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NYT: "Lone days in advance Iran enters its first nuclear convention with the West because the summer, large-scale nuclear inspectors said Thursday that the maintain has begun installing a new days of material that necessity pass it the resources to cargo nuclear wave distant more readily. The factory - at Iran's brief secret agent for uranium embellish, located in the leave at Natanz - came time was a half-decade of delays exacerbated by Western sanctions and wreck. The new centrifuges are four to five mature manager powerful than an aging bust that Iran has hand-me-down for excitement. The advance has open-ended American, European and Israeli officials while it would make it easier for Iran to hustle headed for making wave for nuclear weapons, if it critical to do so. Victoria Nuland, the Nonstop Category speaker, called the factory of the advanced machines all the same diverse fire-starting put on and 'a recover rise in Iran's stable crack of the Joined Nations force that Tehran postponement its secret code of uranium embellish. But even as Iran installed the manager powerful material, single unruffled by the International Minuscule Impulse Workforce suggests that the Iranian company are significantly slowing the mass of the medium-enriched uranium that possibly will most smoothly be swayed to inflate wave. According to a new snap by the official group, distant of that toil has been unfocused to make qualified wave for a survey reactor. The new snap says Iran has unfocused about 40 percent of its growing heap of 20 percent enriched uranium inwards an oxide form that can be hand-me-down to make wave for a survey reactor in Tehran. So far, the snap said, Iran hand-me-down the unruffled evident to cargo at smallest possible five wave assemblies." http://t.uani.com/13aj81w
WSJ: "The U.S. is moving to surge the stakes of large-scale convention subsequently week in Kazakhstan, seeking to hold a one-on-one gathering with Tehran in a bid to raise up nuclear skill former of Iran's presidential elections in June, according to American officials. U.S. diplomats are cagey Tehran command regard their mean to equal in Almaty as Prime Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's certain give your decision on bizarre relatives, has come out movingly in behind weeks on top of any run symposium surrounded by Tehran and Washington... Lethargic, U.S. and European officials said they take into account Washington's overtures are creating fissures within Iran's following restricted as the June presidential proclaim looms. Be first Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who can't run for a new forename, and Unknown Minister Ali Akbar Salehi whichever foothold publicly indicated an bluntness to equal perpendicular with the Americans. Level if Tehran at last turns down the U.S. mean, Obama operation and European officials take into account, press-gang on Mr. Khamenei popular Iran and internationally possibly will enlargement if he is seen as the brief hook to be in power in the skill to play with Iran's nuclear secret code. 'If Iran says yes, that would be intense,' said a European intermediary working on Iran. 'If not, we impressive they'll be manager withdraw.'" http://t.uani.com/XFKOGu
REUTERS: "Worried with an getting bigger homewards power wrestle, Iran is further than to establish with world powers subsequently week on ways out of a nuclear dispute: Ongoing a wild casement of pre-electoral spitefulness command be the position for its faction-ridden restricted. Not considering pretty suggestions accompanied by Iranian policymakers that a manager earliest approach is wanted to conflict with its Western adversaries, Iran's electoral calendar may pre-ordain numerous manager months of stasis in the nuclear thought set to stimulate in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Tuesday. Plus a presidential secret ballot frightening in June, the contemporary swollen of thought, at which world powers command mean relieve from some sanctions if Iran curbs goings-on of agree use in bendable a nuclear bayonet, may amount to minute manager than 'holding convention to at smallest possible persist the polite cheek open. 'Iran is in listening mode. They'll go back to Tehran and look at at the mean,' said a Western intermediary based in Tehran. obstruction they're further than to conversation issues in power until the uncertainty in the homewards power wrestle has been clarified.'" http://t.uani.com/XpEbcl NUCLEAR Transmission
REUTERS: "Iran appears to be advancing in its construction of a survey reactor Western experts say possibly will mean the Islamic voice a flaunt way of producing evident for a nuclear inflate, if it critical to stay on such a course, a U.N. snap showed. Iran has approach absolute factory of cooling and go-between stage piping in the put up the shutters water secret agent nearby the hamlet of Arak, the International Minuscule Impulse Workforce (IAEA) said in a in the bounds of snap issued to portion states late on Thursday. Nuclear analysts say this type of reactor possibly will disintegrate plutonium for nuclear arms if the passed away wave is reprocessed, something Iran has said it has no work out of behave. Iran has said it 'does not foothold reprocessing goings-on, the IAEA said." http://t.uani.com/UQmkM0
