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PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:10 pm    Post subject: Freedom-loving Iranian People Condemn Nuclear Adventures Reply with quote

Freedom-loving Iranian People Condemn Nuclear Adventures


Freedom-loving Iranian People Condemn Wasted 20 Billion Dollars Islamofascist Regime Childish Nuclear Adventures
Fantasy Strategy Led by the Mad Mullahs, Revolutionary Guard Fools, Terror and Torture Masters in Iran



1) NUKE PLANTS IN A QUAKE ZONE- Building nuclear power stations, especially when designed by Russians and Chinese firms that are subject to no international scrutiny, on the world's most active earthquake zone might not be the best of ideas either for Iran or its neighbors. http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=27980#27980

2)No lesson learned by Mad Mullahs from the death toll of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 20 years ago . Based on research by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the report said that of the 2 billion people globally affected by the Chernobyl fallout, 270,000 will develop cancers as a result, of which 93,000 will prove fatal.

3) Due to the fact that Iran has vast reserve of natural Gas for over 200 years and creating electric power from natural Gas is at least 20 times cheaper for Iran than Nuclear Power and it is one of the safest way to generate electricity therefore Iran does not need any nuclear power plant.
4) Spending over 20 billion dollars of Iranian People’s money for nuclear adventures while high percentage of Iranian people under poverty line without getting permission from Iranian people.

5) Lying to International community regarding Regime nuclear adventures.

6) Islamofascist Mad Mullahs and Revolutionary Guards Fools Wasted 20 Billion Dollars For Childish Nuclear Adventures Fantasy and Planning For Another Crisis to Survive ...... Creating another disaster for Iran



Conclusion and Freedom-loving Iranian People Demands For Support from International Community:


We have come to the conclusion that the only way to deal with this unelected and undemocratic regime is to deal with it strongly and with a comprehensive set of measures. The measures that we recommend and strongly advocate are as follows:

* Stop, with immediate effect, all international trades with the undemocratic Islamic “Republic” of Iran.
*Stop the purchase of oil from Iran and refrain from signing any new contracts and renewal of any existing ones.
* Stop All Arms Sales NOW (Russia, China, EU .......)
* Blockade Iran’s ports in the Persian Gulf and possibly the Caspian Sea allowing passage of food and medicine.
*Stop all IRI satellite TV and Radio programming to the outside world.
* Cease all Mullahs personal assets outside Iran
* Freeze IRI assets outside of Iran and impose prohibition on investment, a travel ban, and asset freezes for government leaders and nuclear scientists.
* Worldwide announcement to all nations that any deals and contracts made with IRI (Islamic Republic of Iran) by any entity is null and void. The IRI does not represent Iranians.
* Publicly identify known IRI agents, arrest and prosecute their agents abroad as promoters of international terrorism and abusers of human rights. Shut down all illegal unregistered agent organizations representing IRI interests, their lobbyist and apologists.
* Close or limit Islamic Republic’s embassies and its activities including travel limits on Iranian diplomats.
* Release the frozen assets of Iran to the IRI opposition to be spent on strike funds and promotion of democracy.
* Expel IRI representatives from UN since the IRI constitution is contrary to the UDHR (Universal Declarations of Human Rights).
* Support Freedom-loving Iranian People for regime change NOW.


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Pictures of workers who worked at Ukraine's Chernobyl
nuclear power plant are exhibited in the Chernobyl museum in Kiev

18 Apr 2006

Source: Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/pictures/KIE02D..htm



Pictures of workers who worked at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant immediately after the explosion in 1986 are exhibited in the Chernobyl museum in Kiev April 18, 2006. Ukraine is preparing to mark the 20th anniversary of the world's worst civil nuclear disaster. There were more than 5,000 workers at the plant.
REUTERS/GLEB GARANICH

Chernobyl Accident Nuclear Tracers



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A Ukrainian doctor takes a blood test from Maria Buriak,7, suffering from cancer in a children's hospital in Kiev Tuesday, April 18, 2006. Greenpeace said Tuesday in a new report that more than 90,000 people were likely to die of cancers caused by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, countering a United Nations report that predicted the death toll would be around 4,000. The differing conclusions underline the contentious uncertainty that remains about the health effects of the world's worst nuclear accident as its 20th anniversary approaches. The world will mark the 20th anniversary this month of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which sent a radioactive cloud across Europe. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Vika Chervinska, an eight-year-old Ukrainian girl suffering from cancerwaits to receive treatment with her mother at the children's hospital in Kiev Tuesday, April 18, 2006. Greenpeace said Tuesday in a new report that more than 90,000 people were likely to die of cancers caused by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, countering a United Nations report that predicted the death toll would be around 4,000. The differing conclusions underline the contentious uncertainty that remains about the health effects of the world's worst nuclear accident as its 20th anniversary approaches. The world will mark the 20th anniversary this month of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which sent a radioactive cloud across Europe. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Chernobyl death toll underestimated says Greenpeace
18 Apr 2006 11:00:24 GMT
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18469848.htm

Source: Reuters

By Jeremy Lovell

LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - The death toll from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 20 years ago could be far higher than official estimates, with up to 93,000 extra cancer deaths worldwide, environmental group Greenpeace said on Tuesday.

