Posted on February 19th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Well, can it get clearer than this?
Buried in an AP story that was headlined as a criticism of U.S. military moves, the reporter, Ali Akbar Dareini, reported that Iranos Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei [Khamene'i] “insisted his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, saying Islam forbids weapons of mass destruction. ‘Because of this reason, [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Journalism and Journalists, Nuclear technology and weapons
Posted on February 11th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Today is the anniversary of the 1979 “Islamic Revolution” in Iran.
International tensions are running high about Iranian “intentions” as it continues its program to enrich uranium — for completely legal civilian purposes, Iranian officials continue to insist, while the U.S. says “prove it”.
[Ahmedinejad gives his answer below...]
A protracted Iranian negotiation is still continuing about whether [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons, Sanctions
Posted on February 10th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna has reported in a confidential one-page document that “Iran expects to produce its first batch of higher enriched uranium in a few days but its initial effort is modest, using only a small amount of feedstock and a fraction of its capacities”, according to a story from [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran
Posted on February 7th, 2010 by Marian Houk
After failing to agree on terms for a proposed deal to send some of its nuclear fuel out of the country for enrichment to a higher level, Tehran announced on Sunday it would produce its own uranium enriched to a level of 20% for a reactor making medical isotopes.
Iranian officials said that the production would [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons
Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced in an interview with state Iranian television that Iran is ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment.
But the terms he said Iran could accept are not exactly identical with the terms being offered by major powers who want Iran to stop enriching its own uranium in Iran.
The [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Nuclear technology and weapons
Posted on October 9th, 2009 by Marian Houk
After just nine months in office, U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2009.
As CNN reported, there were gasps in the room when the head of the Nobel prize committee made the announcement this morning.
The head of the Nobel prize committee explained that Obama won for his extraordinary efforts to improve [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Nuclear technology and weapons, Palestine & Palestinians, USA, United Nations
Posted on October 1st, 2009 by Marian Houk
After talks in Genthod, in the Geneva countryside today, the AP reported, “senior EU envoy Javier Solana said Iran had pledged to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant to International Atomic Energy Agency inspection soon … Solana said Iran had pledged to ‘cooperate fully and immediately with the IAEA’, and said he expected Tehran [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Israel, Negotiators and negotiations, Nuclear technology and weapons, Switzerland, USA
Posted on October 1st, 2009 by Marian Houk
It looks like a major concession. Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad said his country will go to the second round of talks in Geneva with European and American diplomats — to discuss buying enriched uranium from a third party to run its nuclear reactor in Tehran.
Proposals have been made previously that Iran should buy [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Negotiators and negotiations, Nuclear technology and weapons, Switzerland
Posted on September 24th, 2009 by Marian Houk
U.S. President Barack Obama presided over the UN Security Council meeting today that adopted Resolution 1887, which notes, among other things, that “enjoyment of the benefits of the NPT by a State Party can be assured only by its compliance with the obligations thereunder”. That is a nice, consensus phrase — and [...]
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Filed under: China, Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons, Russia, UN Security Council, US in UN, USA
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Marian Houk
Neda Agha Soltan[i], her white-haired father (or was he, as some accounts suggest, her music teacher?) beside her, falls stricken in Tehran on 20 June, her headscarf and black jacket falling aside. She has just been shot in the chest, apparently by a member of the Basiij militia, while observing a demonstration against [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Iran, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