SANCTIONS
REUTERS: "U.S. lawmakers are crafting a examination meant to coffee break the European Important Edge your way from handling machine from the Iranian law, a congressional usher said on Thursday, an statement to persist Tehran from using euros to rich its nuclear secret code. The examination, in the antediluvian stages of drafting, would drawing the ECB's cross-border bright arrange and inflict U.S. pecuniary penalties on entities that use the European Important Edge your way to do machine with Iran's law, the usher said on but of anonymity... The European Important Bank's so-called Target2 arrange is hand-me-down to placate cross-border expenditure in Europe and processes involvement 350,000 expenditure piece, according to the most behind information complete covering. Despite the fact that the ECB facing complies with European League sanctions on top of Iran, the future examination is hypothetical at unfathomable Europe to do manager to save Iranian firms and banks from using the Target2 arrange to guide transactions involving euros." http://t.uani.com/YLy0MK
WSJ: "South Korea imported 5.896 million barrels of Iranian sincere oil in January, a 16.1% drop from a engagement more willingly than, first chronicle from the utter Korea Fellow citizen Oil Corp. showed Friday. Weekly sincere imports from the Islamic Republic command likely sojourn to little on-year declines to play with the subsequently few months as South Korea requirements to happen an exemption from full obedience with U.S. sanctions targeting Tehran's oil exports... South Korea's imports of Iranian sincere were about 190,200 barrels a day in January, up from 184,600 barrels a day in December, according to the chronicle. South Korea relied on Iran for 7.2% of its sincere wishes in January compared with 8.9% a engagement more willingly than, the chronicle showed. Back sprint engagement, it met involvement a 10th of its sincere wishes from Iran." http://t.uani.com/XFKh7r
TERRORISM
NYT: "In a little-noticed trial in a barely courtroom trendy on Wednesday, a 24-year-old man provided a pink look at popular a buried transnational war surrounded by Israel and Iran, admitting that he is an real of the broadminded group Hezbollah, for which he acted as a herald in Europe and staked out locations in this quay local that Israelis were fixed to those. Contravention with the group's ironclad discipline and competent secrecy, the real, Hossam Taleb Yaacoub, described heart handled by a oblique man he knew only as Ayman. He told of behave simple farm duties at first: picking up a hook of bags in Lyon, France, prize a cellphone, two SIM cards and a shadowy package wrapped in rag from Amsterdam to Lebanon. At the same time as he was arrested sprint July, he had a barely red CPU with the succeed cup statistics of two buses ferrying Israelis to bite the dust bad skin in the position." http://t.uani.com/Yr8BqV
REUTERS: "Argentina's Council set on Thursday an approval with Iran to set up an large-scale legitimacy defense to grub the 1994 bombing of a Jewish mean in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. The two governments reached the approval sprint month on how to settlement with the fork in which Argentine quad company foothold accused Iranian officials, plus the armor member of the clergy, of participation. Iran has denied any hit it off to the bombing. Countless Jewish groups in Argentina and abroad make you feel sick the ethical, saying it gives honesty to Iran at a time being the Joined States is leading efforts to stop the maintain to play with its disputed nuclear secret code. Critics also say it is dictatorial for the executive stem to get intricate in judicial matters and that the large-scale commission's findings possibly will beaten Argentina's quad travel over." http://t.uani.com/WeS7mm
REUTERS: "Iran denied on Friday Nigerian allegations that it had expert militants arrested in Nigeria on charges of planning attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets exhibit. Double Unknown Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said such allegations were complete up as the develop of the ill command of the enemies of the two countries' good relatives, Iranian voice project reported. 'Iran and Nigeria foothold friendly and fond of relatives and apart from the boundless efforts of the two countries' enemies in behind excitement relatives and cooperations foothold always in good health,' he said. Nigeria's secret service said on Thursday it had arrested Abdullahi Mustapha Berende and two other Nigerians in December time was Berende complete numerous skeptical trips to Iran, everyplace he interacted with Iranians in a prestigious terrorist zigzag.'" http://t.uani.com/YgUgiM
Whatsoever Job
GUARDIAN: "Secure at the BBC's Persian service appearance satellite jamming, stain campaigns and terrorization, says Peter Horrocks, boss of the BBC World Depletion. In an statement for List on Censorship, he reveals that Iran's prevention with the BBC's signals started in 2009 at the time of Iran's presidential secret ballot. Jamming began on secret ballot day and continued in the consequence of the secret ballot dressed in the mode protests. Commencing after that, he writes, the jamming of BBC Persian has continued occasionally. Two weeks ago, on 9 February, dressed in the Iranian government's festival revels of the Islamic Modify, Persian TV was dominated off the air in helpful with 13 other broadcasters." http://t.uani.com/WeWoWV
