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The latest IAEA report
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
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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Iran, and new robots
In a move unlikely to endear Iran, the European Union formally agreed on Monday to remove the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) from a list of terrorist organizations. The PMOI gained a degree of notoriety in 2002 when it outed Iran’s ongoing enrichment program.
The EU decision on the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran [...]
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Nuclear things
Today we touch on the state of nuclear matters in the US and Iran.
MSM-stalwart Time leads forth with an article suggesting that President Obama is at loggerheads with his Bush-holdover Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, as to whether to proceed with the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW). The Pentagon and the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons laboratories [...]
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From Livermore to Gaza: the DIME
In early January, Norwegian doctors working at Shifa Hospital in the Gaza strip began noticing that survivors of Israeli attacks were suffering odd patterns of massive amputations and shredded soft tissue and bones, but without tell-tale signs of shrapnel penetrations. They reported to the UN and outside agencies that they believed the injuries were caused [...]
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Willy Peter
It doesn’t help in the denial department if the folks you happen to drop white phosphorous shells on happen to be the actual United Nations. Israel, which has denued or evaded questions on use of the chemical, hit a UN warehouse with white phosphorous shells on Thursday. Other groups have seen Israeli artillery drop dozens [...]
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Reality bites
A good antidote to the Anglo-centric wave of “great game” columns on the Gaza war (we win, Iran loses, we lose, Iran wins) is Trita Parsi’s article “Trapping Obama in imagined fault lines” at truthout.org.
In talking about the assault on Gaza, neo-conservative pundits and Israeli hardliners have relied on a familiar frame. The [...]
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From Gaza to Hiroshima
International lawyers such as Richard Falk (video) are cropping up on foreign networks such as Aljazeera to crticise Israel’s war in Gaza.. In recent days, accusations have abounded that the Israelis are using white phosphorous in urban areas (video) as well as targeting civilian schools and mosques. As the number of confirmed dead in Gaza [...]
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Festival of lights
Iran’s Press TV is covering the Gaza war 24/7, although it is hampered by Israeli press restrictions which has denied nearly all foreign press from entering the war zone. Despite the fact that Press (like everyone else) is reduced to a collection of talking heads, it is a rare shaft of light in the near-total [...]
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Not that much doubt should have ever existed, but on Saturday the US threw its full blessing behind Israel’s Gaza offensive by killing off a mildly-worded UN Security Council draft statement that would have urged an immediate cease-fire. At this point, the US stands alone against most of Europe and the rest of the world. [...]
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