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Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race

TEHRAN - Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of "oppression". He announced plans to take up the case with ...
Iran upgrading nuclear program IAEA

Tehran has reportedly upgraded its nuclear program by adding advanced uranium enrichment facilities and building a plutonium-producing reactor according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA report reflects the increased international concerns about the potential proliferation dangers it represents as the completion date approaches, the Huffington Post reports. According ...
Israel says global pressure has no effect on Iran

Israel's prime minister said Thursday that a new report by the U.N. atomic agency shows that international pressure is having no effect on stopping Iran's suspect nuclear ...
Glencore and Trafigura may have supplied Irans nuclear programme

The Guardian reported in April that Glencore had traded $659m (430m) of goods, including aluminium oxide, with Iran last year .Glencore, which is run by the ...
Israeli leader says UN pressure having no effect on curbing Iranian nuclear program

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague, left, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint news conference before their meeting in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, ...

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Iran increasing its ability to produce nuclear bombs IAEA report

The International Atomic Energy Agency says that Iran has made progress in its ability to produce material for a nuclear bomb since ...
Ex-leader barred from running again slams Iran govt report

TEHRAN, Iran--Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has blasted the Islamic Republic's clerical rulers, declaring it impossible for them to do a worse job running the country, an Iranian pro-reform website reported ...
Jordanian Parliament Speaker Slams Iranian Meddling in Bahrain

Amman-May-23(BNA)Jordanian Parliament Speaker Saad Hayel Al-Srur today voiced dismay over the statements made by a top Iranian official against Bahrain, dismissing the blatant stance as a flagrant interference in the Kingdom's internal affairs and a violation of international covenants and norms. In a statement to Jordanian news Agency "Petra", he strongly condemned the ...
Struggle Against Dire Conditions for Iran Workers

On April 29, just ahead of International Workers' Day, Iranian authorities summoned Behnam Ebrahimzadeh to discuss the terms of his temporary release from Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Ebrahimzadeh, a labor activist and blogger who is almost three years into a five-year prison sentence, was given leave from the prison after many pleas to care for his ailing son, who suffers from a ...
Irans Rafsanjani blasts clerics says report

In this picture taken on Saturday, May 11, 2013, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani waves to media as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, while his daughter Fatemeh, right, looks on, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. A hardline news website says Iran's election overseers have rejected a pair of powerful and ...

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Iran upgrading nuclear program: IAEA

Tehran has reportedly upgraded its nuclear program by adding advanced uranium enrichment facilities and building a plutonium-producing reactor according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The IAEA report reflects the increased international concerns about the potential proliferation dangers it represents as the completion date approaches, the Huffington Post reports.

According to the report, the concern of the West lies in the fact that uranium enrichment will be even more dangerous as it is further advanced than the reactor and already has the capacity to enrich to weapons-grade uranium.

The IAEA said that Tehran had installed close to 700 high-tech centrifuges used for uranium enrichment, which can produce the core of nuclear weapons.

It also said that Tehran had added hundreds of older-generation machines at its main enrichment site to bring the total number to more than 13,000.

West critics say that the reactor at Arak, in central Iran, will be able to produce plutonium for several bombs a year once it starts up.

However, Iran denies that either its enrichment program or the reactor will be used to make nuclear arms despite IAEA's claims that the Iranian technicians already had taken delivery of a huge reactor vessel to contain the facility's fuel. ...