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Iran’s nuclear chief: EU has failed to fulfill 2015 deal commitments

 

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Iranian state television aired Sunday video of Cornel Feruta in the capital, Tehran

Iran on Saturday announced it would begin using two types of advanced centrifuges

DUBAI: Iran’s nuclear chief said on Sunday the European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal have failed to fulfill their commitments under the pact, a day after Tehran announced further breaches of limits on its nuclear activity set by the pact.

The deal curbed Iran’s disputed nuclear program in exchange for relief from sanctions, but has unraveled since the United States withdrew last year and acted to strangle Iran’s oil trade to push it into wider security concessions.

France, Germany and Britain have tried to launch a barter trade mechanism with Iran protecting it from US sanctions but have struggled to get it off the ground, and Tehran on Wednesday set a 60-day deadline for effective European action.

“Unfortunately, the European parties have failed to fulfil their commitments ... The deal is not a one-way street and Iran will act accordingly as we have done so far by gradually downgrading our commitments,” said Ali Akbar Salehi, director of Iran’s nuclear energy agency.

“Iran will continue to reduce its nuclear commitments as long as the other parties fail to carry out their commitments,” Salehi said, speaking after meeting the acting head of the UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA), Cornel Feruta, in Tehran on Sunday.

Feruta, whose non-proliferation inspectors monitor Iran’s nuclear program, also planned to see Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other senior Iranian officials.

The IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors will discuss Iran at a quarterly meeting that begins on Monday.

Since May, Iran has begun to breach caps on its nuclear capacity set by the deal in retaliation for US pressure on Iran to negotiate restrictions on its ballistic missile program and support for proxy forces around the Middle East.

Iran says its retreat from terms of the deal is reversible if European signatories manage to restore its access to foreign trade promised under the nuclear deal but blocked by the re-imposition of US sanctions.

“The actions they have taken are negative but not definitive. They can come back (to full compliance) and the path of dialogue is still open,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said on Sunday.

Upping the ante in its stand-off with Washington, Tehran said on Saturday it was now capable of raising uranium enrichment past the 20 percent level of fissile purity and had launched advanced centrifuge machines in further breaches of the deal.

IAEA inspectors reported in July that Iran had cranked up enrichment to 4.5 percent purity, above the 3.7 percent cap suitable for civilian energy generation set by the 2015 accord.

Under the deal, Iran is allowed limited research and development on advanced centrifuges, which accelerate the production of fissile material that could, if enriched to the 90 percent threshold, be used to develop a nuclear bomb.

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Over a year old article...Iran deal has a expiration date...a FYI article

Donald Trump says wrongly the Iran nuclear deal expires in 7 years

By Jon Greenberg on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 at 4:47 p.m.

President Donald Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to continue waiving sanctions against Iran under the 2015 agreement that rolled back the country’s nuclear program.

At an April 30 press conference, Trump said pulling out of the deal would send the right message on American policy.

"In seven years that deal will have expired, and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons," Trump said. "That's not acceptable. Seven years is tomorrow. That's not acceptable."

Trump is incorrect about the expiration date.

The deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, puts a cap on enriched uranium until 2030, or 12 years from now. After that, other agreements limit nuclear weapons development in Iran.

A focus on fuel

A full nuclear weapons program needs fuel for a bomb, a warhead, and a way to deliver the warhead, such as a missile or a plane.

"By far the most important and the most difficult step is producing the fuel," said Matthew Kroenig at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. "That’s why the Obama administration wanted to limit Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium. And it’s why it was so important to Iran to have the limits end after 15 years."

Under the deal, Iran gave up 97 percent of its stockpile of enriched uranium. It also lost 14,000 of its 20,000 centrifuges, the machines used to enrich uranium, and it agreed to only enrich uranium to a level unsuitable for weapons for 15 years.

For plutonium, the other possible fuel for a nuclear bomb, the agreement bans plutonium reactors for 15 years and stipulates that Iran must dismantle its current one.

The White House pointed to an Associated Press article about a confidential side agreement that, according to the article, allows Iran to "install centrifuges up to five times as efficient as the 5,060 machines it is now restricted to using." That would kick in at Year 11, or 2026. The article warned that this could reduce the time needed to produce weapons-grade uranium after the deal expired.

The White House also noted a Brookings Institution summary that said that after 2025, Iran could "test large numbers of, and conduct enrichment R&D with, advanced centrifuges," and get a space ready for running the most advanced centrifuge after 2030.

