hezzbolah really threatening israel
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203605154085&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFullhttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203605150981&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFullSpecifically, the 11-page report obtained by The Associated Press suggested the agency was satisfied with answers provided by Iran on the origin of traces of enriched uranium in a military facility; experiments with polonium, which can also be used in a weapons program; and purchases on the nuclear black market.
It said that in those areas information given by Teheran is either "consistent with its findings (or) ... not inconsistent with its findings," suggesting it was content for now with explanations that these activities were not weapons-related.
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New sanctions on Iran are imminent'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203605154671&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFullhe latest UN report on Iran's nuclear program should pave the way for passage next week of a new UN Security Council resolution tightening sanctions on Teheran, the US ambassador to the UN said Friday.
US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad.
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The report released Friday by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran has continued to enrich uranium in defiance of repeated UN Security Council resolutions demanding that it suspend the uranium centrifuge program, which could produce both civilian nuclear fuel and the material for a nuclear bomb.
"They're increasing their capabilities," US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad noted. "Not only have the number of centrifuges increased, but they're working on a second-generation, if you like, a more capable centrifuge.
"Things are getting worse in terms of the enrichment part."
Britain and France introduced a council resolution on Thursday - with support from the United States, Russia, China and Germany - to expand and toughen travel bans and the freezing of assets for more Iranian officials linked to the nuclear effort.
For the first time it would also ban trade with Iran in so-called dual-use items, those with both nuclear and other applications, and authorize inspections of shipments to and from Iran that are suspected of carrying prohibited goods.
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Putin is going to be put on the spot