International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts may soon accept Tehran’s invitation to inspect Iran’s nuclear facilities, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday. “There is an understanding that such a visit could take place after the current session of the [IAEA] Board of Governors,” he said. Iran has twice sent letters to the [...]
Tag: International Atomic Energy Agency
November 20, 2011
November 20, 2011
Petro no-no: US extends Iran sanctions to petrochemicals
Following the IAEA resolution about Iran allegedly pursuing nuclear weapons, Washington is set to ban Iran from global oil markets by imposing sanctions on Tehran’s petrochemical industry. The sanctions against Iran could be announced as early as on Monday. American companies are actually already barred from having any trade relation with Iran whatsoever, but those [...]
November 20, 2011
‘US unable to do anything about Iran’
Dr Seyed Mohammad Marandi from Tehran University says IAEA sanctions do not have any effect on Iran but do expose US weakness on the issue. “They’ve imposed sanctions on the Iranian oil ministry for years now, and the Iranians continue to develop oil and gas fields, they continue to develop a petro-chemical industry, and I [...]
November 17, 2011
Should Iran leave IAEA?
With the credibility of an IAEA report on Iran’s secretive nuclear activity being questioned, some experts say the Iranian people should ask their government why their country is still a member of the UN nuclear agency. Journalist Afshin Rattansi who spoke to RT expressed doubts about the reliability of the International Atomic Energy Agency and [...]
November 12, 2011
US speeds up militarization of Iran’s neighbors
With American and Iranian relations on the brink of war due to news or a nuclear program being developed out of Tehran, Obama administration insiders say the US is about to cut an arms deal with a powerful American ally in the region. According to a report published today in the Wall Street Journal, American [...]
November 9, 2011
Russian Support For Iran Seen As Bargaining Chip
Ties between Russia and Iran appeared to be unraveling only last year, when the two traded barbs over Russian support for UN sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear program. Now Moscow appears to be squarely back on Tehran’s side. On November 7, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sternly condemned an Israeli statement that military action against Iran [...]
November 9, 2011
IAEA study as pretext for war on Iran
In its most critical report yet on the country, the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran might be working on developing nuclear weapons. Its findings were widely-expected and come days after Israel bluntly declared that military action against Iran is getting closer, raising fears the report could be a pretext for an attack. In fact, [...]
November 8, 2011
September 13, 2011
Iran launches Bushehr nuclear power plant
Iran held on Monday the official opening ceremony of its first nuclear power plant completed after long delay with Russia’s assistance. Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) Sergei Kiriyenko attended the ceremony. “This demonstrates that Russia has met all its obligations [under the construction contract] despite [...]
September 12, 2011
Iran Inaugurates Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant
Iran has inaugurated its first nuclear power plant, which has been built with Russian help. The Bushehr plant in southern Iran was linked to the national grid early this month after years of delays. Tehran organized a ceremony attended by Russian officials to mark the plant reaching 40 percent of its 1,000-megawatt capacity. Iranian [...]
June 18, 2011
Iran’s Bushehr plant almost ready
Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant is almost constructed, an all of the works are on schedule, Director of state-owned Rosatom nuclear energy company Sergey Kirienko said on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum on Saturday. “We have an agreed schedule, all of the works are on their final stages…We’ve sent a large group [...]
June 4, 2011
May 30, 2011
Medvedev Pitches a Free Internet at G8
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, speaking with the European Commission’s Jose Manuel Barroso as Medvedev arrives for G8 Internet talks. President Dmitry Medvedev pleaded for more Internet freedom at the Group of Eight summit, taking a more liberal line than some G8 counterparts and raising eyebrows among critics who note that Russian authorities have sought to tighten control over the Internet. “Today [...]
May 26, 2011
Kremlin to Push Nuke Rules at G8
UDOMLYA, Tver Region — A quarter of a century after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster sent a radioactive cloud over Europe, Russia is casting itself as a champion of stricter safety standards for the atomic energy industry. President Dmitry Medvedev plans to use a Group of Eight summit that starts Thursday to amplify his call for binding rules the Kremlin says are needed to avert a repeat of the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi [...]