Based on research by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the report said that of the 2 billion people globally affected by the Chernobyl fallout, 270,000 will develop cancers as a result, of which 93,000 will prove fatal.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimates 4,000 people died as a result of the explosion in reactor number four at the power plant in the Ukrainian town of Chernobyl on April 26, 1986.

The explosion sent a plume of radioactive dust across northern and western Europe and as far as the eastern United States.

"It is appalling that the IAEA is whitewashing the impacts of the most serious nuclear accident in human history," said Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigner Ivan Blokov.

The IAEA was not immediately available for comment.

The Greenpeace report further extrapolates that in total some 200,000 people in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus could have already died as a result of medical conditions -- such as cardiovascular diseases -- attributable to the disaster.

"Our problem is that there is no accepted methodology to calculate the numbers of people who might have died from such diseases," Greenpeace campaigner Jan van de Putte told Reuters.

"The only methodology that is accepted is for calculating fatal cancers," he said.

The report said the incidence of cancer in Belarus jumped 40 percent between 1990 and 2000, with children not even born at the time now showing an 88.5-fold increase in thyroid cancers.

Leukaemia is also reported to be on the increase in the region, as are cases of intestinal, rectal, breast, bladder, kidney and lung cancers.

The relocation of hundreds of thousands of people as a result of the explosion has put further strains on the population, the report said.

"The Chernobyl accident disrupted whole societies in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia," Greenpeace concluded.

"A complex interaction between factors such as poor health, increased costs of health systems, relocation of people, loss of agricultural territories and contamination of foodstuffs, economic crisis, the costs of remediation to the states, political problems, a weakened workforce ... creates a general crisis."






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ActivistChat 2006 Guideline Framework


1. The "War on Terror" is UNWINNABLE and the world peace can not be achieved as long as the Unelected Islamists Terror and Torture Masters are in power in Iran. The terror state and fear society can not create peace and stability.

2. Iranian people can decide about Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Research and Atomic Bomb after the regime change when they have established stable secular democracy and FREE society until then Iran should avoid any kind of Nuclear research program, resulting to acquire Atomic Bomb, under Islamist regime control.

3. Territorial integrity and national sovereignty of Iran.

4. Complete separation of religion from the State.

5. Acceptance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

6. Free, open and democratic referendum to elect the type of the new Government of Iran in the post-IRI era.

7. Minimum standard of living for all citizens of Iran and equal opportunity for all citizens to benefit from country's national wealth.

8. To avoid nuclear war or another Chernobyl nuclear disaster 20 years ago , ( Animation of Nuclear Bunker Buster: Destructive impact on civilian population in Iran and beyond )
our message to Iranian people inside Iran: General Strike Now, our message to Security Forces (Police, Pasdaran and Military) must act now for regime change and replacing it with Free society and Secular Democracy. The Iranian people have already spoken by boycotting Elections. The Armed forces must choose between defending and serving the people or serving Mullahs. This is up to armed and security forces to choose between SHAME and HONOR, serving Mullahs or their Sisters, Brothers, Fathers & Mothers who pay their salary.
To avoid war Iranian people of all ages do not have any choice other than be prepared to fight to free their homeland from Viruses of Iranian society whether the armed forces serve them or serve the enemy of freedom and free society. Iranian people should be prepared for final battle for freeing their homeland and must not forget that their FOREVER leader Cyrus the Great died in battlefield in 530 BC at the age of 60 and not in bed.

9. Work within high standard of code of ethics not to fight with other political groups or fellow FREE Iran Activists unless they are violating one of the key principles or moving against the concept of Free Society and secular democracy.

10. We are Free Iran Activists and Watch Group monitoring high government officials, Journalists , writers and scholars words and their actions based on the following direction from James Madison:
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men! over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. "
The Federalist No. 51 (James Madison).

11. Support and promote people, groups and leadership who are making positive contributions for Human Rights, Regime Change in Iran, Free
Iran, Free Society and Secular democracy from Center, Right and Left.




We thank all compatriots and organizations who contributed for defining part of above Guideline Framework for Human Rights, Regime Change in Iran, Free Iran, Free Society and Secular Democracy .


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:19 pm    Post subject: Nuclear power not safe, clean Reply with quote

Nuclear power not safe, clean
Bismarck

By DAVID JONES
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2006/04/18/news/opinion/letters/113344.txt
I would like to respond to Gilmore Lee's April 11 letter ("Alternative fuel talk misleading"). Nuclear power is not the answer. Nuclear power plants produce tons of dangerous waste every year. We don't have anywhere safely to store the nuclear waste we already create.

The federal storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada has been in planning and in litigation since 1987. The citizens of Nevada don't want nuclear waste in their state any more than North Dakotans do. This waste will be radioactive for 10,000 years, and it makes a tempting target for terrorists.

