AmeriKan media builds the case:
"Iran prepares to increase nuclear-fuel production" July 23, 2011|By David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, New York Times
Ah, the pinnacle of propaganda!
WASHINGTON - Eight months after he narrowly survived an assassination attempt on the streets of Tehran, Fereydoon Abbasi, the nuclear physicist whom Iran’s mullahs have put in charge of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, is presiding over what intelligence officials in several countries describe as an unexpected quickening of Iran’s production of nuclear material.
Is it to 90% weapons-grade levels?
The selection of Abbasi this year was itself a clear message to the West. As a university scientist, he was barred from traveling outside Iran by the UN Security Council because of evidence that his main focus was on how to build nuclear weapons rather than power plants. But in recent weeks he has publicly declared that his country is preparing to triple its production of a type of nuclear fuel that moves it far closer to the ability to produce bomb-grade material in a hurry.
Yeah, they are NOT building a BOMB, but don't let that stop the lying, war-promoting, pos press.
Filtering out the hyperbole surrounding recent proclamations about Iran’s tangible progress is always difficult, especially at a time when the country is determined to show that neither the Stuxnet computer worm, which crippled part of its nuclear infrastructure last year, nor Western sanctions have proved to be more than modest setbacks. Abbasi is rarely seen or heard outside of Iran.
Hyperbole is what we call a newspaper here.
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But international nuclear inspectors and American officials say that all the evidence points to the imminent installation of centrifuges at an underground nuclear plant on a military base near the city of Qum.
These the same guys that lied about Iraq's nukes? Yeah, thought so.
Iran revealed the existence of the plant in 2009 after learning that the United States and European powers were about to announce that they had discovered the complex, deep inside the Iranian base.
What a distorted lie. If the West had found it they would have announced it before the Iranians because it would have proved their charges to a certain degree. Iran's declaration was a legal move.
See why I'm sick of this shit?
What concerns inspectors and European and US officials is Iran’s announced effort to increase production of uranium enriched to nearly 20 percent purity.
That is FAR BELOW 90!!!
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Yeah, they need it to TREAT CANCER!
Iran insists that it needs that fuel for a medical research reactor. But last week William Hague, the British foreign minister, dismissed that assertion as a cover story.
Isn't that a limey pot hollering kettle?
“When enough 20 percent enriched uranium is accumulated at the underground facility at Qum,’’ Hague said in the opinion pages of the British newspaper The Guardian, “it would take only two or three months of additional work to convert this into weapons-grade material.’’
Outside analysts note that during Abbasi’s brief tenure, in Iran’s top leaders have focused on showing that they have overcome multiple setbacks, inflicted by what they suspect to have been covert actions by the United States and Israel, and broad economic sanctions.
Yeah, those are COVERED UP by my WAR MEDIA!
“The evidence is there that they are accelerating,’’ said Mark Fitzpatrick, an Iran specialist and the director of the nonproliferation and disarmament program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. “They have increased the production of uranium, they have increased the number of centrifuges they have spinning, they are putting in a larger number of second-generation centrifuges.’’
Senior Obama administration officials with access to the intelligence say they concur with that assessment, but they do not sound alarmed. They argue that Iran’s continued reliance on an older, unreliable centrifuge model shows that it is having trouble making the leap to more sophisticated and efficient models. “They’ve talked about moving up the line for years, before Abbasi got the job,’’ said one senior official.
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That is who is BRINGING ME my PAPER!
The White House’s recent silence is notable because President Obama built much of his Middle East policy, before the recent Arab uprisings, on organizing other countries in the region to halt Iran’s nuclear progress. The administration commented on the most recent Iranian announcements only when asked....
Which the media obviously did.
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"Iranian shot dead was nuclear specialist" July 29, 2011|By George Jahn, Associated Press
VIENNA - A man shot dead on a Tehran street by motorcycle-riding gunmen last weekend was a scientist involved in suspected Iranian attempts to make nuclear weapons and not a student as officially claimed, a foreign government official and a former UN nuclear inspector have told the Associated Press.
The man was shot Saturday by a pair of gunmen firing from motorcycles in an attack similar to recent assassinations of two nuclear scientists that Iran blames on the United States and Israel. State-run media initially identified him as Darioush Rezaei, a physics professor and expert in neutron transport, but those sources backtracked within hours, with officials subsequently naming him as Darioush Rezaeinejad, an electronics student.
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An official from a member nation of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency verified that the victim was named Darioush Rezaeinejad but said he participated in developing high-voltage switches, a key component in setting off the explosions needed to trigger a nuclear warhead. An abstract seen by the AP and bearing the name Darioush Rezaeinejad as a coauthor appears to back that claim.
Two other men, both of them nuclear scientists, were killed last year by assassins on motorcycles. While the possibility remained that there may be two Darioush Rezaeinejads, a senior Western diplomat in Vienna said the three assassinations, as well as the “back and forth by the Iranians’’ on the latest victim’s identity, had sharpened suspicions in his capital of a possible coverup. The diplomat asked for anonymity because he was relaying confidential information....
Such switches also have uses in medical and nonmilitary scientific applications. But....
