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    • Israel criticized by UN for refusing review of nuke program

      "A UN nuclear conference of 145 nations indirectly criticized Israel on Saturday for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview. But the Jewish state managed to evade being targeted by Islamic countries pushing for a vote to link it to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.

      Iran, Israel's most outspoken foe, spearheaded the verbal attack on the Jewish state, as it has done at past general conferences of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Israel is widely considered to have nuclear arms, but has a "no tell" policy on the issue.

      Chief Iranian delegate Ali Ashgar Soltanieh said Israel's nuclear capabilities represent a "serious and continued threat to the security of neighboring and other states."

      He took the United States and other Western backers of Israel to task for their "shameful silence" on what he said was the menace posed by Israel's atomic arsenal.

      The meeting voted for a resolution urging all nations to open their nuclear activities to outside inspection and work toward the establishment of a Mideast nuclear weapons free zone. With Israel the only country in the region considered to have atomic arms, passage of the resolution constituted indirect criticism of the Jewish state.

      The resolution called on all nations in the Middle East "not to develop, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons," and urged nuclear weapons states to "refrain from any action" hindering the establishment of a Mideast zone free of nuclear weapons.

      But US and the European Union managed to block an effort by Muslim nations and their supporters to submit a resolution more directly critical of Israel and its "nuclear capabilities."

      Although last year's meeting followed a similar pattern, the votes for and against the two motions reflected shifting dynamics on the issues.

      On Saturday, delegations had so far voted 82-0 for establishing the Mideast nuclear weapons free zone, with Israel, Syria and the U.S. among those abstaining. Last year it was 53 in favor, the U.S. and Israel against, and 47 abstentions."

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      The government of Israel likes to: piss off Muslims ... be the greediest and most selfish nation in the world ... think it is a powerful nation ... think it will last forever ... think it will be backed up by western nations for ever ... think it will win any war ... think it can have nuclear weapons and hide the fact ... think it can take anything it wants without any consciousness of their actions against human beings ... think it is not practising genocide in Palestine ... think it is not the reason why there is more violence in the world.

      Israel needs to wake up and smell the blood it has shed in today's world.

      Israel needs to reverse its genocide in Palestine, free Palestine and free Gaza.

      Israel needs to be the driving force for world peace.

      Israel needs to act now!
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    • Clean energy 2030

      "Right now the U.S. has a very real opportunity to transform our economy from one running on fossil fuels to one largely based on clean energy. We are developing the technologies and know-how to accomplish this. We can build whole new industries and create millions of new jobs. We can reduce energy costs, both at the gas pump and at home. We can improve our national security. And we can put a big dent in climate change. With strong leadership we could be moving forward on an aggressive but realistic timeline and an approach that balances costs with real economic gains.

      The energy team at Google has been crunching the numbers to see how we could greatly reduce fossil fuel use by 2030. Our analysis, led by Jeffery Greenblatt, suggests a potential path to weaning the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity generation by 2030 (with some remaining use of natural gas as well as nuclear), and cutting oil use for cars by 40%. Al Gore has issued a challenge that is even more ambitious, getting us to carbon-free electricity even sooner. We hope the American public pushes our leaders to embrace it. T. Boone Pickens has weighed in with an interesting plan of his own to massively deploy wind energy, among other things. Other plans have also been developed in recent years that merit attention.

      Our goal in presenting this first iteration of the Clean Energy 2030 proposal is to stimulate debate and we invite you to take a look and comment -- or offer an alternative approach if you disagree. With a new Administration and Congress -- and multiple energy-related imperatives -- this is an opportune, perhaps unprecedented, moment to move from plan to action.

      Over 22 years this plan could generate billions of dollars in savings and help create millions of green jobs. Many of these high quality, good-paying jobs will be in today's coal and oil producing states.

      To get there we need to move immediately on three fronts:

      (1) Reduce demand by doing more with less...

      (2) Develop renewable energy that is cheaper than coal (RE<C)...

      (3) Electrify transportation and re-invent our electric grid...

      We see a huge opportunity for the nation to confront our energy challenges. In the process we will stimulate investment, create jobs, empower consumers and, by the way, help address climate change."

      Check out the link for the full entry:
      http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/clean-energy-203...
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    • Venezuela, France mull nuclear energy deal

      PARIS, France (AP) -- The French and Venezuelan foreign ministers say they are looking at possibly collaborating on civilian nuclear energy projects in Venezuela.

      Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro and France's Bernard Kouchner speak in Paris on Thursday.

      French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also says France would like to use Venezuela as a go-between with Iran in discussions about its disputed nuclear program. However, Kouchner says the Iranians have proved unreceptive to the approach.

      Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro told reporters in Paris Thursday his country is interested in going nuclear, adding that humanity's future depends on it.

      Kouchner said France "is ready to work with our Venezuelan friends" on the matter.

      Venezuela is a major petroleum exporter, while France is home to nuclear giant Areva and is a leading exporters of nuclear technology.
      PARIS, France (AP) -- The French and Venezuelan foreign ministers say they are looking at possibly collaborating on civilian nuclear e... more

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    • Senate Backs Far-Reaching Nuclear Trade Deal With India

      Measure Goes to Bush, Giving The President a Rare Victory

      The Senate last night approved a historic agreement that opens up nuclear trade with India for the first time since New Delhi conducted a nuclear test three decades ago, giving the Bush administration a significant foreign policy achievement in its final months.
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    • Iran may limit IAEA access to nuclear sites: MP

      Iran's parliament may limit the UN watchdog's inspections of the country's nuclear sites following a new UN resolution against Tehran over its atomic programme, a senior Iranian MP said on Tuesday.

      "Iran had generously allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency access to prove its good will but soon the level of the agency's access to our nuclear facilities will be revised," Mousa Ghorbani told the state news agency IRNA.

      "There are discussions in parliament to apply some new limitations on cooperation with the IAEA," said the conservative MP, who is a member of the presiding board of the house.

      "The issuing of a new resolution by the (UN) Security Council has raised the question of how long we should continue a useless cooperation with the agency," he said.

      The Security Council on Saturday adopted a fifth resolution urging Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, the process at the centre of fears about Iran's nuclear programme, as the enriched product can be used to make atom bombs.

      The IAEA has been investigating Tehran's nuclear activities for the past six years, but has so far been unable to determine whether they are purely peaceful as the government claims.

      The UN watchdog said in a report this month that Tehran refused to provide access to documentation, individuals or sites which could reveal the true nature of its activities.

      IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday urged Iran to "implement all the transparency measures ... required to build confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme at the earliest possible date."

      Iran stopped applying the additional protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that gives inspectors broader access to its nuclear sites after the nuclear case was referred to the UN Security Council in 2006.

      Despite three sets of UN Security Council sanctions the Islamic republic has vowed to press on with its controversial enrichment work, insisting the nuclear programme is solely aimed at peaceful ends.
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    • Nuclear watchdog to combat terrorist threat

      An international watchdog aiming to prevent the theft from nuclear sites of material that could be used in terrorist attacks has been launched.

      The World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS), which will be based in Vienna, Austria, will seek to prevent the material falling into the wrong hands.

      It will work alongside the International Atomic Energy Agency in seeking to improve world nuclear security.

      Mohamed ElBaradei, the IAEA director, said: "We have come to realize we have to become more intelligent and act in a preventative way" against terrorist groups seeking to steal nuclear materials and technology.

      Internationally there are about 200 reports of radioactive material going astray every year, and many more incidents involving break-ins. Last November saw a break-in at the Pelindaba nuclear site in South Africa, where enough enriched uranium to make several nuclear bombs is stored.

      The South African government said that the intruders, who were in two teams, "had prior knowledge of the electronic security systems" and were "technically sophisticated".

      There is particular concern among western governments regarding the security of materials that were used to make atomic bombs in former Soviet republics.

      Sam Nunn, the founder of the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), which has provided funding for WINS, said: "We're doing a better job controlling nuclear materials than 10 years ago, but this is not something we can ever declare victory over as long as the atom is with us."

      Charles Curtis, the president of NTI, said: "Global nuclear security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. We can't afford to wait for a security Chernobyl before we act."

      Funding for WINS has also come from the US Energy Department and the Norwegian government.
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    • Chavez says Venezuela will develop nuclear power

      CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday Venezuela will develop a nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes, in another challenge to Washington just days after Russia offered nuclear assistance to the socialist Latin American leader.

      "In Venezuela we are interested in development of nuclear energy, of course for peaceful purposes, for medical purposes, for purposes of electricity generation," Chavez said at a political rally.

      "Brazil has various nuclear reactors, so does Argentina. We will have ours."

      Chavez noted that Venezuela, which is a member of the oil-producing cartel OPEC, developed a nuclear reactor decades ago but abandoned it under pressure from the United States.

      He said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had offered help with a reactor, adding that "we already have a commission working on this issue."

      Chavez did not offer details or say when a reactor could be ready, but the news could further strain relations with Washington, which views Chavez as autocratic and erratic.

      He has repeatedly challenged Washington, notably by defending Iran's nuclear activities despite strong condemnation by the United States and Europe.