The plants themselves are also dangerous. The disaster in Chernobyl in 1986 has resulted in an explosion of cancer cases in the Ukraine and Belarus. Whole villages are uninhabitable because of the radiation levels.

Children are being born with birth defects due to genetic mutations in the parents from radiation exposure. Such a scenario is unlikely in the United States due to strict regulation, but accidents happen. Think of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. Nuclear power is not safe, and it certainly is not clean.
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One of four reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 70 miles (110km) north of Kiev, exploded at 0123 local time on Saturday 26 April.


A sarcophagus was erected over the ruins of Chernobyl's fourth reactor
The radioactive fallout was detected in Sweden the following Monday morning, but all day the Soviet authorities refused to admit anything out of the ordinary had occurred.

Only at 9pm, after Swedish diplomats gave notice they were about to file an official alert with the International Atomic Energy Authority, did Moscow finally issue a terse, five-sentence statement:

"An accident has occurred at Chernobyl nuclear power station. One of the atomic reactors has been damaged. Measures are being taken to eliminate the consequences of the accident. Aid is being given to the victims. A government commission has been set up."

The word "damaged" hardly reflected the truth of a reactor in meltdown, open to the sky, its graphite sections burning at 2,500C, sending a column of radionuclides thousands of feet into the atmosphere.

Few believed the reassuring Soviet reports which followed, and the fear that gripped many in the path of the fallout plume, was partly the fear of the unknown.

May Day parade

It was only two weeks after the explosion, when radiation releases had dramatically tailed off, that the first Soviet official gave a fully frank account.


Men were used to clear radioactive debris, when machines failed
"Until now the possibility of a catastrophe really did exist: A great quantity of fuel and graphite of the reactor was in an incandescent state," said nuclear physicist Yevgeny Velikhov.

No-one was left more in the dark than the Soviet citizens most closely affected. At first, life continued as normal in Pripyat, the model town built to house power station staff and their families, just two kilometres (one mile) from the Chernobyl plant.

Most people spent the Saturday outside, enjoying the unusually warm spring weather. Sixteen weddings took place.

The town was only evacuated 36 hours after the accident, while the evacuation of nearby villages took several more days.

Meanwhile in Kiev, citizens went ahead with their May Day parade, five days after the accident, completely unaware of the radiation bearing down on them.

Horror stories

The news vacuum also encouraged exaggeration and mistakes in the Western media.


A 30km zone was evacuated first, then hotspots outside the zone
The UPI agency quoted a source in Kiev saying that 2,000 people had died, and the figure appeared on many front pages the next day.

US officials, meanwhile, were led astray by satellite photographs, which, though confusing, were the main source of independent information.

A Pentagon source told the US television network NBC on 29 April that the 2,000 figure "seemed about right, since 4,000 worked at the plant" while other officials the next day said another of the reactors seemed to be in trouble.

CBS news anchor Dan Rather summed up events on 30th April citing "a much different, more dangerous view seen from western satellites above, enhanced eye-in-the-sky views that US intelligence says is a reactor gone wild accident still in progress and a second reactor possibly melting down."

In reality, the threat of fire spreading to the third reactor had been dealt with on day one.

Heroes

But in the first days of May there was real alarm among the team battling the crisis on the ground.

Radiation releases had begun rising again, and the fear was that the molten reactor core would either burn its way through the base of the reactor, or that the base would collapse, bringing the molten nuclear fuel into explosive contact with a reservoir of water beneath.

Experts feared the second explosion would be bigger than the first, and that the core would continue sinking into the ground, possibly contaminating water supplies to Kiev, a city of 2.5 million.

Would we manage to keep it intact or would it go down into the earth? No-one in the world has ever been in such a complex position

Yevgeny Velikhov, physicist
"The reactor is damaged," Velikhov told Pravda on 13 May. "Its heart is the white hot core. It is as though in suspension... Down below, in a special reservoir, there might be water.

"How would the white-hot core of the reactor behave? Would we manage to keep it intact or would it go down into the earth? No-one in the world has ever been in such a complex position."

The heroes of the drama were those who battled the reactor, despite the intense radiation: People who put out the fires, who pumped water into the reactor or bathed it in liquid nitrogen, who dropped sand and lead from helicopters, dived into pools beneath the reactor to open sluice gates, or burrowed under the foundations to install a system of
heat-exchanging pipes.

And then the men who spent the summer erecting a vast concrete and steel sarcophagus above the reactor to seal it off from wind and rain.

There was also the US doctor, Robert Gale, who rushed to Moscow to carry out bone marrow transplants on patients suffering from radiation sickness.

The villains were the plant chiefs and senior operators, who were convicted of breaking safety rules, and jailed.

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The above was sent to me via email, I do not know the original source article.

Many months ago I asked a simple question of any intelligent Iranian considering nuclear power in Iran, posting it on this site as well as SMCCDI:

Would you trust the friendly folks that brought the world Chernobyl to build you nuclear power plants in such an eathquake prone nation?

