[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will reveal more names to the public if "the racketeers" do not stop meddling in public properties.
In an address in Isfahan on Friday, Ahmadinejad said "Some asked me why I mentioned some names, and I say this is just the beginning of the way, if they do not stop plotting against the people and the government ... all of them will be introduced to the public."
The news comes a few days after Ahmadinejad lashed out at former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a live TV debate with his main presidential election opponent, Mir-Hossein Moussavi.
Ahmadinejad accused the Rafsanjani family as well as some other prominent political figures in the Islamic Revolution of "political sabotage" and "money laundering".
Ahmadinejad who is seeking a second term in office, added in the Friday speech that "They preferred their families and their groups' benefits over the benefits of the public and little by little, rings of power and wealth started to shape, till they were detached from the workaday public," Fars news agency reported.
With the presidential campaign running at full steam, Hassan Rowhani, Head of the Center for Strategic Research also took a swipe at Ahmadinejad for "rabble-rousing" ahead of the June 12 election.
"Rabble-rousing, psychological warfare and leveling accusations against high-ranking officials cannot buy people's vote," said Rowhani, who is also a representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in Iran's National Security Council.
He added that the Ahmadinejad administration should address concerns regarding government's activities rather than attempting to divert public attention by accusing prominent officials of corruption.
The Hashemi Rafsanjani family has decided to file a lawsuit against President Ahmadinejad alleging that he has accused them of false accusations and committed mass public deception.
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There's been a p*ssing contest between the IRGC and the mullahs over control Iran's economic assets for the past few years. A couple of years ago, the IRGC surpassed the mullahs in ownership of Iran's major businesses.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Lebanon goes to the polls on Sunday in a high-stakes election set to determine whether the troubled nation will keep on a pro-Western course or take a tilt towards Iran.
Close to 11,000 government employees involved in Lebanon's parliamentary election began casting their ballots on Thursday ahead of the weekend vote.
"All those in charge of the polling stations on Sunday are casting their ballots today," a government official told AFP.
Security measures were tight with monitors and security forces at every polling station, the official said.
The vote is being fought out between a U.S.-backed coalition and an alliance headed by pro-Iranian Shiite group Hezbollah in a multi-confessional country scarred throughout its modern history by war and political instability.
Washington said it will review its aid to Lebanon in the light of the outcome of Sunday's election.
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VIENNA - Iran is still defying the UN Security Council and has so far amassed 1,359 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6), the UN atomic watchdog said Friday. Estimates vary, but analysts calculate that anywhere between 1,000-1,700 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium would be needed to convert it into highly-enriched uranium suitable to make a single atomic bomb.
Iran has estimated, that between November 18, 2008 and May 31, 2009 ... a total 500 kilogrammes of low-enriched UF6 was produced at its enrichment plant in Natanz, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a restricted report, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.
Prior to that, Iran had already amassed 839 kilos of low-enriched UF6. Commenting on this increase, a senior official close to the IAEA said that most of it can be attributed to the number of additional [centrifuge] machines.
In his latest report issued to IAEA member states, Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said that as of May 31, Iran had 4,920 uranium enrichment centrifuges running, up from 3,936 such machines operating in February. An additional 2,301 centrifuges have been installed but are not yet in operation.
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Its so funny how the world freaks out about this ? Is this even news and why? HOW MUCH ENRICHED URANIUM DOES THE US HAVE?
what about other countries .Israel? pakistan china? India ..why is that ok? If you destroy your enemies ..your friends will will become them
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To be pedantic, low enriched Uranium is what is used in "peaceful" reactors for power generation [whisper] and for Plutonium generation, too.[/whisper] Anything between 5% and 90% (weapons grade) is low enriched. Enough to sustain a chain reaction, not enough to go BOOM!!!!
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That's only from the centrifuges Iran has declared.
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Its so funny how the world freaks out about this ? Is this even news and why?
Probably because Iran is a theocratic oligarchy (I've go so far as to say kleptocracy) and a global loose-cannon?
HOW MUCH ENRICHED URANIUM DOES THE US HAVE?
Enough.
what about other countries .Israel? pakistan china? India ..why is that ok?
With the exception of perhaps Pakistan, none of the other nations have are pathologically-inclined to remove another nation and its people off the globe because they're Jewish. I exclude Hamas and Hesb'allah; they're only murderous rabble.
If you destroy your enemies ..your friends will will become them
There are no 'friends' between nations. There are only coinciding interests.
