Sunday Telegraph: Iran’s decision to begin processing 37 tons of uranium yellowcake this month will enable it to acquire enough weapons grade uranium to build up to five nuclear bombs, Western intelligence officials are warning.
The Iranians announced their intention to process the material last week in a submission to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency …
Five N-bombs within Iran’s grasp as West prevaricates
Five N-bombs within Iran’s grasp as West prevaricates
Sunday Telegraph: Iran’s decision to begin processing 37 tons of uranium yellowcake this month will enable it to acquire enough weapons grade uranium to build up to five nuclear bombs, Western intelligence officials are warning.
The Iranians announced their intention to process the material last week in a submission to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency …
Defiant Iran begins nuclear production for ‘five bombs’
Sunday Telegraph: Iran has announced its intention to start processing 37 tons of uranium yellowcake that Western intelligence officials estimate will provide Teheran with enough weapons grade material to build up to five nuclear bombs, the Telegraph can reveal.
The decision to begin work on the yellowcake this month was disclosed in a submission last week to officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the international nuclear watchdog.
Pilgrim bus rolls over in northern Iran, 23 dead
Reuters: A bus carrying pilgrims across northern Iran rolled over on Saturday, killing 23 people and wounding 14, state television said.
The bus was heading towards the holy city of Mashhad in northeast Iran where many of those on board were planning to visit a Shi’ite Muslim shrine.
Weapons experts say Iran has the ability to build a nuclear bomb
Associated Press: Its a nightmare scenario for the West – a hostile Muslim state develops nuclear weapons, throwing the Middle East and the world into turmoil. American officials warn that fear could soon turn into reality with Iran.
In Teheran, government authorities deride such concerns and threats as US propaganda.
US gives up on getting Iran to UN Security Council in September: US official
AFP: The United States now realizes that it does not have the majority it needs at the UN nuclear watchdog to bring Iran before the UN Security Council over Tehran’s alleged atomic weapons program, a US official told AFP.
“We recognize we are not going to get majority support for a non-compliance finding (to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) in September” at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation board of governors meeting in Vienna that begins Monday, a US state department official told AFP by phone from Washington.
Iran Arrests 80 Evangelicals, Amid Fears of New Crackdown on Christians
BosNewsLife News Center: Iranian police invaded the annual conference of Irans Assemblies of God and arrested at least 80 church leaders at the churchs denominational center near Tehran as part of the worst crack down on evangelical believers in a decade, a Christian news agency reported Friday, September 10.
Compass news agency said security forces raided the meeting “without warning” in Karaj, 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of the capital, after they surrounded the churchs garden property Thursday, September 9.
UN atomic agency seeks to visit key Iranian defense site: diplomats
AFP: The UN atomic agency has asked to visit one of Iran’s main military sites, Parchin near Tehran, but the Iranians have not agreed to the visit, diplomats said Friday, as an Iranian resistance group said Tehran planned to build a nuclear bomb by next year.
Iranian cleric calls on Islamic nations to educate veiled French students
AFP: A top Iranian cleric on Friday called on Islamic nations to take in French students who have been deprived of education for wearing Muslim headscarves.
G-8 countries make progress over nuclear tensions with Iran, official says
Associated Press: The United States narrowed differences with European allies Friday on how to pressure Iran to renounce the development of nuclear weapons, but it hasn’t yet won agreement to haul the country before the U.N. Security Council, a U.S. official said.
