Iran the news again...................

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Iran Upgrades Production Of Gas For Uranium Enrichment

1/27/2008 8:27:00 AM ET   

TEHRAN (AP)--An Iranian official said Sunday the country has increased production to more than 300 metric tons of a gas used for uranium enrichment, a semiofficial news agency reported.

The announcement comes as the U.N. Security Council is deciding whether to impose new economic sanctions against Iran for refusing to roll back its nuclear activities. 'The Isfahan uranium conversion facility is active, and it has produced more than 300 tons of UF6,' otherwise known as uranium hexaflouride gas, the Fars news agency quoted Javad Vaidi, deputy of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, as saying in meeting to members of the Revolutionary Guards. The Fars news agency is considered close to the elite branch of Iran's military.

The central Iranian cities of Isfahan and Natanz house the heart of the Iran's nuclear program. In Isfahan, a conversion facility reprocesses raw uranium, known as yellowcake, into uranium hexaflouride gas. The gas is then taken to Natanz and fed into the centrifuges for enrichment.

Centrifuges spin uranium gas into enriched material, which at low levels is used to produce nuclear fuel to generate electricity. But further enrichment makes it suitable for use in building nuclear weapons.

A report by U.N nuclear watchdog in November confirmed Iran had stockpiled nearly 270 tons of the precursor gas used in enrichment.

The U.N. Security Council has been trying to pressure Iran to freeze uranium enrichment. But Iran has repeatedly refused, and officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency have privately said Tehran is expanding the program.

The Security Council is considering a new draft resolution that calls for additional sanctions against Iran, including bans on travel. Two sets of sanctions have already been imposed on Iran for refusing to halt enrichment.

The five veto-wielding members of the council - the U.S., the U.K., France, China and Russia - along with Germany, agreed last week on the basic terms of the new resolution. Diplomats have said the full, 15-nation Security Council will likely approve it next month.

Iran insists its enrichment activities are intended only to produce fuel for nuclear reactors that would generate electricity, but the U.S. and others suspect Tehran's real aim is to produce nuclear bombs. A U.S. intelligence report released last month concluded Tehran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in late 2003 and had not resumed it since.

Iranian officials have said they plan to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear energy in the next two decades.

Iran Upgrades Production Of Gas For Uranium Enrichment

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I hope y'all know what this means, it means they're producing several hundred pounds of U-235. It's enough to build at least 10 atomic bombs, probably more. That is exactly what they intended to do from the start, build the bombs and use them........

Want to bet, they'll "try" use them??

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I hope y'all know what this means, it means they're producing several hundred pounds of U-235. It's enough to build at least 10 atomic bombs, probably more. That is exactly what they intended to do from the start, build the bombs and use them........

Want to bet, they'll "try" use them??

Brother, once they get them, I have no doubt at all that they will want to use them.

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Brother, once they get them, I have no doubt at all that they will want to use them.

Course you know, they will never be able to use them against Israel. God has other plans for Israel.

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Iran: Israel too weak to confront us

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says Jewish state's ballistic missile capability won't help it in confrontations with Islamic republic; meanwhile, Iranian-Egyptian rapprochement in the works

Dudi Cohen
Published:    01.28.08, 14:57 / Israel News

"Israel is too weak to confront Iran. The leaders of this illegitimate fake regime know well would happen in the region in response to an attack (against us)," Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday in response to a successful Israeli ballistic missile test.

In a press conference in Tehran, Mottaki said that "If Israel's nuclear missile warheads could have helped, she would have won the (Second) Lebanon War."

According to the minister, "The interior structure of the Zionist regime has been affected by the repercussions of its humiliating defeat in the Lebanon confrontation – not with a classic army, but rather with a popular resistance."

In response to the possibility that the UN Security Council will impose additional sanctions on Iran following the country' refusal to suspend its uranium enrichment program, Mattaki said: "Despite the fact that this step is illogical and unlawful, if that's the way its going to be – Iran will have a serious and reasonable response."

The Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported that the minister added that the additional sanctions "would have no impact on the desire of the nation and the Iranian leadership on its path to realizing its full rights in general and with regards to the nuclear aspect."

Iran: Israel too weak to confront us

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Iran says it is close to resuming ties with Egypt cut in 1979
By Reuters
28/01/2008

Iran is close to resuming full diplomatic relations with Egypt, its foreign minister said on Monday, but did not say when the ties that have been cut for almost three decades would be re-established.

