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Turkey demands Israel comes clean about its Nuclear Weapons Status
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that Turkey will seek international inspectors to determine whether Israel possesses nuclear weapons. Erdogan highlighted that Israel is not a party to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and Turkey intends to ask the International Atomic Energy Agency to investigate Israel’s nuclear capabilities.
Erdogan emphasized...
UN approves large Fukushima discharge into Pacific Ocean, prompting China to ban Japanese seafood imports
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an international organization within the United Nations system, just approved a large Fukushima discharge into the Pacific Ocean. The pending discharge, which includes over 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools of “treated” radioactive water, will be released from the infamous Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Chinese customs and food safety regulators...
UN Demands That Israel Eliminates Its Nuclear Arsenal
The U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday voted with an overwhelming majority on a resolution calling for Israel to get rid of all its nuclear weapons and place its nuclear sites under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The vote at the UNGA First Committee, which deals with disarmament, threats to peace and international security, passed with 149-6. The five nations...
IAEA says Israel is Lying about Iran's Nuclear Program
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed in a formal statement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an outright liar and completely manufactured claims of Iranian “nuclear weapons” in his recent “presentation”—a major blow to the efforts of the international Jewish lobby’s attempts to incite Americans into fighting another war for Israel.
In an official...
Accident at largest nuclear power plant in Europe revealed by Ukraine PM
Zaporozhskaya nuclear plant
There has been an accident at a nuclear plant in the southeast of Ukraine, Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk has revealed during the first session of his new Cabinet.
A minor accident occurred at Zaporozhskaya nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, last Friday, according to the facility’s website. A reactor was switched off and put to maintenance as a result.
The incident...
IAEA to deliver Ebola diagnosis technology to Africa
A healthcare worker checks the temperature of an Ebola-infected woman at a World Health Organization center in Liberia on October 3, 2014.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) plans to provide the Ebola-ravaged West African countries with specialized diagnostic equipment.
A nuclear-derived diagnostic technology will be delivered to the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone...
Japan caught hiding 640 Kg of Plutonium from IAEA
Japan has failed to mention 640 kilograms of unused plutonium in its reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2012 and 2013.
An official in Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission said on Saturday that the 640 kg was part of the plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, known as MOX, that was placed in an offline reactor at the time and was considered as being used.
The MOX fuel was loaded...
NSA spied on UN videoconferencing meetings
The US National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations’ headquarters in the US city of New York.
According to Germany’s weekly Der Spiegel in the summer of 2012, NSA experts managed to get into the U.N. video conferencing system and cracked its coding system.
“The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations (yay!),” Der Spiegel quoted one document....
Snowden confirms NSA created Stuxnet with Israeli aid
US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden
Fugitive US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden says the United States and Israel created the Stuxnet computer virus to sabotage Iran’s nuclear energy program.
In an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel published on Monday, Snowden, who has been holed up in a Moscow airport since June, said the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Israel...
Tehran and IAEA lock horns over inspecting Parchin facility
The IAEA delegation holding talks in Tehran hopes to finally inspect the Parchin military base, where Iran has allegedly tested elements of its nuclear program. Tehran has refused all previous attempts by the IAEA to get inside the compound.
The top item on the agenda for the UN nuclear watchdog’s delegation that arrived in Tehran for talks early Thursday is getting access to the Parchin military...
US top officials would not support unilateral Israeli attack on Iran
An Iranian Navy ship fires a Mehrab (Altar) missile during the Velayat-90 naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 1, 2012.
Amid Israel’s war rhetoric against Iran, the United States has sent a message to the Islamic Republic, stating that Washington would not support Tel Aviv in case of any possible unilateral strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Top officials at US...
Iran: Lift sanctions, and we will fully cooperate with IAEA
The Islamic Republic’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said his country is prepared to fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency if the sanctions currently placed on Iran are lifted.
Jalili made the statement after a third round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program finished in Moscow. All parties expressed satisfaction with the talks, despite the fact that no breakthroughs...
German FM offers Iran help with N-technology
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has expressed his country’s support for Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy program, saying Berlin is ready to provide Tehran with “technical assistance” in using the nuclear energy.
Iran has the right to use the nuclear energy for civilian purposes, and we are ready to support Iran technically in this regard,...
Talks with Iran comprehensive, in good atmosphere: IAEA
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano speaks to reporters in Tehran on May 21, 2012.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano says he held “comprehensive” talks with Iran’s top nuclear negotiator in a “good atmosphere.”
Amano made the remark after a two-hour meeting with Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National...
Israeli foreign minister unbearable: Austrian defense minister
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman
Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos says the presence of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in the Israeli cabinet is “unbearable.”
In an interview with the Austrian daily Die Presse, Darabos severely criticized Israel’s policies, with a special emphasis on the continued settlement activities and the nuclear allegations against Iran.
An attack...