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Ahmadinejad: Iran Ready for Nuke Talks

Decision comes amid increasing sanctions

(Newser) - A breakthrough in Iran? President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that his country is ready for nuclear talks. The announcement comes amid increasing sanctions against Tehran, but Ahmadinejad says Iran won't be forced to give in to Western demands despite the sanctions. Iran had previously indicated a willingness to engage...

Iran Buries Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Amid Anti-US Chants
Iran to Retaliate Against
West Over Dead Nuke Expert
says report
Jan 13, 2012 10:03 AM CST

Iran to Retaliate Against West Over Dead Nuke Expert

Reports says plan could involve foreign assassinations

(Newser) - Chanting "death to America" and "death to Israel," thousands gathered in Iran today to mourn slain nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan , hauling his coffin through Tehran. Meanwhile, an independent news site suggested Iran is preparing a covert counteroffensive against the West in retaliation for the bomb blast....

New Pain for Iran: Japan Jumps Aboard Embargo

Meanwhile, the US sends two new aircraft carriers to the Arabian Sea

(Newser) - It looks like things are about to get a little bit more uncomfortable for Iran: Japan today agreed to align itself with Washington and reduce the amount of oil it imports from Iran. Japan is extremely dependent on foreign fuel, and currently gets about 10% of its oil from Iran;...

Confirmed: Iran Enriching Uranium Underground

Higher level of enrichment at Fordo prompts international concern

(Newser) - Iran's claim has been confirmed: The country has indeed begun enriching uranium at an underground bunker, two diplomats tell the AP today. They call the news particularly worrying because the Fordo site is being used to make material that can be upgraded more quickly and easily for use in...

Iran: We're Enriching Uranium Underground

Hardline newspaper claims Fordo enrichment site now active

(Newser) - Another day, another claim of nuclear advances from Iran: Just a week after saying it had produced its first nuclear fuel rod , Iran is now claiming via a semi-official newspaper that it has started enriching uranium at an underground site protected from possible airstrikes. The Kayhan daily says it has...

EU Calls for Iran Oil Ban
 EU Readies Iran Oil Ban 
Jan 5, 2012 7:14 AM CST

EU Readies Iran Oil Ban

France calls for deal by end of month

(Newser) - Europe is continuing to get serious about Iran's nuclear ambitions, with EU member states agreeing in principle to ban the import of Iranian crude oil, reports the BBC . And while nuances must be hammered out—including whether and how long to exempt existing oil contracts with Iran, as well...

Iran: We Fired New Missile, Produced Nuclear Fuel Rod

Country announces two breakthroughs

(Newser) - A weekend of nuclear breakthroughs for Iran? A state news agency claims today that the country performed a successful test of a medium-range ground-to-air missile, one day after the country announced that it had produced its first nuclear fuel rod. The missile test took place during 10 days of naval...

Iran: We Won't Retreat 'One Iota' on Nuclear Push

Meanwhile Russia rules out sanctions

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a defiant statement today denying a UN report that Iran was on the brink of acquiring nuclear weapons, and insisting that it would not change its behavior. “This nation won't retreat one iota from the path it is going,” he told a crowd in...

Brits Steel for Possible US Strike on Iran: Report

Israel also gears for attack, Iran vows 'heavy' response

(Newser) - Talk of striking at Iran's nuclear enrichment program is rapidly heating up in Israel—and apparently the US. Not only is Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu trying to gather support for such attacks, but Britain's armed forces are working on contingency plans to support the US, should America...

Nicholas Kristof Interviews Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

 My 'Bizarre'  
 Chat With  
 Ahmadinejad 
Nicholas Kristof
Sep 22, 2011 12:00 PM CDT

My 'Bizarre' Chat With Ahmadinejad

Iran president: We 'love' Americans

(Newser) - In his only print interview during a visit to the UN, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared “complex, even bizarre,” writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times . The “firebrand” in public was “subdued and very soft-spoken” in person, offering repeated “olive branches” to his interviewer: "We...

