Showing posts with label Iran Nuclear Procurement. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 5, 2015

"won’t temper Tehran’s interest in regional domination"

July 05, 2015 Daily Signal , Iran Nuclear Procurement 0 Comments
What An Iran Deal Won’t Cover 

By Peter Bookes, Jul. 4, 2015, The Daily Signal

With the deadline pushed off until July 7, I’m betting that an Iran nuke deal actually will be trumpeted over the July 4 holiday weekend, since the best time to put out controversial news in Washington, D.C., is near or over a break.

Why?

Well, most Americans will be distracted by festivities of fireworks, food and family, giving Team Obama plenty of time to get their talking points together before the nation refocuses on the issues of the day next Monday.

That includes the Congress that returns to Washington next week after a district work period. It’s an understatement to say they’ll be chomping at the bit to get a look at any agreement, hold hearings, express their views in the media, etc.


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Too Little, Too Late--They've Got The Bomb

July 05, 2015 Associated Press , Iran Nuclear Procurement 0 Comments
Draft Accords Of Sanctions Relief At Iran Nuke Talks In Hand

By George Jahn and Bradley Klapper, Jul. 4, 2015, Associated Press

VIENNA (AP) -- World powers and Iran have drawn up a draft document on the pace and timing of sanctions relief for the Islamic republic in exchange for curbs on Iran's nuclear program, advancing on one of the most contentious issues at their negotiations, diplomats told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Written by technical experts, the document still must be approved by senior officials of the seven nations at the table, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the foreign ministers of the five other countries expected to join Kerry and Zarif in Vienna this weekend for a push to meet a July 7 deadline.

The development indicated the sides were moving closer to a comprehensive accord that would set a decade of restrictions on Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for tens of billions of dollars in economic benefits for the Iranians.

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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Will the insults ever stop? Do they matter?

July 04, 2015 Iran Nuclear Procurement , The Weekly Standard 0 Comments
Iran Goads Obama: Show 'Courage' And The 'Audacity To Break Old Habits'

 By Daniel Halper, Jul. 3, 2015, Weekly Standard

 Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif has released a YouTube message aimed apparently at his American negotiators. In the video, Zarif even suggests his nation and the United States are int he fight together against terrorism: "Our common threat today is the growing menace of violent extremism and outright barbarism." 



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Friday, July 3, 2015

Shocking! (sarcasm)

July 03, 2015 Adam Kredo , Free Beacon 0 Comments
Iran Violates Past Nuclear Promises On Eve Of Deal

By Adam Kredo, Jul. 2, 2015, Free Beacon

VIENNA—Senior Obama administration officials are defending Iranian nuclear violations in the aftermath of a bombshell report published Wednesday by the United Nations indicating that Iran has failed to live up to its nuclear-related obligations, according to sources apprised of the situation.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) disclosed yesterday that Iran has failed to meet its commitments under the interim Joint Plan of Action to convert recently enriched uranium gas to powder.

While Iran has reduced the amount of enriched uranium gas in its stockpiles, it has failed to dispose of these materials in a way that satisfies the requirements of the nuclear accord struck with the United States and other powers in 2013.

Secretary of State John Kerry declared last summer that Iran would be forced to comply with such restrictions, and State Department officials were assuring reporters as recently as last month that the Iranians would meet their obligations.

Wednesday’s disclosure by the IAEA sent the State Department rushing to downplay the Iranian violation.

Obama administration officials insisted that despite Iran’s failure to meet its obligations, negotiations were still on track and that Tehran would face no repercussions.


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Thursday, July 2, 2015

IF/WHEN Iran get a nuke will this matter?

July 02, 2015 Emma-Jo Morris , Free Beacon 0 Comments
Iran Deal Could Kill Traditional Nuclear Policy 

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By Emma-Jo Morris, Jul. 1, 2015, Free Beacon

Bowing to Iran’s pursuit of nuclear capability will make it harder to enforce America’s longstanding policy of non-proliferation among enemies and allies alike, according to several foreign policy experts speaking at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday.

Experts warned that proliferation would grow more difficult to control in the coming years, saying that America is no longer in a position to police nuclear development around the world.

“The fundamental problem is that we’re giving ground on what has been a principle of U.S. non proliferation policy for 70 years, which is the spread of enrichment and reprocessing to any country, even our allies, as a problem. And what this Iran deal does is make an exception, not just for any country, but for Iran, a country that’s continually cheating on its agreements. So in the wake of the deal, I think it becomes very hard for us to go to our allies and say, ‘we trust Tehran with this technology, but we don’t trust you,’” said Matthew Kroenig, an associate professor at Georgetown University.

The American government is limited in its capacity to control nuclear development internationally, and new incentives for foreign states to rein in their nuclear development must be implemented, the experts said.


