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Iran centrifuge magnet story technically questionable | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

thebulletin.org - By Yousaf Butt - Feb. 21 (Special Report) - The magnets in question have many uses besides centrifuges and are not only, as Warrick describes them, "highly specialized magnets used in centrifuge machines." Such ceramic ring magnets are everyday items and have been used in loudspeakers, for example, for more than half a century. The ISIS report neglects to explain the many other applications for such ceramic ring magnets and jumps to the conclusion that the inquiry is surely related to Iran's nuclear program. Why ISIS does not offer alternate and more plausible applications of these unspecialized magnets is a puzzle. Such magnets are used in a variety of electronic equipment. For instance, one vendor outlines some of the various possible uses in speakers, direct current brushless motors, and magnetic resonance imaging equipment.

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Scott Kemp on the next arms race: cyberweapons

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Scott Kemp - Jun. 07 (Special Report) - Scott Kemp writes about the dangers of a new arms race: cyberweaponry used for offense, not defense. Kemp, a centrifuge specialist at Princeton, points out that government agencies seeking to use cyberwarfare will most likely keep computer operating weaknesses secret from their own population, leaving everyone vulnerable. This is a very thoughtful read.

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Negotiating with Iran: Expectations for Baghdad

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Emily B. Landau - May. 07 (Special Report) - Amid ongoing concerns that Iran might still not be negotiating in good faith, there is nevertheless a chance that this time things will be different. Tentative indications of a changed Iranian attitude find expression in the very fact that the Iranians have agreed to discuss the nuclear issue, which they had not been willing to do in recent years. Moreover, despite repeated Iranian attempts to convince European Union foreign affairs and security policy representative Catherine Ashton to lift the pending European oil embargo, the five members of the UN Security Council and Germany, or P5+1, did not budge on this...

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Fmr. Ambassador Pickering: Iran, Istanbul and the future

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering - Apr. 23 (Special Report) - In Iran, the Supreme Leader re-issued his fatwa, which dates back at least to 2003, calling nuclear weapons haram, or "not permitted," for Muslims at least and styling them for the first time as a "cardinal sin." This pronouncement was complemented by guarded praise on his website for Obama's speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the reissuance of a book on negotiations surrounding events affecting Shi'ism in the eighth century; the final two words of the book's title are the optimistic "flexibility and compromise."

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The new abolitionists: Henry Kissenger, George Schultz, Bill Perry, Sam Nunn, and Sidney Drell

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Hugh Gusteraon - Mar. 30 (Special Report) - Philip Taubman's new book, The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb, recounts the story of five front-rank Cold Warriors who have become nuclear abolitionists in their old age. They are: Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixon's national security adviser and secretary of state, 85; George Schultz, President Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, 88; Bill Perry, President Bill Clinton's secretary of defense, 82; Sam Nunn, former chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, 72; and Sidney Drell, a scientific adviser to the US government and physics professor at Stanford University, 85. In their professional careers, each contributed in important ways to the nuclear arms race.

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Former Mossad Chief Blasts Romney

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

lezgetreal.com - By Linda Carbonell - Mar. 07 (News Report) - In Halevy’s view, “If I’m sitting here in the month of March, 2012, reading this, and I’m an Iranian leader, what do I understand? I have nine more months to run as fast as I can because this is going to be terrible if the other guys get in. In the effort to demolish the president he is making he situation worse.”

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How to prevent war with Iran

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

thebulletin.org - By Joshua Pollock - Jan. 28 (Special Report) - As Israel attempts to disrupt Iran's nuclear ambitions and the United States enforces sanctions against the state, Iran calls for revenge. What needs to be done to avert war? Steps Israel, the United States, and Iran should -- and should not --take.

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What's Happening in the Persian Gulf Explained

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Adam Weinstein, Hamed Aleaziz - Jan. 03 (Special Report) - The basics: Iran and the United States appear to be heading for a showdown in the Persian Gulf. Amid already-high tensions over Iran's advancing nuclear program, the US has imposed harsh new economic sanctions on the regime in Tehran and begun to move se

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Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused Over Iran’s Nuke Program

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Seymour Hirsh, Amy Goodman - Nov. 21 (Investigative Report) - In his latest article for The New Yorker blog, titled "Iran and the IAEA," Hersh argues the recent report is a "political document," not a scientific study. "They [JSOC] found nothing. Nothing. No evidence of any weaponization," Hersh says. "In other words, no evidence of a facility to build the bomb. They have facilities to enrich, but not separate facilities to build the bomb. This is simply a fact."

