Tag Archives: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Allahu Akbar

World Press Photo of the year 2009 was awarded to Pietro Masturzo, an Italian freelance journalist who took a picture of women shouting Allahu akbar on the roof top of a building in Tehran after the disputed presidential elections in … Continue reading

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Indecent Proposal

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 … Continue reading

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Domestic Power Struggles

The uranium swap charade in Iran enters the next round. Last Tuesday, President Ahmadinejad said in an interview on State TV that the suggested nuclear deal “was acceptable”. At a surprise attendance at the Security Conference in Munich, his Minister of … Continue reading

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Nuclear Iran

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 … Continue reading

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A Network of Covert Uranium Enrichment Plants

Today’s announcement by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the now rapid construction of a further ten uranium enrichment plants with up to 500’000 centrifuges (the locations of five had been decided already) definitely proves that Iran is seeking a network of … Continue reading

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