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Panetta: Iran Has Not Yet Decided to Make a Nuclear Bomb
Fox News
Martin Dempsey take part in a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington. WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta saysIran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a bomb and called for continued ...
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'I Certainly Do Not See Iran as a Threat'
Huffington Post (blog)
Now imagine this regime with nuclear-weapons capability. And remember that the power of the bomb comes not just from its use, but also from its mere possession. The looming question is what to do about the Iranian threat. ...
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Op-Ed: Bombing Iran — A British anti-war view
DigitalJournal.com
JT: It is a blatant felony or act of terrorism committed by Gingrich to call for the murder, in effect, of Iran's nuclear scientists (at least two have already been murdered) and to call for covert disruption of a sensitive process like nuclear ...
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DigitalJournal.com
Ahmadinejad Woos Chavez-Led Allies in Latest Latin America Tour
Bloomberg
Iran denies seeking to build atomic weapons and says it's pursuing nuclear technology for civilian purposes. Economic Toll The threat of broader sanctions led the Iranian rial to plunge to 17800 per US dollar on Jan. 2, prompting the central bank to ...
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Bloomberg
U.S. Has No Need for 5000 Nuclear Weapons To Counter Threats From Iran and ...
Ottawa Citizen (blog)
We don't need thousands of warheads, or even hundreds, to counter threats from countries like Iran or North Korea. The only conceivable use of so many weaponswould be a full-scale nuclear war with Russia, which has more warheads than the United States ...
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Morning Bits
Washington Post (blog)
By Jennifer Rubin A Ron Paul-like criticism of the determination of Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons makes you trust their judgment even more. “So why, then, are Republican candidates treating Iran like it's ...
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Iran officials visited N. Korea in Nov. on possible uranium enrichment: report
Yonhap News
In 2010, North Korea revealed it is running a uranium enrichment facility, shocking the international community. Highly enriched uranium can be used to make weapons, giving Pyongyang another way to build nuclear bombs in addition to its existing ...
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BC-AP News Digest 2:05 pm
Chicago Tribune
With: — US-IRAN NUCLEAR — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a bomb. REPUBLICANS-DEBATE CONCORD, NH — A combative Newt Gingrich accuses Mitt Romney of "pious ...
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Commodities hit by strong dollar; oil spikes on Iran
Business Recorder (blog)
Iran has threatened to disrupt shipping through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, where about 20 percent of the world's sea-transported oil passes. The United States and allied nations accuse Iran of developing an atomic bomb but Tehran insists the program ...
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Iranian rial falls to record low on US sanctions
Business Recorder (blog)
The United States and Israel have not ruled out military option if diplomacy fails to resolve Iran's nuclear dispute. Tehran denies the West's claim that it is after nuclear bomb, saying its response to any military strike will be firm. ...
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UPI NewsTrack TopNews
UPI.com
Iran's nuclear development has been a source of international concern for years. The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Iran for refusing to abandon uranium enrichment amid fears the goal was to create nuclear weapons. ...
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'US after religious strife in Mideast'
Press TV
Despite the widely publicized claims by the US, Israel and some of their European allies that Iran's nuclear program may include a military diversion, Iran steadfastly insists on its civilian nature, arguing that as asignatory to the Nuclear ...
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Press TV
You Decide poll evidences Fox News readers not in favor of downsizing Defense ...
allvoices
Of course, the article the poll is advertised by is entitled "Panetta: Iran Has Not Yet Decided to Make a Nuclear Bomb" published in the Fox News Pentagon - Politics section which could influence the decision making process for fear that a nuclear war ...
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2011: Out with a whimper, not a bang
Fresno Bee
Without monotonous threats of acquiring nuclear weapons and closing the Strait of Hormuz, would anyone pay attention to the nutty theocracy in Iran? If tottering states can keep convincing successful nations that they are willing to suffer a lot to ...
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Iran reported to enrich uranium at underground lab
Newsday
In an interview broadcast Sunday, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Iran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weaponssomeday, but is not yet building a bomb. Panetta reiterated US concerns about a unilateral strike by Israel against Iran's ...
