Lebanese President Michel Suleiman recently asked Iran for medium-sized weapons for Lebanon's army, in a move aimed at shifting Iran's assistance from the country's militant Hezbollah movement to the state, a Lebanese government official said Wednesday.
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(AKI) - Iran on Wednesday test-fired a rocket into space on Wednesday. Iran fired the 'Kavosh-2' (Explorer-2), which parachuted back to earth 40 minutes after launching. The test was conducted within the framework of Iran's 20-year outlook plan and Iran's strategic space plan, said Iran's Mehr news agency.
Before the launching of the rocket, Iran announced that it had more than 5,000 uranium-enrichment centrifuges running. "At present, we have more than 5,000 centrifuges operating," said Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, quoted by official Iranian news agency Irna. Aghazadeh spoke on the sidelines of his tour of the Exclusive Exhibition on Nuclear Industry Achievements.
UN officials have previously said that it would take 1,700 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium for Tehran to be able to enrich the uranium further for use in an atom bomb. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has stockpiled 630 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium.
No one seems to be doing anything about it, either ...
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IRNA > Iran has now turned into a REGIONAL POWER.
ISRAELI-IRAN CONFLICT SCENARIO > all things equal, and given that various Perts believe the NUCLEARIZATION OF IRAN WILL EFFECTIVELY END WORLD ANTI-NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION EFFORTS = NPT [Treaty], it may come down as to WHOM WILL PREEMPTIVELT STRIKE THE OTHER FIRST, + IFF CAN RECOVER.
Lest we fergit, 9-11/WOT > WAR FOR DOMINATION = AKIN TO ASYMMETRIC "TOTAL WAR", aong other. RADICAL JIHAD IS ULTIMATELY NOT WAGING JIHAD FOR "PARITY", "DETENTE", BI-POLAR ANDOR MULTI-POLAR "MUTUAL CO-EXISTENCE", ETC. WID NON-ISLAM = NON-ISLAMISM.
(AKI) - Iran executed nine men and one woman on Wednesday at the country's notorious Evin prison, in Tehran, semi-official news agency Fars reported. Some reports said the woman, identified as Fatemeh Haqiqat-Pajuh, killed her husband because he had raped her daughter from a previous marriage. However, the official overseeing the execution said Fatemeh was executed because she brutally murdered her husband in 2001, cutting him into pieces.
All of the 10 people executed were convicted of murder. In Iran, capital punishment is imposed for murder, kidnapping , adultery, treason, drug trafficking of over five kilogrammes and other offences.
On 17 November, Iran hanged Ali Ashtari, an Iranian who allegedly spied for Israel's intelligence agency Mossad.
More than 200 hangings have taken place in Iran since the beginning of 2008. Last year, Iran was second only to China in the number of executions it carried out, hanging 317 individuals, according to rights group Amnesty International.
A Russian company tasked with building Iran's first nuclear plant says UN sanctions do not apply to the plant due to its peaceful nature.
Russia's Atomstroiexport, nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, said the project is going on as scheduled and faces no problem. "Bushehr nuclear plant is under no sanction because it is a nuclear center for peaceful purposes," the company's spokeswoman Irina Yesipova told IRNA on Wednesday.
Some 1,800 experts are working to complete the construction of the nuclear plant.
Yesipova declined to reveal the exact date of the launch of the plant but noted that "we are doing our best to launch the plant as soon as possible."
Iran and Russia signed an agreement on nuclear cooperation in 1992, and Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly signed a contract in January 1995 to build Iran's first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr. The plant was originally scheduled to come on stream in 1999, but the project has faced numerous delays.
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Bushehr seems to be more of a revenue center for the Russians than an actual project.
This nuclear power plant began construction in 1975. I'm guessing there must have been hundreds of major design changes during this process. The Russians and the Persians say it will produce commercial power in 2009 but they would say that.
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The Israelis should try to persuade the Iranians of the error of their ways in a direct manner, before militarily attacking. For the very good reason of convincing the Iranians to quit messing around with nuclear anything.
The way to do this is with a covert operation to contaminate the stronghold of the Mullahs, the city of Qom with lethal, but short half life radioactive contamination. It must be done with very plausible deniability, and the means of dissemination must be very, very discreet, and leave a vague trail in the direction of Bushehr.
Suddenly, out of the blue, the people of Qom start suffering from radiation burns and poisoning, tens of thousands needing medical treatment and thousands dying. Truly horrible stuff.
But actually fewer people injured and killed than in the attack needed to take out their nuclear facilities. And it goes directly to their heart of the regime's unpopular support.
A few rumors blaming the disaster on an Iranian government screw up will spread like wildfire.
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I think it is over a hundred miles between the Bushehr plant and Qom and there is no obvious reason why rad material would be leaving the Bushehr area.
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Send some Californium as a gift. Lively little neutron emitter.
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If a 'Polonium Putin' style attack happened in Iran, the only countries that would be blamed for it are Israel and the US. No amount of propoganda on our behalf would change that. Not to mention the difficulties involved in attacking Qom in a manure spreader loaded with nuke material style attack.
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ION WORLD MIL FORUM > RUSSIA SAYS IT WILL UKRAINE HARDER IFF ANOTHER RUSSIAN-UKRAINE CONFLICT/WAR OCCURS; + ROW OVER ANTI-VIETNAM INTERNET "WAR PLANS" [SINA.net] HIGHLIGHTS CHINA-VIETNAM TENSIONS. Hanoi angrily sends for the Chin Ambassadors more than once for explanation. PLANS > VIETNAM IS THE STRATEGIC HUB FOR THE WHOLE OF SE ASIA, AND WHICH MUST BE "CONQUERED FIRST" BY CHINA, IFF CHINA IS TO BECOME AN ASIAN-PACIFIC GREAT POWER, PROTECT AND CONTROL THE REGION, ESPEC IN [geopol]CONTEST = WAR AGZ AMERICA???, + CHINA AND VIETNAM IN TUG OF WAR OVER LAOS, SE ASIA TRADE RESOURCES AND INFLUENCE.
Also from SAME > GERMAN MEDIAS: NORTH KOREA AT HIGH RISK OF NATIONAL COLLAPSE UPON SUDDEN/NEAR-TERM DEATH OF KIM JONG-IL. POWER OF KIM HEIRS-APPARENT [sons] UNCERTAIN. CHINESE MILITARY OCCUPATION, CONTROL OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS A POST-KIM "STABILIZING FORCE" FOR NORTH KOREA.
* STRATFOR > SPRATLEY ISLANDS: THE TIRADE OF TROUBLES RISES + JAPAN: NEW MILITARY UNITS, NEW MILITARY STANCE [new Asia fears].
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Jeebus, its not even JAN 2009 YET, and PRE-POTUS BARACK already is facing more real domestic and geopolitical crises, and potential crises, than POTUS JIMBO CARTER EVER DID.
Jan. 2009 - 2012/2016 > THE THREAT TO AMERICA's = AMERIKA's, the potent USSA = weak USRof A's, NATIONAL SECURITY, SOVEREIGNTY, INTEGRITY, + CONSTITUTION = WAY OF GOVT, ETC. IS GREATER THAN AT ANYTIME DURING THE COLD WAR.
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IRANIAN.WS > IRAN AIMING FOR 50,000 CENTRIFUGES, over five years ending circa 2012-2013???; + ISRAEL MAY ATTACK IRAN VIA TURKEY, JUST LIKE WITH SYRIA?; + PAYVAND > US GATHERING INTELLIGENCE ON IRAN'S DEFENSES.
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