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Top News Story Images Show Iran Heavy-Water Plant Nearly Done-ISIS Fri Mar 4, 2005 03:57 PM ET By Louis Charbonneau VIENNA (Reuters) - New satellite images show a heavy water plant in Iran, intended to supply a research reactor that could eventually produce plutonium for one atomic bomb a year, is nearly complete, a U.S. think-tank said on Friday. The photos of the plant in Arak, 150 miles south of Tehran, were taken in February by the U.S. commercial satellite firm DigitalGlobe and provided to Reuters by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a U.S. think-tank. "Adjacent...

Top News Story The next domino With virtually no attention from the mainstream media, the United States has been taking actions calculated to ratchet-up pressure on the mullahs of Iran. A complex plan has been carefully crafted to avoid a direct military attack on Iran, which would inflame nationalism and build support for the mullahs. Once again, the scope, subtlety, and vision of President Bush’s foreign policy confounds his carping critics.The fall of Lebanon’s pro-Syrian government validates GW’s strategy of staying the course in Iraq, to prove to the people of the Middle East that freedom and liberty can...

Top News Story Europe Should Be Careful What It Wishes for in IranLet us make a bet with very high odds and sad returns: Iran's nuclear program is likely to derail any serious rapprochement between the United States and western Europe. Indeed, it is quite possible this issue will do more damage to U.S.-European relations than the Iraq war did, because the European Union's approach to a nuclear Islamic republic could become more morally repellent to George W. Bush than was the Franco-German campaign against the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. U.S. officials may be suggesting an imminent "convergence" of...

Top News Story Bush considers Iran policy shift John Shovelan ELEANOR HALL: Now to another key player in the Middle East – Iran, and United States President George W. Bush looks like taking the advice of European leaders and shifting his policy toward the Islamic theocracy. Last week after the President returned from Europe senior White House officials began considering a policy of offering incentives for Iran to give up its alleged nuclear weapons program. From Washington, John Shovelan reports. JOHN SHOVELAN: President Bush went to Europe hoping to convince his allies that their approach to Iran was too...

Top News Story India Daily American warfare technologies are capable of making the Iranians outright surrender in a few weeks with little real fighting. In the last two years, American have mastered such technologies that Iran will not be able to stand even days. Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said on Feb. 25 that Pakistan would remain neutral in the case of a U.S. attack against Iran over Tehran's nuclear program. However, he expressed hope that such an attack would not occur. Sources say, Pakistan is very convinced that if situation arise, Iran cannot even stand the American invasion...

Top News Story Iran Said to Acquire Knowledge on WeaponsIran, through the black market network, had accumulated all the knowledge it needed by the late 1980s to set up technology that can be used to make atomic weapons, diplomats familiar with the work of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Saturday. The diplomats, who are familiar with the work of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, spoke to The Associated Press two days before the IAEA board meets on Iran and other potential world nuclear concerns. An agency investigation during the past two years previously established that Iran ran...

Top News Story The Least Bad Iran Option Jeffrey Bergner, The Weekly Standard:During his recent trip to Europe, President Bush sent mixed signals about U.S. policy with regard to Iran's development of nuclear weapons. At one point he dismissed the prospect of military action as ridiculous; immediately after, he emphasized all options were on the table; then at another point he suggested there might be "convergence" between U.S. and European views on how to address the problem. If the president seemed to be all over the lot, that may be because the policy choices with respect to Iran are...

Top News Story Iran Guards tell leader forces unable to control Tehran uprising lasting more than 6 hours In a recent secret report to the Iranian regime's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps pointed out that were a demonstration or rebellion to last more than six hours in Tehran, the security apparatus would no longer be able to control the situation. "Society is in an unstable state. Were certain sensitive locations in Tehran to 'explode' under these circumstances, and the capital sink into chaos, if uprisings continue unabated and grow larger for more than six hours in...

Top News Story Swiftvet author threatened with lawsuit Kerry fund-raiser angered by new book on nuclear Iran Posted: February 23, 20059:19 p.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Picking up where he left off with best-seller "Unfit for Command," author Jerome Corsi once again is entering a maelstrom with the impending publication of a book that blows the whistle on U.S. politicians and activists allegedly on the take from Iran's radical Islamic regime. New York Daily News columnist Lloyd Grove plans to report tomorrow that Iranian-American activist Hassan Nemazee, a figure Corsi criticizes in his upcoming WND Books title "Atomic...

Top News Story A Daily Briefing of Major News Stories on Iran: Iran Seeks EU Consent for Modeling Its Nuclear Program on the 'Japanese/German Model' The Middle East Media Research Institute: Nuclear Fuel Cycle Capabilities Three Months Short of a Bomb - Introduction As predicted, the gaps between Iran and the EU3 – namely, Germany, France and Britain – have not been narrowed in the three months of negotiations since last November's 'Paris Agreement.' [1] The claim that Iran has committed itself to permanently cease its uranium-enrichment activities was inaccurate. Iran insists that its unilateral commitment to the EU3...