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You mean "when" the talks fail

July 02, 2015 Adam Kredo , Free Beacon 0 Comments
Iran Threatens To Go Nuclear If Talks Fail 

By Adam Kredo, Jul. 1, 2015, Free Beacon

VIENNA—Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hinted this week that Iran would decide to fully pursue its nuclear program in a way “harsher than what they [the United States can] imagine” if Western powers fail to uphold any nuclear agreement expected to be finalized in the coming days.

Rouhani’s comments come as negotiators in Vienna struggle to solve disagreements over a range of issues concerning the future of Tehran’s nuclear program. The ongoing disputes prevented the sides from finalizing the agreement before a self-imposed June 30 deadline.

Talks are now expected to continue through July 9.

“If they [the P5+1 negotiating countries] breach the [nuclear] agreement, we immediately go back to the old path, harsher than what they imagine,” Rouhani was quoted as saying this week in Persian language media reports that were independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon.


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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

They dragged out the negotiations--and pulled it off

July 01, 2015 CBS , Director of National Intelligence James Clapper 0 Comments
ICYMI: Intelligence Director: Iran Has Ability To Make Nuclear Weapon

By CBS, Mar. 3, 2015

President Obama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Monday night on "Charlie Rose" that Iran producing nuclear weapons is about politics, not capabilities. He said the decision is up to the country's leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Clapper also described how Iran is backing Iraqi forces in their attempt to take back the city of Tikrit from ISIS. Charlie Rose reports.

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Does it really even matter at this point?

July 01, 2015 Iran Nuclear Procurement , Reuters 0 Comments
Major Powers, Iran Extend Interim Deal To July 7 For More Talks

By Reuters, Jun. 30, 2015, Yahoo

VIENNA (Reuters) - Six major powers and Iran have decided to extend an interim nuclear agreement until July 7 to allow more time for negotiations on a final deal, the United States said on Tuesday the deadline for a long-term accord.

"The P5+1 and Iran have decided to extend the measures under the Joint Plan of Action until July 7 to allow more time for negotiations to reach a long-term solution ... on the Iran nuclear issue," Marie Harf, senior adviser for strategic communications at the U.S. State Department, said,

The so-called "P5+1" are the six major powers negotiating with Iran - Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.

(Reporting By Arshad Mohammed and Louis Charbonneau)

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Monday, June 29, 2015

No, Mission Accomplished For Iran--They Bought Time!

June 29, 2015 Associated Press , Iran Foreign Minister 0 Comments
Nuke Talks To Miss Target; Iran Foreign Minister Heads Home 

By Associated Press, Jun. 29, 2015

VIENNA (AP) -- World powers and Iran prepared to move past Tuesday's deadline for a comprehensive nuclear agreement, with officials suggesting significant backtracking by Tehran's negotiators that may need several more days of discussions to resolve.

On a day that served as an early intermission in the negotiation, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met the head of the U.N. nuclear agency in Vienna while Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif received his latest guidance from leaders in Tehran. Zarif was scheduled to return to the talks Tuesday, followed by the arrival of Russia's top diplomat.

Monday was originally envisioned as the penultimate day of a 20-month process to assure the world Iran cannot produce nuclear weapons and provide the Iranian people a path of out of years of international isolation. But officials said over the weekend they were nowhere near a final accord, and Zarif flew back to his capital for further consultations.

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Maybe He's Putting His Presidential Library in Tehran

June 29, 2015 Iran Nuclear Procurement , President Barack Obama 0 Comments
Obama Sent Iran Message Ahead Of Nuclear Deadline: Report

By Yahoo News, Jun. 29, 2015

Tehran (AFP) - US President Barack Obama recently sent a private message to Iran's leadership via Iraq's prime minister, an Iranian newspaper reported Monday on the eve of a deadline for a nuclear deal.

Hamshahri, Iran's highest-circulation daily, citing a lawmaker, said "one of the leaders of a neighbouring country" took the message from Obama to officials in Tehran.

The subject discussed was the nuclear talks between Iran and world powers led by the United States it said, without giving further details on its content.

The newspaper suggested that the message bearer was Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who met Obama on June 8 on the sidelines of a G7 summit in Germany.

Abadi visited Tehran on June 17, meeting Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as well as President Hassan Rouhani.


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Sunday, June 28, 2015

This will not end well

June 28, 2015 Iran , Iran Nuclear Procurement 0 Comments
Obama Plays 'Let Make A Deal' With Nuclear Iran 

By Michael Goodwin, Jun. 28, 2015, NYPost.com

The gods of news are working overtime. They delivered the twin bombshells from the Supreme Court, President Obama’s moving eulogy for one of the victims of the savage South Carolina church massacre and then the dramatic hunt for the two escaped New York convicts.

After those events, most people had no attention span left for anything else, including, unfortunately, the most far-reaching news of all. That would be the simultaneous expansion of Islamic terrorism by both of its main sources, the Islamic State and Iran.

