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Topic: Fordo

May 3, 2013
12:43 pm

A satellite image of Iran's Fordo uranium enrichment facility (photo credit: AP/DigitalGlobe)

US bulks up ‘bunker buster’ to combat Iran threat

To persuade Israel away from a unilateral attack on the Fordo nuclear complex, America stresses its upgraded military capabilities

April 23, 2013
11:51 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel during a meeting in Jerusalem on April 23, 2013. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

No bunker-buster bomb in weapons deal with US

From the Web System designed to penetrate earth and reinforced concrete, possibly essential in strike on underground Iranian nuclear facilities, missing from ‘unprecedented’ arms package, NY Times reports

April 8, 2013
11:55 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony at the nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian/File)

US lawmakers push for new sanctions on Iran

Bill could target regime officials with travel bans and seizure of assets

February 26, 2013
9:06 pm

Small steps forward sought in Iran nuclear talks

West offers to ease sanctions in exchange for limiting uranium enrichment

February 17, 2013
5:38 pm

Iran lawmaker says Fordo plant will never be shut down

Offer for easing of sanctions in return for closing uranium enrichment site is a step ‘to help Zionist regime,’ parliament leader says

By Adiv Sterman

February 15, 2013
9:09 pm

World powers to offer easing of sanctions at Iran nuclear talks

From the web Reuters: Barring on trade of precious metal with Tehran will be lifted in return for shut down of Fordo uranium enrichment plant

February 5, 2013
3:45 am

Demonstrators protest against Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi prior to his speech at the German Council Of Foreign Relations, a think tank for foreign policy, in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. The German phrase on the poster reads: 'Comprehensive and immediate UN-Sanctions against the Mullahs in iran.' (photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)

Iran’s nuclear standoff reaching tipping point

Ahead of another round of talks, neither Tehran nor world powers show any sign of backing down

By Brian Murphy and George Jahn

January 31, 2013
11:14 pm

An anti-aircraft gun guarding the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz in Iran in 2007. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)

White House: Iran’s centrifuge upgrade represents ‘further escalation’

‘While the world is discussing where and when the next meeting with Iran will be, Iran is rapidly advancing toward a nuclear bomb,’ says Israeli official

By AP and Times of Israel staff

January 31, 2013
10:48 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz enrichment facility in 2008 (photo credit: www.president.ir)

Diplomats: Iran preparing to accelerate nuclear program

Major technological upgrade of regime’s uranium enrichment process will also allow faster access to reactor fuel

January 30, 2013
11:14 am

Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to the AJC Board of Governors in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 28, 2013. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu hints Israel can’t destroy Iran nuke program

Israel can inflict ‘significant damage’ to Iranian facilities, but the US military is ‘perfectly’ capable of destroying them, PM says

By Gabe Fisher

January 30, 2013
12:23 am

IAEA rejects reports of blast at Iran nuke site

Iran’s denial of explosion at Fordo uranium enrichment plant is ‘consistent with our observations,’ says watchdog spokesman

January 29, 2013
1:42 pm

Crowded Sourasky Medical Center Ichilov, Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

It’s a sick sick sick sick world

With overcrowded hospitals and chemical weapons threats, we wonder if the Iranian ape escaping to space might have had the right idea

By Joshua Davidovich

January 28, 2013
11:55 pm

Tehran suspects Mossad in Fordo blast, says Iranian expat

White House dismisses report of explosion in nuclear facility; cameras stationed at plant could reveal truth in the coming days

By Greg Tepper

January 28, 2013
5:34 am

Israeli sources reportedly confirm blast at Iranian nuclear facility

London Times report cites intelligence officials who say Iran hasn’t evacuated area around Fordo plant; unclear if explosion was ‘sabotage or accident’

By Yoel Goldman and Times of Israel staff

January 28, 2013
12:52 am

Iranian technicians work at a facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy-water nuclear reactor, outside Isfahan, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, in 2009. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran denies rumors of explosion at nuclear plant

Alleged blast reportedly destroyed much of installation at Fordo facility, trapped 240 people underground

By Times of Israel staff

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