11/28/2013 Quake near Iran nuclear plant kills 8

Source: Reuters via YNet News
Date: 11/28/2013 22:02

A picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency shows Iranians gathering amid rubble in the Iranian western city of Borazjan, on Nov. 28, after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck the country. AFP photo / ISNA

At least eight people were killed and 190 were injured in an earthquake in Iran on Thursday near the city of Bushehr, where the country's sole nuclear power plant is situated, state news agency IRNA reported.

The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 5.6, struck about 40 miles (60 km) northeast of Bushehr on the Gulf coast, according to US Geological Survey data. No damage to the nuclear plant was reported.
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Editor's Note: See also 5.7-magnitude earthquake near Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant kills at least eight from
Agence France-Presse.  Below is the map of the 5.6 magnitude quake.

11/24/2013 Iran to Freeze Its Nuclear Program in Geneva Accord

Source: Gawker via Infowars
Date: 11/24/2013

Iran Geneva Accord 2013

After weeks of negotiations between diplomats from Iran, US, the UK, Russia, China, France and Germany, Iran has agreed to temporarily freeze its nuclear program while a larger deal is negotiated. 

The international agreement would give negotiators time to iron out a deal that would ensure that Iran's nuclear program would only be used towards peaceful ends, and not in pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Over the last few years, Iran has been enriching uranium to 20%, a level close to that which could be used in a weapon. Iran has now agreed to stop enriching at 5%, and dismantle links between centrifuges (which help enrich Uranium) and it has also promised to stop building new centrifuges.

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9/11/2013 Russia to build second nuclear plant for Iran, deliver S-300

Source: Israel Hayom
Date: 9/11/2013
by: Amir Mizroch

The Bushehr nuclear plant.  Photo credit: AP

Russia will supply Iran with a modified version of the vaunted S-300 anti-aircraft system as well as build a new nuclear reactor for the Ayatollah's regime, the Russian daily Kommersant business newspaper reported Wednesday.
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1/2/2013 Iran to Citizens: Flee Isfahan

Source: The Washington Free Beacon
Date: January 2, 2013 12:26 pm
by:  Adam Kredo
Iranian officials tell citizens to vacate city located near nuke site

Iranian workers at the Uranium Conversion Facility near Isfahan, Iran / AP

Iranian officials have instructed residents of Isfahan to leave the city, renewing concerns that a nearby nuclear site could be leaking radioactive material.

An edict issued Wednesday by Iranian authorities orders Isfahan’s one-and-a-half million people to leave the city “because pollution has now reached emergency levels,” the BBC reported.
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Editor's Note:  Here is a map of the Isfahan Nuclear Technology center. The Uranium Conversion Facility at Isfahan converts yellowcake into uranium hexafluoride.
View Live Ustream Radiation Detectors in a larger map

9/13/2012 Iran blocking nuke-site inspection

Source: World Net Daily
Date: 9/13/2012
by: F. Michael Maloof

WASHINGTON – Iran is imposing new conditions on the international nuclear watchdog agency whose inspectors want to visit the Parchin nuclear facility, where access already has been denied twice, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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7/24/2012 Dirty Deeds: Iranian nuclear program hit by 'AC/DC virus'?

Source: Russia Today
Date: 24 July, 2012, 15:48

AFP Photo / Joel Saget

Iranian nuclear facilities have reportedly been attacked by a “music” virus, turning on lab PCs at night and blasting AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck.”

Mikko Hypponen, Chief Researcher at Finnish digital security firm F-secure, publicly released a letter he received from an unnamed Iranian scientist. The researcher, who claimed to work for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said that another virus has struck the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran and a secret underground research facility at Fordo, southwest of Tehran.
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6/15/2012 Iran's nuclear negotiator to RT: We're strongly against weapons of mass destruction

Source: Russia Today
Date: 6/15/2012 upload date

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The international community turns a blind eye on Iran being discriminated and terrorized over its peaceful nuclear program while demanding that Tehran live under the rule of international law, accuses Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili.