On Friday alone, jihadists left their bloody tracks in countries on three continents, striking France, Tunisia and Kuwait. The attacks left scores dead and came after an Islamic State leader demanded that Ramadan mark a “calamity for the infidels . . . Shiites and apostate Muslims.” Spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani has said that “Muslims everywhere, we congratulate you over the arrival of the holy month. Be keen to conquer in this holy month and to become exposed to martyrdom.”


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Friday, June 26, 2015

No Surprise--They're Cheating

June 26, 2015 Ali Akbar Dareini , Associated Press 0 Comments
Iran Hardens Its Stance As Deadline Nears

By Ali Akbar Dareini, Jun. 24, 2015, Yahoo/AP

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has hardened its stance less than a week before the deadline for a nuclear deal, with its top leader rejecting a long-term freeze on nuclear research as a constitutional body on Wednesday approved a law banning access to military sites and scientists.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also insisted that Iran will only sign a deal if international sanctions are lifted first, which could further complicate the negotiations. The new law calls for all sanctions to be lifted the first day of any agreement's implementation.

The supreme leader has backed his negotiators amid criticism from hard-liners. But his latest remarks may narrow their room to maneuver ahead of a self-imposed June 30 deadline for a potentially groundbreaking deal with world powers that would curb Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for lifting sanctions.

Iran's constitutional watchdog, known as the Guardian Council, ratified the legislation banning access to military sites and scientists, making it binding law, according to state TV.

The bill would still allow for international inspections of Iranian nuclear sites within the framework of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.


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Monday, June 15, 2015

Sacrificial Lamb?

June 15, 2015 Iran Nuclear Procurement , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 0 Comments
Israel Accuses World Powers Of Yielding To Iran For Nuclear Deal

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By Dan Williams, Jun. 14, 2015, Yahoo

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused world powers on Sunday of stepping up concessions to Iran to enable a deal by June 30 on curbing its nuclear program even as Tehran balks at demands for heightened U.N. inspections.

Netanyahu has argued that the agreement in the works would not deny Iran - which says its nuclear projects are peaceful - the means of making a bomb, while granting it sanctions relief that could help bankroll its guerrilla allies in the region.

"To our regret, the reports that are coming in from the world powers attest to an acceleration of concessions by them in the face of Iranian stubbornness," Netanyahu told his cabinet in broadcast remarks on Sunday. He did not offer further details.

Netanyahu's point-man on the Iranian talks, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, said it appeared that world powers were prepared to accommodate Tehran's resistance to expanded, short-order U.N. nuclear inspections and demand to continue research and development of uranium centrifuges that make nuclear fuel.

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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Will The World Wake Up?!?

June 11, 2015 Iran Nuclear Procurement , ISIS 0 Comments
ISIS's Dirty Bomb: Jihadists Have Seized 'Enough Radioactive Material To Build Their First WMD'

By Adam Withnall, Jun. 10, 2015, The Independent

The Isis militant group has seized enough radioactive material from government facilities to suggest it has the capacity to build a large and devastating “dirty” bomb, according to Australian intelligence reports.

Isis declared its ambition to develop weapons of mass destruction in the most recent edition of its propaganda magazine Dabiq, and Indian defence officials have previously warned of the possibility the militants could acquire a nuclear weapon from Pakistan.

According to the Australian foreign minister, Julie Bishop, Nato has expressed deep concerns about the materials seized by Isis from research centres and hospitals that would normally only be available to governments.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

"Undeclared"? You mean, HIDDEN!

June 10, 2015 Iran Nuclear Procurement , Paul Richter 0 Comments
Negotiators In Talks With Iran Clash Over 'Undeclared' Nuclear Facilities 

By Paul Richter, Jun. 9, 2015, Stripes.com

WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — Over the past 20 months, world powers seeking a nuclear deal with Iran have worked out tentative agreements to monitor and secure the country's known nuclear facilities to prevent it from building a bomb.

But as negotiations head for a June 30 deadline, diplomats are still at odds over a tougher issue: how to keep tabs on military bases and other sites where the Iranians might secretly work on a weapon.

The six-nation diplomatic bloc negotiating with Iran wants United Nations nuclear inspectors to be able to poke around so-called undeclared facilities if they suspect nuclear work is going on. Such "challenge inspections" raise sensitive issues of national sovereignty and pride that in the past have set off years-long struggles with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, North Korea and Iran itself.

With Iran's known enrichment facilities at Natanz and Fordow, and as a heavy-water reactor at Arak, under international oversight, the country's leaders would almost certainly look elsewhere to conduct any secret nuclear work, said Gary Samore, former nonproliferation advisor to President Barack Obama.

"It's the undeclared sites that are the real threat," he said.