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well good, some folks are finally getting the big picture....


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:03 pm    Post subject: Russia rejects US call to stop Iran nuclear project Reply with quote



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Thu Apr 20, 10:29 AM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060420/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpolitics_060420142955

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia has angrily rejected a demand by the United States for Moscow to halt construction of a nuclear power plant in Iran, magnifying an East-West split over how to respond to Tehran's nuclear programme.


"Every country has the right to decide itself with whom and how it cooperates," the foreign ministry said Thursday.

Earlier, the head of Russia's Rosatom nuclear agency, Sergei Kiriyenko, also defended the project to build Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr, saying it did "not threaten the (nuclear) non-proliferation regime".

Moscow was replying to a demand on Wednesday by US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns for "countries to stop cooperation with Iran on nuclear issues, even on civilian nuclear issues like the Bushehr facility".

The public row undermines attempts by Western powers and Russia to show a united front in the face of Iran, which is suspected in Western capitals, especially Washington, of using a civilian nuclear programme to hide a secret bomb project.

An Iranian delegation was in Moscow for a second day for secretive talks against a background of rising international tensions and record high oil prices of more than 74.2 dollars in London.

The Iranian delegation included Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghshi and Javad Vaidi, deputy secretary of the National Security Council, but there was no information about which Russian officials were taking part, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.

Late on Wednesday the Iranians held a surprise meeting with senior diplomats from Britain, France and Germany. They struck a defiant pose, announcing that Tehran intended to accelerate its uranium enrichment programme.


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"Every country has the right to decide itself with whom and how it cooperates," the foreign ministry said Thursday.


Big NO to the Russia foreign ministry when it is related to the future nuclear disaster for our small Planet Earth... by Russian Mafia and Mad Mullahs. No One has the right to make these foolish mistakes.
If and when the Russian Mafia fools can make another small Planet like Earth then you are free to make stupid decision to destroy it ....
Have you forgotten the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 20 years ago ?


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LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - The death toll from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 20 years ago could be far higher than official estimates, with up to 93,000 extra cancer deaths worldwide, environmental group Greenpeace said on Tuesday.

Based on research by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the report said that of the 2 billion people globally affected by the Chernobyl fallout, 270,000 will develop cancers as a result, of which 93,000 will prove fatal.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimates 4,000 people died as a result of the explosion in reactor number four at the power plant in the Ukrainian town of Chernobyl on April 26, 1986.

The explosion sent a plume of radioactive dust across northern and western Europe and as far as the eastern United States.

"It is appalling that the IAEA is whitewashing the impacts of the most serious nuclear accident in human history," said Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigner Ivan Blokov.


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:06 pm    Post subject: Electricity from Natural Gas Reply with quote

Clean Energy

EPA Home > Clean Energy > Impacts > Electricity from Natural Gas
http://www.epa.gov/cleanrgy/natgas.htm

Electricity from Natural Gas
Natural gas is a fossil fuel formed when layers of buried plants and animals are exposed to intense heat and pressure over thousands of years. The energy that the plants and animals originally obtained from the sun is stored in the form of carbon in natural gas. Natural gas is combusted to generate electricity, enabling this stored energy to be transformed into usable power. Natural gas is a nonrenewable resource because it cannot be replenished on a human time frame.


The natural gas power production process begins with the extraction of natural gas, continues with its treatment and transport to the power plants, and ends with its combustion in boilers and turbines to generate electricity.

Initially, wells are drilled into the ground to remove the natural gas. After the natural gas is extracted, it is treated at gas plants to remove impurities such as hydrogen sulfide, helium, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, and moisture. Pipelines then transport the natural gas from the gas plants to power plants.

Power plants use several methods to convert gas to electricity. One method is to burn the gas in a boiler to produce steam, which is then used by a steam turbine to generate electricity. A more common approach is to burn the gas in a combustion turbine to generate electricity.

Another technology, that is growing in popularity is to burn the natural gas in a combustion turbine and use the hot combustion turbine exhaust to make steam to drive a steam turbine. This technology is called "combined cycle" and achieves a higher efficiency by using the same fuel source twice.

Environmental Impacts
Although power plants are regulated by federal and state laws to protect human health and the environment, there is a wide variation of environmental impacts associated with power generation technologies.

The purpose of the following section is to give consumers a better idea of the specific air, water, and solid waste releases associated with natural gas-fired generation.

Air Emissions
At the power plant, the burning of natural gas produces nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide, but in lower quantities than burning coal or oil. Methane, a primary component of natural gas and a greenhouse gas, can also be emitted into the air when natural gas is not burned completely. Similarly, methane can be emitted as the result of leaks and losses during transportation. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and mercury compounds from burning natural gas are negligible.

