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Iran Expands their Nuclear Program despite UN Sanctions
Mahmoud Ahmedinjad, Iran's president, has said that the country's nuclear programme now has more than 5,000 centrifuges actively enriching uranium.
State radio also quoted Ahmadinejad as saying on Saturday that the West had "accepted that Iran would continue uranium enrichment with its current 6,000 centrifuges".
Western powers have offered Tehran a package of economic and other incentives to stop enrichment, which can have civilian or military uses.
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator met the the six negotiating powers - the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - in Geneva on July 19, where he was reportedly told that Tehran had two weeks to respond.
Iran says it is ready for negotiations but will not accept any pre-conditions or threats in a row that has helped send oil prices sharply higher, despite falls in the last two weeks.
"Iran does not negotiate with anyone over its obvious nuclear right," Ahmadinejad said.
Iran, the world's fourth-largest crude producer, says its nuclear activities are aimed solely at generating electricity.
Sanctions
The UN Security Council has imposed three sets of sanctions in a stand-off that goes back to the revelation in 2002 by an exiled opposition group of the existence of a uranium enrichment facility and heavy water plant in Iran.
Iran says it aims eventually to have 50,000 centrifuges to produce fuel for a planned network of power plants.
The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in May that Tehran had 3,500 centrifuges working at its Natanz facility in central Iran.
In April, it said that it had started installing 6,000 new centrifuges at Natanz and testing a more advanced model.
If running smoothly for long periods, 3,000 would be enough to make material for a warhead in a year, Western experts say.
The United States has warned Iran that it will face more sanctions if it fails to meet the two-week deadline.
Meanwhile, the US has not ruled out military action if diplomacy were to fail. Mahmoud Ahmedinjad, Iran's president, has said that the country's nuclear programme now has more than 5,000 centrifuges acti... more -
Iran to discuss pipeline with India, Pakistan
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads to Pakistan and India this week to put the finishing touches on a controversial deal to build a pipeline that would deliver Iranian gas to both countries, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says. TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads to Pakistan and India this week to put the finishing touches on a co... more
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US Imposes Sanctions on Iran: It's about Time!
The Iranian government under the direction of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and previous administrations has always been blatantly defiant since the revolution in 1979.
Economic sanctions have the double edged sword of partially cripplingly the government, but usually hurts civilians more - the government can usually sell oil on the black market, but people end up starving.
But despite the civilian plight Iran needs to know they just can't run around building bombs and expect no one to react. The Iranian government under the direction of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and previous administrations has always been blatantly def... more -
Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war. Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet ... more
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In Iran we don't have homosexuals like you do in your country
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a scathing welcome from Columbia President Lee Bollinger before addressing students and faculty with a highly controversial question-and-answer forum that included him claiming that homosexuals don't exist in Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a scathing welcome from Columbia President Lee Bollinger before addressing students and... more
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Speak at Columbia Today
The president of the university has come under fire for allowing Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, but he defended the choice saying it's important to learn how your adversaries think, reason, and operate. I am loathe to give someone who denies the holocaust a microphone. But then again, no one is forcing anyone to go and listen to him. And it probably will be interesting, if only to hear exactly how mis-guided and totally nuts he is from his own mouth. The president of the university has come under fire for allowing Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, but he defended t... more
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Columbia University Plans to Host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The State Department calls Iran a state sponsor of terror, and Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust "a myth" and urged for Israel to be destroyed. Yet he is traveling to New York to address the United Nations' General Assembly. He was scheduled to appear Monday at a question-and-answer session with Columbia faculty and students as part of the school's World Leaders Forum. The State Department calls Iran a state sponsor of terror, and Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust "a myth" and urged for I... more
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Iran president denies arming Taliban
First off, I think Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is always pointing in photos. Kind of comical. In a worrisome way. Second, when the president of Iran is saying that he doubts that his country is arming fighters in either Iraq or Afghanistan, it kind of reminds me of when our president said that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I think you just have to take anything he says with a grain (or several) of salt. First off, I think Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is always pointing in photos. Kind of comical. In a worrisome way. Second, when the presiden... more
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