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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Nonproliferation News Update

Alternative Nuclear Futures
ISN
Are current non-proliferation initiatives managing to keep nuclear programs peaceful? The Center for Security Studies' Oliver Thränert tackles these questions while outlining several alternative nuclear futures for a changing global security order. By ...

ISN
Encountering Peace: There is a way out
Jerusalem Post
I am sitting in a workshop at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non- Proliferation. The meeting is taking place a few days after the after the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In the room are some of the people who ...
Liberal hawk poised to swoop down on Iran
Scholars and Rogues
A prominent disarmament and nonproliferation advocate gives his surprise endorsement to an attack on Iran. On Wednesday (Sept. 19) I posted about how disappointing award-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest's recent nuclear-modernization ...
India moving closer to joining NSG, US leads the charge
Deccan Herald
India, said the sources, is being increasingly seen as a like-minded country that serves the interests and goals of the non-proliferation regimes. "India's non-proliferation record is exemplary. It's as much in India's interests as it is in the ...

If it's 1938 in Iran, what year is it in Ottawa?

National Post -
As this week's United Nations General Assembly advanced, faithful to the template, nothing could have been more clear than that the world is suspended discouragingly between the Scylla of Holocaust denial and the Charybdis of Holocaust panic.

Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the country is 'ready to defend itself'

Telegraph.co.uk -
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the country is 'ready to defend itself'. When asked about Israel's threat to attack the Iran's nuclear sites, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the country is 'ready to defend ourselves' during a visit to New ...

Ahmadinejad's comments inflame Israeli ambassador (+video)

Christian Science Monitor -
Ahmadinejad's comments inflame Israeli ambassador (+video). Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a 'fake regime' shielded by the US at the UN General Assembly, prompting Israeli Ambassador, Ron Prosor to walk out of the meeting.

Take a sober look at military option against Iran

Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) -
We have learned, one would hope, not to wade into another war blindly optimistic about what it might accomplish or what costs it might entail. Given the rhetoric and bluster bandied about regarding Iran, however, some have learned those lessons less well ...

Ahmadinejad declares Israel will be 'eliminated' as world leaders gather at UN

Fox News -
Israel has "no roots" in the Middle East and will be "eliminated." International efforts to stop a bloody civil war in Syria amount to "meddling." And he may even break bread with Occupy Wall Street. With 120 world leaders in New York for the United Nations ...

Iranian President Ahmadinejad: 'We are ready to defend ourselves'

Washington Post -
25, 2012. In response to a question about Israel's threat to attack Iran's nuclear sites, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the country is ready to defend itself. Iran's president is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly's annual meeting.

Israel walks out on Iran leader's speech

Herald Sun -
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday also accused the US and others of misusing freedom of speech and failing to speak out against the defamation of people's beliefs and "divine prophets", an apparent reference to the recently circulated ...

Iran's president dismisses threats on nuke program

AngolaPress -
NEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday dismissed threats of military action against Iran's nuclear program, arguing that his country's project to enrich uranium is only for peaceful purposes and saying that Iran has no worries about ...

In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be "eliminated"

AngolaPress -
NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be "eliminated," ignoring a U.N. warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric ahead of the annual General Assembly session. Ahmadinejad also ...

Reports: Iran successfully tests domestically produced anti-aircraft missile system

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎2 hours ago‎
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