Zitat:Erstens wird an konvetionellen sprengstoffen gearbeitet die enorme sprengkrafft haben, zweitens nützt das Programm für das Iranische SpaceProgramm

Zitat:Ausserdem stellt sich dann für mich die Frage, warum Iran nach mehrmaligen Giftgasangriffen nicht mit gleichen Mitteln geantwortet hat

Zitat:Wenn wir behaupten weil sie das Moralisch nicht vertreten können ob wohl sie mit den selben waffen angegriffen wurden, und nur darum gabs auch frieden ansonnsten wäre der iran jetzt um einiges grösser, wozu brauch er so etwas dann noch?

Zitat:Fazit er hat keine; Forschung ist was anderes man muss natürlich in jedem bereich immer Forschen um mithalten zu können.

Zitat:Iran`s plan to produce centrifuge parts, a legitimate right: FM

Tehran, July 1, IRNA -- Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said in Mexico
City on Wednesday Iran`s plan to produce centrifuge parts is the
country`s legitimate right in the context of the Islamic Republic`s
international commitments.
He told a joint press conference with Mexican counterpart Luis
Ernesto Derbez that Iran is determined to make peaceful use of nuclear
energy.
Since Europeans did not fulfill their commitments to help close
the file of Iran`s nuclear activities with the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA), therefore Tehran has no commitment with regards
to cessation of production of centrifuge parts, he added.
All Iran`s nuclear activities are under IAEA supervision, he said
adding that Tehran is determined to continue its cooperation with the
agency.

Zitat:Iran will abandon nuclear obligations if attacked: defence minister

TEHRAN, July 7 (AFP) - Iran's defence minister has warned that the Islamic republic will abandon its commitments to the UN atomic watchdog if its nuclear installations are attacked, the official news agency IRNA reported Wednesday.

"Today the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) holds every detail on Iran's nuclear programme," Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani was quoted as saying.

"If there is a military attack, that would mean that the IAEA has been collecting this information to prepare for an attack. Naturally, after such an action, it would be necessary to renounce all of our nuclear commitments," he added.

The IAEA is investigating Iran's ambitious bid to generate atomic energy, but has been critical of the regime's level of cooperation. The United States and Israel accuse Iran of seeking nuclear weapons.

Shamkhani warned them of a fierce retaliation if they decided to attack."The United States and the other enemies of the Islamic republic must know that we will respond to a military action against our country with all our force," he said, adding the retaliation would be "unlimited by time and space".

Although alluding to a possible threat of US or Israeli missile strikes against Iran, the minister said he did not fear a full scale invasion.

Before trying to take over Iran, Shamkhani said Washington would have to wait the same amount of years that separated the end of the Vietnam war and the invasion of Iraq, given its current woes in Iran's neighbour.
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Zitat:Iran schließt Gespräche mit USA zu seinem Atomprogramm aus
Generalsekretär des nationalen Sicherheitsrats Rouhani: "Einziger Verhandlungspartner ist IAEO"


Teheran - Der Iran hat am Montag Gespräche mit den USA über sein Atomprogramm ausgeschlossen. "Es gibt keine Rechtfertigung, Vorschläge zu akzeptieren, Gespräche mit einem Land zu führen, dass eine schikanöse Haltung gegenüber anderen einnimmt", sagte Hassan Rouhani, der Generalsekretär des nationalen iranischen Sicherheitsrates, dem staatlichen Fernsehen.

Rouhani spielte auch die vorangegangenen Verhandlungen mit Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien herunter. Der einzige Verhandlungspartner für den Iran sei die Internationale Atomenergiebehörde. "Mit den Europäern sprechen wir, weil wir mit ihnen ein normales Verhältnis haben und weil die Initiative von ihnen ausgegangen ist", so Rouhani.

Zitat:Israelischer Militärgeheimdienstchef: Iran hat bis 2007 Atombombe
"Für die ganze Welt beunruhigend"



Jerusalem - Der Iran wird nach den Worten des Chefs des israelischen Militärgeheimdienstes, General Aharon Seevi Farkash, bis 2007 über die Atombombe verfügen. "Der Iran hat nicht die Absicht, sein Atomprogramm zu beenden", sagte Seevi Farkash am Dienstag im staatlichen israelischen Fernsehen. "Und wenn es ihm gelingt, es bis Frühjahr 2005 fortzusetzen, wird es in den darauffolgenden zwei Jahren die Atombombe besitzen." Dies sei nicht nur für Israel, sondern für die ganze Welt "beunruhigend".

Derzeit hält sich der Chef der Internationalen Atomenergieorganisation (IAEO), Mohamed el Baradei, zu Gesprächen in Israel auf, um für einen atomwaffenfreien Nahen Osten zu werben. Israel gilt inoffiziell als Atommacht und soll bis zu 200 nukleare Sprengköpfe besitzen. Das Land hat den Besitz von Atomwaffen weder bestätigt noch dementiert. Das iranische Atomprogramm steht unter strenger Beobachtung der IAEO. Die USA verdächtigen Teheran, unter dem Deckmantel der zivilen Nutzung der Atomkraft heimlich an der Entwicklung von Atomwaffen zu arbeiten. (APA)

