10 April, 2009

World News Australia – Iran opens first nuclear fuel plant
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated Iran’s first nuclear fuel plant, marking a major breakthrough in the Islamic republic’s controversial atomic program.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article/10150
93/Iran-opens-first-nuclear-fuel-plant

Paranoia Runs Rampant In Iran
By Fred Stopsky
Recent days have witnessed an outreach towards Iran by President Obama and reciprocal feelings from President Ahmadinejad of a willingness to engage in friendly.
theimpudentobserver.com/world-ne
ws/paranoia-rums-rampant-in-iran/

Ron Radosh “ How Should Obama Deal with Iran?
By Ron Radosh
With his recent message to Iran, President Barack Obama is certainly implementing a new style, if not a change, in American foreign policy. As many commentators have pointed out, Obama’s messages to Iran emphasized America’s need to not …
pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2009/04/09/685/

Power Line – How Iran Sees Us
By John
President Obama’s friendly overtures to Iran have been rebuffed, but what inferences have Iran’s leaders drawn from Obama’s approach? Iran’s FARS news agency reports on an interview with Ali Reza Zaker Isfahani, head of the Presidential …
www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/04/023288.php

China Caught Helping Iran Build Bomb – IAEA has No Comment | Verum …
By John
Hot Air posted this link in the headlines today: The chief of the world’s nuclear weapons watchdog organization considers five years of U.S. and international efforts to rein in Iran’s nuclear ambitions a failure, as Tehran moves ever …
www.verumserum.com/?p=4540

Gateway Pundit: Iran: Enemies & Obama Have Admitted Defeat In …
By Gateway Pundit
He underlined that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government could break the dominating international order by following the Late Imam Khomeini’s path, adding, “This has led to the acceptance of Iran’s nuclear energy right by …
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/iran-
enemies-obama-have-admitted-defeat.html

The Raw Story | Ahmadinejad opens Iran’s first nuclear fuel plant
The opening of the fuel plant signifies that Iran has now mastered the complete nuclear fuel cycle from uranium mining to enrichment, amid fears by world powers that the ambitious programme is aimed at making atomic weapons. …
rawstory.com/news/afp/Ahmadinejad_
opens_Iran_s_first_nucl_04092009.html

Iran’s Nuclear Technology Day, Happy for Some – The Lede Blog …
By By Robert Mackey
Abedin Taherkenareh/European Pressphoto Agency President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on Thursday with scientists during the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the country’s first nuclear fuel manufacturing plant in the central city of Isfahan. …
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/
irans-nuclear-technology-day-happy-for-some/

Jihad Watch: While world slumbers on, Iran inaugurates first …
By Raymond
The opening of the plant signifies that Iran has now mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, amid fears by world powers that its ambitious programme is aimed at making atomic weapons. Posted by Raymond at April 9, 2009 2:18 PM…
www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025609.php

Obama Plan to Negotiate with Iran Already Paying Dividends—to Iran …
By Conn Carroll
Yesterday the Obama administration announced that it would directly participate “from now on” in international talks with Iran over its nuclear program. These talks, supported by the Bush administration, were led by Britain, France, …
blog.heritage.org/2009/04/09/obama-plan-to-negotiate-
with-iran-already-paying-dividends%E2%80%94to-iran/

9 April, 2009

Obama’s nightstand: Recommended Iran reading | The Cable
By Laura Rozen
Last night, after he had made a grocery-store run, helped put his two kids to bed, and answered reporters’ phone calls about Washington’s decision to join international talks with Iran, Trita Parsi, a protégé of Francis Fukuyama and …
thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/09/
obamas_nightstand_recommended_iran_reading

Global Voices Online “ Iran: Freegate is accessible again
By Hamid Tehrani
In Donableh we read that Freegate,a software utility that enables surfers from mainland China, Iran, among others, to view websites banned by their government, is once more available for Iranians. …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/09/iran-freegate-is-accessible-again/

‘Nuclear Day’: Iran, Ahmadinejad Inaugurate New Nuclear Facility
By The Huffington Post News Team
‘Nuclear Day’: Iran, Ahmadinejad Inaugurate New Nuclear Facility – The Huffington Post.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/
nuclear-day-iran-ahmadine_n_185152.html

Dennis Ross’s Iran Plan
With Israel pawn Dennis Ross in charge, is Obama’s dialogue with Iran
already doomed?
www.thenation.com/doc/20090427/dreyfuss

OneRiot.com – Iran Opens New Nuclear Facility
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmedinejad inaugurated his country’s first nuclear fuel production complex, a facility that could be used to develop nuclear arms.
topics.oneriot.com/iran-opens-new-nuclear-facility

