Monday, February 08, 2010

Iran: On Ground Updates - February 08, 2010

Iran: On Ground Updates
Iran Informs UN Nuclear Agency It Needs Uranium Enriched To 20 Percent For Medical Research Reactor
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, February 08, 2010
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* VOANews.com brings us the following troubling new and their report starts off like this... Iran says it has informed the U.N. nuclear agency it plans to further enrich its uranium in defiance of international demands that it stop. Iran's processing program would likely need reconfiguring first, prompting speculation the announcement may have more to do with nuclear negotiations with the West than imminent enrichment... Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency says he gave the U.N. watchdog notice of Tehran's plans Monday, in an apparent formal rejection of a U.N. plan to have the uranium enriched abroad...
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Iran Orders Boost in Uranium Enrichment
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* LATimes.com has a good report today and it starts off like this... Reporting from Beirut — Iranian officials trumpeted new nuclear and military ambitions Monday in the face of domestic political discord and stepped-up international talk of tightening economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic... Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, announced that Tehran had informed the United Nations' nuclear watchdog that it intended to launch construction of 10 new nuclear-fuel plants in the Persian calendar year starting March 2010 and begin producing 20%-enriched uranium to provide fuel for a Tehran medical reactor...
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Iran says it will build 10 nuclear plants, beef up military
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* Telegraph.co.uk reports the news out of Iran today this way... World leaders finally ran out of patience when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered a massive expansion in processing... The US and France led calls for fresh action by the international community and labeled Tehran's latest move "blackmail"...
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Iran faces new sanctions within weeks over uranium programme
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* JPOST.com has this report... Only option left is Security Council sanctions, French officials say... The US and the EU are united in the conviction that more sanctions are needed against Iran, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said Monday after talks with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, various news agencies reported...
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'US, EU united on Iran nuclear issue'

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"Serious concern" over Iran's nuclear programme


About this News Video: The Foreign Office says it has "serious concerns" over the escalation of Iran's nuclear programme.
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* VOANews.com reports it this way... Plain and sweet...
Gates Hopes Iran Sanctions Will Avoid Military Action
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* Google News has this AFP report and it starts off like this... Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution... "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel...
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Iran anniversary 'punch' will stun West: Khamenei
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There is going to be only one of two things fixing to go down over the next so many months. Iran is going to HAVE Nuclear Weapons... or... Israel is going to light Iran up... Then Nuclear Weapons Iran will have not.
I’d bet on the latter myself!
AubreyJ.........

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