So starting seven years from now, Iran could begin developing and then using better centrifuges.

However, both of those sources noted that for 15 years, Iran could not have more than 300 kg (660 pounds) of low-enriched uranium, well below the amount experts agree is needed to make a single bomb.

Why does the cap matter?

Because even as Iran installed more efficient centrifuges, it could not end up with more enriched uranium than is permitted. The agreement spells out various ways to make that happen, either by diluting the uranium or sending it out of the country under international controls.

The Arms Control Association, a group that supports the Iran deal, produced this timeline. The gray bars at the top show the changes in the centrifuge rules at the 10-year mark, and the limits on enriched uranium through the 15-year mark.

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Building a bomb

Trump said that in seven years Iran would be free to build nuclear weapons. But under the agreement and the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Iran agreed on paper at least that it would never build a nuclear weapon. Formally, it would not be free to do as it pleases.

"Some of the terms last forever," said nuclear arms expert Matthew Bunn at Harvard’s Kennedy School. "The deal prohibits Iran forever from the key activities of a nuclear weapon design and manufacture program — experimenting with the relevant types of explosives, doing the relevant neutron modeling, and so on."

Bunn added: "And Iran’s acceptance of the broader inspections called for in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Additional Protocol also lasts indefinitely."

The Additional Protocol improves international oversight of nuclear fuel, from when it is mined to when it becomes waste, and allows broader inspections, such as collecting environmental samples at any location to detect radioactive materials.

Plus, many activities have to be approved by a commission that oversees the agreement.

The deal does have one element that clearly ends at the 10-year mark. If Iran fully complies with the deal for a decade, the U.N. Security Council’s resolutions on Iran’s nuclear program come to an end. That is called Termination Day. The agreement itself continues in force, but the United Nations no longer has Iran’s nuclear program on its docket. The White House noted this clause.

Our ruling

Trump said that the Iran nuclear deal expires in seven years and after that, Iran is free to develop a nuclear weapon.

The agreement’s limits on enriched uranium last for another 12 years. While some restrictions ease after seven years, the key elements that prevent Iran from enriching the uranium needed for a bomb remain until 2030. In addition, certain terms last forever, including the prohibition on ever designing or making a nuclear weapon, and remaining under the eye of international inspectors.

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The United States has confirmed its intention to continue to impose sanctions on all parties that buy oil from Iran or work with its Revolutionary Guards.

US Deputy Treasury Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker told Reuters on Sunday: "We will continue to put pressure on Iran, and as President Donald Trump has confirmed, there will be no exceptions regarding Iranian oil."

Mandelker stressed that oil sales to Iran had fallen sharply because of the extreme pressure exerted by the United States against the Islamic Republic.  

Tensions between the United States and Iran have been rising rapidly since May 8, 2018, when the US president announced his country's withdrawal from the agreement on Iran's nuclear program and imposing painful sanctions on the Islamic Republic in various sectors, including oil, where Washington accuses Tehran of supporting terrorism and interfering in the affairs of other countries.

 

 

 

 

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Alex Fatinka, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, believes that China could be a serious ally of Tehran, seeking a friend to emerge from its isolation.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's visit to Paris, France, which hosted the G7 summit this year, was a surprise to many in the West and considered a good omen, the researcher said in an article in Foreign Policy magazine. But for the Iranian leadership, Zarif's visit was highly ambitious and had little success in stopping the US-Iranian confrontation.

This was confirmed days later when the Trump administration refused to lift sanctions on Iranian oil, and Tehran refuses to participate in any talks before the sanctions are eased by the US. Zarif came out of his French trip empty-handed, continuing his trip to China, in which he wrote an article in the "Global Times" in which he called for a strategic partnership with China as an ongoing ambition of the Iranian leadership. Despite Iran's deep need for China to save it, the prevailing view is that a qualitative relationship with China is needed before the Iranian leadership expresses a commitment to partnership. The question is not about Iran, but about China and how it views its long-term interests in Iran.

Geopolitically, in the clash between China and the United States, it is illogical for Beijing to surrender to Washington's wish to isolate Tehran. In fact, China has violated US sanctions by continuing to buy Iranian oil and other goods.

