UN atomic agency official tours Iran nuclear sites: report

UN atomic agency official tours Iran nuclear sites: report: ""The Iranian nuclear program offers no plausible reason for its existing enrichment of uranium up to nearly 20 percent, nor ramping up this production, nor moving centrifuges underground," Nuland told reporters.

"And its failure to comply with its obligations to suspend its enrichment activities up to 3.5 percent and nearly 20 percent have given all of us in the international community reason to doubt its intentions," she said.

Tehran's nuclear chief Fereydoun Abbasi Davani was quoted by the Iranian state television website as saying that a batch of centrifuge machines have been transferred to the Fordo facility."

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UN atomic agency official tours Iran nuclear sites: report

UN atomic agency official tours Iran nuclear sites: report: "US terms 'troubling' Iran transfer of centrifuges
Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2011 - The United States expressed concern Monday that Iran has reportedly begun transferring centrifuges that enrich uranium to the secretive Fordo plant.
"These reports are troubling," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.

She recalled that UN Security Council resolutions require Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, while the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency demands Iran show transparency and cooperate with the probe into its nuclear program."

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US Denies Losing Drone in Iran | American Pendulum

US Denies Losing Drone in Iran | American Pendulum: "The U.S. has denied an Iranian report that the country’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. drone (unmanned spy plane).
Intelligence and military officials told VOA on Wednesday that the U.S. rejects the claim and has not lost a drone.
An Iranian lawmaker said the country’s elite military group downed the U.S. spy plane as it was attempting to collect information about an underground uranium enrichment site."

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Iran Moves Centrifuges To Boost Uranium Enrichment

Iran Moves Centrifuges To Boost Uranium Enrichment: "Iran has begun transferring centrifuges to its new underground nuclear plant site near Qum, the country's state-run television station reported Monday.
"The site is being made ready and a series of centrifuges have already been transferred," Fereydoun Abbasi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization told the station. "We aren't rushing and we seek to observe technical standards.""

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Iran To Step Up Uranium Enrichment | Editorials | Editorial

Iran To Step Up Uranium Enrichment | Editorials | Editorial: " RSS Feed
06-15-2011
Iran To Step Up Uranium Enrichment
Despite multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions calling on Iran to stop enriching uranium, the Iranian government has announced plans to triple its capacity to enrich uranium to 20 percent.




Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS
The reactor building of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. The photo was released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) in 2009. (AP Photo/ISNA,Mehdi Ghasemi)
If Iran continues to ignore its nuclear obligations the international community will have no choice but to consider additional steps to induce it to change course.
Despite multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions calling on Iran to stop enriching uranium, the Iranian government has announced plans to triple its capacity to enrich uranium to 20 percent.

Enriched uranium can be used to produce fuel for nuclear reactors, or, at higher levels, can form the core of a nuclear weapon."

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While Qaddafi Falls, Asad Remains Standing - Jewish Policy Center

While Qaddafi Falls, Asad Remains Standing - Jewish Policy Center: "As the anti-Qaddafi Libyan rebels were fighting for control over Tripoli, U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford stopped by the restless Syrian town of Jassem for a surprise visit and show of support days after President Obama called for Syrian President Bashar al-Asad to step down. "We have consistently said that President Asad must lead a democratic transition or get out of the way. He has not led. For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Asad to step aside," Obama said on Thursday."

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This Ongoing War: A Blog: 22-Aug-11: Rockets are crashing into Israel again this evening

This Ongoing War: A Blog: 22-Aug-11: Rockets are crashing into Israel again this evening: "It's now a little after 8pm here, and in the last fifteen minutes, there are reports of a barrage of Gazan rockets that exploded and crashed into southern Israel. At least two of them landed in the coastal city of Ashkelon or in the Hof Ashkelon region. Fifteen other assorted rockets, fired by the terrorists of Gaza, crashed into Israel during Sunday night and today since the bogus ceasefire announced by the media and by some of the Palestinian Arab terror organizations last night."

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