Global Voices Advocacy “ Iran: Freegate is accessible again
By Hamid Tehrani
In Donableh we read that Freegate,a software utility that enables surfers from mainland China, Iran, among others, to view websites banned by their government, is once more available for Iranians. Posted by Hamid Tehrani on Apr 09, 2009 …
advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/
09/iran-freegate-is-accessible-again/

Reza Saberi Staying In Iran Until Daughter Roxana Saberi Released
By The Huffington Post News Team
Reza Saberi, the father of American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi who has been in jail for more than two months in Iran, photographed in Tehran on Thursday April 9, 2009. American female journalist Roxana Saberi has been charged with …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/
reza-saberi-staying-in-ir_n_185097.html

The Online News Page “ Iran declares new progress in nuclear drive …
By Editor
ISFAHAN, Iran (Reuters) – Iran declared fresh progress in its nuclear program Thursday, inaugurating its first nuclear fuel production plant and announcing it had tested more advanced equipment for enriching uranium. …
www.rocketnews.com/2009/04/09/iran-declares
-new-progress-in-nuclear-drive-source-reuters/

Big Majority Views Iran As Threat — But Still Supports Engagement …
By Greg Sargent
With Hillary announcing a major new diplomatic push with Iran, it has to be encouraging to the administration that a new poll shows remarkably strong public support for Obama’s engage-your-enemies approach to that country.
theplumline.whorunsgov.com/president-obama/big-
majority-views-iran-as-threat-but-still-supports-engagement/

RealClearWorld – Articles – A New Approach to Iran’s Nuclear Program
Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have been stalled for more than three years. For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy. Countries sitting on their own …
www.realclearworld.com/articles/2009
/04/a_new_approach_to_irans_nuclea.html

Clinton: It ‘Makes Sense’ to Engage Iran on Nukes | wowOwow
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says it “makes sense” to start multinational negotiations with Iran on its nuclear capabilities.
www.wowowow.com/politics/clinton-it
-makes-sense-engage-iran-nukes-263248

Informed Comment: US to Join UNSC Talks with Iran on Nuclear Program
By noreply@blogger.com (Juan Cole)
History, Foreign Policy, Middle East, South Asia, Religious Studies, War on Terror.
www.juancole.com/2009/04/us-to-join-unsc-talks-with-iran-on.html

Astana Mixes in US-Iran Deal / ISN
By Joanna Lillis
It appears that Kazakhstan is aiming to broker a nuclear deal between the US and Iran, Joanna Lillis reports for EurasiaNet.
www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ots
591=4888CAA0-B3DB-1461-98B9-E20E7B9C13D4&lng=en&id=98776

US to participate directly in group talks with Iran | Iran news …
Washington to be at table &quotfrom now on” when 5 permanent UNSC members and Germany meet with Iranian officials to discuss nuclear issue.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=
JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1238562946291

U.S. to Join Future Talks on Iran | Euro News 24
06:35 The United States said yesterday that it would directly participate from now on in international talks with Iran over its nuclear activities, the latest move in the Obama administration’s promised diplomatic outreach to the Tehran …
www.euronews24.org/europe/u-s—to-join-future-talks-on-iran/

U.S. Tackles Diplomacy 101 with Iran – Bright Hall
By Kaitlynn Riely
Iran, a country Bush labeled in 2002 as a member of the axis of evil. The State Department announced Wednesday that the United States will join the talks between the United Nations and European countries with Iran over Tehran’s nuclear …
brighthall.aol.com/2009/04/09/u-s-tackles-diplomacy-101-with-iran/

Tough Issue For Obama: US Dealings With Iran | The Seferm Post
By Seferm Post
For a generation, the official exchanges between the US and Iran have largely been limited to talks over security in Iraq and Afghanistan. Diplomatic relations had ended in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and subsequent …
www.sefermpost.com/sefermpost/2009/04/
tough-issue-for-obama-us-dealings-with-iran.html

Washington to join international talks with Iran “from now on …
By Laura Rozen
The United States today announced that it would join international talks with Iran on its nuclear program. The announcement came at the conclusion of meetings in London Wednesday of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security …
thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/08/washington_
says_it_will_join_international_talks_with_iran_from_now_on

RCFP: Detained American journalist in Iran charged with spying
Detained American journalist in Iran charged with spying. Keywords: Reporter Arrests. Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist who has been detained in Iran for more than two months, has been charged with espionage, the Associated …
www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=10696

The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room “ Iran ’still awaiting’ U.S. …
By Eric Zimmermann
Speaking in Isfahan, Ahmadinejad warned that Iran would distinguish between genuine and hollow gestures. According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the government’s official news outlet, Ahmadinejad “said that if the nation …
briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/04/08/
iran-still-awaiting-us-attitude-change/