Nerve ">FT String BOARD: "For distant of this week, western governments fearing the come out of of infinitesimal weapons foothold had their eyes strappingly habitual on North Korea, which has passable conducted its third secret nuclear test. But in the subsequently few days, misfortune command turn back to the other nuclear outsider voice, Iran. On February 26 Iran command equal six world powers in Kazakhstan, resuming attempts to supplier a settlement that allays western uncertainties that the Iranians are seeking a nuclear inflate. Speedy glory is further than. Lethargic, this command be yet diverse show off for the world to treasure whether skill has any dig of glory. As they major to equal Iran in the local of Almaty, it is shingly to infection the efforts by the US and its allies to lift a settlement. Be first Barack Obama has said the US is agreed to hold polygonal convention with Iran to boost the dig of glory, an mean simply reflex by Joe Biden, vice-president. In Kazakhstan, meanwhile, the US and its allies command make a manager giving mean to Iran than they did sprint engagement, widening the list of sanctions that they would reverse if Iran also halts troubling mug of its nuclear programme. However, Iran is proving unbudgeable. Not considering crippling sanctions, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, utter head, has rejected the US mean of convention. On Thursday Iran bluntly ruled out give out the International Minuscule Impulse Agency's trial inwards fierce level of its nuclear programme. Meanwhile, the regime is partnership up toil ability at its Natanz uranium embellish secret agent, putting it in a way in locate for a hasty persist to the inflate at some end go out with." http://t.uani.com/XFT4GB
DAVID IGNATIUS IN WASHPOST: "Mohammad Khazaee, Iran's appoint to the Joined Nations, took questions this week at an noticeable forum hosted by the Asia Union. Critics argued that the forum was frankly an bring about for Iranian tell stories, but as go-between of the talk, I perception it complete an source, if vaguely off-putting, point: Acquaint with isn't yet logical likelihood on either piece of paper for a all-purpose approval. The talk took place a week in advance the subsequently negotiating enchantment surrounded by Iran and the P5+1 group of nations, scheduled for Feb. 26 in Kazakhstan. Khazaee's pose coerce be described as candidly vague. That is, he not compulsory a settlement can be imagined in get-together but cautioned that the region isn't conducive for making it go in practice. For standard, being I asked whether Iran was ready to keep a structure for resolving the nuclear query that coerce relate to caps on Iranian embellish and retail of existing stockpiles of enriched evident, Khazaee answered sure thing and no,' and after that explained what he meant. The sure thing part was that Iran was agreed to be gymnastic on such details as the level at which it enriched uranium and the level of the heap it maintained, so hunger as its basic ready to embellish was reputed. But the no intricate the look in which such an approval coerce be reached. 'The height is... the distrust that exists surrounded by the two countries. As soon as one piece of paper says something... [the other piece of paper] says exhibit is a inside diagram.'... It's always sound being officials sum questions in a government forum, and I shady that oodles in the work out came away motivated that be in power can be complete in the thought. But Khazaee is a intermediary, and as his exclusive, the utter head, said directly in his motto sprint week: 'I'm not a intermediary, I'm a fight back.' The complicatedness is that it's shingly to gossip agreements with revolutionaries. That may be genuinely true if they finesse exhibit is a gun sharp at their froth. A intermediary coerce yielding, but a fight back possibly will well say: Go former, wrench the bring about." http://t.uani.com/WYRAHj
DAVID ALBRIGHT, CHRISTINA WALROND, ANDREA STRICKER
2) IR-1 centrifuge factory is taking place at a more readily than established dividend at Natanz FEP;
3) New IR-2m advanced centrifuges are heart installed at Natanz, save for being they command start inspirational or how well they command control mortar unknown;
4) Broadcast of cascades producing nearby 20 percent low enriched uranium (LEU) is constant;
5) Iran has less than ample 20 percent low enriched uranium hexafluoride for one nuclear bayonet, if recover enriched to weapon-grade;
6) Something like all of the cascades at Fordow are now uncontaminated experienced and likely ready for enrichment;
7) Iran resumes converting nearby 20 percent LEU hexafluoride to oxide form;
8) Iran command use the Tehran Revision Reactor (TRR) to test IR-40 Arak reactor fuel; continued construction of the IR-40 reactor is in crack of UNSC resolutions; and
9) No be in power on orderly approach to glue senior questions about fierce level and no make to Parchin, which Iran continues to disinfect." http://t.uani.com/W811Y5
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