A "bailout"
There are those who expect China to bail out of Iran from the claws of the Trump administration. "Iran is central to China's plans, as is China's central to the fate of Eurasia," Robert Kaplan wrote in The New York Times. In a country with first-class natural resources, human capital and a thirsty and untapped market, China is Iran's largest trading partner. In addition, Iran's political position interacting with the international scene gives China the opportunity to make it its own state.

Hence, there is no logic from the Chinese perspective for Trump's strategy to support "maximum pressure" on Iran and help it succeed. A closer look, however, shows that the relationship is more complex than it seems to the naked eye.

Since the turn of the century, China has become Iran's most important trading partner and an important oil customer. Cooperation has expanded to arms deals and strategic balance against the United States. The Chinese planners have identified Iran as one of the vital links between Asia and Europe in the Belt and Road Initiative, the most important initiative of President Xi Jinping's administration and his foreign policy footprint. The ultimate goal is to rebuild world trade rules and investment practices for a favored system of China. It aspires to show China's soft power and dominate Eurocia.

The vision of Sino-Iranian cooperation was defined during President Jinping's official visit to Tehran in 2016. The two countries agreed to increase trade volume over 10 years to 600 billion US dollars and build cooperation relations over 25 years. In addition to trade, China is a leading investor in the Iranian market; there are about 100 Chinese companies investing in vital areas of Iran's economy, especially energy and transportation.

CNPC is redesigning the Arak 40 heavy water reactor and addressing non-proliferation issues under the 2015 agreement. The Chinese government has increased a $ 10 billion loan to Chinese companies to build dams, power generators and other infrastructure projects in Iran, such as the pipeline Iron-Pianor in Mongolia to Tehran. Other projects include the construction and financing of a railway line in the eastern city of Mashhad and the Gulf port of Bushehr. China wants to accelerate the construction of Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman, a project intended to cooperate with India. Other examples of cooperation are the five metro lines that China is building and in partnership with Iran.

Oil projects
In the gas and oil sector, China has become the largest developer in this area, although it does not have the technical capabilities of Western companies. Iran's gas fields are second only to Russia, making it one of the world's largest crude oil reserves. According to the Iranian Oil Ministry, China has begun cooperation in three energy projects: one in the Pars gas field in the south, which is the largest and shared by Iran with Qatar, and the Yadarvaran oil field on the border with Iraq, and the development of an oil pipeline on the eastern side of the port of Hormuz.

China has certainly benefited from the absence of Western companies in Iran because of US pressure. In Zarif's words, the Iran-China relationship is “irreplaceable and strategic partners on many fronts”. On his last visit, the Iranian foreign minister appealed to China to strengthen relations and cooperation to face issues such as combating extremism and terrorism, without mentioning the crackdown on Uighur Muslims and arresting one million of them in prisons called "education centers."

“External aggression,” says
Zarif, China has a responsibility to confront US fanaticism and Iran will follow suit.

"We are both facing aggression from abroad by populist fanatics who want to act alone," Zarif said. According to Zarif, China has a responsibility to confront US fanaticism and Iran will follow suit. Zarif criticized the Trump administration for abandoning the 2015 nuclear deal and called on Beijing to work to preserve it: "How will we respond to these extreme pressures, and a flagrant violation of international obligations and laws will have an impact on our ability to reach a common vision for the future of our continent?" He appealed to China, referring to the Sino-US trade war, which he described as a clear example of US unilateral actions against what the international law-based system saw.

Zarif's words calling for cooperation between the two sides are fearful in the sense that the existing agreements between them are in China's interest. Iranian officials complain that US pressure has turned their country into a captive customer of China. Zarif's formula does not take into account Iranian crude oil that goes to China in exchange for what it can offer, which does not include Iran's vision of partnership. Zarif called on the Chinese leadership to allow his country to contribute to China's plan to build a global base for science, creativity and technology, that is, to attach Iran to what Iranian officials see as China's golden age.

In its attempt to stimulate China, Tehran has given up visa requirements for Chinese tourists, the latest chapter in the "Look East" policy, as old as the Islamic Republic. It is easy to dismiss the "look to the east" policy as a necessity from a country that the West has rejected. But China is trying to use US pressure on Iran to be a responsible participant. Therefore, China will play its cards in Iran accordingly. It will fill the void left by Western companies and encourage trade using the yuan. Politically, the Chinese will try to use the nuclear standoff and argue that multilateral international cooperation is the only way to resolve tensions in the Middle East.

