Iran has made significant progress in concealing components of its nuclear program, and is “getting better” at the construction and protection of potential undisclosed enrichment facilities, according to statements by senior intelligence officials and analysts published yesterday by the Daily Beast. “There have been successes in finding secret Iranian sites...

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Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi clarified today that Iran is continuing to enrich uranium up to 20%, denying widely conveyed reports that the Islamic republic has ceased adding to its stockpile of 20% purity uranium: “Twenty percent uranium and nuclear plates are being produced inside the country and there...

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Members of Congress and a range of analysts are emphasizing the importance of existing and new sanctions on Iran, as the U.S. and the international community prepare to negotiate with the Islamic republic over its nuclear program, which is widely considered to have clandestine weaponization components. This morning’s Los Angeles...

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In 2010 the State Department documented a range of Iranian government abuses against Christians. Between June 2008 and 2010 “115 Christians were reportedly arrested on charges of apostasy, illegal activities of evangelism, anti-government propaganda, and activities against Islam, among other charges,” and then in the second half of 2010 another...

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A heavy-water plutonium reactor that Iran has committed to bringing online would become “invulnerable to military attack” once Iranian scientists activated it, according to analysis conveyed today by TIME. The explanation is straightforward: Because it is not yet up and running, the Arak heavy-water reactor has remained in the background...

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Abu Dhabi media yesterday described “regular clandestine flights between Tehran and Damascus” allegedly being conducted by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which transport among other things “fighters to help regime forces battle rebels”: Up to three supply flights occur each week between the two cities, none of them appearing...

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Iran has insisted that it will not give up its 3.5% low enriched uranium (LEU), and this weekend an Iranian MP this weekend also foreclosed concessions on Iran’s enrichment technology, specifically its underground enrichment military bunker at Fordow. The stance is likely to complicate efforts to reassure the international community...

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Last Wednesday, Hoover Institute fellow Fouad Ajami criticized how some diplomats and journalists have “… isolated the nuclear issue from the broader context of Iran’s behavior in the region.” On the same day Washington Institute fellow Matthew Levitt described three decades of Iranian terrorism, including terrorism targeting American overseas and...

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Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said Thursday that Washington would not offer sanctions relief to Iran in the absence of “concrete steps” to address international concerns over its nuclear program, which roughly half a dozen United Nations Security Council resolutions have called for dismantling. “We are not contemplating anything that removes...

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Leaked accounts of Iran’s nuclear offer indicate that the Islamic regime may be looking to accept more intrusive inspections in exchange for Western acceptance of ongoing Iranian enrichment activity. Analysis stretching back months, including testimony presented to Congress, has highlighted how such an arrangement – under which Iran would bolster...

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