      This month Chavez expelled the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela and repeated his frequent threats to halt oil sales that make up around 10 percent of U.S. oil imports.

      Venezuela has boosted cooperation with Moscow since Russia came under strong U.S. condemnation for fighting a war against Georgia last month, strengthening ties between two of the United States' strongest critics.
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    • Chavez says Venezuela will develop nuclear power

      President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday Venezuela will develop a nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes, in another challenge to Washington just days after Russia offered nuclear assistance to the socialist Latin American leader.

      "In Venezuela we are interested in development of nuclear energy, of course for peaceful purposes, for medical purposes, for purposes of electricity generation," Chavez said at a political rally.

      "Brazil has various nuclear reactors, so does Argentina. We will have ours."

      Chavez noted that Venezuela, which is a member of the oil-producing cartel OPEC, developed a nuclear reactor decades ago but abandoned it under pressure from the United States.

      He said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had offered help with a reactor, adding that "we already have a commission working on this issue."

      Chavez did not offer details or say when a reactor could be ready, but the news could further strain relations with Washington, which views Chavez as autocratic and erratic.

      He has repeatedly challenged Washington, notably by defending Iran's nuclear activities despite strong condemnation by the United States and Europe.

      This month Chavez expelled the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela and repeated his frequent threats to halt oil sales that make up around 10 percent of U.S. oil imports.

      Venezuela has boosted cooperation with Moscow since Russia came under strong U.S. condemnation for fighting a war against Georgia last month, strengthening ties between two of the United States' strongest critics.

      Russia and Venezuela have also signed 12 arms contracts worth a total of $4.4 billion in the last two years, according to a Kremlin source.

      (Reporting by Brian Ellsworth and Ana Isabel Martinez; editing by Chris Wilson)
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    • UN approves muted new Iran resolution

      The UN Security Council has resolved not to impose fresh sanctions on Iran's uranium enrichment programme, which the Middle Eastern country insists is for electricity generation purposes only. The legislative body passed a resolution calling on Tehran to fully comply with previous demands to halt its activities, and to begin cooperating with the UN nuclear watchdog immediately.

      An Iranian spokesman spurned the resolution, saying in a statement, "Such moves are unwarranted and unconstructive".
      The UN Security Council has resolved not to impose fresh sanctions on Iran's uranium enrichment programme, which the Middle Easte... more

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    • Iran blasts UN nuclear watchdog

      A senior Iranian official slams the chief UN nuclear inspector for suggesting that Tehran may have conducted weaponization studies.

      "(Mohamed) ElBaradei's attempt to combine the nuclear program and the defensive missile projects is irrational," said Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the chairman of Iran's Assembly of Experts, on Friday.

      UN nuclear watchdog director Mohamed ElBaradei suggested on Monday that Iran was withholding information needed to explain 'serious' intelligence.

      According to ElBaradei, ten countries provided the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with documents - which were found on a laptop.

      The documents, which Tehran has rejected as 'forged', accuses Iran of conducting dubious tasks - such as the 'green salt project, high explosives testing, and the missile re-entry vehicle project' - in relation to its nuclear program.

      Iran's envoy to the IAEA, Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh, has asked the agency to provide Tehran with the original documents to find out whether they had been based on 'fabricated' data. The IAEA, however, says it is not in a 'position' to do so - Washington has only provided the IAEA with copies of the documents.

      "The Iranian missile program is conventional. It is an integral part of Iran's defensive doctrine," continued Ayatollah Rafsanjani.

      Over the past few years, Iran has been threatened with war under the pretext that it seeks nuclear weapons. The US and Israel have warned that the use of a military option remains a possibility should Iran continue with its program.

      This is while the IAEA said in its September 15 report that it could not find any 'components of a nuclear weapon' or 'related nuclear physics studies' in the country.

      Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran considers nuclear weapons as 'useless' and not in line with its 'national interests'.

      "The era of nuclear bombs has ended and those who are after such weaponry are politically feeble-minded," Ahmadinejad said.

      ElBaradei told Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Friday that Washington should sit down with Tehran and discuss the nuclear issue.

      "It is not Europe who is in charge, but the United States," he said.

      "If the United States sits down at a table with North Korea, a regime that is not considered democratic and which also possesses nuclear arms, I don't understand why they can't negotiate with Iran," he added.

      The US refuses to engage Iran in direct negotiations unless the country halts its nuclear work.
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    • Putin promises Chavez help to develop Nuclear Energy

      Putin says ties with Latin America a top priority

      NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (AP) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday to make relations with Latin America a top foreign policy priority, a pledge backed by the first Russian naval deployment to the Caribbean since the Cold War.