Isolation and Subordination to China
Despite all this, China does not treat Iran as a close ally, even after the acceleration of relations since the beginning of this century, when China became the most important trading partner, superior to Germany. China still takes into account US sensitivities from Iran. Recent figures show that trade between the two countries has fallen this year from last year. But the United States is not the only factor shaping Iranian-Chinese relations, for example, China's stance on Tehran's long demand to join the SCO, led by China and Russia, to become a full member.

The Iranians are not sure about China's openness. The organization has repeatedly rejected Tehran's request for talks. It is no secret that China has strong relations with all countries in the Middle East, including the enemies of Tehran - Israel and Saudi Arabia - so Beijing will be wary of establishing close relations with them. Despite Zarif's warm call for cooperation, China is not expected to choose a party to the conflict with the United States at any cost. China will play its cards with caution.

In return, the Iranians hope that US-Chinese tension will continue to give them a chance. From the Chinese perspective, the US decision to exit the nuclear deal is worrying in the short term, because Iran's inability to buy goods and export oil will prompt it to develop its nuclear project, which means a war in the region. But Iran will still need loans, and they are ready to sell oil to China at reduced prices.

In the long run, China will have an opportunity to continue Iran's isolation from the West and its economic and security dependence on it.As a signal of China's policy toward Iran, it will emerge from its response to Trump's demand to stop importing Iranian oil that exemptions have allowed it and others to import from Iran. If Beijing takes a defensive stance on Tehran and is against Washington, it would give the Europeans and Iranians a financial alternative to help Tehran circumvent US sanctions, which means that Trump with his Iranian strategy is a tiger on paper and is merely running a temporary election campaign.

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IAEA Confirms Iran Has Begun Installing More Advanced Centrifuges to Produce Enriched Uranium

An Iranian security official, dressed in protective clothing, walks inside the Uranium Conversion Facility, just outside the city of Isfahan, 410 kilometers, (255 miles), south of the Iranian capital Tehran in this Wednesday, March 30, 2005

 

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Earlier, an Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation spokesman said Iran would be decreasing its commitments to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, in retaliation to the breach of the deal by Washington. Tehran maintains that it could still 'reverse' its action if the other parties to the deal fulfil their promises.

Iran has begun installing advanced centrifuges which would allow it to increase the enrichment levels of its uranium stocks, the International Atomic Energy Agency has announced.

In a statement released Monday, the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed that it had been able to verify on September 7 "that the following centrifuges were either installed or being installed...: 22 IR-4, one IR-5, 30 IR-6 and three IR-6s," with "IR" referring to Iran's centrifuge equipment.

Compared to IR-1, the older generation of Iranian centrifuge equipment, the IR-4 is said to be capable of producing enriched uranium five times as fast, while the IR-6 can produce it ten times as fast.

According to the IAEA, the centrifuges were installed at the Natanz nuclear facility, with "all of the installed centrifuges...prepared for testing with UF6 (uranium hexaflouride), although none of them were being tested with UF6 on 7 and 8 September 2019."

"In addition, in a letter to the [IAEA] dated 8 September, Iran informed the Agency that it would reinstall the piping at two R&D lines to accommodate a cascade of 164 IR-4 centrifuges and a cascade of 164 IR-2m centrifuges," the statement noted.

Later Monday, Cornel Feruta, acting head of the IAEA, called on Iran to respond to the watchdog's questions on the state of the country's nuclear programme, saying that in his recent meetings with Iranian officials, he had "stressed" to them "the need for Iran to respond promptly to Agency questions related to the completeness of Iran's safeguards declarations."

"Time is of the essence," Feruta said.

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has begun installing more advanced centrifuges and is moving towards enriching uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday, although this is banned under a nuclear deal.

"All the centrifuges installed for the test have been prepared using uranium hexafluoride (UF6), although none of them were tested on September 7 and 8," the UN agency said in a statement.

Tehran announced on Saturday that it had begun operating advanced centrifuges that would increase its stockpile of enriched uranium, as part of a new reduction of its obligations under the nuclear deal.

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Is Iran fueling its proxy wars?