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Okay, if the nuke lies don't convince you maybe this will:
"US says Iran helping Al Qaeda in war zones" July 29, 2011|By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration accused Iran yesterday of entering into a “secret deal’’ with an Al Qaeda offshoot that provides money and recruits for attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Treasury Department designated six members of the unit as terrorists subject to US sanctions.
The SAME ONE that considers them HERETICS and wants to SLIT THEIR THROATS?
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The announcement was made despite disagreements in the US intelligence community about the extent of direct links between the Iranian government and Al Qaeda, officials said. Most analysts agree there is a murky relationship between the two and at least some cooperation.
Murky a MSM CODE WORD!
"many of the details of how the accident unfolded remain murky"
"the truth lies buried in the murky world of spies."
See: They Don't Want Your Blood Money
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Seeing through the murk yet?
But yesterday’s allegations go further. Treasury said its exposure of the clandestine agreement would disrupt Al Qaeda operations by shedding light on Iran’s role as a “critical transit point’’ for money and extremists reaching Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Yeah, IRAN and CHINA just happen to be responsible for all the world's problems.
“This network serves as the core pipeline through which Al Qaeda moves money, facilitators and operatives from across the Middle East to South Asia,’’ a statement said....
PFFFFFFFFFFFFTTT!!
No Iranian officials were cited for complicity in terrorism....
David S. Cohen, Treasury’s point man for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Iran entered a “secret deal with Al Qaeda allowing it to funnel funds and operatives through its territory.’’ He didn’t provide any details of that agreement, but said the sanctions seek to disrupt Al Qaeda’s work in Iraq and deny the terrorist group’s leadership much-needed support.
“Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world today,’’ Cohen said in a statement. “We are illuminating yet another aspect of Iran’s unmatched support for terrorism.’’
Take your f***ing propaganda and stick it where the sun don't shine!
The action comes a day after the top US commander for special operations forces said Al Qaeda is bloodied and “nearing its end,’’ even as he warned that the next generation of militants could keep special operations fighting for a decade to come.
The bullshit just topped my head, gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.
Navy SEAL Admiral Eric T. Olson said bin Laden’s killing on May 2 was a near-fatal blow for the organization created by bin Laden and led from his Pakistan hideout. He said the group already had lost steam because of the revolts of the Arab Spring, which proved the Muslim world did not need terrorism to bring down governments, from Tunisia to Egypt.
Treasury’s public allegations against Iran may reflect part of a strategy to expand the pressure on smaller, less well-established offshoots of Al Qaeda as the weakening of the group’s leadership threatens to make its activities more disparate.
Have I told you lately how sick I am of this shit?
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And if that won't do it, there is always the old standby:
"Lax veil enforcement creates rift between Iranian leader, clerics" July 24, 2011|By Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post
TEHRAN - An intensifying rift between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and powerful Shi’ite clerics.
The conservative clerics, and like-minded military commanders, complain that Ahmadinejad isn’t doing enough to ensure that the dress code is strictly enforced. Some have also blamed recent violence against women on the victims, arguing that they were at fault because they wore the veil improperly.
Hitler the woman's liberator?
The debate is the latest in a series of public clashes between the country’s secular leaders, who run day-to-day politics, and its religious officials. Ahmadinejad’s critics charge that his inner circle of advisers is plotting to undermine their influence. They accuse the president of advocating more personal freedoms to widen their popular base....
Clerics, parliamentarians and Revolutionary Guard commanders who used to be among Ahmadinejad’s strongest supporters are criticizing him on many fronts, including his plan to give Iranians free plots of land, and his handling of the economy.
The issue of veiling is at the top of their agenda, with ideologues arguing that head scarves that reveal too much hair pose a serious threat to the Islamic republic’s core values.
Yeah, those damn things seem to be responsible for everyone's troubles.
During the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, bikinis and miniskirts were worn. But since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian law has required women to cover their hair and wear long coats in public.
Clerics say the practice protects the purity of women. But the law is imprecise and, with more women wearing tight-fitting coats and loosely fitted scarves, clerics complain that Iranian cities increasingly resemble Western metropolises where women roam the streets “practically naked.’’
I gotta get to Iran!
Ahmadinejad has made clear that his government does not support harsh measures against women who “have two strands of hair sticking out from under their scarves,’’ as he put it in a rare remark on the topic in a live television interview in 2010. He stressed that he preferred education about the veil rather than enforcement of the law, so that “the benefits of the hijab’’ become clear and women decide on their own to fully cover themselves.
But this summer, leading clerics have become fed up with his “lax and negligent’’ approach. “Blood should be shed to solve this issue and eradicate this problem from the society,’’ Tehran’s Friday prayer leader, Ahmad Khatami, said recently.
“The issue has turned into a lever for the government and its opponents trying to force their supremacy on the other side,’’ said Ali Reza Alavitabar, a Tehran political strategist who was involved in an influential political faction that advocates greater personal freedom. “This is about showing the country which side is really in power.’’
On a recent Friday, worshipers took to the streets condemning poor government enforcement of the veil law. Protesters waved placards provided by an organization supervised by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and shouted that the Islamic veil is a “trench’’ that keeps out rising modernization.
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