      Putin greeted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on his second trip to Russia in just over two months, with offers to discuss further arms sales to Venezuela and possibly helping it to develop nuclear energy.

      Chavez's visit takes place as a Russian naval squadron sails to Venezuela, across the Caribbean Sea from the United States, in a pointed response to what the Kremlin has cast as threatening U.S. encroachment near its own borders.

      Both men suggested their countries are working to decrease U.S. global influence.

      "Latin America is becoming a noticeable link in the chain of the multi-polar world that is forming," Putin said at his suburban residence at the start of his talks with Chavez. "We will pay more and more attention to this vector of our economic and foreign policy."

      Putin did not mention any specifics of potential Russian-Venezuelan military cooperation in his opening remarks, but Russian news reports said that Venezuela could buy Russian air defense missiles and more Sukhoi fighter jets.

      Earlier Thursday, a Kremlin official who spoke on customary condition of anonymity said that Russia would grant Venezuela a $1 billion credit for the purchase of Russian weaponry in an effort to help Venezuela revamp its military forces.

      Russia has signed contracts worth more than $4.4 billion with Venezuela since 2005 to supply arms including fighter jets, helicopters, and 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles.

      Putin did not specify what kind of cooperation Russia could offer Venezuela in the nuclear field, but Russia is aggressively promoting itself as a builder of nuclear power plants and supplier of fuel to nations seeking nuclear energy.

      Chavez, who addressed Putin as "my dear friend Vladimir," said that stronger ties with Russia would help build a multi-polar world - a term Russia and Venezuela use to describe their shared opposition to the perceived U.S. global domination.

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    • Israel asked US for a green light to bomb Iran's nuclear sites

      Luckily for humanity, Bush said No. This apparently happened back in May, as Israel was becoming increasingly concerned about Iran's nuclear programs and capabilities. Bush's refusal was reportedly for two reasons: concern over Iran's retaliations, and anxiety that Israel wouldn't clear all nuclear facilities in a single attack, thus risking full-scale war.

      "Even if Israel were to launch an attack on Iran without US approval its planes could not reach their targets without the US becoming aware of their flightpath and having time to ask them to abandon their mission. "The shortest route to Natanz lies across Iraq and the US has total control of Iraqi airspace", the official said. Natanz, about 100 miles north of Isfahan, is the site of an uranium enrichment plant. In this context Iran would be bound to assume Bush had approved it, even if the White House denied fore-knowledge, raising the prospect of an attack against the US."

      BUT, shortly after Bush gave the red light, Israel carried out a massive air drill involving dozens of warplanes curiously covering an area the size and scope of which is about the same from Israel to Natanz.

      And this was all BEFORE the EU issued it's report that Iran is very close to having nuclear capabilities...

      http://current.com/items/89336001_eu_warns_iran_is_clos...

      The plot thickens...
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    • Hundreds protest U.S. ship in Japan -

      Arrival of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier near Tokyo sparks disaster fears

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    • EU warns Iran is close to making nukes

      According to text of an EU report on Iran's nuclear program released to reporters ahead of it's official delivery to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, they believe Tehran is close to having the ability to make a nuclear weapon, and it appears that Iran has been pursuing a program aimed at developing one. Iran continues to deny these claims, which have also been made by the US and Israel, insisting the nuclear program is for civilian energy production purposes. According to text of an EU report on Iran's nuclear program released to reporters ahead of it's official delivery to the Int... more

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    • North Korea removes UN watchdog seals from nuclear reactor

      North Korea has moved a step closer to restarting its nuclear programme after removing a UN watchdog's seals from its Yongbyon reactor.

      Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the agency's board that Pyongyang had said it would reintroduce nuclear material within a week. Analysts have said North Korea would need at least several months - and probably more - to restart the largely dismantled complex.

      On Monday, North Korea asked the IAEA to remove seals and cameras from Yongbyon, its main atomic complex, after vowing to restart the facility, effectively reneging on a nuclear disarmament deal with the US, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea.

      At six-party talks last year, Pyongyang agreed to scrap its nuclear programme in return for aid from the US, and in November it began dismantling the Yongbyon plant.

      North Korea announced last month that it had stopped dismantling its nuclear facilities because of America's failure to fulfil a promise to remove it from the US state department's list of states that sponsor terrorism.

      Amid reports that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, might be seriously ill, North Korea seemed to harden its position on Friday last week, saying that it no longer wanted to be removed from the list. "We can go our own way," a foreign ministry official was quoted as saying.

      South Korea today called on North Korea to stop moves to restore its Yongbyon plant and urged its neighbour to return to disarmament talks.