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When President Trump declares that Iran "has not been the same country for two and a half years," referring to the effectiveness of US sanctions, which almost halt financial flows to the jurist regime, he adds: "We do not deal through another country, but deal directly." He turned the page on the French efforts led by President Macron, which the French say are based on a French concern for peace and the exclusion of war.
But the frustrated French "effort" was based on a refusal to accept that the nuclear deal was in clinical death, offering the possibility of easing sanctions by demanding the export of 700,000 barrels per day, including a $ 15 billion credit line repaid within four months, without an agenda. It is clear in its points and on specific dates, such as after addressing the nuclear issue, the basic problem of ballistic weapons issues, Iran's regional role, and its responsibility to destabilize the region, these efforts could not succeed because Paris, which bet on the US 'understanding', did not read the nature of the Iranian regime. , And understand the fact , Decision making in Tehran. It is true that Minister Zarif smiles a lot, but it is certain that "everything is related to dialogue with the Americans," says President Rouhani: "It is in the hand of the guide," and as long as the guide believes that he has room to maneuver until the US elections, he will not accept to go to negotiations, and he sticks By making a rupture with the Americans a title for his policy!
Any serious reading of the policy set by the leader in the direction of Iranian blackmail to the West, proceeds from the fact that the nuclear agreement is not affected, because it was based on the sale of goods that did not already have Iran, and does not negotiate ballistic missiles, or regional influence, but Rouhani's contradictory speeches and smiles Zarif useful In the process of buying time and using it to raise the level of enrichment. The new stage of going to the production of a new generation of centrifuges is only an assertion to proceed on the path of access to nuclear weapons, which Tehran is betting on producing within a year, and perhaps before the US presidential elections, and of course from an international body that takes the hypocrisy of Iran, which says a fatwa prohibited This weapon !! The existence of a nuclear weapon in the hands of the mullahs regime would change the agenda of dealing with Iran and its ambitions, because it is a cover for the approach of threatening the countries of the region in order to dominate it, and the extension of the Iranian imperial project ...
Washington is aware of what Tehran is seeking, so it is pursuing a sanctions approach. It is not a secret that the Trump administration is seeking to reach the presidential elections. It has succeeded in the Iranian arm without any shot. It has set the goal of the widening sanctions by denying Tehran access to resources to finance activities. Terrorist, force it to return to negotiations to reach a comprehensive new agreement. Brian Hawk, the US envoy to Iran, expresses the US approach as a commitment to a "maximum pressure campaign without making any exceptions or concessions" - imposing behavior change - which Tehran has read as "regime change" and hitting the regional project.
Because Tehran knows the disastrous consequences of the sanctions on the internal Iranian situation and consequently on its regional influence, and because it is touching the dimensions of the US overthrow of the French initiative, which coincided with a wave of sanctions against entities and names «Lebanese, Iranian and Indian», and alternative companies to smuggle Iranian oil to provide funding to The Quds Force and Hezbollah have become impossible to keep the confrontation under a restrained roof, because neither American policy will change in the near term, nor Iranian policy. Only the fronts are heated, although it is likely to be accompanied by declared positions of rejection. Go to free Comprehensive and destructive. But what should not be overlooked is that any Iranian mistake in calculating strategic change, America in the right circumstances could turn the tables even in the presidential election year.
In this context, everything that took place on September 1 on the Lebanese-Israeli front and in Lebanon should be carefully considered

The positions announced by Hassan Nasrallah on breaking the red lines are back, and we must stop before what is going on at the level of the Popular Mobilization, which decided to establish an air command. Iranian Toleration. In the background, there is a real fear in Tehran of the consequences of the intensification of US sanctions. The fear of the mullahs' regime is even greater, because all US data are likely to keep President Trump in a second term in the White House.
Our reference goes back to Lebanon, which has become a bottleneck, from which Iran may inflate its proxy wars, with the illusion of the ability to cause a breach that will re-mix the cards, which will further isolate the country, because the fabrication of war with the enemy, has no camel in it and no sentences, will not bring Arab sympathy nor International understanding, and the most obvious evidence, is that the Arab League's support for Lebanon carries a clear warning of the danger that the country could be plunged into a devastating war.
After the Jamal Trust Bank case, there is increasing talk about the involvement of other banks, and it is not counting on the denial of the Association of Banks. As the UNIFIL commander publicly demands that the south of the Litani be disarmed and armed, the PA continues to lack responsibility for the Lebanese and their interests. Hariri is content with a statement to the US media (CNBC). Unable to rein in it, we cannot take responsibility for its attacks While the shorter path, popularly supported, whatever the political outcome, requires that these issues be brought to the cabinet, and that unambiguously discuss defense strategy, the millstone of decoding. The link between the state and Hezbollah's external agenda.

