Posts Tagged ‘Iran’

Iran inaugurates nation’s first unmanned bomber (AP)

This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry, shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second from left, applauding during a ceremony inaugurating the Karrar drone aircraft, at Malek-e Ashtar University on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. Ahmadinejad Sunday spoke about the country's first domestically-built, long-range, unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an 'ambassador of death' to Iran's enemies. (AP Photo/Iranian Defense Ministry,Vahid Reza Alaei) EDS NOTE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE.AP – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated the country’s first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an “ambassador of death” to Iran’s enemies.


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Iran unveils unmanned bomber, dubbed ‘ambassador of death’

Iran’s leader is rattling his saber once again.

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Iran starts nuclear reactor, says intent peaceful (AP)

The reactor building of Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010.  Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel Saturday into Iran's first nuclear power plant, which Moscow has promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP – Trucks rumbled into Iran’s first reactor Saturday to begin loading tons of uranium fuel in a long-delayed startup touted by officials as both a symbol of the country’s peaceful intentions to produce nuclear energy as well as a triumph over Western pressure to rein in its nuclear ambitions.


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Iran begins fueling first nuclear reactor (AP)

An Iranian security guard stands at a gate of the Bushehr nuclear power plant as its reactor building is seen in background, just outside the city of Bushehr 750 miles (1245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Russia's nuclear chief said Thursday that the planned startup of Iran's first nuclear power plant will demonstrate that Iran is entitled to peaceful use of nuclear energy under international supervision. Sergei Kiriyenko said at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that the uranium fuel will be loaded into the reactor in Iran's southern port of Bushehr on Saturday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP – Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant on Saturday, a major milestone as Tehran forges ahead with its atomic program despite U.N. sanctions.


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Iran prepares to start up first nuclear reactor (AP)

The reactor building of Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen just outside the city of Bushehr 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Russia's nuclear chief said Thursday that the planned startup of Iran's first nuclear power plant will demonstrate that Iran is entitled to peaceful use of nuclear energy under international supervision. Sergei Kiriyenko said at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that the uranium fuel will be loaded into the reactor in Iran's southern port of Bushehr on Saturday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP – Iranian and Russian nuclear technicians made final preparations to start up Iran’s first reactor on Saturday after years of delays, an operation that will mark a milestone in what Tehran considers its right to produce nuclear energy.


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Report: Iran needs year to develop nuclear weapon (AP)

FILE - Gary Samore, U.S. President Barack Obama's chief adviser on weapons of mass destruction and arms control, reacts during a meeting with Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, in Brasilia, in this Aug. 7, 2009 file photo. Samore, President Barack Obama's top adviser on nuclear issues, told the New York Times he thinks it would take Tehran 'roughly a year' to turn low-enriched uranium into weapons-grade material. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)AP – U.S. officials have convinced Israel that Iran needs at least a year to develop a nuclear weapon, dimming prospects of an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The New York Times reports.


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Iran pres. Ahmadinejad wants proof of 9/11 casualties

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took another swipe at America on Saturday, claiming the U.S. greatly exaggerated the death toll in the September 11th attacks.

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