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MOSCOW, August 2 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has always acknowledged Iran's right to develop a nuclear fuel cycle (NFC), although it urged countries without an NFC to avoid developing nuclear programs, a source at the Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Power, Rosatom, said Tuesday. He said the resumption of work on NFC development would not affect scheduled deliveries of nuclear fuel from Russia to Iran. Russia is finishing the construction of the first power-generating unit with a 1,000 MW capacity at the Bushehr nuclear power plant (NPP) on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf. The plant will become operational...

Iran Agrees to Delay Reopening Nuclear Plant Story created 8/1/2005 - 10:27 AM ISFAHAN, Iran (AP) -- Supreme National Security Council official says Iran has agreed to a two-day delay in reopening its nuclear processing plant, at U.N. request. The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency urged Iran not to jeopardize its negotiations with the European Union after Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it planned to resume reprocessing uranium today. Agency chief Mohammed ElBaradei urged Iran "to continue the negotiation process" with European negotiators and "not to take any action that might prejudice the process at this critical stage."...

Iran to break seal at Isfahan UCF in presence of IAEA inspectors: source TEHRAN, July 31 (MNA) -- In a formal letter to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, Iran has announced that it is determined to break the seal at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility, a high-ranking Iranian nuclear official told the Mehr News Agency. This is Iran’s second letter to the IAEA in the past week informing the agency that the Islamic Republic intends to restart nuclear activities at the Isfahan UCF that it had suspended voluntarily and as a confidence-building measure. Following a long...

Iran's outgoing President Mohammed Khatami says his government will resume some key nuclear work regardless of what European diplomats propose next month to defuse a dispute over Tehran's nuclear program. Mr. Khatami told reporters Wednesday, that Tehran will resume low-level uranium enrichment for use in power stations. Washington has accused Iran of trying to boost its enrichment process to create weapons grade material for use in warheads. Tehran denies the charges. Mr. Khatami gave no date for the restarting of enrichment activities, which were suspended late last year under pressure from the European Union and the United Nations. Britain, France...

I recently returned from eleven days in Iran. Before I went, friends told me I was crazy to go. They said I'd meet a lot of anti-American hostility. I'd be in danger, even. I met zero hostility. I don't want this article to become a list of what Iran isn't. That reminds me too much of my first interests in the country. I write fiction books for children and young adults. In 1999, I decided to write the tale of Beauty and the Beast from the lion's point of view. My searching through older versions of the story led to...

American Iranologist Wills to be Buried in Isfahan, Iran Apr. 18, 2005 Tehran, Apr. 18 (CHN) – Professor Richard Nelson Frye, a great American Iranologist, has asked in his will for his body to be transferred and buried in the land of Iran, in the historical city of Isfahan. Frye is an emeritus Harvard professor in central Asian studies who still gives lectures promoting Iranian history and culture. Frye graduated from Harvard in 1946, taught at several universities including Habibiya College in Kabul (1942-44), Harvard University (1948-90), Frankfurt University (1959-60), Hamburg University (1968-69), Pahlavi University of Shiraz (1970-76), and University...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 3/14/05 - Beirut, Isfahan, Arak BREAKING: Beirut, Lebanon- Freedom breaking out by the Millions BREAKING: Isfahan, Iran's Uranium Conversion Facility. BREAKING: Arak, Irans' 40-megawatt nuclear reactor. QFN ==== QUAGMIRE-FREE NEWS Exclusive to FReerepublic PICTURES YOU PROBABLY WILL NEVER SEE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA War for Enduring Freedom - THE GOOD, THE BAD, and the UGLY ========= Beirut ========= In Beirut, Lebanon, freedom rings as a million and more Lebanese oppose Syria and Iran. More than twice what the MSM reported for the pro-terrorist demonstrations of Hezbollah and Syria last week, the MSM...

The recent announcement of a deal for Israel to acquire thousands of Precision-Guided-Munitions (PGM) went largely unheralded by Elite-Media, who mostly yawned and ho-hummed the sale. One source, the Seattle Post Intelligencer did little more than the intellectually lazy approach, recycling an AP report but the numbers in the report were very telling: 3000 2000-pound laser-guided bombs, 1000 1000-pound laser-guided bombs and 500 500-pound precision-guided bombs. The most important number noted above is the huge number of 2000-pound PGM’s – these are heavy, penetrating munitions needed to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities. The PGM’s also have a satellite-targeting option allowing the...

Thousands arrested in Iran SMCCDI (Information Service) May 28, 2004 Several thousands have been arrested, since March 21st the beginning of the current Iranian New Year, in the rebellious province of Isfahan and hundreds of others in Tehran. The official sources of the Islamic republic regime have announced such news by qualifying those arrested as "Drug Addicts, Drug Traffickers or Hooligans". The official number of arrests for Isfahan has been announced as 4,700 and in Tehran of 500 individuals. The Islamic regime has increased the existing persistent repression in an effort to avoid mass riots from taking place at the...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 2/19/04 - Nishapur, Tehran, Isfahan, Fallujah BREAKING: Nishapur, Iran, secondary explosions at train explosion ========= Nishapur ========= In Nishapur, Iran, ~435 miles east of Tehran, a train [~51 cars] blew up and ~300 people were killed. Most say these were explosives on their way to Afghanistan. Many brave fire and rescue workers died after the Iranians first claimed it was simply "fertilizer" or an earthquake, but then there were secondary explosions much larger than the first explosion, and these kept burning for hours killing the Iranian heroes. ========= Tehran ========= In Tehran,...