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Newsday
Will the world pay for a slimmed down US military?
The National
The New Look policy was also widely blamed for creating the so-called "hollow military" of the 1970s, a termed coined soon after the then President Jimmy Carter was considering bombing Iran during the hostage crisis. He reportedly asked how many B-52 ...
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Blinded by the Left: How Marxists Wrote Ron Paul's Defense Cuts Plan
Big Government
... Russia and China, and Iran chief among them, have a very long reach. The continental US is only partially protected by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans . The enemy can now attack the American homeland with ICBMs, biological weapons, cyber warfare, ...
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Duncan Hamilton: We can't wash our hands of perfect storm brewing in the ...
Scotland on Sunday
In fairness, the US is cranking up the pressure on Iran and the EU finally appears to have reached something of an agreement to institute an oil embargo. Ostensibly, the embargo is about the Iranian nuclear programme, but in truth the wider role of ...
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The evil of indefinite detention and those wanting to de-prioritize it
Salon
That's certainly what we'd consider it if Hezbollah fighters tried to kill cabinet undersecretaries and planted bombs at the homes of Los Alamos engineers. Fast forward three years. Iranian nuclear scientists are actually being murdered. ...
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Ron Paul 2012 New Hampshire Debate [FULL QUOTES & POLL]
International Business Times
And they can't -- there's some in Washington now can't wait until they start bombing Iran. We have to change this whole nature. You know, something happened this week I thought was so encouraging. And it reminds me of how we finally talked to the ...
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International Business Times
'Strange' is the new 'normal' for 2012
The Japan Times
... of which Iran is one. Speaking of North Korea, Sunday Mainichi sees the April 15 100th anniversary of the birth of the nation's deified founding father, Kim Il Sung, as a natural occasion for a grand gesture — a nuclear bomb test, for instance. ...
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Iran to launch nuclear work in bunker in 'the near future'
Today's Zaman
Iran will in the “near future” start enriching uranium deep inside a mountain, a senior official said, a move likely to further antagonise Western powers which suspect Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons capability. A decision by the Islamic Republic to ...
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The 9 at 9: Sunday
thejournal.ie
6. #IRAN: A government official in Iran has told Iranian media that the country's underground uranium enrichment facility will soon be operational. Tehran insists that thenuclear plant is for generating power and not bombs as the US claims, ...
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West readies oil stocks release
Fin24
Washington and its allies say Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at producing anatomic bomb, and they are imposing the new sanctions to force it to abandon such plans. Iran says the programme is peaceful. European Union officials say the EU, ...
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Another First for the Great State of New Hampshire: The Great Debate of the ...
dagblog (blog)
Dr. Hugh Cort is a famous counter-terrorism researcher and his message to the people is that Iran is planning a nuclear attack in the near future--16 months or less--and if you want to know more about it you can Google "Hugh Cort American Hiroshima". ...
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Washington - US: Iran Has Not Yet Decided To Build Nuclear Bomb ...
By admin
Washington - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a bomb and called for continued diplomatic and economic pressure to persuade Tehran not to take ...
Vos Iz Neias (Yiddish: What's News?)
US: Iran has not yet decided to build nuclear bomb | Washington ...
By The Associated Press
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a bomb and called for continued diplomatic and economic pressure to persuade Tehran not to take that step.
Examiner RSS
Iran to Start Uranium Enrichment at Underground Site This Month ...
By Sean
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran's nuclear program has not progressed to the stage of building a nuclear bomb. But in an interview with U.S. television network CBS broadcast on Sunday, Panetta says that if Iranian leaders take ...
Censorship in America
Iran to launch nuclear work in bunker in 'near future' | Antigua ...
By efrancis
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran will in the “near future” start enriching uranium deep inside a mountain, a senior official said, a move likely to further antagonize Western powers which suspect Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons capability. ...
Antigua Observer Newspaper
New York Times Caught Lying About Iranian Nukes « Thurman's ...
