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blake maples's List: Iran
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Iran's nuclear chief says that his country needs 20 industrial-scale uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of United Nations demands to halt the programme. Ali Akbar Salehi's announcement comes days after the government approved a plan to build 10 new plants.
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It is believed that the number of Iranians scattered around the world to be between two and seven million people. IMF estimates the wealth of Iranians living abroad at some $400 billion. Nor is there any indication that the brain drain is slowing down.
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The regime in Tehran is showing signs of both political and economic fatigue.
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higher grade of nuclear fuel on its own,
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At the 20 percent level, Iran could, in theory, make an extremely crude and heavy nuclear weapon. The bigger threat would be that its enrichment could quickly accelerate from there to the much higher grade of fuel — enriched to 90 percent — typically used in modern nuclear warheads.
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After the death, in 1779, of Mohammad Karim Khan Zand, who was the Zand dynasty ruler of southern Persia, Agha Mohammad Khan, a leader of the Qajar tribe, reunified the country, defeated numerous rivals and brought all of Iran under his rule, establishing the Qajar dynasty.
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Fath Ali Shah
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IRAN'S nuclear chief says his country's announcement of more uranium enrichment was a retaliatory move after criticism from the United Nations.
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He urged Iran to continue co-operating with the IAEA . "We are not interested in the deterioration of the situation at all," he said. "There are good capacities for the continuation of talks."
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Iran was known before 1935, was one of the greatest empires of the ancient world, and the country has long maintained a distinct cultural identity within the Islamic world by retaining its own language and adhering to the Shia interpretation of Islam.
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The country has an abundance of energy resources - substantial oil reserves and natural gas reserves second only to those of Russia.
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Iran test-fired two types of long-range missiles Monday in part of what the Islamic republic called routine military exercises, its state-run media reported.
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Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili is scheduled Thursday to meet with representatives of the five permanent United Nations Security Council members, plus Germany. European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will also attend the talks Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland.
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President Obama, joined by Gordon Brown of Britain and Nicolas Sarkozy of France trumpeted news of a previously undisclosed nuclear facility that Iran had been construction in apparent violation of its treaty commitments. In talks with the United States and other major powers the next week
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On Aug. 5, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term. But he faces a defiant opposition movement, and deep rifts within the conservative ruling elite.
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It is the second video in a week aimed at Germany. After the first was released on September 18, the Interior Ministry said there had been an increase in threats by al Qaeda and other Islamist groups since the start of the year.
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Police did not identify the Web site where the most recent video appeared, but said it had been accessed almost 4,000 times.
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