Iran Tried to Buy the Pakistani Bomb. What Was China’s Role?

Posted by Matt in March 17th, 2010 | 1 comment

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Second, by detailing how the Pakistani government was involved in nuclear transfers to Iran, Khan raises new questions about Beijing’s role. Why? The Pakistani nuclear weapons program is essentially an extension of the Chinese one. China, beginning around 1974, transferred bomb technology to Pakistan. Beijing’s assistance was crucial, extensive, and continuous. As Gary Milhollin of [...]

Iran tried to buy nuclear bomb from Pakistan as early as 1987 – Haaretz – Israel News

Posted by Matt in March 15th, 2010 | no comment

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Iran attempted to buy a nuclear bomb from Pakistan as early as 1987, a leading Middle East analyst has told Haaretz.
Documents obtained by Simon Henderson, a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former journalist, offer crucial evidence that Iran’s nuclear program is not wholly for civilian purposes as it [...]

EDITORIAL: Iran triumphs over America – Washington Times

Posted by Matt in March 11th, 2010 | no comment

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Iran wins in the simulation. Iran will win in the real world too. I guess that’s not what you wanted to read.
The [simulation game] result: Iran won.
Gary Sick, the Iran team leader and former Carter-era National Security Council member, was surprised. “We started out thinking we were playing a weak hand, but by the end, [...]

Iran’s New World Order – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in February 28th, 2010 | no comment

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Ahmad Khatami, an influential cleric and mentor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, recently said publicly that the United States has to “regard Iran as a great power in the political sphere. The people of Iran have realized there is nothing you can do to us.”
The statement is part bravado, but it also offers an important [...]

The Elephant in the Room: Be afraid of a nuclear Iran | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/24/2010

Posted by Matt in February 25th, 2010 | no comment

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A nuclear Iran will turn the world order upside down. And yes, you should be afraid.
Armed with atomic weapons, the regime could turn the world order upside down.
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A few days later, on this month’s 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed that Iran had become a nuclear state by reaching 19.75 percent [...]

Iran to build enrichment sites inside mountains – Yahoo! News

Posted by Matt in February 22nd, 2010 | no comment

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Iran said Monday it plans to build two new uranium enrichment facilities deep inside mountains to protect them from attack, a new challenge to Western powers trying to curb Tehran’s nuclear program for fear it is aimed at making weapons.
Iran to build enrichment sites inside mountains – Yahoo! News

Iran’s web of secret wars

Posted by Matt in February 19th, 2010 | no comment

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As the world focuses on Iran’s uranium enrichment and its stance on the nuclear program there is a potentially much larger threat of Iranian power to international security taking place. Iran fuels conflict within the Middle East and beyond in an attempt to consolidate its influence and tie down western resources in these conflicts. This [...]

The Secret Nuclear Dossier: Intelligence from Tehran Elevates Concern in the West

Posted by Matt in January 25th, 2010 | no comment

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The West has long been suspicous of Iran’s nuclear program. SPIEGEL has obtained new documents on secret tests and leadership structures that call into question Tehran’s claims to be exclusively interested in the peaceful use of the technology.
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According to the classified document, there is a secret military branch of Iran’s nuclear research program that answers [...]

Report: Turkey warns Lebanon that Israel may be planning attack – Haaretz – Israel News

Posted by Matt in January 14th, 2010 | no comment

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week warned Lebanese leaders that Israel may be planning an attack on its northern neighbor, Lebanese sources told the London-based Arabic language daily A-Sharq al-Awsat on Thursday.
At a meeting in Ankara with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and President Michel Suleiman on Monday, Erdogan declared that Israel was [...]

DEBKAfile – Covert war on Iran’s nuclear program reaches into Tehran

Posted by Matt in January 12th, 2010 | no comment

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DEBKAfile reports: The covert war against Iran’s nuclear program struck deep inside the Islamic Republic with the death Tuesday, Jan. 12 of nuclear physicist professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, 50, by a remote-controlled exploding motorbike as he left his Tehran home. He was a senior professor at Tehran University which DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources say is an [...]