MIDDLE EAST: US, Russia To Iran ‘Send Your Uranium To Turkey, Otherwise . . .’
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BY FAREED MAHDY*
IDN-InDepthNews Service
ISTANBUL (IDN) – No wonder that Middle East events always run at high speed, being as it is the most conflictive region on Earth — in just few days, a “Turkish” solution to Iranian nuclear stand has appeared on the horizon. U.S. and Russia are [...]
POLITICS: Iran Began Preparing for U.S. Bombing in 2002
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Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (IPS) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published new evidence Monday that Iran had been building ”contingency centres” in the event of a U.S. bombing attack as early as 2002, years before it began building the second enrichment facility at Qom.
But the [...]
MIDEAST: Lessons from the Karine A -Déjà Vu All Over Again
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Analysis by Marsha B. Cohen
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) – As Israeli Defence Forces munitions experts sorted through 300 tonnes of weapons found on a German-owned, Cypriot-operated cargo ship flying the Antiguan flag, Israeli politicians were sifting through the various talking points that could be offloaded from the vessel. [...]
DISARMAMENT: Closer To Making Utopia Feasible?
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BY TARO ICHIKAWA
Republished with permission from IDN-InDepthNews Service
HIROSHIMA (IDN) – “What we see here is tragic, but even more tragic is all that was lost without a trace,” said Yoriko Kawaguchi as tears welled up in her eyes. She had just completed a tour of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial [...]
MIDEAST: ‘France, U.S. Pushing Arabs Into Nuclear Race’
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By Fareed Mahdy*
ISTANBUL, Oct 25 (IPS) – The decision by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates to build nuclear reactors has unleashed frenetic, politically backed competition between giant corporations from France, the U.S., Japan and South Korea to win contracts estimated at more than 40 billion dollars.
This may [...]
CHINA AS NUCLEAR PROLIFERATOR
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B.RAMAN
It was known in 2004 that A.Q.Khan, Pakistan’s nuclear scientist, who is wanted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, for interrogation in connection with his nuclear proliferation to North Korea, Iran and Libya, had left a letter with his wife Henny of Dutch origin and their daughter giving some details [...]