Zitat: Iran saysto re-open nuclear talks with Europe big three soon
Tehran, July 14, IRNA -- Iran on Wednesday refreshed vows to continue
dialogue with Europe over its nuclear energy plans, stressing that
France, Germany and Britain have asked to arrange yet another meeting
with Iranian officials soon to discuss Tehran`s nuclear dossier.
Local press quoted Secretary of the Supreme National Security
Council (SNSC) Hassan Rowhani as saying that Tehran has always
preferred to engage with Europe over its nuclear energy plans,
stressing that giving up the dialogue with Europe is "not logical".
Rowhani told the Persian-language newspaper `Hamshahri` that the
initiative of France, Germany and Britain to open the talks with Iran
during the Tehran visit by the foreign ministers of those countries
last October had made Iran start a "special work" over its nuclear
energy activities.
"Stopping the dialogue with countries regarding nuclear energy
activities is not logical," Rowhani said.
"Why shouldn`t Tehran use its biggest lever which is dialogue
about such an important issue?"
Iran signed the Tehran Declaration with foreign ministers of
France, Britain and Germany last October according to which the three
European partners undertook to supply Iran with nuclear technology in
return for Iran`s signing up to the additional protocol to
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) which granted intrusive inspection of
nuclear sites by inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA).
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Zitat:Force would not stop any Iran nuke plans-experts

VIENNA, July 22 (Reuters) - A military strike on Iranian atomic facilities would delay but not destroy the development of any nuclear weapons programme, diplomats and analysts said.

"Military action is not the answer," said a senior international diplomat involved in the investigation of Iran's nuclear plans.

"It would only push them underground, like in Iraq," said the diplomat, who declined to be named. Israel has hinted it could use airstrikes to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, which it and Washington believe are part of an attempt to acquire atomic weapons under cover of a civilian nuclear power programme.

But Iran denies the charge and Iranian Defence Minister Ali Shamkhani said his country would respond to a military attack "with everything in our power".

Convinced that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons, Israel bombed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor in 1981. But instead of stopping his quest for a bomb, Saddam went underground and worked in secret until the programme was uncovered by the U.N. nuclear watchdog in 1991.

Several analysts and diplomats said Iran had learnt from Iraq's experience and might be hiding nuclear sites from U.N. inspectors, who have been probing Tehran's atomic programme for nearly two years to verify that it is peaceful as Iran insists.

"I think it's impossible to take out Iran's nuclear weapons programme with military strikes," a defence industry expert, who declined to be named, told Reuters. "They can recuperate."

SMOKING OUT SECRETS

But Gary Samore, director of studies at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London and a former adviser to U.S. ex-President Bill Clinton, said military action could significantly delay any Iranian atomic weapons programme.

"Military action could delay the development of nuclear weapons, assuming they know the right sites. It could buy them a considerable amount of time," Samore said. "At least part of Iran's clandestine programme is now public. The question is whether there are parts we don't know about yet."
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Zitat:Diplomats: Iran Resumes Nuclear Program

Tue Jul 27, 1:14 PM ET

By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer

VIENNA, Austria - Iran has broken the U.N. nuclear watchdog's seals on centrifuge equipment and resumed building the devices, which are key to making nuclear weapons, in a show of defiance against international efforts to monitor its program, diplomats said Tuesday.
The United States and its allies accuse Iran of working on a weapons program, something Tehran denies. It says its centrifuges are part of a nuclear program aimed solely at producing energy.
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Zitat:Iran versucht Atombomben-Bestandteil zu kaufen

Iran will nach Angaben aus Geheimdienstkreisen in Russland Deuterium kaufen, das Bestandteil von Atombomben ist. Bundesaußenminister Fischer warnte unterdessen die Regierung in Teheran vor einer Kehrtwende in der Nuklearpolitik.

Wien/Berlin - "Die Verhandlungen iranischer Mittelsmänner zum Kauf von Deuterium-Gas in Russland sind fortgeschritten", heißt es in einem zweiseitigen Bericht, der der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters vorliegt und von Diplomaten verteilt worden sei. Der Bericht zitiert "informierte russische Kreise".

Deuterium wird in der Medizin und Biochemie als so genanntes Tracer-Molekül zur Markierung und in Schwer-Wasser-Reaktoren genutzt, wie Iran sie baut. Deuterium kann aber auch mit Tritium kombiniert und als Verstärker in Atombomben eingesetzt werden.

Der Erwerb von Deuterium ist nicht illegal. Wegen der Verwendungsmöglichkeit für zivile und militärische Zwecke sollte er aber der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA), einer Organisation der Vereinten Nationen, gemeldet werden. Das habe Iran nicht getan, sagte der Diplomat, der Reuters den Bericht aushändigte. "Iran muss wissen, dass er darunter zu leiden haben wird, wenn er in den Besitz von Atomwaffen gelangt."

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Zitat:IRAN: SLIGHT CHANCE OF ISRAELI ATTACK


NICOSIA [MENL] -- Iran has determined that Israel was unlikely to launch a strike against the nuclear facilities of the Islamic republic.

Iranian officials said the intelligence community has determined a low probability that Israel will strike Iran's nuclear sites over the next year. They cited an Israeli assessment that Iran would be unable to achieve nuclear weapons capability until at least 2007 and that the Jewish state lacks the support of the international community, particularly the United States.

"There is a slight prospect that Israel will attack us," Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said. "Still, Iran has thought of the measures needed to repulse all attacks."

On Tuesday, the London-based Telegraph reported that Iran has resumed the construction and testing of components capable of producing fissile mate rial for nuclear weapons. The newspaper reported that Iran, in violation of an agreement with the European Union, has broken the seals on nuclear equipment monitored by the IAEA.