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MAJOR SETBACK: Iran Forced To Unload Fuel From Nuke Facility

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.25.2011

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TEHRAN, Iran — In a major setback to Iran's nuclear program, technicians will have to unload fuel from the country's first atomic power plant be...

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Just Like Bushehr, Iran's Uranium Enrichment is No Threat

Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett | Posted 05.25.2011

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Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett

Does the international community really want Iran pursuing enrichment under circumstances in which Tehran is progressively alienated from the non-proliferation regime's "managers"?

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Iran Nuclear Reactor Begins Fueling With Help From Russia

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.25.2011

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BUSHEHR, Iran — Trucks rumbled into Iran's first reactor Saturday to begin loading tons of uranium fuel in a long-delayed startup touted by offi...

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Is Iran's Bushehr Reactor a Weapons Generator, a Hostage, Just Another Power Plant -- or All Three?

Bennett Ramberg, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bennett Ramberg, Ph.D.

For Iran's Persian Gulf neighbors, Bushehr's military vulnerability poses a two edged sword. For those states fearful that a nuclear armed Iran will attempt to push its weight around, Bushehr offers a radiological hostage to push back.

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Iran Nuclear Reactor To Be Switched On This Year, With Russian Help: AP

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — Russian news agencies quote the country's nuclear agency chief as saying a Russian-built nuclear power reactor in Iran is still set to ...

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Netanyahu's Deal: Bushehr for Settlements

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jamal Dajani

It hasn't taken Benjamin Netanyahu long to show his true colors by creating new hoops for the Palestinians to jump through in order to resume peace ne...

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Malaysia Signs $16 Billion Gas Deal With Iran

Financial Times | Najmeh Bozorgmehr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iran has signed a $16bn gas contract with Malaysia, intensifying its efforts to shift its flow of oil and gas deals towards eastern countries and bypa...

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