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According to Western diplomats, Iran promised ‘to send about 80 percent of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for processing and return to Tehran to replenish dwindling fuel stocks for a reactor in the capital that produces isotopes for cancer care.’ Iran’s low-enriched uranium stocks total around 1.5 metric tons. [...]

When it comes to Iran’s nuclear threat, the powers that be always conjure up worst-case scenarios. ‘But the underlying assumptions need to be questioned more thoroughly. Why would a nuclear Iran necessarily set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East? The conventional wisdom is that the Sunni Arab powers fear the power of Shiite Persia, and [...]

The possible and highly probable Iran nuclear threat has stirred some worry in high places once again. This is due to two major leaks that recently occurred. In the first leak, ‘the New York Times published an article reporting that staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. nuclear oversight group, had produced an unreleased [...]

Iran is said to be posing a nuclear threat. However, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), ‘reiterates that it has no concrete proof that there is or has been a nuclear weapon programme in Iran.’ In spite of all the furor and frenzy over Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons development, atomic scientists [...]

North Korea has announced that it has begun the ‘last phase’ in the process of enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons. At the same time, the North Korean communist regime said it is also into the parallel process of extracting plutonium from the nuclear fuel rods stored at its Yongbyon reactor. The North Korean delegation at the UN in a letter [...]

North Korea takes a confident stance regarding its nuclear weapons program. According to the country’s state media, “Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage.” This brings yet another worry to anti-nuclearization critics of the communist regime. Now that ‘North Korea has entered [...]

Regarding the second nuclear test by North Korea, US President Barack Obama says that the test ‘threatens peace.’ He has also asked the international community to ‘take urgent action,’ describing North Korea’s move as grave concern for all countries. “Attempts by North Korea to develop nuclear weapons and its ballistic missile program pose [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in his speech during the celebration of the Armed Forces in Tehran that no nation would dare attack his country. With the strength of Iran’s military, the enemy will not dare anymore to even threaten Iran, he assured the people. This statement is in response to the revived speculation that the new government [...]

In good faith, Iran receives US President Barack Obama’s conciliatory message to the Iranian people but the country feels that any reconciliation needs ‘a concrete step forward.’ This is according to Ali Akbar Javanfaker, one of the closest advisers to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Javanfaker said, “We receive the message in good faith, [...]