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Monday, June 8, 2015

Tough Crowd, Tough Sell

June 08, 2015 Bloomberg , Iran Nuclear Procurement 0 Comments
Jeers For Lew From Israel Backers As He Touts Iran Deal

By Kasia Klimasinska, Jun. 7, 2015, Bloomberg

Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew defended the U.S. pursuit of a nuclear agreement with Iran, over the jeers of some Israel supporters, saying economic sanctions would be reimposed if Iran breaks the terms the potential deal.

“This snapback mechanism will give us crucial leverage to ensure that Iran remains in compliance for years after any agreement is reached,” Lew said at a Jerusalem Post conference Sunday in New York.

“If we reach an agreement and Iran ends up flouting its obligations, we will know, and we will have preserved all our options -- including economic and military measures -- to make sure that Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon,” he said in a speech defending the proposed deal.

Lew, the first Orthodox Jew to be U.S. Treasury chief, was heckled by some attendees after comments such as “no administration has done more for Israel’s security than this one.” At one point, a moderator broke in and asked the crowd to stop interrupting. The audience applauded when he listed details of U.S. support to Israel, including $20 billion in military aid under the Obama administration.

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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Mission Accomplished They Bought Time

June 07, 2015 AFP , Iran Nuclear Procurement 0 Comments
No Trust In Iran Nuclear Talks: Top Negotiator

By Yahoo/AFP, Jun. 6, 2015

Tehran (AFP) - A top Iranian official, in an unusual declaration Saturday, said there remains no trust between Tehran and world powers and either side could yet abandon a nuclear deal after signing.

In comments that laid bare a paradox of long-running negotiations between Iran and the West, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said an agreement -- due by June 30 -- was nearing despite neither side trusting the other.

A final accord could rein in aspects of Iran's nuclear programme while allowing it to continue to enrich uranium in exchange for a lifting of sanctions, but breaches could see the deal being ripped up.

"Our basis is mistrust and this is the reality," Araghchi was quoted by state television as saying at the end of the latest round of talks in Vienna with the P5+1 group of nations that has been talking to Iran for almost two years.

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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Oh, that!

June 04, 2015 Bill Gertz , Iran 0 Comments
Pentagon: Iran Continuing Work On Nuclear Systems

By Bill Gertz, Jun. 3, 2015, Free Beacon

Iran is continuing to develop missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons despite an interim agreement on its nuclear programs, according to a Pentagon report.

“Although Iran has paused progress in some areas of its nuclear program and fulfilled its obligations under the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), it continues to develop technological capabilities that also could be applicable to nuclear weapons, including ballistic missile development,” a one-page unclassified summary of the report says.

A copy of the report was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The report was due to Congress in January but was not sent to the Armed Services Committee as required by law until this month. Analysts said the delay appeared designed to avoid upsetting Tehran and the nuclear talks.

Disclosure of the continuing development of nuclear delivery capabilities comes amid reports that Iran increased the amount of nuclear material that could potentially be used to build nuclear weapons despite the JPOA.

The State Department sought to challenge International Atomic Energy Agency reports on the increase in Iranian nuclear material, despite President Obama’s claim that the nuclear agreement had halted Iran’s nuclear program.

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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Iran Bamboozled U.S. As It Became Nuclear Power

May 31, 2015 Associated Press , Iran 0 Comments
US, Iran Hold 'Intense' Nuclear Talks Month Before Deadline 

By Bradley Klapper, May 30, 2015, Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — A month away from a nuclear deal deadline, U.S. and Iranian diplomats tried to narrow differences over how quickly to ease economic penalties against Tehran and how significantly the Iranians must open up military facilities to international inspections. American officials described the session as "at times intense."

The talks between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lasted six hours, in what officials described as the most substantive negotiating round since world powers and Iran clinched a framework pact in April.

Last month's agreement left big questions unanswered, which weeks of subsequent technical discussions have done little to resolve. It was unclear how much progress Kerry and Zarif made before the Iranian delegation began leaving for Tehran, or if they fully rediscovered their momentum.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

France WAY More Skeptical Than Obama

May 29, 2015 France , Iran Nuclear Procurement 0 Comments
France Warns Iran Over Nuclear Deal as Deadline Nears

By Parisa Hafezi and John Irish, May 27, 2015, Reuters

ANKARA/PARIS (Reuters) - France warned on Wednesday it was ready to block a final deal between Iran and the six major powers on Iran's nuclear program unless Tehran provided inspectors access to all installations, including military sites.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, last week ruled out international inspection of Iran's military sites or access to nuclear scientists under any agreement. Iran's military leaders echoed his remarks.

"France will not accept (a deal) if it is not clear that inspections can be done at all Iranian installations, including military sites," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told lawmakers in Paris.

As talks resumed in Vienna on Wednesday to bridge gaps in negotiating positions before a June 30 deadline, the United States said it was not considering an extension, despite comments from France and Iran indicating wiggle room.

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