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Loony academic leftist Francis Boyle (last seen at LGF trying to impeach President Bush) has offered to represent the mullahs of Iran if they sue the US in the International Court of Justice. TEHRAN, July 22 (UPI) — A University of Illinois law professor says he has offered to represent Iran if it decides to sue the United States over threatened nuclear program sanctions.Iran’s Press TV reported Tuesday that Francis Boyle, an international law expert, is urging Iranian leaders to sue Israel and the United States through the International Court of Justice in The Hague over their ultimatum that Iran...

Iran’s president remained defiant today on the eve of a United Nations deadline for his country to stop enriching uranium, as tensions between Iran and the United States continued to mount in various ways. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country will halt its uranium enrichment program, a prerequisite for building nuclear weapons, only if Western powers do the same. The U.N. Security Council has imposed limited sanctions on Iran, and has said it would consider further sanctions if the enrichment program is not stopped by tomorrow. The United States Navy’s Fifth Fleet said today that another American aircraft carrier group...

Last update - 02:55 14/12/2006 Netanyahu wants Iran president tried for genocide at the Hague By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent Likud chair MK Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned about 70 foreign diplomats stationed in Israel to a meeting next Tuesday, at which he will urge them to end their complacency and join Israel in an effort to halt Iran's nuclear program, which he says is aimed at genocide of the Jews. The meeting is to be the first event in an international public relations campaign. It will include a proposal to file a complaint in the International Court of Justice against...

North Korea is by any international standard a failed or failing state. Yet it has a massive missile arsenal, a considerable and successful nuclear-weapons program, and one of the largest armed forces in the world. Why? For its huge conventional military power, the answer is usually to both suppress its own civilian population and to protect against a US-South Korean invasion. Neither is a satisfactory explanation, for in truth a highly pervasive internal security infrastructure and a people cowed by 60 years of unbending communist rule are probably more than enough to ensure the survival of the current regime for...

The United States intends to move very quickly in early September to impose UN sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend its enrichment of uranium, a senior State Department official said Thursday. "They will be well-deserved," Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns told reporters. "It's not a mystery to the Iranians what is going to happen." The UN Security Council already has said Iran faced sanctions if it did not suspend uranium enrichment, a key step in making nuclear weapons. Iran has until the end of the month to respond officially. It also had said it would reply by next Tuesday...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday it did not want the United States to become more involved in negotiations Tehran is holding with the European Union over its nuclear program. European leaders, including French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Shroeder, urged President Bush this week to join the EU approach of offering incentives to Iran in return for scrapping some atomic work. Bush's national security adviser Stephen Hadley, said on Wednesday Bush would consider the use of incentives such as the membership of the World Trade Organization and the sale of civilian aircraft to Iran, when he...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush says he will not rule out military action against Iran if that country is not more forthcoming about its suspected nuclear weapons program. "I hope we can solve it diplomatically, but I will never take any option off the table," Bush said in an interview with NBC News when asked if he would rule out the potential for military action against Iran "if it continues to stonewall the international community about the existence of its nuclear weapons program." Iran denies it has been trying to make nuclear weapons and says its...

VIENNA, Austria (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog agency has found evidence of secret nuclear experiments in Egypt that could be used in weapons programs, diplomats said Tuesday. The diplomats told The Associated Press that most of the work was carried out in the 1980s and 1990s but said the International Atomic Energy Agency also was looking at evidence suggesting some work was performed as recently as a year ago. Egypt's government rejected claims it is or has been pursuing a weapons program, saying its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. "A few months ago we denied these kinds of...

Iran politics: Nuclear bargaining COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Iran has succeeded in presenting a moving target to the Western powers seeking to shoot down its supposed plans to develop nuclear weapons. It has made periodic concessions to the trio of EU member states trying to achieve a negotiated solution that would entail the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) being able to state with final certitude that Iran’s nuclear programme is entirely peaceful, as the Iranian government claims it to be. However, these concessions have always been hedged around with conditions that have fortified suspicions that Iran is...

Teheran had assured European leaders that it would suspend uranium enrichment activities, but new information suggests otherwise Iran has drawn up secret plans to make large quantities of a gas that can be used to produce highly enriched uranium, despite promises to suspend enrichment activities. Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, Iran's atomic energy chief, has authorised construction of a plant to make Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride (AHF), a gas that has many uses, from petrochemical processing to uranium enrichment. The plant is expected to be finished by 2006 and will have a capacity to produce 5,000 tons of AHF a year, according to...

Today: March 07, 2004 at 10:25:38 PST AP: Pakistan Knew of Nuclear Black MarketBy GEORGE JAHNASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA, Austria (AP) - U.N. investigators are increasingly certain Pakistan government leaders knew the country's top atomic scientist was supplying other nations with nuclear technology and designs, particularly North Korea, diplomats told The Associated Press. While rogue nations were the main customers of the nuclear black market, sales of enriched uranium and warhead drawings have fed international fears that terrorists also could have bought weapons technology or material, the diplomats said. The investigation has widened beyond Iran, Libya and North Korea - the...