The average emissions rates in the United States from natural gas-fired generation are: 1135 lbs/MWh of carbon dioxide, 0.1 lbs/MWh of sulfur dioxide, and 1.7 lbs/MWh of nitrogen oxides.1 Compared to the average air emissions from coal-fired generation, natural gas produces half as much carbon dioxide, less than a third as much nitrogen oxides, and one percent as much sulfur oxides at the power plant.2 In addition, the process of extraction, treatment, and transport of the natural gas to the power plant generates additional emissions.

Water Resource Use
The burning of natural gas in combustion turbines requires very little water. However, natural gas-fired boiler and combined cycle systems do require water for cooling purposes. When power plants remove water from a lake or river, fish and other aquatic life can be killed, affecting animals and people who depend on these aquatic resources.

Water Discharges
Combustion turbines do not produce any water discharges. However, pollutants and heat build up in the water used in natural gas boilers and combined cycle systems. When these pollutants and heat reach certain levels, the water is often discharged into lakes or rivers. This discharge usually requires a permit and is monitored. For more information about these regulations, visit EPA's Office of Water Web site.

Solid Waste Generation
The use of natural gas to create electricity does not produce substantial amounts of solid waste.

Land Resource Use
The extraction of natural gas and the construction of natural gas power
plants can destroy natural habitat for animals and plants. Possible land resource impacts include erosion, loss of soil productivity, and landslides.

Environmental Impacts of:
Coal
Oil
Hydroelectricity
Municipal Solid Waste
Non-Hydro Renewable
Nuclear Energy

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http://www.powerfrontiers.com/gas.html
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:08 pm    Post subject: Ukrainians Remember Chernobyl Tragedy Reply with quote


Ukrainians Remember Chernobyl Tragedy
AP -
KIEV, Ukraine - Ukrainian mourners carried single red carnations and flickering candles during a solemn ceremony early Wednesday to remember the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, an event that continues to scar this ex-Soviet republic 20 years later. The April 26, 1986, pre-dawn explosion became the world's worst ever nuclear accident, ripping off the nuclear power plant's roof and spewing radioactive fallout for 10 days over 77,220 square miles of the then-Soviet Union and Europe. It cast a radioactive shadow over the health of millions of people; many believe it also contributed to the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.


Chernobyl, 20 years later CNN - Long-term effects of the world's worst nuclear disaster are still being debated. CNN's Matthew Chance reports
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:21 am    Post subject: Putin, Merkel urge Iran compliance Reply with quote

Rejecting Mr. Putin Position :
2. Iranian people can decide about Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Research and Atomic Bomb after the regime change when they have established stable secular democracy and FREE society until then Iran as Hostages to TAAZI should avoid any kind of Nuclear research program, resulting to acquire Atomic Bomb, under TAAZI Islamist regime control.
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U.N. deadline Friday for Iran to stop uranium enrichment

Thursday, April 27, 2006; Posted: 8:33 a.m. EDT (12:33 GMT)


Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel speak to reporters in the Siberian city of Tomsk.

TOMSK, Russia (AP) -- The leaders of Russia and Germany called on Iran to fulfill its international nuclear obligations Thursday, a day before a U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to stop enriching uranium.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also told reporters Thursday in the Siberian city of Tomsk that the crisis over Iran's nuclear program could be resolved only through diplomacy.

"It's still too early to run ahead and say what decision we might take together," he said. "The main thing is ... that whatever decision is taken is a consensus decision."

The head of U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, will present a report Friday on Iran's implementation of the Security Council demand. Uranium enrichment can produce fuel for nuclear power or material for nuclear warheads.

If Iran does not comply, the Security Council is likely to consider punitive measures against the Islamic republic. Russia and China, however, have been reluctant to endorse sanctions.

Iran has thus far rejected the demand and issued its toughest warning on the issue Tuesday. Nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said that if the Security Council imposes sanctions, Iran would stop cooperating with the IAEA and conceal its nuclear activities.

"Our position is clear and well known. We are for the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction," Putin said. "But we believe that Iran must have an opportunity to develop modern technologies and peaceful nuclear energy."

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the IAEA report should not be seen as an ultimatum for Tehran.

"The procedure for referring and examining the report is not an ultimatum," Lavrov said. "It has a working character and therefore, there is no time limit."

Merkel also called for a diplomatic resolution.

"We are very interested for the world community, as it has been from the start, to work together and show Iran that we want to work by diplomatic methods," she said. "But it is necessary for Iran to keep to the agreements that it has committed itself to."

"We are not talking about banning Iran from using nuclear energy for civilian goals, but it must keep to its obligations and agreements," Merkel added.

China's Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, stressed the need for restraint as the crisis reached a crucial stage.

"We hope the relevant parties can keep calm and exercise restraint so as to avoid moves that would further escalate the situation," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang.

Qin said the problem can still be "resolved through dialogue and diplomatic means, which is the correct choice for all parties concerned."
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:16 pm    Post subject: 10,000 German jobs jeopardized by Iran sanctions Reply with quote

10,000 German jobs jeopardized by Iran sanctions

Fri Sep 1, 1:38 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060901/bs_afp/irannuclearpoliticsgermanyeconomytradejobs_060901173811

BERLIN (AFP) - More than 10,000 jobs in Germany could be jeopardised if economic sanctions are imposed against Iran, the German federation of chambers of commerce DIHK has said.