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yota, 

I have a question for you, I’m not old enough to remember the effects of the atom bomb on Japan but if we or someone else dropped one on Iran would it take out Iraq as well? 

Just kinda wondering how much time we have left for the RV before the big boom in Iran...

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On 9/9/2019 at 4:19 AM, Butifldrm said:

IAEA Confirms Iran Has Begun Installing More Advanced Centrifuges to Produce Enriched Uranium

An Iranian security official, dressed in protective clothing, walks inside the Uranium Conversion Facility, just outside the city of Isfahan, 410 kilometers, (255 miles), south of the Iranian capital Tehran in this Wednesday, March 30, 2005

 

© AP Photo / VAHID SALEMI

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12:03 09.09.2019(updated 13:33 09.09.2019)Get short URL

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Earlier, an Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation spokesman said Iran would be decreasing its commitments to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, in retaliation to the breach of the deal by Washington. Tehran maintains that it could still 'reverse' its action if the other parties to the deal fulfil their promises.

Iran has begun installing advanced centrifuges which would allow it to increase the enrichment levels of its uranium stocks, the International Atomic Energy Agency has announced.

In a statement released Monday, the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed that it had been able to verify on September 7 "that the following centrifuges were either installed or being installed...: 22 IR-4, one IR-5, 30 IR-6 and three IR-6s," with "IR" referring to Iran's centrifuge equipment.

Compared to IR-1, the older generation of Iranian centrifuge equipment, the IR-4 is said to be capable of producing enriched uranium five times as fast, while the IR-6 can produce it ten times as fast.

According to the IAEA, the centrifuges were installed at the Natanz nuclear facility, with "all of the installed centrifuges...prepared for testing with UF6 (uranium hexaflouride), although none of them were being tested with UF6 on 7 and 8 September 2019."

"In addition, in a letter to the [IAEA] dated 8 September, Iran informed the Agency that it would reinstall the piping at two R&D lines to accommodate a cascade of 164 IR-4 centrifuges and a cascade of 164 IR-2m centrifuges," the statement noted.

Later Monday, Cornel Feruta, acting head of the IAEA, called on Iran to respond to the watchdog's questions on the state of the country's nuclear programme, saying that in his recent meetings with Iranian officials, he had "stressed" to them "the need for Iran to respond promptly to Agency questions related to the completeness of Iran's safeguards declarations."

"Time is of the essence," Feruta said.

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Dont they know there are more ways left to apply sanctions, or are they feeling invincible!🎊

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4 hours ago, DoD said:

yota, 

I have a question for you, I’m not old enough to remember the effects of the atom bomb on Japan but if we or someone else dropped one on Iran would it take out Iraq as well? 

Just kinda wondering how much time we have left for the RV before the big boom in Iran...

Not the Master Yota,  we have tactical nuclear weapons, that could take key strategic targets out without all of the collateral damage! If were in charge that would have already been done in 1979! Unfortunately we had a miserable despicable human being Jimmy Cater that got us in the position we are in today! JMHO!  🤠

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4 hours ago, DoD said:

yota, 

I have a question for you, I’m not old enough to remember the effects of the atom bomb on Japan but if we or someone else dropped one on Iran would it take out Iraq as well? 

Just kinda wondering how much time we have left for the RV before the big boom in Iran...

 

Evening DoD . . . Dropping the " Big One " is only part of the deal. Prevailing winds at the time of Drop ( and I've not looked that up yet ), will carry the Fallout  over vast distances. Jet Streams constantly change. No telling exactly, although you could possibly estimate direction at time of Drop.

It could miss Iraq entirely but sweep South or South East as an example, ( across Afghanistan, over Pakistan even into parts of India or China ). Bound to be some moaning & complaining from those folks.

We have different yields, however, just ( the USA ) dropping a low yield nuke on any country will look bad in the Global Press and upset a mighty bunch of folks around the world at their Breakfast table. I would hope we would never feel compelled to strike first with any size Nuke.

Now if Iran were to set of a " dirty nuke " in the USA . . . well the planet just took a hard turn right down the Twilight Zone Road. No doubt there would be allot of nations Epically perturbed with Iran that would involve Russia and China as well.

 

Kinda yapped a bit more than I first thought . . . Nuking anyone these days would cause a global panic.