By Thurman
Whether Iran is developing nuclear weapons or simply pursuing nuclear power generation is really beside the point when you consider that Israel and Pakistan both have those weapons, and many of it's other neighboring states have ...
Thurman's Notebook
Panetta: Iran Has Not Yet Decided to Make a Nuclear Bomb by:Fox ...
By Fox News
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a bomb and called for continued diplomatic and economic pressure to persuade Tehran not to take that step.
American Conservative Daily (c)...
Iran's choice of weapons: Oil or nuclear or both? | Editorial | daily sun
Iran's 2 January announcement of a successful installation of homemade nuclear fuel rod into its research reactor triggered the platitudes of sabre rattling over its allegednuclear weapons programme all over again. The announcement is ...
daily sun
Iran's Uranium Enrichment Plan Persists Despite... | Stuff.co.nz
Iran will in the "near future" start enriching uranium deep inside a mountain, a senior official says - a move likely to further antagonise Western powers which suspect Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons capability.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
Iran starts uranium enrichment at Fordo mountain facility, Kayhan ...
By News Sources
The Associated Press reports: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a bomb and called for continued diplomatic and economic pressure to persuade ...
War in Context
Iran begins uranium enrichment at new site | Firstpost
By hidden
Uranium enrichment lies at the heart of Iran's dispute with the West. The technology that can be used to produce nuclear fuel, but also materials for atomic bombs. The US and its allies fear Iran's ability to make its own nuclear fuel will ...
Firstpost
Pushing Iran towards a nuclear bomb - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Western leaders' current tactics to deter Iran from developing nuclear weapons will likely backfire, writes author.
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/.../01/20121212653433219.html
U.S., Israel Discuss Triggers for Bombing Iran's Nuclear ...
The administration tries to assure Israel it would strike Iran if Tehran's nuke program crosses certain “red lines.” By Eli Lake.
www.thedailybeast.com/.../u-s-israel-discuss-triggers-for-bomb...
Preparing to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons: "No Option can be ...
Preparing to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons: "No Option can be taken off the Table." by Michel Chossudovsky. Global Research, December 26, 2011 ...
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28355
Iran's nuclear fuel test won't hasten bomb production: experts | News ...
Iran's latest claim of a breakthrough in its nuclear program seems unlikely to bring it any closer to having atomic bombs soon, but serves rather as another ...
news.nationalpost.com/.../irans-nuclear-fuel-test-wont-hasten-p...
Experts: Nuclear fuel test won't hasten Iran bomb - Israel News ...
News: Iran's alleged development of fuel rods won't put it closer to producing nuclear weapons, experts say; Turkey's FM arrives in Tehran to discuss Islamic ...
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4171495,00.html
BBC News - Iran nuclear crisis: France wants 'stricter' sanctions
France is convinced Iran is developing nuclear weapons and should face "stricter sanctions", Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has said. He urged EU countries to ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16389858
Santorum Says He Would Bomb Iran's Nuclear Plants - ABC News
Iran announced today that it had created the country's first nuclear fuel rod, a key component in a reactor that can also be used to produce weapons grade ...
abcnews.go.com/.../santorum-says-he-would-bomb-irans-nucl...
Mossad chief: Nuclear Iran not necessarily existential threat to Israel ...
Tamir Pardo says Israel using various means to foil Iran's nuclear program, but if Iranactually obtained nuclear weapons, it would not mean destruction of Israel. ...
www.haaretz.com/.../mossad-chief-nuclear-iran-not-necessaril...
Politics, Power, and Preventive Action » Iran's Nuclear Program ...
Like every other estimated timetable—so far—speculating when Iran will achievenuclear weapons capability, the Jane's two-year claim was (apparently) wrong. ...
blogs.cfr.org/.../iran’s-nuclear-program-history-and-eight-que...
Iran testing nuclear fuel that could yield bomb, says ex-official
Iran appears to be testing atomic fuel intended for a planned reactor which could one day yield nuclear.
www.canada.com/news/Iran+testing.../story.html
  
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