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Low enriched uranium sounds like no big deal, but it is. If you can enrich to 5%, then you can enrich it highly enough to make a bomb. Just run the centrifuges longer.
More significantly, the enrichment process gets faster as you go. The first 5% tales by far the longest.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who again this week called the Holocaust a great deception, should visit the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
In an interview in Germany with NBC News shortly before making his own trip to Buchenwald to pay homage to victims of World War Two and the Holocaust, Obama was asked what he thought the Iranian leader could learn from his visit to the site. He should make his own visit, Obama said. I have no patience for people who would deny history. And the history of the Holocaust is not something speculative.
Those are good words. Bambi got that one exactly right.
This week Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a great deception during a speech containing his latest verbal assault on Israel, which the Islamic Republic does not recognize.
Obama noted that his great uncle helped liberate a camp of Buchenwald during World War Two. The concentration camp in eastern Germany was created by the Nazis and an estimated 56,000 people, mostly Jews, were killed there.
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I would still prefer the US president not to invite undesirable men to a country he doesn't rule.
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I got this in an email a while ago:
It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.
He did this because he said in words to this effect:
'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'
This week, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets
How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center ... 'NEVER HAPPENED' ... because it offends some Muslim in the U.S. ???
I wonder why Nutjob feels the need to deny the Holocaust.
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At Omaha Beach, Gordon Brown, with astounding tackiness, declared it to be "Obama Beach". But following with that idea, maybe they should refer to Buchenwald as "Obamawald".
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I thought many of the old veterans looked a little... brittle during Barry's speech, especailly the gentleman the camera caught bent over with his head nearly between his knees holding his ears. I thought Sarko did an excellent job, as did Carla.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who again this week called the Holocaust a great deception, should visit the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp""
why? so he can get an Olbermann tingle down his leg?
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"He should make his own visit," Obama said. "I have no patience for people who would deny history. And the history of the Holocaust is not something speculative."
I don't care for Obama, but objectively he said the right thing here. That should be noted.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Candidates from the ruling March 14 alliance have expressed concerns over the future of Lebanon's relations with the international community if the March 8 alliance, headed by Shiite resistance group Hezbollah, wins the upcoming elections.
Amid increasing concerns about Iran's interference in Lebanese affairs, candidates of the June 7 elections have spoken out against a possible win by the March 8 alliance as Hezbollah is widely disliked in the West and is seen by the United States as a terrorist organization.
Saudi's role
If March 8 comes to power economic sanctions might be imposed on Lebanon and international aid is most likely to stop, Misbah al-Ahdab, a candidate for the Tripoli constituency, told Al Arabiya.
Ahdab added he feared regional powers such as Saudi Arabia may no longer support a March 8 ruled Lebanon as the opposition group, backed by Iran and Syria, are at odds with them.
"It was Saudi Arabia that sponsored Lebanon's national reconciliation with the Taif Agreement. It supported the whole of Lebanon without discrimination. Comparing Saudi to other countries that incite sedition is an insult that no Lebanese citizen can accept."
The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri started the Cedar Revolution that called for the withdrawal of the Syrian army and divided Lebanon into two camps, March 14 and March 8.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Traces of manmade uranium have been discovered at a second site in Syria and Iran has expanded the number of centrifuges enriching uranium to almost 5,000, according to reports released by the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Friday.
In report on Syria, the International Atomic Energy Agency said its inspectors found uranium particles at a research reactor near Damascus that would not normally be expected there and had asked Syria to explain how they got there.
Inspectors had found "anthropogenic natural uranium particles in environmental samples taken in 2008 from the hot cells of the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) facility in Damascus," the report said.
It was not the type of uranium that would normally be expected to be found at this kind of reactor, a senior official close to the IAEA said on condition of anonymity.
Syria had responded to the agency's "request for an explanation concerning the presence and origin of the anthropogenic natural uranium particles found at the MNSR," the report said.
The IAEA has been examining U.S. intelligence reports that Syria had almost built a North Korean-designed nuclear reactor meant to yield bomb-grade plutonium before Israel bombed it in 2007.
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VIENNA - Iran is still defying the UN Security Council and has so far amassed 1,359 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6), the UN atomic watchdog said Friday. Estimates vary, but analysts calculate that anywhere between 1,000-1,700 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium would be needed to convert it into highly-enriched uranium suitable to make a single atomic bomb.