 

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2019/09/11 01:48:33 PM Print64

Pompeo: Trump may meet Rouhani without preconditions

Pompeo: Trump may meet Rouhani without preconditions

 

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that President Donald Trump may meet "without preconditions" with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the next UN meeting.

 

 

The statement contradicts what the White House insists is not to hold talks on pre-set terms, according to Western media.

The Trump administration is exercising what it calls a "maximum pressure" campaign to curb Iranian activities to develop nuclear weapons through diplomatic and economic measures such as sanctions.

A Rouhani adviser wrote on Twitter today that Trump's sudden dismissal of his national security adviser John Bolton shows that the pressure strategy has not worked.

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Trump on easing sanctions on Iran: we'll see what happens
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump left the door open on Wednesday for a possible easing of US sanctions on Iran, saying he believed Tehran wanted to strike a deal with Washington over its nuclear program.
"We will see what happens," Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about the possibility of the United States easing the "extreme pressure" campaign on Iran.
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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sacked National Security Adviser John Bolton and named Charlie Cooperman as acting White House national security adviser.

The White House said Bolton's priorities and policies were incompatible with President Trump.

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Trump Flirts With $15 Billion Bailout for Iran, Sources Say

Trump says he hates the Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran. But he’s toying with a French proposal to get the Iranians to comply with it: a $15 billion line of credit to Tehran.

Updated 09.12.19 2:20AM ET / Published 09.11.19 6:48PM ET 
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NICHOLAS KAMM

 

President Donald Trump has left the impression with foreign officials, members of his administration, and others involved in Iranian negotiations that he is actively considering a French plan to extend a $15 billion credit line to the Iranians if Tehran comes back into compliance with the Obama-era nuclear deal.

Trump has in recent weeks shown openness to entertaining President Emmanuel Macron’s plan, according to four sources with knowledge of Trump’s conversations with the French leader. Two of those sources said that State Department officials, including Secretary Mike Pompeo, are also open to weighing the French proposal, in which the Paris government would effectively ease the economic sanctions regime that the Trump administration has applied on Tehran for more than a year.

The deal put forward by France would compensate Iran for oil sales disrupted by American sanctions. A large portion of Iran’s economy relies on cash from oil sales. Most of that money is frozen in bank accounts across the globe. The $15 billion credit line would be guaranteed by Iranian oil. In exchange for the cash, Iran would have to come back into compliance with the nuclear accord it signed with the world’s major powers in 2015. Tehran would also have to agree not to threaten the security of the Persian Gulf or to impede maritime navigation in the area. Lastly, Tehran would have to commit to regional Middle East talks in the future. 

While Trump has been skeptical of helping Iran without preconditions in public, the president has at least hinted at an openness to considering Macron’s pitch for placating the Iranian government—a move intended to help bring the Iranians to the negotiating table and to rescue the nuclear agreement that Trump and his former national security adviser John Bolton worked so hard to torpedo.

At the G7 meeting in Biarritz, France last month, Trump told reporters that Iran might need a “short-term letter of credit or loan” that could “get them over a very rough patch.”

 

Iranian Prime Minister Javad Zarif made a surprise appearance at that meeting. To Robert Malley, who worked on Iran policy during the Obama administration, that visit indicated that “Trump must have signaled openness to Macron’s idea, otherwise Zarif would not have flown to Biarritz at the last minute.”

“Clearly, Trump responded to Macron in a way that gave the French president a reason to invite Zarif, and Zarif a reason to come,” he said.

The French proposal would require the Trump administration to issue waivers on Iranian sanctions. That would be a major departure from the Trump administration’s so-called “maximum pressure” campaign to exact financial punishments on the regime in Tehran. Ironically, during his time in office, President Barack Obama followed a not-dissimilar approach to bring the Iranians to the negotiating table, throttling Iran’s economy with sanctions before pledging relief for talks. The negotiations resulted in the Iran nuke deal that President Trump called “rotten”—and pulled the U.S. out of during his first term.

Trump’s flirtations with—if not outright enthusiasm toward—chummily sitting down with foreign dictators and America’s geopolitical foes are largely driven by his desire for historic photo ops and to be seen as the dealmaker-in-chief. It’s a desire so strong that it can motivate him to upturn years of his own administration’s policymaking and messaging.

