JAN. 12 – The Associated Press is reporting that a professor of nuclear physics at Tehran University was killed today by a bomb-rigged motorcycle parked outside his home in Iran’s capital.
JAN. 11 – The Associated Press is reporting that the United States and five other countries are likely to meet this week to discuss what to do about Iran’s nuclear program.
JAN. 11 – The following links may be of interest to Countdowniran.com readers:
Israel and Iran: The Gathering Storm. The Economist. Jan. 7, 2010. Israel’s Government Spokesman, Mark Regev, is asked about the piece in the Jan. 8th broadcast of “Frost Over the World.”
JAN. 9- AFP reports on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s defiant declaration, today, broadcast live on Iranian state television, that his country will not back down “one iota” in the face of international pressures over its nuclear program.
JAN. 9 – The Associated Press is reporting that a Taiwanese company acceded to a request from a China-based firm to procure sensitive components with nuclear uses, then shipped them to Iran.
JAN. 6 - Zhang Yesui, the Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, said in a press conference Tuesday that his country opposed tougher sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
“Sanctions themselves are not an end,” he said. According to a report in today’s New York Times, the Chinese buy about 15 percent of their oil from Iran.
“State-run companies like the [...]
JAN. 6 – The New York Times’ William J. Broad is reporting, this morning, that Iran has for the last decade “quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country.”
JAN. 4 – Today’s Wall Street Journal, highlighting a recent report by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, describes how Chinese firms have been evading U.S. sanctions imposed because of proliferation to Iran.