Iran broke ties with Egypt in 1979 after then Egyptian President Anwar Sadat let in the deposed shah of Iran. The two countries now have diplomatic representation through interest sections and not full embassies at ambassador level.

"We are on the verge of resuming official political ties with Egypt," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a news conference in Tehran.

Egyptian officials have previously been more cautious about the timing of resuming ties.

Cairo has said a Tehran street named after the assassin of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat should be changed and murals in the Iranian capital of the assassin removed. Some security issues also need to be resolved, Egyptian officials have said.

"Now my representative is in Egypt and he has taken my special message to my counterpart and now Iran and Egypt's relationship is going ahead in a natural way," Mottaki said without giving further details.

Ali Asghar Mohammmadi, an assistant Iranian foreign minister for Middle East and North Africa affairs, is visiting Cairo and held talks on the Palestinian issue, Egypt's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

There were no immediate details about a special message.

Mottaki's comments follow the first direct talks between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The two discussed the Palestinian issue and other regional matters in a telephone call last week.

Iran offers to help Egypt deal with chaos at Gaza Strip border

Iran on Sunday offered to help Egypt deal with growing chaos on its breached border with Gaza, Egypt's Foreign Ministry said.

The offer came during Mohammadi's visit to Cairo.

Mohammadi offered Iran's cooperation with Egypt to provide help to the
Palestinians, said Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki. He did not give details of the Iranian offer, but said Egypt welcomes cooperation between the two countries through their Red Crescent branches.

Five days ago, militants blew apart the border fence separating Egypt and the Gaza Strip, allowing tens of thousands of Palestinians to flow into Egyptian territory. The situation has garnered regional attention, with Arab foreign ministers holding an emergency meeting late Sunday about the matter.

Iran says it is close to resuming ties with Egypt cut in 1979

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It almost looks like Iran is flooding Gaza with weapons, through Egypt.

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 The world must accept Israel's imminent collapse

Speaking to a large crowd in Iran's Southern port city of Bushehr, the site of Iran's nuclear facility, Iranian President Ahmadinejad called on the world to acknowledge Israel's imminent collapse. The Iranian president told world leaders to stop supporting the Zionists, that their regime had reached its final stages and that the Palestinians and regional nations will confront and eventually bring to an end to the Israeli atrocities.

Iran does not acknowledge Israel and Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust of Jews in WWII a myth and has called for Israel to be wiped off the map and their name to be forgotten forever.

The scenario that Iranian President Ahmadinejad describes as the imminent collapse of Israel with the Middle East nations destroying the Jewish state does fit Bible prophecy; however, it has a different conclusion.

Standing near the nuclear facility located in Iran's port city of Bushehr, Iranian President Ahmadinejad has warned the world of the imminent collapse of the Jewish state of Israel. This warning is a continuation of his radical rhetoric focused on Israel and the claims that Israel is an illegitimate state and will soon be wiped off the map.

Ahmadinejad's statement that the Palestinians and other Middle East nations will eventually attack to help speed Israel's collapse is a page out of Bible prophecy. Daniel 11, Ezekiel 38 and Psalm 83 all lay out the scenario that brings these Middle Eastern nations, including Iran, to attack the Jewish state. Psalm 83:4 reveals that the plan for these attacks is to wipe the nation of Israel off the map and that the name Israel be forgotten forever. Daniel 12:1 and Ezekiel 39:2 says that God will intercede and all of the attacking nations will be destroyed.

Ahmadinejad's claim of the imminent collapse of Israel does indeed set the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.

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AMEN!

The Holy Bible is ONLY AMAZING because it is the WORD OF GOD! If you want to know what the future holds, read the Holy Bible and you'll get the ONLY TRUTH!

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Egypt and Iran hold first high-level meeting in decades

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks with Iran's parliament speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel on Wednesday, the first such high-level meeting since the two nations froze ties almost 30 years ago.

Hadad Adel hailed his "very good" meeting with Mubarak, who he said had insisted on rejecting any pressure from Washington aimed at stopping the resumption of diplomatic ties.

"The fact that I'm here is proof of the improvement in relations between the Islamic republic and Egypt," Hadad Adel told journalists.

"Maybe some people think the US is putting pressure to stop the return of relations between Egypt and Iran but President Mubarak has said he does not accept any pressure from the US and that his positions are based on Egypt's interests."

US President George W. Bush, whose administration is spearheading the campaign against Iran's controversial nuclear drive, has branded the Islamic republic a threat to world peace.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday that Tehran was on the threshold of restoring diplomatic ties with Cairo but was awaiting a signal from Egypt.