Top News Story Iran, Syria Anti-US-Israel Alliance is a Hoax: Analysts Safa Haeri, Iran Press Service:The proposed alliance between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Arab Republic of Syria aimed a thwarting threats from the United States is more a hoax than a serious project, Iranian analysts said. "We are ready to help Syria on all grounds to confront threats", Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Reza Aref assured last week after meeting Syrian Prime Minister Naji al-Otari in Tehran. "Our Syrian brothers are facing specific threats and we hope they can benefit from our experience. We are ready to give...

Top News Story Osama bin Laden may be in Iran. One of the most senior American diplomats in Pakistan has said the US believes Osama may have been intercepted and detained against his will by Iranian agents while travelling along the border between eastern Iran, Balochistan and Afghanistan. It is a journey already tried out in the past by several Al Qaeda members, may be even by Osama himself, and therefore considered safe, explains the diplomat, who agreed to talk on condition of anonymity. According to the diplomat, the "Osama in Iran" theory already features in American intelligence reports...

A Daily Briefing of Major News Stories on Iran: Iran: A week in review The Europeans: An important distinction has appeared between the and some of the Europeans. While President Bush is speaking the language of freedom and human rights (traditional European concerns) Germany’s Schroeder speaks of stability and is silent on freedom. The Europeans are pushing on recognition of the state of Israel, but Iran has flatly rejected these demands. On the issue of Iran’s heavy water reactor(which are universally used for production of plutonium), Iran is rejecting any EU3 discussions on closing this facility, saying they want...

A Daily Briefing of Major News Stories on Iran: New satellite intel shows that Iran is building an underground tunnel just north of the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) at Esfahan. It appears too big to be only for storage. It might be intended to house production facilities for some uranium conversion processes.. Iran already has about 500 tons of uranium concentrate. Here are a few of items you may have missed. President Bush and Putin will be meeting next week, and will be discussing Iran’s nuclear program.Bush is making it clear that the military option against Iran’s nuclear program...

A Daily Briefing of Major News Stories on Iran: Words are weapons for Iranian bloggers. This UPI article contains some interesting facts. Bloggers take notice: Today an estimated 75,000 Iranians maintain online Web logs…5 million Internet users in Iran…Some observers say the gathering revolution will be blogged, not televised…At a recent U.N. summit, Khatami himself bragged that Iran's official language, Farsi, stands as the third most popular blogging tongue in the world… [Ledeen says Farsi is the 4th most popular]"Web logs are much used at times of crisis (in Iran), such as during the June 2003 student demonstrations….Nearly 20...

A Daily Briefing of Major News Stories on Iran: Iran is six months from being able to build the bomb? The Israeli’s think so.What's up with the unmanned aircraft attack rumors? Iranian military denies there was an attack on Dialam. Adventures of Chester provides some clues to what may be going on here. Here are a few of items you may have missed. Iran and Syria announced they are building a “common front” to deal with the US. This is actually a PR stunt as this is nothing new. They simply reaffirmed previous agreements. The NY Sun wrote an...

A Daily Briefing of Major News Stories on Iran: The movement towards a referendum in Iran has picked up American support. Iranian expert, Michael Ledeen recently came out in support of the referendum movement. Yesterday our friend Roger L Simon did the same.Regime Change Iran is also in support of the referendum movement and will soon be announcing a campaign we will be launching on the blogosphere.Here are a few of the often overlooked headlines. Ayatollah’s and clerics and their websites. A leading member of Iran’s Hezbollah says Iran will produce an atomic bomb. Why Iraq’s Shiites wont follow...

Top News Story Iranian.us Persians Push for Bush Slater Bakhtavar, Iranian.us: The BBC world service website recently released the results of their 2004 presidential poll. Of the sixteen linguistic ethnical groups surveyed, Persians were overwhelmingly the most supportive of President Bush. In fact, over fifty two percent of Iranians preferred Republican George W. Bush to challenger John Kerry who'd received a minuscule forty two percent of the vote. Thus, surprisingly, unlike in the United States where the presidential race was relegated to a couple of percentage points, in Iran - President Bush won by a landslide. Numerous other sources...

Top News Story President Mohammad Khatami said here on Sunday that U.S. President George W. Bush and Al-Qaeda terrorist network leader Osama bin Laden use very similar language “The words and deeds of Bush and Bin Laden are alike, producing the sound of violence and waging war against the world. In fact, the words used by Bush and Bin Laden are almost exactly the same,” Khatami said during a meeting with a group of Kermanshah Province academics. Referring to the U.S. animosity toward Iran over the past 26 years, the president noted that Washington supports the most Neanderthal governments...

A Weekend Briefing of Major News Stories on Iran: The past week was filled with important new developments in the US effort to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat. I was in Washington DC, attending an intelligence conference. Members of the FBI, CIA, NSA, Defense and state and local law enforcement were in attendance. It was a rare opportunity to gain insight into US intelligence on Iran. But since our conversations went late into the night my blogging for the week was light. (Fox news Eric Shawn has prepared a report on the conference for its Sunday morning "Weekend...