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Topic: uranium

May 6, 2013
10:35 pm

Iranian technicians work at a facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy-water nuclear reactor, outside Isfahan, in 2009. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Diplomats: Iran may be keeping uranium below Israel’s ‘red line’

From the web Islamic Republic consistently keeps gas stockpile low in a step that could help buy time for diplomacy, Reuters reports

April 16, 2013
5:01 pm

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes the victory sign as he attends the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 6 (Photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Ahmadinejad visits uranium-rich Niger

Selling mineral to Iran would be illegal, says West African nation’s foreign minister

February 23, 2013
12:47 pm

The Bushehr nuclear facility in Iran (photo credit: AP/Mehr News Agency/Majid Asgaripour/File)

Iran selects 16 new sites for nuclear plants

Locations chosen in part for their resistance to military airstrikes; state TV reports new uranium reserves discovered

By AP and Times of Israel staff

February 12, 2013
1:24 pm

On a large television screen in front of Pyongyang's railway station, a North Korean state television broadcaster announces the news that North Korea conducted a nuclear test on Tuesday. (Photo credit: AP/Kim Kwang Hyon)

Hours after Korea test, Iran calls for end to nukes

Tehran stops short of condemning ally North Korea for its defiant trial, defends ‘nuclear activities for peaceful purposes’

By Michal Shmulovich and AP

January 25, 2013
11:45 pm

Mohammad Reza Heydari, interviewed on Israel's Channel 2, January 25 (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Ex-Iranian diplomat warns Israel: If Iran gets the bomb, it will fire on you

Tehran’s former consul in Oslo, interviewed on Israeli TV, says Islamic regime is ‘willing to destroy many countries’

By Yifa Yaakov

January 11, 2013
7:56 pm

Before and after satellite images of the Syrian nuclear reactor at al-Kibar, which was reportedly struck by Israel in 2007 (AP/DigitalGlobe)

Syria may hold uranium stash, Western and Israeli experts say

From the web Reuters: Unenriched fissile material stockpiled by Damascus could be of interest to Iran, sources claim

November 14, 2012
5:08 am

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at a public gathering in the northeastern city of Bojnurd, Iran, in October. (photo credit: AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Iran locked in internal debate over whether to talk to US

From the web Tehran may actually be stepping up work on its nuclear program, the Washington Post reports

September 17, 2012
10:30 am

Iran's nuclear chief Fereydoun Abbasi speaking in Tehran earlier this year (photo credit: screen capture, YouTube)

Iran’s nuclear chief to outline regime’s refusal to give up uranium enrichment

Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani expected to put forward Tehran’s atomic agenda to 155-country meeting of IAEA Monday

September 16, 2012
6:16 am

Miyake Nobuo, one of the four Hibakushas visiting Israel to promote nuclear disarmament (photo credit: Peaceboat/Israel Disarmament Movement)

Hiroshima survivors silence Israelis with personal tales of the bomb that ‘keeps killing’

A group of ‘Hibakushas’ urge worldwide disarmament, while recounting the 1945 nuclear blast’s blood, horror, and devastation

By Michal Shmulovich

August 29, 2012
5:21 am

Guards stand outside the US embassy in La Paz, Bolivia (photo credit: juhauski72/Flickr)

Bolivian police seize two tons of uranium

From the web Radioactive material was stored near US and Spanish embassies in La Paz, reports Fox News

May 25, 2012
6:20 pm

Satellite image of the Parchin facility in April (photo credit: Institute for Science and International Security/AP)

Traces of uranium enriched to 27% found at Iranian nuclear site

IAEA diplomats say discovery could mean Iran is closer to weaponization, or that centrifuges initially over-enriched; Iran explains find as technical glitch

May 22, 2012
8:13 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (second from left) being escorted by technicians during a tour of Tehran's research reactor center in February. (photo credit: AP/Iranian President's Office)

On eve of talks, Iran announces delivery of nuclear fuel to Tehran reactor

News contradicts earlier statements that regime would ship its enriched uranium abroad for fuel production

By Michal Shmulovich

April 3, 2012
1:02 pm

Meir Dagan (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

There’s uranium in them hills

Accustomed to searching for evidence of the radioactive substance in Iran, former chief spy now prospects the Negev

By Gabe Fisher