Diplomatic ties were broken in 1980, a year after the Islamic revolution, in protest at Egypt's recognition of Israel, its hosting of the deposed shah and its support for Iraq during its 1980-1988 war with Iran.

Relations have warmed recently, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week making a telephone call to Mubarak -- the first contact between the presidents.

In a rare visit to Egypt earlier this month, Iran's former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani met Egyptian officials and said relations between the two countries were improving.

Hadad Adel said that during their meeting, Mubarak "talked about his positive point of view on increasing cooperation and we also gave him our positive point of view and told him that the Iranian position is in favour of reinforcing the economic ties."

He said Mubarak had told him that he had "always advised the US not to intervene militarily in Iran because this will not be in their favour."

Asked when diplomatic ties might be resumed, Hadad Adel said that "the situation just needs time and this is the only obstacle."

"At the present time, despite the fact there are no diplomatic ties there are bilateral links on all levels."

Hadad Adel said that unspecified remaining differences "could be solved in negotiations and we don't consider them obstacles that cannot be solved."

The two men also discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Iraq, he said.

Speaking about the long-running political crisis in Lebanon, Hadad Adel said he welcomed an Arab League initiative aimed at finding a solution "which must ensure the rights of all Lebanese parties."

Lebanon's opposition headed by the Shiite movement Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and Syria, is at loggerheads with the Western-backed government over the choice of a new president.

Egypt and Iran hold first high-level meeting in decades

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ImaNutjob: Israel's days are numbered
01.30.08

Iranian president says, 'It's time to end the puppet theater of the fake regime'; adds his country is approaching nuclear 'peak'

Dudi Cohen and Reuters

Iran is approaching the "peak" in its nuclear program and will not yield to Western pressure to halt its activities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.

Ahmadinejad was speaking in the southwestern town of Bushehr near the site of Iran's planned first nuclear power plant, being built with Russian help, and predicted the country would have nuclear electricity by this time next year.

"If you (Western powers) imagine that the Iranian nation will back down you are making a mistake," he said in a televised speech.

"On the nuclear path we are moving towards the peak," he said without elaborating.

Turning his attention to Israel, Ahmadinejad said, "The religious Palestinian people will bring down the last screen with its powerful hand on the Zionists' puppet theater. It's time to end the puppet theater of this fake regime."

The Iranian president noted that Israel's days were numbered and that it has reached its end.

Turning to the Western powers supporting Israel, he said, "Those who remain silent in light of this regime's crimes and support it should know that they are taking part in the bloodshed of the Palestinian people and will be tried in the future.

"The world's states will never forget these crimes," the Iranian president was quoted as saying by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).

Defying international pressure, Iran has been working on producing its own nuclear fuel, technology the West fears will be used to make atomic bombs. Tehran says its work is peaceful and has refused to stop.

He was speaking two days after Iran received the eighth and final consignment of nuclear fuel from Russia for the Bushehr plant. Tehran has said the plant will start in mid-2008, though past deadlines have slipped.

"Next year at this time ... nuclear electricity should flow in Iran's electricity network," he told the crowd.

Russia delivered the first shipment of uranium fuel rods on December 17 and urged Tehran to scrap its efforts to produce nuclear fuel. Tehran says its work is peaceful and has refused to stop.

Iran, the world's fourth-largest crude producer, says it wants to build a network of nuclear plants so it can preserve more of its oil and gas for export. It says it wants to make nuclear fuel itself to guarantee its supplies.

World powers last week agreed the outline of a third UN sanctions resolution against Iran which calls for mandatory travel bans and asset freezes for specific Iranian officials and vigilance on banks in the country.

ImaNutjob: Israel's days are numbered

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ImaNutjob has no clue how bad things are going to get for them, the member of this forum have seen this coming for years. We don't know the date but we know the players involved. ImaNutjob is a true muslim, satan created islam to destroy the Jews and Christians and ImaNutjob is doing the satans will.

[nChrist]

ImaNutjob has no clue how bad things are going to get for them, the member of this forum have seen this coming for years. We don't know the date but we know the players involved. ImaNutjob is a true muslim, satan created islam to destroy the Jews and Christians and ImaNutjob is doing the satans will.

