"Iran secretly searching for uranium, leaked report says" February 25, 2011|George Jahn, Associated Press
VIENNA — Iran is expanding its covert global search for the uranium it needs for its nuclear activities, and a key focus is Zimbabwe, according to a new intelligence report acquired by The Associated Press....
(Blog editor's heart sinks in sadness as he realizes the Zionist AmeriKan War Daily is selling the SAME LIES they sold about IRAQ -- only then it was YELLOWCAKE and NIGERIA FORGERIES! They SURELY CAN NOT BELIEVE that the SAME LIES will SELL AGAIN! I guess just throw as much s*** out there and see what sticks as it muddies up the water).
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I don't think there is any doubt now. That's how AP and the rest "acquire" their "news" -- as if they had to work real hard for a government handout.
An intelligence report from a member country of the International Atomic Energy Agency — shared with the AP by an official from that nation — said Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi met secretly last month with senior Zimbabwean mining officials “to resume negotiations . . . for the benefit of Iran’s uranium procurement plan.’’
Report must be from Israel, and meeting could not have been too secret if I'm reading about it in my war paper.
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The report — confirmed independently by an official from another IAEA country — was shared as an Iranian delegation led by the head of the Cooperative Ministry Abbas Johari was meeting yesterday with “agriculture and mining interests’’ in the Zimbabwean capital Harare.
Must be the U.S.
Related: US envoy backs concern on Iran weapons
The official confirming the intelligence described the Salehi visit as part of an international Iranian effort that stretches across Africa, Asia, and South America and may involve more than a dozen countries. Both officials — whose countries follow Iran’s nuclear program — asked for anonymity in exchange for discussing intelligence matters.
The assessments are important because they call into question recent Iranian assertions meant to dispel doubts about the country’s capability to sustain and expand its uranium enrichment program.
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Yeah, good thing the Iranians are GETTING RID of the STUFF!
"Iran to remove fuel from nuclear plant; Government cites safety concern but doesn’t elaborate" by Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press / February 27, 2011
TEHRAN — In a major setback to Iran’s nuclear program, technicians will have to unload fuel from the country’s first atomic power plant because of an unspecified safety concern, a senior government official said.
The vague explanation raised questions about whether the mysterious computer worm known as Stuxnet might have caused more damage at the Bushehr plant than acknowledged.
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Also see: Israeli Worm Eating Its Way Through Iran
There have even been suggestions on the Internet that the virus is responsible for the failure of cooling reactors in Japan, and the reason the Germans have shut down all nuke plants.
And now there is word that the Russian reactors are acting funny?
Other explanations are possible for unloading the fuel rods from the reactor core of the newly completed plant, including routine technical difficulties.
While the exact reason behind the fuel’s removal is unclear, the admission is seen as a major embarrassment for Tehran because it has hailed Bushehr — Iran’s first atomic power plant — as its showcase nuclear facility and sees it as a source of national pride. When the Islamic Republic began loading the fuel four months ago, Iranian officials celebrated the achievement....
Not only an embarrassment, but it means USrael will have to call off the bombing campaign.
Some computer experts believe Stuxnet was the work of Israel or the United States....
Then why leave the obfuscating impression that it wasn't, AmeriKan media?
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Related:
"Russia’s nuclear energy agency said yesterday that the order to remove fuel from the Russian-built nuclear plant in Iran came because of concerns that metal particles might be contaminating fuel assemblies.
The announcement Saturday that fuel would be unloaded from the Bushehr plant was seen as a setback for Iran’s nuclear program and raised questions about whether the mysterious computer worm known as Stuxnet might have caused more damage at the plant than previously acknowledged.
Foreign intelligence reports have said the control systems at Bushehr were penetrated by the malware — malicious software designed to infiltrate computer systems — but Iran has said that Stuxnet did not affect the facility’s control systems.
Would you admit to the world the USraeli Empire could destroy your nuclear reactors?
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Also see: Iran opposition leaders abducted, group says
"Four years after a retired FBI agent mysteriously vanished inside Iran, US officials have received irrefutable proof he is alive, a dramatic development that has sharply intensified secret negotiations to bring him home....
What is an "ex" FBI doing in Iran?
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Smells like CIA to me.
Related:
"Police used tear gas and batons yesterday to disperse resurgent antigovernment protesters demanding the release of opposition leaders in the biggest clashes in Iran’s capital since demonstrators stormed back to the streets two weeks ago, witnesses and opposition websites said.
The recent return of skirmishes in the heart of Tehran — absent for more than a year after relentless crackdowns — borrows some raw inspiration from uprisings in the neighboring Arab world. But it also reflects a possible miscalculation by authorities who sought to silence opposition leaders but instead gave their supporters a new rallying point....
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"A leading Iranian cleric urged protesters in the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain yesterday to resist a government crackdown that has been backed by hundreds of Saudi Arabian troops.
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, speaking to clerics in the holy city of Qom, also demanded that Saudi Arabia withdraw its forces from Bahrain.
The unrest in Bahrain, which erupted in February, has played out against the region’s deep rivalries between Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims. Protesters from Bahrain’s Shi’ite majority have demanded that the kingdom’s Sunni minority rulers grant them equal rights and a political voice.
Saudi Arabia, a largely Sunni nation, has rushed to the aid of Bahrain, while other Persian Gulf countries have accused predominantly Shi’ite Iran of meddling in Bahrain’s affairs by trying to stir unrest there.
Of course, there is NO EVIDENCE of such a thing.
Btw, WHO SENT TROOPS in to OCCUPY and REPRESS?
Is that NOT MEDDLING?
Yesterday, clerics in Qom chanted slogans against Saudi Arabia’s leaders and Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
Meanwhile, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates tried to smooth the worst rift in years with Saudi Arabia, an Arab ally and oil producer, reassuring the Saudi king that the United States remains a steady friend despite support for prodemocracy revolutions in the Middle East.
In a sign of the depth of the Obama administration’s concern about the political earthquake that has shaken the region, this was Gates’s third trip to the area in the past month. He has echoed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cautioning of authoritarian Arab governments on the risks of moving too slowly in response to peaceful protests for political freedom.
Saudi Arabia views the threat of a nuclear strike from Iran as a far larger issue than the drive for political freedom in Egypt and elsewhere.
What a stinking piece of Zionist war propaganda there.
Although Gates said he and Saudi King Abdullah did not discuss the decision to send Saudi troops into Bahrain last month, the contest for influence in that majority-Shi’ite country was an important subtext to Gates’s visit. The United States is selling Saudi Arabia military hardware to upgrade the kingdom’s defenses against Iranian missiles.
And who benefit$ there, 'eh?
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