No Credible Evidence' of Iranian Nuclear Weapons, says UN Inspector By Julian Borger and Richard Norton-Taylor The UN's chief weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, said today he had seen "no credible evidence" that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, rejecting British intelligence allegations that a weapons programme has been going on for at least four years. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23602.htm === Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True By Juan Cole Belief: Iran is a militarized society bristling with dangerous weapons and a growing threat to world peace. Reality: Iran's military budget is a little over $6 billion annually. Sweden, Singapore and Greece all have larger military budgets. - Iran spends less per capita on its military than any other country in the Persian Gulf region with the exception of the United Arab Emirates. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23601.htm === IAEA chief ElBaradei to go to Iran at weekend: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei is to travel to Iran at the weekend to discuss the issue of arranging inspections of Iranian nuclear sites of concern to Western powers, US officials said Thursday. http://snipurl.com/s9m9y === EU envoy: IAEA to visit nuke plant soon: A senior EU envoy says Iran has pledged to open its recently revealed uranium enrichment plant to U.N. inspectors perhaps in the next few weeks.at a news conference last week. http://snipurl.com/s9mak === IAEA letter thanks Iran over notification: "With reference to the letter of 21 September 2009... from HE Ambassador Soltanieh to the Director General of the Agency Dr ElBaradei, I wish to thank the Islamic Republic of Iran for providing the Agency with information about Iran's activities related to the construction of a new pilot enrichment plant," read a letter by the IAEA to Iran http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107506§ionid=351020104 === Report: Nuclear negotiations to be continued : ISNA quoted an informed source close to the Iranian delegation in Geneva as saying that the two sides agreed that talks between Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeid Jalili and European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana are to be continued before the end of this month. http://snipurl.com/s9ba3 === U.S. and Iran meet at Geneva nuclear talks: Washington had said it would not threaten further sanctions against Tehran at the one-day meeting but had prepared them in case the discussions made no progress http://snipurl.com/s9mba === 'US Jews back military strike on Iran': Asked if they would support American military action, 56% of American Jews said they would, while just 36% opposed it, according to the American Jewish Committee's 2009 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion. http://snipurl.com/s9mbs === France calls for December deadline for new Iran sanctions: "If by December there is not an in-depth change by the Iranian leaders, sanctions will have to be taken," Sarkozy said http://televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=2&id=14474 === Iran says no deal to import gasoline from Venezuela: lawmaker: On Sept. 7, visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in a joint press conference with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that his country is ready to provide Tehran with 20,000 barrels of gasoline per day, Press TV reported. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/01/content_12165484.htm === It's the Balance of Power, Stupid!: Obama finds it so difficult to press Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai to change their policies may have to do with the fact that unlike many of the elites in Washington, the above and other foreign leaders have succeeded in deconstructing the current geo-strategic reality and recognized that the global balance of power has been shifting and that U.S. ability to exert its diplomatic and military leverage over them has been constrained. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leon-t-hadar/its-the-balance-of-power_b_302469.html ======================== Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran : Iran 'has secret nuclear arms plan': Britain's intelligence services say that Iran has been secretly designing a nuclear warhead "since late 2004 or early 2005", an assessment that suggests Tehran has embarked on the final steps towards acquiring nuclear weapons capability. http://snipurl.com/s8nrb === Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran : US military could strike Iran, but at what cost?: The United States has refused to rule out military action against Iran if diplomacy fails, but analysts and officials say bombing nuclear sites would carry high risks while setting back Tehran's program by only a few years. http://snipurl.com/s8nv0 === Sneh: Take the Opportunity on Iran: In an interview, former deputy Defense Minister Efraim Sneh said that Israel must not rely on anyone else in its dealings with Iran, especially in light of the discovery of the new enrichment plant in Qom. "To rely on the world to do the job for us is a wish we cannot submit to," he said. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/171714 === Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran : Gaffney: Iran on Brink of Having Nuclear Bomb, Using It: Leading national security expert Frank Gaffney tells Newsmax we could be in the "last days" before Iran obtains nuclear weapons - and he warns that, if it does, it absolutely will use them. http://snipurl.com/s8nvl === Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran : Cries of 'hold me back' may lead Israel to strike Iran: Those who favor bombing liken Barack Obama to Neville Chamberlain for the U.S. president's efforts to try to appease an Iranian Hitler. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1117741.html === Why China is unlikely to back Iran sanctions: China is showing no appetite for the tougher sanctions that Western leaders have been threatening against Iran over its nuclear program, and would likely veto any United Nations effort to impose a stiffer embargo even if Thursday's talks between US Security Council members and Iran go badly. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0930/p06s12-woap.html === Juan Cole: Is the media exaggerating the Iranian nuke threat?: Here's something you won't read in major American newspapers or see on American television. http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/29/cole/ === Israel gets two more German submarines: The submarines, called U212s, can launch cruise missiles carrying nuclear warheads, although when it confirmed the sale in 2006 the German government said the two vessels were not equipped to carry nuclear weapons. http://snipurl.com/s8nwq === EU report: Georgian attack started war with Russia: Georgia's attack on its breakaway South Ossetia region marked the start of last year's war with Russia, which retaliated with excessive force, an EU-commissioned report said Wednesday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_georgia --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. 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