Three decades separate the shipping of nuclearfuel rods to Iraq's Osirak reactor, supplied by France in 1981, and the operationalisation of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor last month. In this time, the Middle East has witnessed tumultous events, in which both these...
Accusing Iran of having links with al-Qaeda, a top American military commander has said a nuclear-powered Tehran is unacceptable to the US but insisted that the Obama Administration is not looking for a military solution to the issue. "Their (Iran) achieving a...
BUSHEHR, Iran - Iran began loading fuel into its first nuclearpower plant on Saturday, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and its rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb. Television showed live pictures of Iran's...
Bushehr (Iran), Aug. 21 (Reuters): Iran began fuelling its first nuclearpower plant today, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb. Iranian television showed live pictures of...
- Iran began fuelling its first nuclearpower plant on Saturday, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb. Iranian television showed live pictures of Irans nuclear chief Ali...
As Iran begins to fuel its first nuclearpower plant in a move seen by some nations as a symbolic rejection of international sanctions against nuclear proliferation, expert Mark Fitzpatrick from the International Institute for Strategic Studies tells Channel 4 News that...
By Katya Golubkova and Ramin Mostafavi, Reuters August 21, 2010 11:02 AM A general view of the Bushehr main nuclear reactor, 1,200 kilometres south of Tehran on August 21, 2010 Photograph by: Reuters/Raheb Homavandi, Reuters/Raheb Homavandi BUSHEHR, Iran — Iran began...
Iran began fuelling its first nuclearpower plant today after decades of delay and amid international fears it is seeking an atomic bomb and not just electricity. Iranian television showed live pictures of Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi and his Russian...
Despite a U.S. request to delay next week's action, Moscow is proceeding, but with one caveat: Spent fuel must be returned. MOSCOW — In a move sure to disappoint U.S. diplomats trying to halt Iran's nuclear program, the Russian state nuclear-power company said...
TEHRAN ' Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani has hit out at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for criticising a court verdict against the former head of state news agency IRNA, media reports said Monday. Ahmadinejad used a meeting on Sunday with prayer leaders...