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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Election Victory Emboldens Ahmadinejad

Hails sweeping win as observers predict more nuclear tension in Iran

Mar 17, 08 9:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - More complete results from Friday's Iranian parliamentary elections show Islamist conservatives who support Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nuclear policy sweeping about 70% of the vote, Bloomberg reports. Pro-democracy candidates, meanwhile, did poorly after clerics blocked many from running. A triumphant Ahmadinejad said the results "stamped a mark of shame and... More »

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Iran • Islam • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • nuclear program • uranium enrichment • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • election

'Bulldozer' Prez Takes Helm
in S. Korea

Conservative ex-CEO charges into office, pledging reform

Feb 25, 08 9:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Proclaiming that "economic revival is our most urgent task," South Korea's new president took office today. Ex-Seoul mayor Lee Myung-bak, a longtime Hyundai exec known as "the Bulldozer," won the office in a landslide but is likely to struggle implementing the reforms he has promised if... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • Condoleezza Rice • nuclear program • Hyundai • Koreans • Lee Myung-bak

N. Korea Opens Nuke Plant to Foreign Media

Controversial Yongbyon facility at core of disarmament talks

Feb 23, 08 7:52 AM CST
(Newser) - North Korea opened its controversial Yongbyon nuclear reactor to the foreign media yesterday, the first time the 5-megawatt plant at the core of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and the target of international disarmament talks has been seen by journalists,  ABC News reports. The visit seemed to be... More »

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North Korea • nuclear power • Yongbyon • nuclear program • nuclear power plant

Iran Nukes
Raise 'Serious Concern' for UN

Watchdog group says Tehran has failed to explain its programs

Feb 22, 08 3:35 PM CST
(Newser) - The UN’s nuclear overseers warned today that Iran hadn’t explained various intelligence reports suggesting it was making atomic weapons and called the matter a “serious concern.” Tehran dismissed the intelligence data as "fabricated" and provided unacceptable answers, the UN report says. The developments could lead... More »

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Iran • United Nations • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • Saeed Jalili • Mohamed ElBaradei

EU Experts Say Iran Closer to Nuke Weapon

Tehran a year away
on uranium; separate UN report out today

Feb 22, 08 9:25 AM CST
(Newser) - A new report from a European Union agency concludes that Iran could have enough uranium to build an atomic bomb within one year. The EU results—which precede a major UN report coming out today—look nothing like the findings of the US intelligence community, writes Der Spiegel: the recent... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • European Union • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • atomic bomb • uranium • National Intelligence Estimate • enriched uranium

Political Rift
Weakens
Ahmadinejad

Ayatollah overrules Iranian president on
gas for villagers

Jan 22, 08 5:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Iran's firebrand president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suffered a serious political humiliation  yesterday when the nation's supreme leader sided with his opponents to force him to supply a billion dollars worth of natural gas to remote villages suffering power cuts. Iran's poorest communities are enduring one of the harshest winters in years,... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • nuclear program • natural gas • Turkmenistan • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • power cuts • harsh winter

White House to Shrink Nuke Program

600 buildings slated for shutdown, warheads to be decommissioned

Dec 19, 07 7:52 AM CST
(Newser) - The Bush administration is planning a substantial reduction in the size of the nuclear weapons program, with 600 buildings set for closure at facilities across the country, reports the Washington Post. The American nuclear program is an "outdated, Cold War complex," said the administrator of the National Nuclear... More »

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Bush administration • nuclear program • George W. Bush

Russia Gives Iran Nuclear Fuel

Says Tehran has promised not to develop weaponry

Dec 17, 07 7:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Russia delivered nuclear material to Iran yesterday, the BBC reports, ignoring Washington’s protests. Russia says it has assurances that the plutonium will only be used for the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, which is being built by a Russian company, but the US says that spent uranium could be... More »

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Iran • Russia • United Nations • Tehran • nuclear program • uranium • nuclear enrichment • Bushehr reactor • plutonium • US intelligence estimate

Iran Resumed Nuke Program, Says Group

Marxists join neo-cons in chorus against intelligence reversal

Dec 11, 07 8:06 AM CST
(Newser) - An Iranian opposition group claims that the US intelligence agency's recent reversal on the status of Iran’s nuclear program was in error, the Wall Street Journal reports. The group, which first identified Iran's nuclear program in 2002, agrees that Iran closed down its major research facility in 2003, says... More »

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Iran • nuclear program • terrorist • National Intelligence Estimate • National Council for Resistance in Iran

Angry Iran Blasts US for 'Espionage'

Minister attack US
intel, denies past weapons program

Dec 8, 07 7:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Iran has blasted the US for spying and demanded “explanations for US espionage" in a letter sent to Washington, the BBC reports.  Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said today that a recent US intelligence report—which claims Iran's nuclear weapons program ended four years ago—was full of “... More »