      "We express major concern about the North's continued move to restore its Yongbyon nuclear complex," a South Korean official said. "We call on the North to immediately restart the steps to disable it and return to talks on a verification mechanism."

      Diplomats and experts said North Korea's decision to restart its nuclear programme was yet another example of its brinkmanship rather than a pressing threat.

      The US envoy for North Korea, Christopher Hill, this week downplayed Pyongyang's hardened stance, describing it as part of the "rough and tumble" of negotiations. He said North Korea's actions came at a tough time in the negotiating process amid intensifying efforts to get it to agree to a mechanism on verifying its nuclear programme.
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    • North Korea bars inspectors from nuclear complex

      "North Korea has barred international inspectors from its nuclear reprocessing facility and intends to begin introducing nuclear material in a week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday...

      The decision by the North is a serious setback both for the Bush administration and an international nuclear disarmament agreement that was aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program...

      The move followed reports that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, was seriously ill, and was clear evidence that the North plans to restart the facility, which separates plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.

      More ominously, it suggests that the North may be preparing to restart its nuclear weapons program at a time when the United States is distracted by the financial crisis, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and unrest in Pakistan."

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    • French company to buy British Energy

      French power company EdF has announced that it plans to buy British Energy Group PLC. The takeover, worth £13.5 billion will see the company gain control of the UK's eight nuclear power stations, and has long been called for by the British government. French power company EdF has announced that it plans to buy British Energy Group PLC. The takeover, worth £13.5 billion will see the c... more

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    • How 6,700 Tons of Radioactive Sand from Kuwait Ended Up in Idaho

      On April 26, 2008, the BBC Alabama arrived in Longview, Wash., carrying 6,700 tons of Kuwaiti sand. The sand had become contaminated with depleted uranium when U.S. military vehicles and munitions caught fire at Doha Army base in Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War. The depleted uranium was being repatriated. The sand was a gift of the Kuwaiti government.

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    • Ahmadinejad's 'wipe Israel off the map' myth debunked yet again

      The following is an exclusive Press TV interview with the president on his message for the world. He also sheds light on several controversial issues.

      "Press TV: Alright, you just mentioned Israel and you called it the Zionist regime. A lot of controversy surrounds this issue. On the eve of your trip, the Jewish lobby is at work protesting, but behind the scenes stronger hands are at work to lobby each and every important politician in New York for both sanctions and a possible military attack against Iran. I want to know about this issue and the controversy of Israel being wiped off the map. A lot of controversy is surrounding that… was it a mistranslation, not a mistranslation? Mike Wallace had this interview with you a couple of years back. One part of it, a major part of it, was edited out. Your idea on the destruction of the state of Israel and Israel should be wiped off the map? The part you talked about democracy and referendum?

      Ahmadinejad: We said we do not accept this regime and the solution that we are presenting is a humanitarian solution. It is a very clear solution. We are saying that the Palestinians should decide their destiny themselves; they should choose their own political system. What we are saying is very clear. We believe that the people whose ancestors have lived in that land and own the land although they have been deported and expelled and are under occupation, we are saying that they are the ones….

      Press TV: So you did not threaten to wipe Israel off the map as an Iranian leader? That we will wipe Israel off the map?

      Ahmadinejad: No. We say that the people of Palestine should have rights and when the people of Palestine exercise this right, this will happen. Where is the Soviet Union? The Soviet Union has been wiped off the map. What happened to the Soviet Union? The decision of the people, the vote of the people. When the people of the Soviet Union, the Russian people, were allowed to decide to take charge of their destiny, the Soviet Union disappeared.

      The Zionist regime is an artificial regime… a fictitious regime. You brought people from different parts of the world and you have built this state. No, that cannot last, it is not sustainable. If they do not listen to our solution, this will happen one day.

      Press TV: Now this issue of a fabricated regime. There have been reports that they are planning airstrikes on Iran. Every single day we are hearing reports that Israel is getting frustrated with our nuclear program….

      Ahmadinejad: They are really too small to be a threat to Iran. They should protect themselves. They are not even able to protect themselves. The position of Iran is very clear. The capacity and the power of the people of Iran is very clear. The people of Iran are able to defend their territorial integrity and their national sovereignty. They know that Iran is a great country, an important power… a humanitarian power. The people of Iran know how to defend themselves and such propaganda has no impact on the people of Iran. The era of making threats is over."

      Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to address the UN General Assembly in New York on September 23.
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    • CFR: History of Iran’s Nuclear Program

      The up-and-down history of Iran's flirtation with nuclear weapons, and where the program stands now.

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