"Economic sanctions against Iran would not solve political problems, as the example of Iraq has shown dramatically," it said in a statement.

"The German economy would be severely hit in an important growth market. The loss of business in Iran could threaten more than 10,000 jobs in Germany," it said.

The conflict between Iran and the international community has already generated a climate of uncertainty which was having a negative effect on growth, the federation argued.

German exports to Iran had fallen by 10 percent in the first six months of the current year.

DIHK said that around 50 German companies had branches in Iran and more than 12,000 firms had representatives there.

Iran was the biggest market in the Middle East for German exports in 2005, ahead of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Germany exported goods worth more than 4.4 billion euros (5.6 billion dollars) there in 2005.

A UN Security Council deadline for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment -- a process used to run a nuclear power plant or potentially fuel an atomic bomb -- passed Thursday without compliance from the Islamic republic.

The United States and the EU fear that Iran wants to build nuclear weapons, a suspicion that Tehran has repeatedly insisted is unfounded, and say that international sanctions against Iran may be the next step.
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CNN.com - 31 minutes ago
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/01/iran.sanctions.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- The United States said on Friday it was consulting European governments about possible sanctions against Iran for intransigence over its nuclear program, but the European Union signaled it wanted to see more dialogue with Tehran.

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Not with a Bang, but with a Whimper
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2338055,00.html
So, what now? Iran has defied the United Nations order to stop its most controversial nuclear work. It looks as if there will be a fudge by the European Union, dragging the US along behind. At yesterday’s deadline, which was supposed to be the climax of this long-running stand-off, Europeans blinked first. Germany and Italy, in particular, have taken the view that more talks would be preferable to sanctions, even at the cost of blurring the force of the UN Security Council demand


Shameful EU China and Russia are the biggest enemy of FREE Iran.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dear Cyrus,

They stand to lose a hell of a lot more than jobs if Antar and his buddies arn't stopped dead in their tracks now.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oppenheimer wrote:
Dear Cyrus,

They stand to lose a hell of a lot more than jobs if Antar and his buddies arn't stopped dead in their tracks now.


The EU3, China and Russia will wake up when "Islamist Dirty Bomb" explode in their capitals.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Curious thing Cyrus, I've never heard CinC use "twisted" in the same context I used it in in the last lines of my letter posted to Iranian boy....

Folks tryin to buy time to stop IRI "big lie" ...folks are woke up Cyrus, they're just runnin scared...it's a new deal, and MAD cant cover their ass.

It's the same as allways, US gotta come save their sorry butts from oblivion...WW1, WW2, Cold war, Balkans, hell I hear the latest EU battle tank has 6 speeds- 1 forward, 5 reverse....(Chuckle).

Cowboy diplomacy is fully dependant on the strength and temperament of the horse ridden. Mr. Bush got those brand new boots on, as I told ya.

Blair met with a few opposition leaders....got anything?? Private meet most like, but what's the grapevine got to say???
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:02 pm    Post subject: Breaking the Iran N-Impasse Reply with quote

Breaking the Iran N-Impasse
Amir Taheri
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=87422&d=30&m=9&y=2006

Could Russian incompetence provide an unexpected way out of the impasse over Iran ’s nuclear program?

The question is seriously raised in both Tehran and the major Western capitals as both sides seek a way to prevent the total collapse of the negotiating process. The man who brought up the question is none other than Assistant to the President and Director of the Islamic Republic’s Nuclear Program Ghulam-Reza Aqazadeh. He was in Moscow last week, trying to get “some clear answers” about the fate of Iran ’s first and so far only nuclear power plant at Bushehr.

The plant was initially due for completion in March 2004. That was later postponed to March 2005, a date chosen to allow the then President Muhammad Khatami to leave office with a bang. When that did not happen, the newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad set a new inauguration date: Feb. 11, 2006, which marked the 27th anniversary of the revolution.

Last month, however, Aqazadeh informed Ahmadinejad that the new inauguration deadline could not be met. A team of scientists sent by Aqazadeh to inspect the plant discovered “hundreds of problems” and came up with questions that “need to be addressed before we accept delivery.”

When it came to revealing what he really felt about the Russian contractors, Aqazadeh minced no words.

Here is what he said in Moscow last Monday: “The Russians had no experience building nuclear plants outside their own country, especially in difficult terrain such as the one in Bushehr. The Russian Atom Stroy Export Company suffered from many weaknesses, in scientific, technological, financial and managerial fields. Had I been present when the decision was made, I would certainly not have signed the contract with them.”

Aqazadeh revealed a number of interesting facts for the first time. First, he said it had taken the Russians more than five years to understand the initial design of the power plant as made by the German company Siemens in the 1970s. But even then, the Russian company did not have the scientific and technological capabilities needed to complete the plant according to German design. As a result, they opted for a Russian design that had been used to build the ill-fated one at Chernobyl . When Iranian scientists protested, they were silenced by the then President Hashemi Rafsanjani who had wanted to speed up the nuclear program before he left office in 1997. The completion of the Bushehr had already cost Iran “more than building a new nuclear power plant.”

