Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
I’m going on the possibly wrong assumption that, if the IAEA did not take this evidence seriously, the IAEA would not have asked Iran to give clarifications on the studies that “Member States” and “countries” [in the plural] finally allowed the Agency, as the IAEA likes to refer to itself, to put to Iran in [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Sanctions, UN Security Council
Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Um, according to Agence France Presse, “top Iranian cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani accused the United States of unbalancing IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei’s ‘mental state’ by submitting secret documents just days before the report. ‘The US has submitted a stack of documents to disrupt ElBaradei’s mental state and has been successful to some extent’, said the [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Sanctions, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The price of oil passed $100.01 per barrel a few days ago. Of course, this will not deter those who, acting on high principle, are determined to make Iran forego its pursuit of advanced nuclear technology. But, with thanks to the information in links about Iran’s opening of an oil bourse in which trading will [...]
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Filed under: Iran, UN Security Council
Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This is worth a read. Remarks at Foreign Press Association in London R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs London, England February 11, 2008 UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Thank you very much. The question was about Iran. Let me just say, first of all, I agree with everything that Secretary Rice said here in London [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Sanctions, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Immediately after the end of Shabbat on Saturday night, when things in Israel begin to stir, the Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement expressing its concern about Iran, and urging hard pressure: “International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei’s 22.2.08 report reaffirms the concerns of the State of Israel and the international community [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Israel, UN Security Council
Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Even before the publication next week of the awaited International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran’s compliance with international demands for full disclosure of its nuclear program, Britain and France on Thursday evening tabled a draft resolution that would impose a third level of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran. The U.S. Ambassador to the [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Haaretz’s Meron Rapoport writes today that “Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema termed the assassination of Imad Mughniyah ‘terror’ in an interview to be published today in the popular Italian weekly L’espresso. He also said that Israeli assassinations of Hamas officials ‘serve as an alibi for terror’. Concerning Mughniyah’s killing, ‘by my definition, the car bomb [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Lebanon, Syria
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Alerted again by Aletheia Kallos, who said “my guess is it means an ongoing pink alert stall rather than red flag”, I’ve just checked out this Agence France Presse (AFP) article, here. This article states that “The Security Council took Eritrea to task Thursday for continuing to obstruct a planned evacuation of UN personnel caused [...]
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Filed under: Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Does he look nervous or bothered? He just had ten seconds to get it right — the relatively junior U.S. Naval Officer who launched the missile that apparently shot down a falling U.S. satellite. The Defense Department photo caption reads: “U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Andrew Jackson activates a modified tactical Standard Missile-3 from [...]
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Filed under: Space Race
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Marian Houk
So, this is perhaps good news, if true — at least for those who were worried about dangers from falling debris. But it might be bad news for U.S. – Russian relations… Just a couple of hours after a total lunar eclipse, the U.S. Navy reported it managed to shoot down the falling American satellite [...]
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Filed under: Space Race
