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NEWS ABOUT: Qom

Qom stories: 12 news summaries

 UN Inspectors 
 Get 1st Look 
 at Iran Nuke Site

Will spend 3 days inside

Oct 25, 09 12:41 PM CDT
(AP) - UN inspectors got their first look today inside Iran's once-secret uranium enrichment facility that has raised Western suspicions. The semiofficial Mehr news agency reported a four-member team visited the heavily protected facility at Qom, carved into a mountainside south of Tehran. The tour marked the first independent examination of the... More »

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IAEA • nuclear program • uranium • inspectors • Qom


 CIA Knew of 
 'Secret' Iran 
 Facility: 
 Panetta  

Once agency was certain this spring, Obama kept info as leverage for talks

Oct 8, 09 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA knew about Iran's recently revealed uranium-enrichment facility and had been collecting intelligence on it since 2006. The US, the UK, and France had been on the lookout for a new secret plant since the 2002 revelation of the Natanz facility. When intelligence and covert operations uncovered a new... More »

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Iran • Bush administration • CIA • nuclear program • uranium enrichment • Leon Panetta • Obama administration • President Obama • Qom • Central Intelligence Agency • Qum • secret facility

 Iran to Allow 
 Inspectors 
 at Qom Site 
 on Oct. 25 

IAEA head says Tehran is moving toward 'transparency and cooperation' on nuclear issue

Oct 5, 09 2:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran will allow UN inspectors into the newly-disclosed nuclear facility near the city of Qom on October 25, the head of the IAEA said yesterday, a day after arriving in Tehran. Iran and the West seem to be “shifting gears from confrontation into transparency and cooperation," he added... More »

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Iran • IAEA • uranium enrichment • nuclear enrichment • nuclear sites • Mohamed ElBaradei • Qom

Ahmadinejad: Obama Made 'Big Mistake' Over Nukes

Tehran didn't hide
new facility, he insists

Oct 3, 09 2:51 PM CDT
(AP) - Iran's president hit back today at President Obama's accusation that his country had sought to hide construction of a new nuclear site, arguing that Tehran reported the facility to the UN even earlier than required. "The US president made a big and historic mistake," said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • enriched uranium • nuclear arsenal • Qom

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

(Newser) - As the US confronts Iran over its nuclear program, many Americans can’t help but flash back to 2003, when Colin Powell made a compelling case before the UN that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Is the uproar over Iran’s Qom facility the same kind of smoke and... More »

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Iran • intelligence • nuclear • nuclear program • WMD • Iraq mess • Qom

US Spies Are Voice of Caution in Iran Debate

Israelis, Europeans believe Tehran is developing warheads

Sep 29, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The global intelligence community is at odds over whether Iran is developing nuclear warheads, with US spies insisting it isn’t, and European and Israeli spies begging to differ. In what the New York Times calls a “mirror image” of the Iraq debate, the US say documents found... More »

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Iran • intelligence • nuclear program • National Intelligence Estimate • nuclear sites • spies • intelligence agencies • Qom

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

(Newser) - A potentially big development on the Iran elections tonight: The nation's most prominent clerical group demanded that the results be thrown out and called the new government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad illegitimate, the New York Times reports. The decision may yet collapse under state pressure, but it's a defiant rebuke of... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • disputed election • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Guardian Council • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Qom

ANALYSIS

As Iran Unrest Goes On, Watch the Clerics

Mullahs far from Tehran may step in to end election dispute

Jun 18, 09 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - As protesters continue to express anger and defy arrest, the endgame of Iran's disputed election may take place not in Tehran, but in the holy city of Qom—where the country's powerful clerics have so far kept silent. Except for a few prominent reformists, Iran's mullahs have refused to take... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • cleric • Hashemi Rafsanjani • mullahs • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Qom

 Daily Show 
 to Feature 
 Dispatches 
 From Iran 

Parody news show inches closer to becoming an actual news show

Jun 16, 09 1:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Daily Show will begin airing reports from a correspondent in Iran next week, the New York Times reports. Correspondent Jason Jones spent late May and early June filming in Tehran, Qom, and the Imam Mosque in Esfahan for his weeklong series Jason Jones in Iran: Access of Evil. Jones’... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Comedy Central • The Daily Show • journalist • Jason Jones • Qom

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