And while President Trump has not agreed to anything yet, he did signal a willingness to cooperate on such a proposal at various times throughout the last month, including at the G7 meeting in Biarritz, France, according to four sources with knowledge of the president’s conversations about the deal.

Several sources told The Daily Beast that foreign officials are expecting Trump to either agree to cooperate on the French deal or to offer to ease some sanctions on Tehran. Meanwhile, President Trump is also considering meeting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in September. 

“I do believe they’d like to make a deal. If they do, that’s great. And if they don’t, that’s great too,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “But they have tremendous financial difficulty, and the sanctions are getting tougher and tougher.” When asked if he would ease sanctions against Iran in order to get a meeting with Iran Trump simply said: “We’ll see what happens. I think Iran has a tremendous, tremendous potential.”

 

Spokespeople for the State Department, White House, and Treasury did not provide comment for this story. A spokesperson for the National Security Council simply referred The Daily Beast to Trump’s Wednesday comments on Iran. Bolton didn’t comment on Wednesday, either.

 
 
“By the end he viewed [Bolton] as an arsonist hell bent on setting fire to anyone’s agenda that didn’t align with his own—including the president’s.”
— source close to Mike Pompeo

Trump’s willingness to discuss the credit line with the French, the Iranians and also Japanese President Shinzo Abe frustrated Bolton, who had for months urged Trump not to soften his hard line against the regime in Tehran

Bolton, who vociferously opposed the Macron proposal, departed the Trump administration on explicitly and mutually bad terms on Tuesday. On Bolton’s way out of the door, Trump and senior administration officials went out of their way to keep publicly insisting he was fired, as Bolton kept messaging various news outlets that Trump couldn’t fire him because he quit. The former national security adviser and lifelong hawk had ruffled so many feathers and made so many enemies in the building that his senior colleagues had repeatedly tried to snitch him out to Trump for allegedly leaking to the media.

On Tuesday afternoon, Bolton messaged The Daily Beast to say that allegations about him being a leaker were “flatly incorrect.

At a press briefing held shortly after Bolton’s exit on Tuesday, neither Secretary of State Mike Pompeo nor Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin showed much sympathy for Bolton’s falling star in Trumpworld. “There were many times Ambassador Bolton and I disagreed,” Pompeo told reporters. “That’s to be sure, but that’s true with a lot of people with whom I interact.”

According to those who know Pompeo well, the secretary’s public statement was a glaring understatement.

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Iraqi oil minister: lifting US sanctions on Iran will not reflect negatively on the oil market
Posted: 11.09.2019 | 20:58 GMT |

Iraq's oil minister, Thamer Ghadhban, said on Wednesday he believed a possible partial lifting of US sanctions on Iran would not adversely affect the state of oil markets.

Iraq's oil minister explains why oil production has been raised in recent months

According to Bloomberg, the minister, whose country is the second largest oil producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries after Saudi Arabia, believes that the end of the sanctions imposed on Iran will not be a big problem for the market, for two reasons. Iranian crude will not return to the market at full size.

On Monday, US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, at a meeting at the Oval Office in the White House, backed the idea of easing sanctions on Tehran as a step toward resuming dialogue with Iran. Later on Monday, US President Donald Trump decided to sack his national security adviser John Bolton, a decision Trump announced on Tuesday.

Earlier on Wednesday, a news agency reported that Trump had discussed easing sanctions against Iran before Bolton was fired.

Source: RIA Novosti

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International Energy Agency: Iran's crude oil production fell by 40 thousand barrels per day

By mustafa k 12/09/2019 03:37 PM | The number of readings: 14

International Energy Agency: Iran's crude oil production fell by 40 thousand barrels per day

 

Ahd News - Baghdad

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's crude oil production fell by 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) to an average of 2.19 million bpd in August, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday.

According to a report by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Iran's oil production fell in August to 2.19 million barrels per day, compared with more than 2.2 million barrels per day in July 2019.

 

 

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 2019/09/13 10:51:41
 

The US Treasury Department on Friday criticized Iraq's continued import of gas and electricity from Iran.

"We understand the need for Iraq to import gas from Iran," US Treasury Undersecretary for Counterterrorism Affairs Marshall Bellengelsia told a news conference.

 "It is ironic that Iraq remains hostage to Iranian energy for more than a decade."

Iraqi Oil Minister Thamer Ghadhban said Wednesday that his country would continue importing gas from Iran to cover the southern provinces' need for electricity.

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