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Car Bomb Kills Iranian Nuke Expert

Israel suspected in hit on Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan

(Newser) - Yet another Iranian nuclear scientist has been murdered, this time after two assassins on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the 32-year-old chemistry expert's car. The death of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan comes almost exactly two years to the day since another nuclear professor was killed. Roshan, a...

Confirmed: Iran Enriching Uranium Underground

Higher level of enrichment at Fordo prompts international concern

(Newser) - Iran's claim has been confirmed: The country has indeed begun enriching uranium at an underground bunker, two diplomats tell the AP today. They call the news particularly worrying because the Fordo site is being used to make material that can be upgraded more quickly and easily for use in...

Despite Fuel Rods, Iran Is No Closer to Bomb

Announcement likely a posturing technique

(Newser) - If you were freaking out about Iran’s recent announcement that it had developed nuclear fuel rods , relax: Tehran probably isn’t any closer to a nuclear weapon than it was before, experts tell Reuters . While spent plutonium fuel rods can be used to make bombs, the West’s concern...

US Sanctions Batter Iran's Currency

Ordinary Iranians scrambling to exchange sliding rial

(Newser) - The latest US sanctions against Iran have left Iranians scrambling for American dollars. President Obama has signed a bill placing Iran's central bank under sanctions, a move that sent Iran's currency tumbling 12% to a record low against the dollar. The rial has now lost 35% of its...

Santorum: I'm Ready to Bomb Iran

Republican presidential candidate wants inspectors in Tehran

(Newser) - Surging in the Iowa polls , Rick Santorum said today he would bomb Iran's nuclear plants if international inspectors aren't allowed inside, the Wall Street Journal reports. "You can't go out and say, 'This is what I'm for,' and then do nothing,"...

Iran: We Fired New Missile, Produced Nuclear Fuel Rod

Country announces two breakthroughs

(Newser) - A weekend of nuclear breakthroughs for Iran? A state news agency claims today that the country performed a successful test of a medium-range ground-to-air missile, one day after the country announced that it had produced its first nuclear fuel rod. The missile test took place during 10 days of naval...

Iran to World Leaders: Let's Discuss Nuke Program

Tehran offers comes after new Western sanctions

(Newser) - Iran said today it has proposed a new round of talks on its nuclear program with six world powers that have been trying for years to persuade Tehran to freeze aspects of its atomic work that could provide a possible pathway to weapons production. The country's top nuclear negotiator,...

Russia Catches Iranian With Radioactive Metal

He was trying to board a plane to Tehran

(Newser) - Russian custom agents have seized 18 pieces of radioactive metal from an Iranian man who was trying to board a flight to Tehran, the customs agency announced today. The incident occurred sometime in the past—the agency didn't specify when—at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The man's luggage...

Panetta to Israel: 'Just Get to the Damn Table'

Defense Secretary says military action should be 'last resort, not the first'

(Newser) - Leon Panetta delivered a harsh rebuke to Israel yesterday, saying that it needed to take steps to end its increasing isolation in the Middle East—starting with reviving peace talks with the Palestinians. “Just get to the damn table,” Panetta said at a pro-Israel forum in Washington, according...

Blast Reported in Iran Nuke City

Officials downplay explosion in Isfahan

(Newser) - A "huge explosion" is being reported in the Iranian city of Isfahan, home to one of Iran's primary uranium-enrichment facilities, reports the Telegraph . Reports are conflicting—ranging from an explosion at a gas station to a military exercise—but coming only two weeks on the heels of a...

To Thwart Iran, US Plans to Sell Bombs to UAE

Bunker busters would be ideal for, say, taking out a nuclear facility

(Newser) - With the world growing nervous about Iran’s allegedly accelerating nuclear weapons program, the US is drawing up plans to sell thousands of “bunker-buster” bombs to the United Arab Emirates, sources tell the Wall Street Journal . Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, the al Nahyans, is seen as one of...

Iran: We Won't Retreat 'One Iota' on Nuclear Push

Meanwhile Russia rules out sanctions

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a defiant statement today denying a UN report that Iran was on the brink of acquiring nuclear weapons, and insisting that it would not change its behavior. “This nation won't retreat one iota from the path it is going,” he told a crowd in...

Iran on Brink of Nuclear Capability: Atomic Energy Agency

 Iran on Brink of 
 Nuclear Capability 
says IAEA
Nov 7, 2011 7:55 AM CST

Iran on Brink of Nuclear Capability

IAEA: No weapons yet, but nation 'could move quickly'

(Newser) - Iran now has all the technical know-how needed to make working nuclear weapons—thanks to the technical assistance of scientists from the former Soviet Union, Pakistan, and North Korea, reports the Washington Post . Officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is due to release a report on Iran later...

Iran Claims Slain Man Student, Not Nuke Scientist

Daryoush Rezaei just a graduate student, other reports claim

(Newser) - This much we know: An Iranian man was shot and killed outside his home in Tehran yesterday, reports the BBC, in an attack that also injured his wife. State media initially reported that Darioush Rezaei, a physics professor linked to the country's nuclear program, was murdered, and blamed Israel'...

UN Nuclear Experts: Iran Hacked Us
UN Nuclear Experts:
Iran Hacked Us
May 18, 2011 11:07 AM CDT

UN Nuclear Experts: Iran Hacked Us

IAEA investigating suspicions of tampering

(Newser) - Some of the International Atomic Energy Agency's top experts think Iranians hacked their cell phones and laptops, diplomats tell the AP. The incident is believed to have occurred earlier this year, when the diplomats left the equipment unattended during an inspection tour in Iran. The watchdog group became suspicious...

UN: Iran Skirting Nuke Sanctions

But they are at least slowing it down

(Newser) - International sanctions have managed to slow down Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, but that’s about it, according to a new UN report obtained by the AP . “Iran’s circumvention of sanctions across all areas … is willful and continuing,” the report concludes. The regime has...

Final Tests Under Way at Iran's Nuclear Power Plant

Bushehr expected to generate electricity in the next two months

(Newser) - Iran's first nuclear power plant is expected to begin generating electricity within two months, according to Iranian media. Final tests are being conducted at the Russian-built Bushehr complex, following a series of missed deadlines, Reuters reports. After fuel was first loaded into Bushehr last August, officials predicted the plant...

Iran Nuclear Talks Collapse
 Iran Nuclear Talks Collapse 
Jan 22, 2011 6:42 AM CST

Iran Nuclear Talks Collapse

Tehran refuses to talk without lifting sanctions, wants to continue nuke program

(Newser) - A mere day after talks began between Iran and six world powers, they have collapsed over Iran's insistence that the UN lift sanctions and that it be allowed to continue its nuclear program, reports the AP. "We had hoped to have a detailed and constructive discussion," says a...

Russia: Iran Could Cause 'Another Chernobyl'

Damaged nuclear reactor activation should not be rushed, scientists insist

(Newser) - If Iran’s attempts to activate its first nuclear power plant go forward as planned, we could be facing “another Chernobyl,” Russian officials warn. Russia has been assisting Iran with its controversial Bushehr reactor, which was reportedly damaged by the Stuxnet virus . Because of that damage, Russian scientists...

Ahmadinejad Abruptly Fires Foreign Minister

Move illustrates internal tensions as nuclear talks loom

(Newser) - Iran's president abruptly fired his foreign minister today and named nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi as acting top diplomat. It's the latest sign of a rift at the top levels of the Islamic theocracy as the country faces intense pressure from the West over its nuclear program. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...

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