Special to WorldTribune.com Nuclear security experts are calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to release details contained in the Iran nuclear agreement on how Iran’s Parchin nuclear facility will be inspected. The experts said failure to disclose the details was damaging the credibility of the IAEA, the UN’s nuclear watchdog. The view of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iran signaled its anger over the recent leaking of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) document that revealed evidence Teheran had attempted to sanitize its Parchin military nuclear facility. The IAEA should “exercise utmost vigilance to ensure full protection of all confidential information coming to its knowledge,” Iranian Ambassador to the IAEA […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that Iran was maintaining its nuclear program. In a report, IAEA said the Teheran regime has refrained from accelerating its nuclear program over the last three months. The United Nations agency said Iran has maintained the pace of uranium enrichment in violation of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran has gained full control of its first nuclear energy reactor. Officials said the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization was granted full responsibility for the 1,000 megawatt nuclear reactor at Bushehr. The officials said the transfer was completed in a ceremony on Sept. 23 attended by officials from Russia’s Rosatom, which […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran has been rocked by an earthquake felt throughout the Gulf and South Asia. Iran said the earthquake reached a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter Scale and called the strongest in more than 50 years. Unlike the one on April 9, the latest quake did not take place near […]
Special to WorldTribune.com (Originally posted on Aug. 26, 2003.) U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have finally been located. Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq. Instead they are located in Lebanon’s heavily-fortified Bekaa […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — An Israeli or U.S. military strike should aim to set back Iran’s nuclear weapons program by at least five years, a report said. Israel’s former military intelligence chief asserted that a decision to attack Iran does not require destruction of all its nuclear assets. [Ret.] Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has begun efforts to close its internationally-inspected nuclear reactor. Officials said the nuclear reactor at Soreq would be closed by 2018 as part of a modernization project. They said the research facility, launched in 1960, would be replaced by a particle accelerator from a Western supplier. “We could […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s promise to give up or at least suspend its nuclear program clearly forces the end of the seemingly tough policies enunciated by South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak after he took office four years ago. No way can Lee appear as the strong leader who […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The International Atomic Energy Agency has raised the prospect that Iran transferred uranium to the military for weapons development. In a report, IAEA said uranium metal has gone missing from a research facility in Teheran. The United Nations agency said Iran has not provided an explanation. “The discrepancy remains to […]