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Feds to Seize Skyscraper, Mosques
Linked to Iran 

Biggest anti-terror seizures in US history

Nov 12, 09 5:13 PM CST
(AP) - Federal prosecutors took steps today to seize four US mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in US history, prosecutors filed a civil... More »

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Iran • FBI • nuclear weapons • mosque

UN report


 Iran Tested Advanced  
 Nuke Warhead 
 Technology 

Tehran said to have deployed design still classified in US, Britain

Nov 6, 09 7:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Iran has tested nuclear warhead technology so advanced that its very existence is an official secret in the US and Britain, according to a report from the UN’s nuclear watchdog group, the International Atomic Energy Agency. The dossier, obtained by the Guardian, says Iran has tested the high-explosive... More »

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Iran • United Nations • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • International Atomic Energy Agency • warheads • Iranian nuclear program

Iran Wants
to Change
Uranium Deal

But Tehran proposal would make the agreement pointless

Oct 27, 09 5:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran continues to waffle on the details of the deal under consideration to ship its enriched uranium to Russia. Now it's saying that if it does agree to the deal—a formal response is due Friday—it won't send all of its uranium at once. Instead, it will send shipments... More »

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Iran • Tehran • nuclear weapons • nuclear • uranium enrichment • uranium • enriched uranium

 Iran Waffles on Nuke Deal 

Talks begin today as state news hints out-of-country enrichment deal won't fly

Oct 19, 09 11:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - State news reports coming out of Iran suggest that country is backpedaling on a possible deal to enrich partially processed uranium in Russia or France for use in nuclear power plants. State-run television reports that the government is in fact opposed to shipping partially enriched nuclear fuel outside of the... More »

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Iran • nuclear weapons • United States • nuclear program • uranium enrichment • negotiations • Vienna

ANALYSIS

 Iran May Be 
 Ready for 
 Nuke Deal 

Nation may have reached its goal

Oct 15, 09 1:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran has likely taken its nuclear program as far as it wants to and the nation may be willing to make a deal with the US and its allies this month, analysts say. The country has developed the capability to create and deliver a nuclear weapon without actually making it,... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • International Atomic Energy Agency • uranium enrichment • nuclear energy

 North Korea Tests 5 
 Missiles: Report 

Short-range test comes despite seemingly warmer relations with South, US

Oct 12, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(AP) - North Korea fired five short-range missiles off its east coast today, news reports said, even as South Korea proposed working-level talks with its communist neighbor. South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified South Korean government official, said the North test-fired the surface-to-surface KN-02 rockets from mobile launch pads. More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • South Korea • nuclear weapons • missile • Kim Jong Il • nuclear disarmament • short-range missiles

OPINION

Iran Not Nearly as Crazy as Neocons Claim

Its leaders aren't stupid—and deterrence can work: Greenway

Oct 6, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran has no nuclear bomb, but already the old Bush-Cheney chorus has returned to insist it's time for another war in the Middle East. It's true that sanctions may not stop Iran from ramping up its nuclear program, but that doesn't mean that deterrence and diplomacy can't help, writes Boston ... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • Israel • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • neoconservatives • deterrent

Iran, Western Powers Schedule More Nuclear Talks

Inspector may visit Qom site within weeks

Oct 1, 09 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Talks in Geneva today over Iran’s nuclear program ended with a firmer commitment from Tehran to allow international inspectors into the newly disclosed enrichment site at Qom and an agreement to continue negotiations by the end of the month. The EU’s foreign policy representative said inspectors may be... More »

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Iran • IAEA • nuclear weapons • negotiation • negotiations • nuclear enrichment • Qom


 Iranian Nuclear Talks Begin 

Officials gather in Geneva villa for critical negotiations

Oct 1, 09 7:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Representatives from Iran arrived in a secluded villa in the countryside near Geneva to begin a critical round of nuclear negotiations with the Western powers today. In attendance were reps from the five UN Security Council states, Germany, and the EU. The US is looking for “practical steps and... More »

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Iran • diplomacy • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • Geneva • six party talks • Manouchehr Mottaki • Qom

US, Iran May Meet One-on-One on Nukes

Meeting tomorrow could be most direct engagement since the revolution

Sep 30, 09 2:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - US diplomats will try to meet one-on-one with their Iranian counterparts during tomorrow’s multi-nation negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program. It would be the most significant direct engagement between the two countries since the Iranian revolution. An anonymous official tells the Washington Post that the one-on-one talks would "... More »

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Iran • United Nations • Tehran • nuclear weapons • Washington • diplomat • Geneva

OPINION

Erratic Obama Cheapens the Presidency

Time for leader of free world to stop acting like a candidate: Cohen

Sep 29, 09 6:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has been in office for nearly a year, but for Richard Cohen, he's still "the candidate-in-full," unaware that he is already president. Watching Obama alongside Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy last week, the Washington Post columnist perceived "a faux Cuban missile crisis"—and a... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • nuclear weapons • president • nuclear program • Richard Cohen

