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 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

 Israel Captures Alleged 
 Iranian Arms Ship 

Smuggled weapons were headed for Hezbollah, Israel says

Nov 4, 09 10:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel has seized a cargo ship it says was being used to smuggle hundreds of tons of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Though the ship has been sequestered, Israel tells the BBC it does not believe the crew was aware of the operation, and that the weapons were... More »

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Iran • Israel • Lebanon • Hezbollah • Mediterranean Sea • search and seizure • weapons • arms smuggling

 Iranian Police Clash 
 With Protesters 

Tear gas, beatings mark 30th anniversary of US Embassy takeover

Nov 4, 09 6:34 AM CST
(AP) - Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons and fired tear gas today on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies in Tehran to mark the 30th anniversary of the US Embassy takeover. While pro-government demonstrators chanted "death to America" outside the former embassy, opposition marchers nearby cried "death to... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • US Embassy • green revolution • protesters • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Iranian protests

Iran Students Hope to Reignite Smoldering Unrest

Green movement plans major protest tomorrow

Nov 3, 09 11:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Iranian students are planning a major protest tomorrow, their first in six weeks, hoping to turn an annual parade commemorating the taking of the US embassy in 1979 into an anti-government rally. Though largely forgotten by the media and discounted by Western policy makers, the so-called “green movement” that... More »

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Iran • student • Iranian politics • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Iranian protests

NUCLEAR WHACK-A-MOLE

Iran Won't Let Uranium Go Abroad After All

Despite cooperation pledge, Tehran nixes key piece of deal

Oct 29, 09 7:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran looks to be backtracking on a key piece of the deal struck in multi-party talks last week over its nuclear program, deciding it doesn’t want most of its uranium sent abroad for reprocessing. “The key issue is that Iran does not agree to export its lightly enriched... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • International Atomic Energy Agency • uranium enrichment • nuclear enrichment • nuclear fuel

 Ahmadinejad Backs 
 Nuke Deal—in Some Form 

But Iran won't retreat 'even an iota' on right to program

Oct 29, 09 6:36 AM CDT
(AP) - Iran will not give up its nuclear program but is ready to cooperate with the West, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech today. It's Western powers that have moved, he said in a speech on state television, “from confrontation to interaction” with Iran on the nuclear issue so that... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • IAEA • nuclear program • International Atomic Energy Agency • uranium enrichment • uranium

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

JUAN COLE

B+ for Obama Foreign Policy, F for Not Owning It

New prez is doing fine in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, but no one notices

Oct 27, 09 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the howls of protest over President Obama's Nobel Prize and the administration’s "dithering" on Afghanistan , the fact is that the new president’s foreign endeavors deserve good marks, says Juan Cole. Cole gives Obama an A for his Iranian statesmanship, a... More »

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Iran • Bush administration • Pakistan • US foreign policy • US military • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • President Obama

Iran Balks
at UN Plan
on Nukes

Now wants to buy fuel, not ship uranium to Russia for enrichment

Oct 23, 09 9:30 AM CDT
(AP) - State TV says Iran wants to buy nuclear fuel it needs for a research reactor rather than accept the UN deal negotiated earlier this week, in which much of Iran's uranium would be shipped to Russia for further enrichment. The response will come as a disappointment to the US, Russia,... More »

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Iran • Russia • Tehran • uranium enrichment • nuclear arsenal • nuclear energy

UPDATED

 Iran OKs Nuke Deal, 
 Will Give Up Uranium 

Tehran said to be giving nuclear material to Russia

Oct 21, 09 7:43 AM CDT
(AP) - Iran has agreed to a draft deal on its nuclear program, the UN's nuclear watchdog announced today. The International Atomic Energy Agency said that Iran, the US, Russia, and France had agreed to the deal but gave no details. According to diplomats, however, the agreement would see the country ship... More »

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Iran • IAEA • nuclear program • International Atomic Energy Agency • uranium • nuclear enrichment • enriched uranium

