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Iran Tests Missile with New Guidance System

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Voice of America - By Edward Yeranian - Aug. 04 (News Report) - Iran says it has successfully tested a short-range missile equipped with a new guidance system that it plans to install on all future missiles it builds. Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday that the new system has the capability of striking bo

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Hubris from Ahmadinejad: prelude to compromise on Iran nuclear program?

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Jun. 09 (News Report) - 'If Iran wants to build an atomic weapon ... no one will be able to prevent it,' President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday. Here are some interpretations of what that boast really means, as talks near on the Iran nuclear program. ...

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Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Alan Cowell, Rick Gladstone - Jan. 11 (News Report) - A bomber on a motorcycle killed a scientist from Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site and his bodyguard-driver on Wednesday during the morning commute in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in an assassination that could further elevate international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program and stoke the country’s growing anti-Western belligerence.

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Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press Staff - Jan. 09 (News Report) - An Iranian court has convicted a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday.

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Russian scientist Vyacheslav Danilenko’s aid to Iran offers peek at nuclear program - The Washington Post

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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Panetta Says Iranian Arms in Iraq Are a ‘Concern’

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Elisabeth Bumiller - Jul. 10 (News Report) - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said on Sunday that weapons he said were supplied by Iran had become a “tremendous concern” for the United States in recent weeks in Iraq, where more American troops died in June than in any month over the three previous years.

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Iran nuclear plans: Bushehr fuel to be unloaded

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 26 (News Report) - Iran confirms it is having to remove nuclear fuel from the Bushehr reactor, in what is seen as a setback for its nuclear ambitions. On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it had new information on "possible military dimensions" to Iran's nuclear plans, which Iran says are purely peaceful. The IAEA will supervise the unloading of fuel from Bushehr, Iran's nuclear envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh said. Iran began the Bushehr project in 1976. Iran's Fars news agency says the fuel is being removed for "technical reasons". The fuel at Bushehr is being provided by Russia, which built the plant and whose engineers will carry out the unloading, under the supervision of the IAEA.

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Excite News - AP Exclusive: Iran hunts for uranium

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By George Jahn - Feb. 24 (Investigative Report) - Iran is expanding its covert global search for the uranium it needs for its nuclear activities and a key focus is Zimbabwe, says a new intelligence report acquired by The Associated Press.

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Six-power talks with Iran end without agreement

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Joby Warrick - Jan. 22 (News) - Talks on Iran's nuclear program ended in failure on Saturday after negotiators from the Islamic republic insisted on a halt to economic sanctions before entering serious discussions about its nuclear ambitions.

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Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By William J. Broad, John Markoff, David E. Sanger - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally secret role — as a critical testing ground in a joint American and Israeli effort to undermine Iran’s efforts to make a bomb of its own.

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International envoys tour key Iranian nuclear site

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Ali Akbar Dareini - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Several international envoys - but crucially none from the world powers - got a look inside an Iranian nuclear site Saturday as part of a tour the Islamic Republic hopes will build support before a new round of talks on its disputed atomic activities. Iran is trying to sell the tour as a gesture of transparency ahead of the Jan. 20-22 talks in Istanbul, Turkey. In a blow to the effort, however, major powers Russia, China and the European Union refused the Iranian invitation. The EU said it should be up to inspectors from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency to verify whether Iran's program is entirely peaceful. Iran's offer pointedly did not include the United States, one of its biggest critics internationally, nor three other Western nations that have been critical of the Iranian program - Britain, France and Germany - and many saw the tour as an attempt to divide the nations conducting the nuclear talks.

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Clinton Tries to Keep Gulf From Easing Iran Sanctions

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Mark Landler - Jan. 10 (News Report) - The secretary of state is urging Iran’s neighbors to keep up pressure despite reports that the country’s progress toward a nuclear bomb has been delayed.

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Iranian Leader Suddenly Fires Top Diplomat

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By William Yong - Dec. 14 (News Report) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fired Iran’s foreign minister on Monday, a move that caught many here by surprise and appeared to reflect a strengthening of the president’s power.

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Iran says it's now fully self-sufficient at producing uranium

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Ramin Mostaghim - Dec. 05 (News) - An Iranian official announces that the country, suspected by the West and others of plans to build nuclear weapons, has produced yellow-cake uranium. The announcement may be meant to bolster Tehran's bargaining position at talks starting Monday in Geneva.

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Iran Says Two Bombs Target Professors

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Nov. 29 (News) - Assailants on motorcycles attached magnetized bombs to the cars of two nuclear scientists as they were driving to work in Tehran on Monday, killing one and wounding the other, Iranian officials said. The president accused Israel and the West of being behind the attacks.

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Stuxnet -- A new weapon for cyber insurgents?

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By William Maclean - Nov. 28 (News Analysis) - The revelation this year of a novel way to use computers to sabotage an enemy's lifeline infrastructure suggests a powerful new kind of weapon is moving within reach of weak states, militant groups and criminals, some analysts say.

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Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran's Nuclear Weapons Ambitions

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Fox News - By Ed Barnes - Nov. 26 (News Report) - Intelligence agencies, computer security companies and the nuclear industry have been trying to analyze the worm since it was discovered in June by a Belarus-based company that was doing business in Iran. And what they've all found, says Sean McGurk, the Homeland Security Department's acting director of national cyber security and communications integration, is a “game changer.”

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Worm Was Perfect for Sabotaging Centrifuges

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By William J. Broad, David E. Sanger - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Iran’s nuclear program have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control.

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Iran starts "biggest" air defense war games

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Tim Pearce - Nov. 16 (News) - Iran began what it said was its biggest ever air defense drill on Tuesday to test its ability to deter air strikes. The website of Iran's English-language Press TV said the five-day war games were being held near nuclear facilities and included tests of long-range missiles.

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Iran nuclear rights not negotiable, Ahmadinejad says

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 10 (News) - Iran will not discuss the nuclear issue in international talks proposed for later this year, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said.

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US senator sees ‘confrontation’ with China, war with Iran

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

Agence France-Presse - By Michel Comte - Nov. 07 (News Report) - The United States faces a possible war with Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions and a "period of confrontation" with China over its currency, a top US lawmaker warned Saturday.

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Iran Says It’s Started Loading Fuel at Nuclear Plant

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By William Yong, Alan Cowell - Oct. 26 (News) - Iran on Tuesday celebrated the start of the process of loading 163 fuel rods into the core of its first nuclear power plant reactor, putting it within months of operation.

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U.S. says Chinese businesses and banks are ignoring U.N. sanctions against Iran

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By John Pomfret - Oct. 18 (News) - The Obama administration has concluded that Chinese firms are helping Iran to improve its missile technology and develop nuclear weapons, and has asked China to stop such activity, a senior U.S. official said.

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Cyberwar: The meaning of Stuxnet | The Economist

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Sep. 30 (News) - A sophisticated “cyber-missile” highlights the potential—and limitations—of cyberwar

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In a Computer Worm, a Possible Biblical Clue

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John Markoff, David E. Sanger - Sep. 29 (News) - Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.

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