According to Aqazadeh, the owners of the Russian company tried a scam that was routine in post-Communist Russia : Signing huge contracts and then declaring bankruptcy. When the Russian contractors informed Tehran that they were bankrupt, and could not borrow any more from the banks, the Iranians took the matter up with Russian President Vladimir Putin who stepped in to save the situation by nationalizing the company.

Aqazadeh also criticized Russian workmanship as “substandard”, and served notice that the plant may face numerous problems before it can be cleared for inauguration. One important area of concern is the fact that the plant is located on one of the most active earthquake zones on earth. While the Russians say the pant will resist tremors of up to 7 on the Richter scale, many Iranian scientists fear that this may not be the case. Iranian scientists are also concerned about inadequate provisions for recycling the plant’s spent fuel, and pouring its used water into the Gulf.

Aqazadeh made an important revelation: The Bushehr plant, which had been designed by Siemens to produce 1,100 megawatts of electricity, has been scaled down by the Russians to a capacity of 440 megawatts.

Without saying so directly, Aqazadeh criticized former President Rafsanjani for his haste in pushing the project through, regardless of the many scientific and environmental problems involved. The only conclusion that one can draw is that Rafsanjani was not interested in electricity; all he wanted was an excuse for uranium enrichment.

Aqazadeh ruled out a new inauguration date but expressed the hope that the plant would be completed in “another six to seven months.” This means that the Feb. 11, 2007 date is also out of the question as is the March 21, 2007 that coincides with Now-Ruz, the Iranian New Year. The soonest that the Russians can complete the plant is next summer after which Iran would demand a series of safety tests that could take many months to complete. The plant would also need a safety certificate from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), not to mention Iran ’s own Environment Protection Organization (Sazman Mohit Zist).

So, if Iran does not have any nuclear power plant and is unlikely to have one working for another year or so, what is the point of picking a quarrel with the United Nations over uranium enrichment?

The Islamic republic could easily suspend uranium procession and enrichment pending the completion of its first nuclear power plant. The picture portrayed by Aqazadeh of Russian incompetence lends credence to Ahmadinejad’s assertion that the Islamic republic cannot depend on the Russian promise of providing uranium fuel for the Bushehr plant for the first 10 years of its existence. Nevertheless, it is clear that Iran does not need any uranium fuel for at least another year.

It is, therefore, possible for Tehran to announce a voluntary decision to suspend uranium enrichment for at least six months in order to allow talks to begin with the 5 permanent members of the Un Security Council plus Germany. If the talks go well, Iran could always buy uranium fuel from the 5+1 group or seek their technological support in developing Iran ’s domestic processing and enrichment program. And if the projected talks develop in a way that Tehran does not like, it could always walk out and resume uranium enrichment.

The core of the current crisis consists of the suspicion that the Islamic republic is not really interested in nuclear energy and is engaged in a clandestine operation to build atomic weapons. Tehran’s behavior, insisting to go to the edge of war in order to enrich uranium for a nuclear power plant that does not exist, is bound to encourage such suspicion.Aqazadeh has shown a degree of courage rare in despotic regimes. He has exposed a project that has been mismanaged from the start and caused huge political problems without any providing any significant advantages in scientific or commercial terms. His subtext is simple: It is folly to push the nation toward war in the name of what is, after all, a piece of technological junk. He says he would not have signed the contract for what many in Iran already labeled as Chernobyl on the Gulf.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:26 pm    Post subject: SOS Iran’s energy expert counters John Stern’s conclusions Reply with quote