YES Brother, the picture appears to be coming together exactly like Bible Prophecy said that it would. Christians MUST start looking at things from a Biblical view instead of a world view. From a Biblical view, things make sense. From a world view, things are insane. GOD'S Will is going to be done, and nothing can slow or stop it. GOD'S Will for evil mankind in the days ahead is WRATH. I firmly believe that the time of GOD'S Patience with mankind rejecting HIM and disobeying HIM is almost over. HE Will glorify HIMSELF, and HE Will prove that ONLY HE IS GOD! HE Will take what has always been HIS, and evil mankind will finally be humbled. Much of mankind has denied their own CREATOR and shown much more than just disrespect for the KING OF KINGS. Needless to say, this isn't smart on the part of mankind. ALMIGHTY GOD will not be denied, and HE is ALL POWERFUL! ALL GLORY IS HIS ALONE! HE is and always has been WORTHY of all PRAISE, WORSHIP, AND HONOR!

Brothers and Sisters, we are really talking about the ultimate REALITY of all history. ALMIGHTY GOD IS THE CREATOR, and HE gave mankind 6,000 years to give HIM the things that should have been natural from the beginning:  love, obedience, respect, honor, worship, and praise! These things will be HIS and HE won't be denied!

Love In Christ,
Tom

Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable GIFT, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour Forever!

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Iran: Huge gas field found in Persian Gulf
Country 2nd only to Russia in amount of available proven reserves

Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said Saturday a large gas field has been located in the Persian Gulf.

Speaking at a news conference in Tehran, Nozari said an Indian company found a gas field with about11 trillion cubic feet in reserves off the coast of Iran, the Alalam news service reported.

Iran is second only to Russia in the amount of available proven gas reserves and has plans to export its valuable goods to countries such as Pakistan and Syria.

Iran already exports nearly 700 million cubic feet daily to Turkey and imports vast amounts of gas from Turkmenistan.

Nozari also said his country wants the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, to which Iran belongs, to cut its crude oil output in the near future.

"Our proposal ... for the upcoming meeting is that OPEC ... cuts its output capacity," Nozari said of OPEC's schedule meeting in March. "Iran and Venezuela brought up this issue so that it would be discussed at OPEC's next meeting."

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Iran sends defiant message to West on revolution day

By Hossein Jaseb Mon Feb 11, 7:48 AM ET

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran aims to send a satellite into space next summer and will not retreat in a nuclear row with the West, its president said on Monday, in a defiant speech on the anniversary of the country's 1979 Islamic revolution.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed a major rally in Tehran a week after Iran sparked international concern by test-launching a rocket designed to carry its first domestically made research satellite into orbit.

"God willing, next summer the first 100 percent Iranian-made satellite will be positioned in orbit," he said.

The West fears Tehran is covertly trying to obtain nuclear bombs. Iran, the world's fourth-largest oil exporter, says it needs nuclear energy to meet booming electricity demand.

The technology used to put satellites into space could also be used for launching weapons, analysts say, and both the United States and Russia have expressed concern about the rocket test.

Russia, which has long argued there is no evidence Tehran is seeking atomic weapons, and which is supplying fuel for its Bushehr nuclear power station, said the test raised suspicions about the real nature of Iran's atomic program.

But Ahmadinejad made clear Iran would press ahead with its satellite work, signaling it would carry out two more such tests to prepare for the real launch.

State media last week said the research satellite, called Omid (Hope), would be launched by March 2009.

NO RETREAT

Ahmadinejad also said Iran would not back down in the nuclear dispute with the West, despite the threat of a third round of U.N. sanctions on the Islamic Republic over its refusal to halt sensitive atomic work.

"They should know that the Iranian nation will not retreat one iota from its nuclear rights," he told the crowd which had gathered in the capital for the 29th anniversary of the revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah.

Iranian officials had called on people to turn out in large numbers to show their unity in the face of Western pressure. State television broadcast footage of rallies held across Iran.

The official IRNA news agency said Ahmadinejad was addressing a "million-strong gathering" but it was not immediately possible to confirm this figure.

"America should understand and believe that the Iranian nation will not back down from its rights," demonstrator Leila Jafari told Reuters.

Others at the rally burnt effigies representing Uncle Sam.

Iran has an array of medium-range missiles. It says its longest-range missile can reach 2,000 km (1,250 miles), meaning it could hit Israel and U.S. military bases in the Gulf.

U.S. officials have accused Iran of aiming to equip its missiles with nuclear warheads. Iran says its nuclear program is designed only to generate electricity and preserve its oil and gas for export.

Coinciding with the revolution anniversary, Iran displayed one of three British patrol boats which were seized in the Gulf in 2004, Iranian media reported. They were previously shown to the public three years ago.

Iran sends defiant message to West on revolution day