Ahead of a new round of negotiations on Iranian nuclear program in Moscow, the member of the Iran's Supreme National Security Council shared with RT that Tehran expects that Iran's right to nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment, will be recognized and respected.­

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6/11/2012 Flame and Stuxnet makers 'co-operated' on code

Source: BBC News
Date: 11 June 2012 14:30
by: Dave Lee

Source code was shared between the teams making the malware attacks, researchers said

Teams responsible for the Flame and Stuxnet cyber-attacks worked together in the early stages of each threat's development, researchers have said.

Flame, revealed last month, attacked targets in Iran, as did Stuxnet which was discovered in 2010.

Kaspersky Lab said they co-operated "at least once" to share source code.

"What we have found is very strong evidence that Stuxnet/Duqu and Flame cyber-weapons are connected," Kaspersky said.
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See also:

1. Computer Experts Discover Flame and Stuxnet Related, Kurt Nimmo, Infowars
2. Newly identified computer virus, used for spying, is 20 times size of Stuxnet, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post
3. New Big Brother Cyber Weapon Can Turn on Your Computer’s Microphone, Take Screen Shots, Copy Data, Record Communications, Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan.com

6/12/2012 Report: Iran designing nuclear submarine

Source: YNET News
Date: 06.12.12, 13:45

Iran's 'Younus' (Photo: Reuters)

Tehran's semiofficial news agency quotes high-ranking naval official as saying country has launched project's 'initial stages' 

Iran has begun to design its first nuclear submarine, the Islamic Republic's semiofficial news agency Fars reported on Tuesday.
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6/12/2012 Iran confirms agreement on nuclear talks content

Source: AFP
Date: 6/12/2012

Iran's Russian-built Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant   Photo By Majid Asgaripour/AFP/Mehr News/File 8 hrs ago

Iran's top nuclear negotiator on Tuesday confirmed an agreement had been struck with the EU official representing world powers negotiating with Tehran on the content of upcoming talks in Moscow.
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6/10/2012 The real reason for America’s Southeast Asian projection (radiation of northern hemisphere)

Source: The Information Underground via Infowars
Date: 6/10/2012
by: Wayne Madsen

WMR’s Asian intelligence sources report another, morfe ominous, aspect to the decision of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to move 60 percent of U.S. naval forces to the Pacific region. Panetta announced in a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue defense conference in Singapore that most of the Navy’s littoral combat ships, submarines, cruisers, and destroyers will be deployed in the Pacific. In addition, new U.S. Marine bases are being established in Australia. Panetta, according to our sources, has also been negotiating with leaders of Singapore, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Thailand the establishment of new U.S. military bases or the re-opening of former bases from the Cold War era. The latter include Subic Bay in the Philippines, U-Tapao airbase in Thailand, and Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam.

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6/7/2012 Iranian Covert War: Where Is The Line Drawn?

Source: Media Roots
Date: June 7th, 2012
by: Robbie Martin

 MEDIA ROOTS — During an episode of Media Roots Radio last year, Abby and I speculated on who might be behind the infamous 'stuxnet' virus, a sophisticated piece of computer malware designed to interfere with Iran's uranium enrichment process.  We guessed that it was perhaps the United States and Israel working in concert on a covert warfare effort with the shared goal of derailing any potentiality of Iran producing a nuclear bomb.
 
Well, it turns out that our assertions were correct. The United States and Israel essentially came out swinging, bragging about the success of this covert and highly sophisticated act of cyber terror against Iran.
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5/26/2012 Iran Nuclear Talks; Explosive Issues Amidst Burning Middle East.