Dr. Taghi Alereza

P R E S S R E L E A S E
December 29, 2006
SOS Iran’s energy expert counters Roger Stern’s conclusions regarding Iran’s need for nuclear energy”
Taghi Alereza, D.Sc., P.E., President of ADM Associates, Inc., an Energy Research, Planning, and
Evaluation, and Chairman of Board of Trustees of SOS Iran, has disputed the conclusions drawn by Dr.
Roger Stern of John Hopkins University in his paper titled “The Iranian Petroleum Crisis and United
States National Security”, where the basis for Iran’s need for nuclear power is related to the slow-down of
Iranian oil exportation.
Below is an excerpt of Dr. Alereza’s comments:
Due to misappropriation of oil revenues, investment in the Iran’s oil industry has been ignored, causing a
continuous decline in oil exportation. The funds spent to achieve nuclear capability have contributed to
this decline. There is no economical justification to build nuclear power plants in a country that has a
large enough supply of natural gas to last for centuries.
Dr. Stern includes the following reasons for the slow-down of Iranian oil exportation:
• Continued decline in highly needed investments in the oil industry,
• Delays in performance of international contracts in drilling / production of oil, and
• Increase in domestic energy use
Dr. Stern used these reasons to give legitimacy to Iran’s claim to need nuclear power.
There’s no denial that Iranian oil exportation has been on the decline, and the lack of adequate
investment has caused Iran to reduce its oil production from 6 million barrels per day to less than 4 million
barrels per day. This reduction in production together with increase in the domestic energy use has
caused a continuous decline in the exportation.
During the past 20 years, the government of Iran has not invested its revenue for the benefit of its people.
Iran has spent over eleven billion dollars to establish nuclear power generation capability, yet they are still
at the mercy of the Russians to build an outdated heavy-water reactor, which has yet to be completed and fueled. A considerable portion of Iran’s oil revenues has been funneled to groups that support
international terrorism. Also, a handsome portion of the revenues has been passed to the government leadership and the Special Armed Forces, which protects the regime. However, according to a statement
by the Iranian government less than two years ago, an investment of $5 Billion per year can raise the
production to about 7 million barrels per day by the year 2015. This has not happened, although the oil
revenues have more than doubled.
If these wasted funds had been used to revive the oil industry, the oil exportation would have risen and
have resulted additional revenues. This additional revenue could have been invested to convert all oilbased
power plants and gas turbines to combined-cycle plants, using the vast gas reserves. Use of only
natural gas for domestic power generation would have made more oil available for exportation. Iran’s economic base would have been improved, and its non-renewable electricity production capability would
have increased by at least 30%.
This process would have satisfied most of Iran’s needs, except for the regime’s appetite for nuclear technology.


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:39 am    Post subject: Will Iran and the Iranian People Lose Their Pride Reply with quote

January 4, 2007
Will Iran and the Iranian People Lose Their Pride
if the Islamic Republic (Islamic Fascists Occupier) of Iran is Deprived from
Obtaining Nuclear Technology?

By Taghi Alereza, D.Sc., P.E.
Chairman of the Board, S.O.S. Iran
Before we answer this question, we should first try to understand what is meant by the word
"technology". This can mean one or more of the following, in regards to nuclear power plants and
uranium enrichment (NPP):
• Being able to build nuclear power plants
• Being able to manage power production by NPP
• Being able to operate and maintain an NPP
• Being able to properly and safely dispose of nuclear waste
• Being able to enrich fuel for reactors for energy production (under 4%)
• Being able to enrich uranium for nuclear weaponry (over 90%)
The following information could guide us to our answers.
Most major universities have research facilities that teach graduate students most of the
theoretical and some of the practical aspects of nuclear technologies. Fifty-six countries operate
284 research reactors. Therefore, Iranian engineers and scientists can obtain scientific knowledge
in the field of nuclear technology by establishing and operating a research reactor. However,
extensive work in the field is required to obtain sufficient knowledge to build nuclear power plants.
For this reason, there are only a handful of major companies that build nuclear power plants, under
different specifications and licenses.
Thirty-one countries operate nuclear power plants. All of these countries except Russia have per
capita natural gas reserves of less than 5% of Iran’s per capita. Only 9 of these 31 countries enrich
their own fuel. In other words, more than two-thirds of the countries with nuclear power generation
capability buy their processed fuel from major fuel producers (such as Australia) because it is
cheaper and they do not need to concern themselves with waste disposal, and compliance with
International Atomic Energy Agency protocols. Also, these countries have neither plans nor
ambitions to use highly enriched uranium or plutonium to make nuclear bombs. Therefore, a
country can have NPP capacity without building extensive enrichment facilities, including thousands
of P2 centrifuges for fuel enrichment. P2 centrifuges are normally used to enrich uranium to much
higher levels than needed for NPP reactors. The European Union (France particularly) is willing to
build Iran a light water NPP and provide the fuel. However, this solution was not accepted by the IRI, because it would prevent Iran from getting the level and the amount of enriched uranium
required to build a nuclear bomb.
If the political atmosphere were different, if Iran were run by a government friendly to the west,
and if major companies were allowed to sell their latest nuclear power plant technology to Iran, it
would still be economically disastrous for Iran to build NPP, given Iran’s present economic
condition. The cost of building NPP presently exceeds $2,500 per KW. Converting existing gas and
oil power plants to more efficient plants will cost about $250 per KW. Iran has about 29,700,000
KW of existing fossil fuel based electricity generation capacity, using inefficient single-cycle power
plants. These plants can be converted and expanded to combined-cycle plants, which will increase
the electricity generation by about 10,000,000 KW; equivalent to the capacity of about ten NPP's.
Ten NPP's would cost about 25 billion dollars. The conversion and expansion of existing plants
would cost 2.5 billion dollars. As a reminder, Iran has spent over 11 billion dollars thus far, and has
yet to complete its first nuclear power plant.
There would be ample time for Iran to acquire the knowledge and capability to build and operate
modern nuclear power plants. The future plants can take advantage of extensive research being
conducted in the United States, and from research facilities currently planned for construction in
France, instead of being based on the outdated heavy water technology that the IRI seeks to
acquire from Russia.
You be the judge, after you do the math.
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