, … Continue reading

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