 Iran Nuke Talks Sluggish, 
 But 'Moving Forward' 

UN watchdog seems some progress between Tehran, Council members

Oct 20, 09 6:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Negotiations over the future of Iran’s nuclear program have been sluggish, the chief United Nations representative at the Vienna talks says this evening. “I believe we are making progress. It is maybe slower than I expected. But we are moving forward,” Mohamed ElBaradei says. The permanent members... More »

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Iran • nuclear program • International Atomic Energy Agency • enriched uranium • UN Security Council • Mohamed ElBaradei

Obama Had Hand in Secret Talks With Iran

Worked out deal with France, Russia to process uranium

Oct 20, 09 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama personally stepped in multiple times during the secret multinational talks with Iran that led up to the negotiations that began yesterday in Vienna, White House sources tell Time. When Iran put the word out that it needed enriched uranium plates for its aging research reactor, the Obama... More »

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Iran • nuclear proliferation • Russia • Barack Obama • France • nuclear program

OPINION

Obama Coming Up Short
on Human Rights

President's actions don't match the promises that wowed Berliners

Oct 20, 09 1:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's decision to skip the celebrations of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights the gap between his rhetoric on the campaign trail and the realities of his presidency, writes Bret Stephens. Obama hailed the "dream of freedom" in his big speech in Berlin last... More »

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China • Iran • human rights • Berlin • Sudan • foreign policy • Burma • Obama administration • President Obama

 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

 Iran Bomber 
 Kills 26, 5 Elite Guards 

Ahmadinejad accuses US of involvement

Oct 18, 09 10:26 AM CDT
(AP) - A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in a southeastern area that has been at the center of a simmering Sunni insurgency, the official IRNA news agency reports. The commanders were on their way to a meeting with local tribal... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • suicide bomber • Sunni extremism • Iranian Revolutionary Guard

 Iran Releases 
 Newsweek 
 Reporter 



Humanitarian considerations thought to have played role

Oct 18, 09 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran set free yesterday the Newsweek journalist it had held prisoner since the disputed June elections. Maziar Bahari was released on $300,000 bail, likely because of humanitarian conditions—the magazine reports that the 42-year-old is expecting his first child October 26, and the baby's mother has had serious health... More »

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Iran • media • Newsweek • reporter • Maziar Bahari

media rare

Logical, Ethical Lapses Beset Washington Post

Op-ed page woes spread to editorial on Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 16, 09 4:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - The next-to-last straw was the Washington Post editorial saying Neda Agha Soltan should have won the Nobel Peace Prize, which isn't awarded posthumously. The last straw was today's op-ed raising—but not bothering to answer—the question of whether President Obama can even accept the honor without violating the Constitution.... More »

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Iran • Washington Post • journalism • Constitution • George Will • Nobel Peace Prize • President Obama • William Kristol • Neda • Neda Agha Soltan • Fred Hiatt • Anne Applebaum

charles krauthammer


 Obama's 
 Foreign Policy 
 Amateurish 
 and Naive 

Krauthammer finds the Nobel not premature, but ridiculous

Oct 16, 09 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's Nobel prompted Charles Krauthammer to review the administration's foreign policy moves to date, and from Iran to Russia to China, he finds nothing but failure. "It is amateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity," he complains. "In short, the very stuff of Nobels." Obama gets... More »

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Iran • Russia • foreign policy • Nobel Peace Prize • President Obama

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

 Clinton Praises Russia on Iran 

Hails cooperation, but no deal on potential new sanctions

Oct 13, 09 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US isn’t seeking further nuclear sanctions against Iran, at least not for now, Hillary Clinton said today, after meeting with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. The pair professed unity on the Iranian issue, with Clinton praising Russia for its “extremely cooperative” work. Clinton added that... More »

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Iran • Russia • Hillary Clinton • diplomacy • foreign policy

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