 Iran Test Launches Its 
 Longest-Range Missiles 

Weapon with 1,200-mile range could strike Israel, US military bases

Sep 28, 09 6:03 AM CDT
(AP) - Iran claimed to have test-fired the longest-range missiles in its arsenal today—weapons capable of carrying a warhead and striking Israel or US military bases in the Middle East. It was the third round of missile tests in two days of drills by the power Revolutionary Guard, which controls Iran's... More »

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Iran • nuclear weapons • Revolutionary Guards • weapon • missile • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • Shahab-3

UPDATED

 Iran Confirms Secret 
 2nd Nuclear Lab 

Tehran preempts Obama accusation, admits to underground enrichment site

Sep 25, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran confirmed today that it has built a second uranium enrichment site in an underground facility hidden from weapons inspectors—a revelation coming just hours before Barack Obama and other Western leaders were prepared to disclose it. The US has been tracking the secret project for years, officials say, but... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • IAEA • nuclear weapons • sanctions • nuclear program • International Atomic Energy Agency • nuclear enrichment • G20 • Qom

 Obama-Led 
 Security Council 
 OKs Nuke Resolution 

US-drafted measure strengthened by Obama appearance at meeting

Sep 24, 09 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - The UN Security Council today adopted a US-drafted resolution that outlines much of President Obama’s plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons. The president’s attendance at the meeting of heads of state—just the fifth in UN history—underscores the centrality of the issue for his administration.... More »

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China • Iran • nuclear proliferation • Russia • North Korea • United Nations • nuclear weapons • UN Security Council • UN resolution • Obama administration • President Obama • head of state

UN SUMMIT


 Brown Eyes 
 Nuke Bank, 
 Will Cut 
 Sub Fleet  

British PM seeks reductions, but rejects complete nuclear disarmament

Sep 23, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gordon Brown takes the stage at the United Nations today with an eye toward nuclear disarmament, reports the BBC, and he'll begin by offering to cut Britain's fleet of Trident nuclear submarines from four to three. While the British PM maintains full nuclear disarmament isn't an option, in an op-ed... More »

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Gordon Brown • nuclear weapons • submarine • Britain • UN General Assembly • nuclear disarmament • UN Security Council

 Obama to 
 Pentagon: 
 Scale Back 
 Nuke Arsenal 

President rejects Defense review, plans international deal

Sep 21, 09 7:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama rejected the first draft of a Pentagon report on the US nuclear arsenal and is demanding a radical review ahead of deep cuts, according to the Guardian. The president, whose stated goal is the complete abolition of nuclear weapons, wants to see a range of options: cutting the... More »

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Barack Obama • United Nations • Pentagon • nuclear weapons • Department of Defense • nuclear disarmament • nuclear arsenal

US Still Wrong About Nukes: 
Iran's Leader

Khamenei reacts to Obama scrapping missile defense

Sep 20, 09 3:46 PM CDT
(AP) - Iran's supreme leader said today that US officials know they are wrongly accusing Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. In Iran's first official reaction to the US decision to scrap a European missile intercept system to defend against threats from Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed President Barack Obama's administration... More »

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Iran • nuclear weapons • nuclear • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Obama administration

 Russia Silent 
 on Iran Concessions 

Critics charge that Obama may have scrapped missile shield for nothing

Sep 19, 09 5:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - While Russia's leaders praised President Obama's decision to drop plans for a missile shield in Eastern Europe yesterday, they were conspicuously silent on whether they would, in return, join the West in pressuring Iran to halt its nuclear program, the New York Times reports. If Russia doesn't start taking a... More »

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Iran • Russia • missile shield • Vladimir Putin • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • missile defense system • Dmitry Medvedev • Obama administration

OPINION

 Obama's Forcing 
 Israel to Attack Iran 

President accused of 'outsourcing' action against Iran's nuclear program

Sep 15, 09 3:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities now looks inevitable and President Obama appears to be doing his best to speed the process along, Bret Stephens writes in the Wall Street Journal. The president has accepted Iran's offer for talks—despite Iran making it clear that its nuclear program won't... More »

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Iran • Israel • diplomacy • nuclear weapons • Benjamin Netanyahu • nuclear program • nuclear facilities • President Obama • preemptive strike

Iran Nuclear Talks Stall; Sanctions Loom

Stalemate seen as Ahmadinejad refuses more negotiations

Sep 7, 09 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran looks set to face another round of international sanctions as nuclear talks have reached an impasse and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refuses to discuss a compromise, reports the Guardian. Mohamed ElBaradei, who heads the UN nuclear watchdog, said today Iran has not suspended enrichment activities and continues to be uncooperative with... More »

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Iran • United Nations • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • IAEA • nuclear weapons • International Atomic Energy Agency • uranium enrichment • nuclear inspections • nuclear enrichment • Obama administration • Mohamed ElBaradei • President Obama

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