Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons

POLITICS: Iran’s Snub Calls for New EU Offer

By IPS Correspondents
Iran's rebuff to a European "package of incentives", including a light-water nuclear power reactor, in return for halting uranium enrichment, marks a serious escalation of tensions with the West. But it does not close the doors to solving the Iran nuclear crisis through diplomacy.

POLITICS: Muslim Nations Want Nuclear Energy, Wary of Iran

By IPS Correspondents
As the West debates the perceived Iranian nuclear threat, leaders of the world's eight largest Muslim countries, collectively known as the D8, met on this resort island over the weekend where they asserted the right of Islamic countries to peaceful nuclear energy.

POLITICS: Iran Nuclear Conflict Is About U.S. Dominance

By Gareth Porter
As the George W. Bush administration pushes for a showdown over Iran's nuclear programme in the U.N. Security Council, it has presented the issue as a matter of global security - an Iranian nuclear threat in defiance of the international community.

NORTH KOREA: Focus Shifts From N-Bombs to Human Rights

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
For all the enormous attention that is being paid to the abductions of Japanese and South Korean nationals by North Korea, decades ago, it would seem that the nuclear threat over East Asia has vanished.

POLITICS-US: Jewish Community Worried About Iran Backlash

By Jim Lobe
Amid growing tensions between the United States and Iran, leaders of the U.S. Jewish community are expressing concern over Pres. George W. Bush's recent statements that his main concern in any possible military action would be protecting Israel.

IRAN: Activists Fear U.S. “Help” Could Spur Crackdown

By Omid Memarian
The United States is struggling with Iran's fundamentalist government on two fronts - while U.S. diplomats are negotiating with other members of the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Tehran, Washington has allocated 75 million dollars to inspire "regime change".

POLITICS-US: Hawks Looking for New and Bigger Enemies?

By Jim Lobe
As if rallying fading public support for keeping more than 100,000 U.S. troops in a disintegrating Iraq and preparing the ground for a possible military attack on Iran were not enough, some influential hawks are now promoting a more confrontational stance against Russia and China, as well.

IRAN: Sabre-rattling Won’t Work

By IPS Correspondents
With Russia and China signalling opposition, the draft resolution circulated in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) by Britain, France and Germany, asking Iran to halt uranium enrichment, is unlikely to enjoy smooth passage.

POLITICS: Iran Pushes for Talks With U.S. on Nukes, Security

By Gareth Porter
Iranian leaders have been signaling to Washington since late 2005 that Iran wanted direct negotiations with the United States on Tehran's nuclear programme and other outstanding issues between the two countries.

MIGRATION: Many Iranians Embrace Asylum as a Way Out

By Omid Memarian
Increasingly, Iranians hoping for a brighter future and disappointed with the conservative direction of their homeland are seeking asylum abroad. They're crossing the border into Turkey and some are even employing human smugglers in their rough journey to Europe and even the United States.

IRAN: Defiant but Ready to Deal

By IPS Correspondents
As the deadline set by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to halt uranium enrichment descends upon Iran, the already narrow window of opportunity to resolve the crisis over Tehran's nuclear programme diplomatically may soon slam shut.

POLITICS: Pakistan Stressed by US Designs on Iran

By IPS Correspondents
As the crisis around Iran over its alleged nuclear ambitions assumes an ugly shape, Pakistan finds itself once again, under enormous political pressure because of aggressive United States policy towards a Muslim country in its immediate neighbourhood.

POLITICS: Role of U.N. Nuke Agency Called “Schizophrenic”

By Haider Rizvi
Concerned about the enormous risks that nuclear technology poses to the environment and the questionable role it has played in heightening political conflicts, some leading European politicians are suggesting that the time has come for the United Nations to stop promoting nuclear technology as an effective tool to meet the world's growing energy demands.

POLITICS-US: Amid Threats, Some Republicans Seek Talks on Iran

By Jim Lobe
Amid a new escalation in threats between the United States and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme, some prominent Republicans are calling for the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to engage Tehran in direct talks.

POLITICS-US: Iran Crisis, Deja Vu All Over Again?

By IPS Correspondents
The drumbeat in some Washington foreign policy circles for "regime change" in Iran has striking similarities to the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and is being led by some of the usual suspects - like the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Ledeen.

POLITICS-US: To Battle Stations! To Battle Stations!

By Jim Lobe
Led by a familiar clutch of neo-conservative hawks, major right-wing publications are calling on the administration of Pres. George W. Bush to urgently plan for military strikes - and possibly a wider war - against Iran in the wake of its announcement this week that it has successfully enriched uranium to a purity necessary to fuel nuclear reactors.

POLITICS-US: Iran Showdown Tests Power of “Israel Lobby”

By Jim Lobe
One month after the publication by two of the most influential international relations scholars in the United States of a highly controversial essay on the so-called "Israel Lobby", their thesis that the lobby exercises "unmatched power" in Washington is being tested by rapidly rising tensions with Iran.

POLITICS-US: Psy-War or Serious? Washington Mulls Iran Attack

By Jim Lobe
Three years after the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces, Washington is abuzz about new reports that the administration of Pres. George W. Bush is preparing to attack Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons.

POLITICS: Indo-US Nuclear Deal Takes Flak, No Eject Option

By IPS Correspondents
As the United States senate foreign relations committee (SFRC) began hearing on Washington's controversial nuclear technology and supplies agreement with India, starting with the testimony of secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, the deal appeared to be in deep trouble.

POLITICS-US: “Cabal” Blocked 2003 Nuclear Talks with Iran

By Gareth Porter
The George W. Bush administration failed to enter into negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme in May 2003 because neoconservative zealots who advocated destabilisation and regime change were able to block any serious diplomatic engagement with Tehran, according to former administration officials.

DEATH PENALTY: Sanctions on Iran May Trigger Executions

By IPS Correspondents
A United Nations Security Council (UNSC)vote imposing sanctions on the Tehran government for its nuclear programme could result in retaliatory executions of some seven condemned prisoners, the rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) believes.
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