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Stuxnet apparently as effective as a military strike

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Ars Technica - By Peter Bright - Dec. 16 (News Analysis) - Damage from the Stuxnet virus has apparently set back the Iranian nuclear program by as much as two years, according to a German security expert talking to the Jerusalem Post. This makes the virus as effective as a military strikebut without loss of life or risk of full-blown war. This comes amid claims that the virus is continuing to infect Iranian systems and disrupt the Iranian nuclear effort, and the news from IAEA last month that Iran had suspended work at its nuclear production facilities, likely as a result of the virus.

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Exclusive Report: Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

truth-out.org - By Gareth Porter - Nov. 18 (Investigative Report) - telltale indicators of fraud bring into question the central pillar of the case against Iran and raise more fundamental questions about the handling of the Iranian nuclear issue by the IAEA, the United States and its key European allies. Drawings of the Wrong Missile Warhead

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US Foreign Policy | Iran Sanctions | Nuclear Bomb

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Barbara E. Martinez - Nov. 07 (News) - Engagement succumbs to political imperative.read more

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Iran may consider ending its nuclear enrichment program

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

allvoices.com - Sep. 24 (News) - After his controversial speech to the United Nations Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that Iran may consider ending its high level uranium enrichment efforts. The Associated Press reports

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The Bomb-Iran Debate From Hell

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tomdispatch.com - Aug. 25 (Other) - Two Minutes to Midnight? The Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate America's march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a legitimate policy option, then debated as a prudent and necessary one. Now, a similarly flawed media conversation on Iran is gaining momentum.

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ElBaradei Says Sanctions on Iran Will Fail

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By C. M. Sennott - Apr. 30 (News) - Medford, Mass. ? Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, believes it is likely the international community will move to impose tougher sanctions on Iran. But the genteel, bespectacled diplomat, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for his tireless efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, is just as convinced that sanctions will fail.read more

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Clinton Says Iran Headed For “Military Dictatorship |

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

atlanticfreepress.com - By Sherwood Ross - Feb. 25 (News Analysis) - Well may Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warn students in Qatar that “Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship.” She is, after all, an authority on the subject, representing a country where the Pentagon has long been ascendant.

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US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco in Iran

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Feb. 20 (News Analysis) - The major U.S. news media is acting like a propaganda vehicle on Iran much like it did on Iraq, observes Robert Parry.

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US Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Gareth Porter - Dec. 29 (News) - U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.

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The Week the IAEA Applied a Nuclear Double Standard

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Gareth Porter - Dec. 19 (News Analysis) - In 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that a member state had violated its Safeguards Agreement by carrying out covert uranium conversion and enrichment activities and plutonium experiments for more than two decades.

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Iran Plans to Build 10 Enrichment Factories

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - Dec. 01 (News Report) - Iran announced plans Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants in a major expansion of its nuclear program, a clear show of defiance after the UN nuclear watchdog rebuked Tehran over such secret work,.

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Nuclear tightrope in Iran

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By William Dowell - Oct. 01 (News Analysis) - The meeting here in Geneva is being billed as the last chance for a diplomatic solution to what many see as Iran’s race to build a nuclear bomb. In diplomacy, it is a good rule never to say “never,” but there is no question that this time there is a lot at stake. Iran's chief negotiator on its nuclear program is meeting with representatives from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany.

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US Story on Iran Nuke Facility Doesn't Add Up

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Gareth Porter - Sep. 30 (News Analysis) - an analysis of the transcript of that briefing by senior administration officials that was the sole basis for the news stories and other evidence reveals damaging admissions, conflicts with the facts and unanswered questions that undermine its credibility.

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China, Iran and Sanctions: What's a Rising Power to Do?

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Elizabeth Lynch - Sep. 30 (News Analysis) - Why is China so hesitant to support sanctions against a country that is secretly developing nuclear capabilities? History, geo-politics and economic ties are what set China apart from its Security Council brethren in dealing with Iran. But China's growth as a world power has caused it to become a stakeholder in the current system. With this new-found power, China has begun to realize its actions, or lack of action, does in fact shape the world's future course and as a result, its own global prospects.

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Arabisto: Countering Benjamin Netanyahou's Orwellian Spin at the UN

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

arabisto.com - By Eileen Fleming - Sep. 29 (News Analysis) - In defense and support of freedom of the press, conscience and speech; this article should be read which counters every point Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spun at the UN on September 24, 2009.

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POLITICS: U.S. Story on Iran Nuke Facility Doesn't Add Up

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Gareth Porter - Sep. 29 (News Analysis) - The story line that dominated media coverage of the second Iranian uranium enrichment facility last week was the official assertion that U.S. intelligence had caught Iran trying to conceal a "secret" nuclear facility. But an analysis of the transcript of that briefing by senior administration officials that was the sole basis for the news stories and other evidence reveals damaging admissions, conflicts with the facts and unanswered questions that undermine its credibility.

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