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Iran • nuclear program • National Intelligence Estimate • Manouchehr Mottaki

Merkel, Sarko Keep Heat on Iran

Partners insist sanctions are still possible despite new intelligence

Dec 7, 07 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Angela Merkel joined Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday in reaffirming their hard line on Iran's nuclear program despite the new American intelligence assessment that weapons development was halted in 2003. "I don't see why we should renounce sanctions," said the French president at a joint press conference in Paris, with... More »

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Iran • Angela Merkel • Germany • European Union • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • nuclear program • Mediterranean Union

Iran Defends Nuke Program in Letter to the World

Tehran insists it's making electricity

Nov 20, 07 2:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Iran has written a letter to world diplomats insisting that the nation's nuclear program is not a threat. "I would like to emphasize that Iran's nuclear program is completely peaceful," the foreign minister writes, adding that Iran has worked with the IAEA "even beyond its legal commitments.... More »

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Iran • nuclear program • International Atomic Energy Agency • uranium • Manouchehr Mottaki

Korean PMs Get Down to Business

After summit, premiers meet in Seoul to discuss economic development

Nov 14, 07 7:19 AM CST
(Newser) - North Korea's prime minister  is in Seoul today for the start of a 3-day summit with his South Korean counterpart. The leaders are discussing how to implement peace agreements from last month's landmark meeting of the two Korean top leaders. But in the first visit by a northern leader to... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • nuclear program

Siemens, Banks Bow to US Pressure to
End Iran Biz

Firms falling in line with anti-nuke arm-twisting

Nov 9, 07 4:44 AM CST
(Newser) - The Siemens company in Germany, one of the world's largest engineering operations, and the country's three largest banks are cutting business ties with Iran under White House pressure to get out or risk US interests. It's a sign that major European corporations are beginning to line up behind American economic... More »

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Iran • Bush administration • international trade • business • nuclear program • Siemens

Iran Nuke Claim Raises Fears of Israeli Strike

Tehran's alleged 3K enrichment centrifuges heightens tensions

Nov 8, 07 1:48 PM CST
(Newser) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced yesterday that Iran has 3,000 working centrifuges for uranium enrichment—enough, experts say, to make a nuclear bomb within a year. But what worries Washington more, the Times of London reports, is whether Israel will launch a preemptive airstrike. US military sources say Tehran's announcement... More »

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Iran • Israel • nuclear power • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • nuclear program • uranium

Kucinich Questions 'Mental Health' of President

Says Iran remarks raise doubts about stability

Oct 31, 07 3:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - White House hopeful Dennis Kucinich yesterday said recent remarks by President Bush about Iran causing World War III suggest there is "a very serious question" about his mental stability. "I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health," the Ohio Democrat told the... More »

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Iran • RNC • Dennis Kucinich • nuclear program • George W. Bush

Iran Looms Large in Campaign

Iran is the new Iraq on the stump

Oct 26, 07 5:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran is beginning to dominate the campaign rhetoric of White house hopefuls of both parties as Iraq once did, reports CNN. Tough US sanctions against Tehran and growing indications of some kind of military intervention to halt the development of nuclear weapons are being compared with the steps taken in... More »

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Iran • Mitt Romney • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • diplomacy • economic sanctions • nuclear program • Revolutionary Guards • Chris Dodd • campaign trail • Iraq war

South Korean Prez Meets
Grim Kim in Historic Summit

Chilly Kim greets Roh in second summit ever

Oct 2, 07 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun crossed the border to be met by cheering crowds and grim-faced North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang today for the second summit ever between the two countries. Roh hopes to make progress toward a permanent truce between the nations but won't broach the touchy... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • Seoul • Pyongyang • nuclear program • Roh Moo Hyun • Korean War • Kim Jong Il • summit

Iran to West: Don't Even Think About It

Tehran says attackers will rue aggression "as they regret it in Iraq"

Sep 23, 07 11:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a parade flanked by missiles and homegrown fighter jets, Iran unequivocally responded to the West's indirect threats of force against the Islamic nation's nuclear ambitions: "Our message to the enemies is: Do not do it," said the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. "They will regret it,... More »

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Iraq • Iran • nuclear power • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • nuclear program • French foreign minister

US Knew About Israel's Raid on Syria in Advance

Shared intelligence on suspected nukes led
to mysterious airstrike

Sep 21, 07 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israeli intelligence provided President Bush with indications that North Korean nuclear officials had arrived in Syria before Israel stealthily bombed an alleged nuclear facility there. Although the US was reluctant to upset progress on North Korean nonproliferation, it nevertheless tacitly supported Israel's raid—and likely corroborated the facts before Israel... More »

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Bush administration • Israel • North Korea • Syria • nuclear program • George W. Bush

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