So is the Israeli attack next week and not next year?
Related: Israel's Pruning Provocation
Israel planned military op following border incident
Oh, just like the last time.
"Iran’s nuclear plant to get fuel; Uranium from Russia due next week" by Vladimir Isachenkov and George Jahn, Associated Press | August 14, 2010
MOSCOW — Russia announced yesterday that it will begin the startup next week of Iran’s only atomic power plant, giving Tehran a boost as it struggles with international sanctions and highlighting differences between Moscow and Washington over pressuring the Islamic Republic to give up activities that could be used to make nuclear arms.
Translation: The Usraeli empire is no longer being heeded.
Think of it as a signal, Americans.
Uranium fuel shipped by Russia will be loaded into the Bushehr reactor on Aug. 21, beginning a process that will last about a month and end with the reactor sending electricity to Iranian cities, Russian and Iranian officials said.
Let the countdown begin.
“From that moment, the Bushehr plant will be officially considered a nuclear energy installation,’’ said Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for the Russian nuclear agency.
And that is all it is.
If Russia carries out its plan, it will end years of foot-dragging on Bushehr. While Moscow signed a $1 billion contract to build the plant in 1995, its completion has been put off for years.
Moscow has cited technical reasons for the delays. But Bushehr has also been an ideal way to gain leverage with both Tehran and Washington.
Delaying the project has given Russia continued influence with Tehran in international attempts to have it stop uranium enrichment — a program Iran says it needs to make fuel for an envisaged reactor network but which also can be used to create fissile warhead material. The delays have also served to placate the United States, which opposes rewarding Iran while it continues to defy the UN Security Council with its nuclear activities.
However, it WILL DEFEND and REWARD ISRAEL even if it KILLS an American citizen in a war-criminal act of international piracy.
After Russia said in March that Bushehr would be launched this year, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that until Iran reassures the world it is not trying to build a nuclear weapon, “it would be premature to go ahead with any project at this time.’’
Formally, the United States has no problem with Bushehr.
Just your government and MSM lying to you again, Americans.
Although at first opposed to Russian participation in the project, Washington and its allies agreed to remove any reference to it in the first set of Security Council sanctions passed in 2006 in exchange for Moscow’s support for those penalties. Three subsequent sanctions resolutions also have no mention of Bushehr....
Those sanctions didn't work anyway -- and only your business lost out, America.
Still, the United States sees the Russian move as a false signal to Tehran as Washington strives to isolate Iran politically and economically to force it to compromise on enrichment.
Related: Israeli Oil Shipments Exempt From Iran Sanctions
Well, there are sanctions and then there are sanctions.
A senior diplomat from an International Atomic Energy Agency member nation said yesterday that the Americans had “raised those concerns with the Russians’’ in recent weeks. The diplomat, who is familiar with the issue, spoke on condition of anonymity because his information was confidential.
And were obviously ignored.
In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Bushehr “does not represent a proliferation risk. . . . However, Bushehr underscores that Iran does not need its own indigenous enrichment capability. The fact that Russia is providing fuel is the very model the international community has offered Iran. Our views on the Bushehr project should not be confused with the world’s fundamental concerns with Iran’s overall nuclear intentions, particularly its pursuit of uranium enrichment, and Iran’s willful violation of its international obligations.’’
So when does the attack begin, P.J.?
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"Iranian woman may have been tortured; Lawyer says that her confession was coerced" by Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press | August 13, 2010
TEHRAN — A lawyer for an Iranian woman who had faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction said yesterday that he suspects she was tortured into confessing that she was an unwitting accomplice to her husband’s murder.
Yeah, GOOD THING we NEVER TORTURE anyone, AmeriKa!!!!
Iranian state television broadcast the purported confession of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, on Wednesday night in an apparent attempt to deflect criticism of her case by the United States, other countries, and rights groups....
Human Rights Watch has said Ashtiani, a mother of two, was first convicted in May 2006 of having an “illicit relationship’’ with two men after the death of her husband and was sentenced by a court to 99 lashes.
Also see: Bringing HRW to Heel
Later that year, she was convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death, even though she retracted a confession she says was made under duress.
Related: The Siddiqui Sham
Aafia Siddiqui Framed!
America can't throw any stones.
Iran last month lifted the stoning sentence for the time being after international outrage. Iran says Ashtiani has also been convicted of involvement in her husband’s murder. She could still be executed by hanging.
Look, I don't think that is the appropriate penalty; however, it is NOT MY COUNTRY!
The outcry over the case is the latest source of friction between Iran and the international community, with the United States, Britain, and human rights groups urging Tehran to stay the execution.
Yeah, let's BOMB the place and KILL a bunch of IRANIAN WOMEN instead!
That would be a much better fate for them!
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Iran this week to release all political prisoners and expressed alarm about several specific detainees, including Ashtiani. Brazil, which has friendly relations with Iran, offered her asylum.
In the broadcast, the woman identified as Ashtiani said she unwittingly played a role in her husband’s murder. Her face was blurred and a woman who was not seen translated her words into Farsi from Azeri Turkish, which is spoken in parts of Iran....
She said the man, whom she did not identify, brought electrical devices, wire, and gloves to her house and electrocuted her husband while she watched.
Malek Ajdar Sharifi, a senior judiciary official, was quoted by state TV as part of the same report as alleging that Ashtiani had given her husband an injection that left him unconscious, then the man attached electrical devices to his neck and killed him.
Sharifi also said Ashtiani sent her children out of the house to clear the way for her husband’s killing....
Yeah, good thing wives and husbands never conspire to murder one another in AmeriKa.
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