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The UN’s blind watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei is pushing hard to continue helping the Syrians build a nuclear reactor, despite new evidence that they were conducting a clandestine nuclear project. ElBaradei says that just like individuals, countries should be considered innocent until proven guilty: ‘Don’t prejudge Syrian nuclear program.’ “There ...
United Nations, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nuclear Proliferation, Syria, Israel
More than a year after an Israeli air strike took care of it, the United Nations’ blind, toothless nuclear watchdog thinks there might have been an illicit nuclear reactor in Syria. VIENNA (Reuters) – A Syrian complex bombed by Israel bore features that would resemble those of an undeclared ...
United Nations, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nuclear Proliferation, Syria, Israel
Loony academic leftist Francis Boyle (last seen at LGF trying to impeach President Bush) has offered to represent the mullahs of Iran if they sue the US in the International Court of Justice. TEHRAN, July 22 (UPI) — A University of Illinois law professor says he has offered to ...
LGF, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Leftists, Progressives, Academia
Barack Obama has a plan to get rid of all the nuclear weapons in the world. He’s going to achieve this amazing feat by making sure the US adheres to nonproliferation treaties. Two goals of his administration would be to secure all loose nuclear material during his first term ...
Media Backspin has some information on Iran’s SEPAH news network, responsible for floating that faked missile launch photograph to Western news sources.
LGF, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Shahab 3 Missile, Fauxtography
(Hat tip: Fluffster.) UPDATE at 7/11/08 1:54:59 pm: Also see: Attack of the Photoshopped Missiles (Updated).
They finally got around to it—but only after I redirected any hits from their page claiming credit to my post calling them out on it: In Image of Iran’s Power, There’s Less Than Meets the Eye. Little Green Footballs, a conservative blog, identified the altered image on Wednesday. Last ...
LGF, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Shahab 3 Missile, New York Times
This is too funny. Our post on the fauxtoshopped Iranian missile launch was submitted to Digg.com by someone, and of course the rabid Diggbats immediately buried it to make sure it wouldn’t get to the front page: Digg - Iran’s Photoshopped Missile Launch. So then someone else submitted the link ...
LGF, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Shahab 3 Missile, Digg.com
Here’s the genuine photo from Iran’s missile test, showing the reason why it was altered: because one of the missiles failed to launch. The Photoshopped version for comparison: UPDATE at 7/10/08 1:51:09 pm: Another of the photos released by Iran turns out to have been taken last year; ...
Memo to Fox News and the New York Times: No, the New York Times did not break this story: Photo of Detonated Iranian Missiles Appears to Have Been Digitally Altered. Please see: LGF: Iran’s Photoshopped Missile Launch. UPDATE at 7/10/08 11:33:17 am: In their article, the New York Times fails ...
At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media is a Photoshop fake: (Hat tip: webs87.) UPDATE at 7/9/08 8:20:34 pm: An animated version at Suitably Flip: Mahmoud the Fauxtographer. UPDATE at 7/10/08 9:25:53 am: Here’s another one for my collection: ...
Fauxtography, Shahab 3 Missile, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran, LGF, Photoshop
From MEMRI TV, raw (i.e., no subtitles yet) Iranian footage of today’s missile test, which included a new version of the Shahab-3 capable of reaching Israel with a nuclear device. [Video]
As we noted Friday, the media were reporting that IAEA “watchdog” Mohamed ElBaradei warned that an attack on Iran would turn the Middle East into a “ball of fire” (goodness gracious), and threatened to quit his job. What the media did not tell you: in this interview in Arabic with ...
United Nations, LGF, IAEA, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, ElBaradei, Mohamed ElBaradei
At the Wall Street Journal: Why Is Bush Helping Saudi Arabia Build Nukes? Here’s a quick geopolitical quiz: What country is three times the size of Texas and has more than 300 days of blazing sun a year? What country has the world’s largest oil reserves resting below miles ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Terrorism, Nuclear Proliferation, enriched uranium, Oil
The United States is going to supply Saudi Arabia with enriched uranium: US unveils deals with Saudi on nuclear power, oil protection. The White House said Washington and Riyadh were also to sign an agreement on nuclear cooperation that would clear the way for Saudi Arabia to receive enriched ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Terrorism, Nuclear Proliferation, enriched uranium, Oil
Come on, world. You can do it. Say, “Thank you, Israel.” Hayden: Syrian site could have produced fuel for 2 weapons. WASHINGTON - CIA Director Michael Hayden said Monday that the alleged Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in September would have produced enough plutonium for one ...
LGF, Syria, Nuclear Proliferation, North Korea, Israel, nuclear reactor
Syria was apparently very close to having the means to produce nuclear weapons, with the help of North Korea: Bombed Syrian reactor was nearly complete. The Bush administration will tell Congress tomorrow that a nuclear facility in Syria built with North Korean help was nearly complete when Israel bombed ...
LGF, Syria, Nuclear Proliferation, North Korea, Israel, nuclear reactor
Charles Krauthammer is right on the money as usual; after all of President Bush’s tough words and promises, Iran is closer than ever to the ultimate weapon: The Advancing Iranian Nuclear Program. WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges — they produce enriched uranium, ...
LGF, Krauthammer, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, enrichment
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei admitted yesterday that as a “watchdog,” he’s completely worthless. VIENNA (AFP) — The UN atomic watchdog said Thursday it was in the dark about Iran’s disputed nuclear programme, as its 35-member board seemed divided on how to get Tehran to shed more light ...
IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei has been telling the world that there is no evidence Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, yet he’s known Iran was in possession of nuclear warhead blueprints since 2005. VIENNA, Austria - Iran has met a key demand of the U.N. nuclear agency, handing over long-sought ...
LGF, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, IAEA, ElBaradei
Nobel Peace laureate Tad Daley, a writing fellow with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, has a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer arguing that Iran has a right to seek nuclear weapons. It’s a glimpse into the bizarre mental contortions necessary for a “peace activist” to openly support ...
LGF, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Freeze, Nuclear Proliferation
Israeli “strategic negotiator” Shaul Mofaz is calling for the IAEA’s Mohamed ElBaradei to be fired. Israel’s top strategic negotiator called for the removal of the U.N.’s chief nuclear inspector. “Replacing him would be the right choice,” Shaul Mofaz said of Mohammed ElBaradei, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency. ...
A Wall Street Journal on the United Nations’ blind, toothless nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei: Those U.N. Super-Sleuths. So Mohamed ElBaradei finds it “distressing” that neither Israel nor the U.S. shared information with him about an apparent Syrian nuclear program before Israeli jets destroyed it on September 6. Imagine that: ...
As we noted over the weekend, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator has resigned. And his successor, Saeed Jalili, is very bad news indeed, with disturbing ties to the apocalyptic 12th Imam cult: Pajamas Media: Iran’s New Nuclear Negotiator Has Messianic Ties.
Iran’s “nuclear negotiator” has “resigned:” Iran’s Chief Nuclear Negotiator Resigns. And the scare quotes are deliberate. This maneuver is another attempt to buy time, while Iran’s Manhattan Project gains some more ground. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Iranian government announced Saturday that its top nuclear negotiator had resigned, a ...