Iran Offers Inspectors ‘Full Supervision’ of Nukes

First offer from Iran in 2 years a bit fuzzy

(Newser) - International inspectors can have "full supervision" of Iran's nuclear program for five years—if UN sanctions are lifted, according to the first offer to come out of Iran in two years, reports the New York Times . The offer, presented by the head of Iran's atomic energy agency,...

Iran Nuclear Plant Bushehr Goes Online
 Iran Nuke Plant Goes Online 
Sep 4, 2011 12:09 PM CDT

Iran Nuke Plant Goes Online

Bushehr joins power grid, be inaugurated next Monday

(Newser) - Just in case you got a good night's sleep, you can stew on this tonight: Iran says its Bushehr nuclear plant went online last night, beginning testing on the national power grid that had been delayed for years. The Russian-built plant, which Tehran says will eventually supply 2.5%...

Uranium Tech Could Open Easy Path to the Bomb

But GE says laser enrichment could help US energy security

(Newser) - Advances in uranium enrichment using lasers by General Electric could allow the US conglomerate to process reactor fuel by the ton—but security experts fear the technology could also allow rogue states and terrorist groups to make bomb fuel much more easily, in smaller plants that would be much harder...

Iran Testing 'Nuke-Capable Missiles'

Mid-range missiles could carry atomic warheads to US targets

(Newser) - Iran has conducted secret tests of nuclear-capable missiles, but the country says the exercise was a "message of peace and friendship." Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards admit to launching 14 missiles—one capable of reaching Israel or US targets in the Gulf—from an underground silo. British Foreign...

Iran: Nuke Test Will Give Us 'National Sparkle'

Revolutionary Guard article breaks huge taboo

(Newser) - “The day after Iran’s first nuclear test is a normal day.” So begins a strange article posted on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Gerdab website that has set off alarms in the West. Originally posted in April, the hypothetical article waxes poetic about how great it will be...

UN: Iran Skirting Nuke Sanctions

But they are at least slowing it down

(Newser) - International sanctions have managed to slow down Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, but that’s about it, according to a new UN report obtained by the AP . “Iran’s circumvention of sanctions across all areas … is willful and continuing,” the report concludes. The regime has...

Final Tests Under Way at Iran's Nuclear Power Plant

Bushehr expected to generate electricity in the next two months

(Newser) - Iran's first nuclear power plant is expected to begin generating electricity within two months, according to Iranian media. Final tests are being conducted at the Russian-built Bushehr complex, following a series of missed deadlines, Reuters reports. After fuel was first loaded into Bushehr last August, officials predicted the plant...

Iran Nuclear Talks Collapse
 Iran Nuclear Talks Collapse 
Jan 22, 2011 6:42 AM CST

Iran Nuclear Talks Collapse

Tehran refuses to talk without lifting sanctions, wants to continue nuke program

(Newser) - A mere day after talks began between Iran and six world powers, they have collapsed over Iran's insistence that the UN lift sanctions and that it be allowed to continue its nuclear program, reports the AP. "We had hoped to have a detailed and constructive discussion," says a...

Russia: Iran Could Cause 'Another Chernobyl'

Damaged nuclear reactor activation should not be rushed, scientists insist

(Newser) - If Iran’s attempts to activate its first nuclear power plant go forward as planned, we could be facing “another Chernobyl,” Russian officials warn. Russia has been assisting Iran with its controversial Bushehr reactor, which was reportedly damaged by the Stuxnet virus . Because of that damage, Russian scientists...

Israel Tested Stuxnet Worm Before Iran Attack

Tests on centrifuges in Israel helped make worm to effective

(Newser) - The high-tech computer virus that derailed Iran's nuclear program last year was tested in Israel as part of a joint US-Israel program, reports the New York Times . Israel's Dimona complex, home to its hush-hush nuclear arms program, tested the Stuxnet worm on nuclear centrifuges nearly identical to the ones Iran...

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