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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 ...
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Hot weather and fast does not keep Iranians from Quds Day established by imam Khomeini

Hot weather and fast does not keep Iranians from Quds Day established by imam Khomeini Palestine-Iran, Politics, 8/26/2011 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today Zionist regime's existence "is not merely a threat to the Palestinian and the entire regional nations, rather its establishment and continued survival contrast interests, independence and dignity of all ...
Ahmadinejad Iran backs restoration of security in Iraq

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Barred from election former president slams Iranian leadership

Former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has accused Iran's leadership of incompetence and ignorance just days after he was barred from standing in an election next month, the opposition Kaleme website reported on Thursday.Mr. Rafsanjani's comments appeared to add to the political conflict between those loyal to the leadership and opposition groups who have been marginalized since ...

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UANI Launches Iranian Regime Election Repression Toolkit

Election Repression Toolkit highlights the Iranian regime's use of Western and Asian technology and equipment to stifle political dissent and deny voters basic rights of free expression and protest. Interested parties can ...
National Council of Resistance of Iran Deplores Christian Detentions in Country

The National Council of Resistance of Iran has advocated on behalf of persecuted religious minorities in Iran and has called for the humane treatment of Christians in prison in light of deteriorating conditions in some of the country's most notorious ...
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

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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 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. ...