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Iran Sends Conflicting Signals On Nuclear Work Tehran, Jan 27 (AFP) Jan 27, 2007 
Iran gave conflicting signals on its disputed nuclear work on Saturday with the Islamic republic's atomic energy agency denying Tehran has started to install 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium. "No new centrifuge machines have been installed in the Natanz facility," Hossein Cimorgh, public relations director of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation, was quoted as saying by IRNA news agency.
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US Warns Iran Of Global Wrath If It Cranks Up Nuclear Capacity
Washington (AFP) Jan 27, 2007The United States warned Iran of "universal" opposition if it proceeds with plans to beef up its nuclear capacity by installing at least 3,000 centrifuges at a key atomic plant. Already facing UN sanctions over its sensitive nuclear program, Tehran announced recently it wanted to install "even more" than 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium at its Natanz underground facility. Iran And US Between The Logic Of Sanctions And The Logic Of War 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 26, 2007"The Middle East isn't a region to be dominated by Iran. The Gulf isn't a body of water to be controlled by Iran. That's why we've seen the United States station two carrier battle groups in the region," Nicholas Burns, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, said in an address to the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center, an influential think-tank, when commenting on the decision of President George W. Bush to send a second U.S. aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf. Bushehr Nuclear Power Planet To Be Commissioned As Scheduled Says Russia 
Tehran (AFP) Jan 28, 2007A senior Russian official said Sunday the Bushehr nuclear power plant being built in Iran with Russia's technical assistance will be commissioned as scheduled. Russia is building a reactor for Iran's first nuclear power plant, 250 miles southwest of Tehran, under a $1 billion contract signed in 1995. |
China Delivers ASAT Shock Threapy To Western Alliance In Denial
Washington (UPI) Jan 26, 2007China's successful anti-satellite missile test earlier this month came as a shock to the Washington defense establishment on the policitical right and left alike. The comfortable assumption shared by most liberal, Democrat-leaning and conservative, Republican defense analysts was that China was incapable of developing such a weapon for at least the next decade. Mistrust From China Anti-Satellite Test 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2007A US trade official said Friday China's recent anti-satellite weapon test had contributed towards mistrust between the two countries, citing it as a reason for tighter US rules on high-tech exports. "Things like that contribute to international anxieties about China's military intentions and capabilities," said Christopher Padilla, the assistant secretary for export administration under the US Commerce Department. Satellite Wars And The Sands Of Iraq 
Washington (UPI) Jan 26, 2007Right in the midst of the Bush administration's preparations to send even more American troops to Iraq came news that China successfully fired a missile to destroy one of its own satellites earlier this month. While Chinese officials insist this test was not targeted against any country and does not pose a threat, American officials are understandably concerned. |
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North Korea To Be Told To Dismantle Nuke Facilities In Months
Seoul (AFP) Jan 28, 2007The United States and its six-nation talks partners will demand that North Korea begins to dismantle its key nuclear facilities within months, a news report said Sunday. The dismantling will be the priority demand when the United States, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia sit down with North Korea for six-way nuclear talks again early next month, Yonhap news agency said. Russia Cannot Identify Origin Of Uranium Seized In Georgia 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 26, 2007Russian experts are unable to establish the origin of highly-enriched uranium that was allegedly seized from a Russian national in Georgia, as an inadequate sample was provided by Tbilisi, a specialist said Friday. A Georgian court sentenced Oleg Khinsagov, from the Russian North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, to eight years in prison Thursday for attempting to sell 100 grams of HEU, according to the Georgian Interior Ministry. Japanese Minister Rebuked For Roiling US Alliance 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 28, 2007Japan's defence minister has been slapped down by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office after stirring up the long alliance with the United States by criticising the Iraq war and a realignment of US forces. Four days after calling the US decision to invade Iraq "wrong", Fumio Kyuma said Saturday that Washington was "too cocky" in pressing Tokyo to relocate a US military base on the strategic island of Okinawa. |
Taiwan Raps China Over Missile Arsenal
Taipei (AFP) Jan 28, 2007Taiwan's independence-minded President Chen Shui-bian has accused China of "provoking" his government by targeting the island with nearly 1,000 missiles, stepping up the rhetoric against Beijing. In a wide-ranging interview with CNN broadcast at the weekend, Chen insisted that China had put Taiwan on the defensive with its provocative acts, rejecting Beijing's claims that he was to blame for cross-strait tensions. Russia Criticizes US Missile Shield Plans In Europe 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 26, 2007Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday that U.S. plans to deploy elements of its missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic were "a move in the wrong direction" that could threaten global security. Washington officially proposed placing a radar network in the Czech Republic six days ago, and announced plans last Monday to start formal talks with Poland on the deployment of anti-ballistic missile systems on its territory. No Need To Expand US Army 
Washington (UPI) Jan 26, 2007President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have announced plans to increase the size of the U.S. Army and Marines by 93,000, at a cost of $10 billion a year. At first blush, this seems to make sense. After all, it is now generally agreed that the United States has too few ground forces to meet its needs in Iraq without sapping its ability to defend American interests everywhere else. But on closer examination, the case for expanding the Army and Marines has not yet been made. |
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