The latest IAEA report

19Feb09

There is little excitement to the new IAEA report (19 Feb 2008) on implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement by Iran.  Rather than wait for the absurd US news ’spin’ on the document, it can be found at the ISIS site.
Baseline summary:
Iran has slowed its enrichment activity.  The latest sampling by the IAEA shows enrichment [...]

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Omid soars

04Feb09

 By now all the papers are tumbling over each other to report upon Iran’s successful launch of the Omid satellite, mostly from a Western-Israeli perspective.  Is it a threat?  Can it carry a nuclear warhead? Will Iran be able to orbit battle stations able to bombard Israeli cities into submission? And so forth.   
No, not quite.  [...]

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