Source: nsnbc
Date: 5/26/2012
by: Christof Lehmann

The recent Nuclear talks of the five permanent members of the UNSC plus Germany(P5+1) with Iran in Baghdad and plans to continue the talks in Moscow can not be isolated from the NATO-led war which was initiated in 2011 under the euphemism “The Arab Spring” and the undeclared, unconventional war on Syria; the regional geo-political background of an Iran that is asserting it´s position as regional power against the expansion of NATO`s and Israel´s regional hegemony; the complex global geo-political background with a NATO that has declared interventionism, Libya-style, part of it´s new doctrine at the 25th NATO Summit in Chicago; a Russia that is reasserting it´s position as power with global reach and strong regional interests; and the return to a multi-polar world by virtue of the BRICS alliance and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; the global economic crisis and it´s propensity towards facilitating the onset of major conflicts; the coming U.S. elections; and standard U.S. negotiation strategies with respect to targeted nations.
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5/27/2012 Laying the Foundations for Preemptive Nuclear War Against Iran

Source: Activist Post
Date: Sunday, May 27, 2012
by: Nile Bowie


As prospects for a preemptive strike on Iran remain ever present, the recent round of talks between the P5+1 and Iran in Baghdad on May 23rd, 2012 have resulted in a familiar stalemate. As a precondition for any deal to stop higher-grade uranium enrichment, Tehran requested immediate relief from economic sanctions as a show of reciprocity [1]. Iranian chief negotiator Saeed Jalili emphasized Tehran’s right to develop peaceful nuclear energy as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while the P5+1 refused to scale back economic sanctions, insisting Iran suspend its 20% uranium enrichment program [2].
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5/26/2012 IAEA finds high grade Uranium in Iran

Source: CNTV, PressTV, NHK World
Date: 5/26/2012


Reports from three news agencies for objectivity. The recent Reuters article I found from Drudge Report did seem to have a somewhat alarmist tone to it. The article is titled "Iran has enough uranium for 5 bombs: expert".

4/11/2012 Army Stockpiles Anti-Radiation Pills To Protect Against Fukushima Fallout

Source: Infowars
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012
by: Paul Joseph Watson

The Troop Support branch of the Defense Logistics Agency has decided to replenish its stockpiles of anti-radiation pills, citing the ongoing crisis at Fukushima and the potential for nuclear fallout as a primary reason behind the bulk purchase.

According to a solicitation on the FedBizOpps.gov website, the DLA is looking to finalize the purchase of almost $400,000 dollars worth of potassium iodide pills, which work by helping the the body’s thyroid gland block cancer-causing radioiodines.
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3/8/2012 US 'offers to supply Israel with military means to destroy Iran's nuclear plants'

Source: UK Telegraph
Date: 7:26PM GMT 08 Mar 2012
by: By Adrian Blomfield

The United States has offered to supply Israel with the military means of destroying Iran's nuclear facilities, but only if it agrees to delay an attack until next year, an Israeli newspaper has claimed.

The reactor building of Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen just outside the city of Bushehr 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran Photo: AP

Under the terms of the deal, Israel would be provided with "the latest bunker busting bombs developed by the US army" and air-to-air refuelling planes, the Maariv newspaper quoted diplomatic sources and Western intelligence officials as saying.
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2/21/2012 Iran Holds Air Defense Drills As IAEA Says Iran Blocks Access To Key Nuclear Site

Source: ZeroHedge
Date 02/21/2012 22:59 -0500
by: Tyler Durden

As if the market needed another bizarro catalyst to ramp even higher courtesy of an even more pronounced drop in corporate earnings courtesy of soaring energy costs, that is just what it is about to get following news of further deterioration in the Nash equilibrium in Iran, where on one hand we learn that IAEA just pronounced Iran nuclear talks a failure (this is bad), and on the other Press TV reports that the Iran army just started a 4 day air defense exercise in a 190,000 square kilometer area in southern Iran (this is just as bad). The escalation "ball" is now in the Western court. And if Iraq is any indication, after IAEA talks "failure" (no matter how grossly manipulated by the media), the aftermath is usually always one and the same
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2/13/2012 Iran: Nuclear facilities immune to cyber attacks

Source: Associated Press Date: Feb 13, 12:04 PM EST by: ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A senior Iranian military official said Monday that Tehran's nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but that the country has the technology to protect itself from the threat, an official news agency reported. ... Read full article here

2/1/2012 IAEA, Iran to meet again after "good" talks

Source: Reuters
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2012 12:51pm EST

By Michael Shields

(Reuters) - Senior U.N. nuclear inspectors plan another trip to Iran later this month after holding what both sides described as good talks on the Islamic state's disputed atomic program.
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