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IRAN TO SHIP URANIUM TO TURKEY IN NUCLEAR DEAL
May 17th
TEHRAN: Iran has agreed to ship much of its enriched uranium to Turkey in a nuclear fuel swap deal reached with the help of mediation from Brazil and Turkey.
The agreement could revive a U.N.-backed proposal for easing the international standoff over Iran”s nuclear program.
A local news agency quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mahmanparast as saying Monday that a fuel swap will take place in Turkey.
The deal was reached during talks between Brazil”s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.
TURKEY ANNOUNCES DEAL ON IRAN NUCLEAR DISPUTE REPORT
May 17th
ANKARA: Iran has agreed to send its uranium to Turkey for enrichment to resolve the international row over its nuclear programme, the Anatolia news agency reported Monday, citing diplomatic sources.
The deal was struck after 18 hours of talks in Tehran between the foreign ministers of Brazil, Iran and Turkey, said the report.
The text that was agreed during the meeting will be put to Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the agency reported. He flew into Tehran on an unscheduled visit late Sunday.
Erdogan was invited by Iran to join Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Iran”s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for talks on the issue on Monday.
The three leaders would go over the final, detailed version of the agreement at that meeting, the agency added.
Brazil”s Lula held talks on the issue with the Iranian leadership on Sunday.
At the heart of the international dispute over Iran”s nuclear programme is the suspicion in the West that Iran wants the highly enriched uranium it produces to make an atomic bomb — a charge Tehran vehemently denies.
Iran has so far dismissed a UN proposal to enrich abroad the uranium it says it needs for a nuclear research reactor.
The Tragedy with Ahmediya Movement
May 17th
The Ahmadiyya movement often referred to as Qadianism was founded in the Muslim village of Qadian in the Punjab in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He claimed to be the mahdi, a figure expected by some Muslims at the end of the world, as well as the Christian messiah an incarnation of the Hindu god Krishnam and more. I had personally read a lot of literature relating to the movement and what strikes me is that according to the Ahmadi doctrine, Jesus feigned death and resurrection and later escaped to …
BRAZILS LULA ARRIVES IN IRAN FOR KEY NUCLEAR TALKS
May 16th
TEHRAN: Brazilian President Lula Inacio de Silva arrived in Tehran on Sunday for a nuclear summit that major powers have said might prove to be Tehran”s last chance to avoid tough new UN sanctions.
The Brazilian leader, heading a delegation of 300, was welcomed on the two-day visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, a journalist said.
He is due to meet Sunday morning with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and is also due to meet the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Ahead of his trip, Lula told reporters in Moscow that he was “optimistic” and hoped to be able to persuade Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to reach an agreement with the West.
“I must now use everything I have learned over my long political career to convince my friend Ahmadinejad to come to an agreement with the international community,” Lula said.
Just hours before his arrival, Iran said it was willing to discuss a venue to swap uranium that needs to be enriched for a nuclear research reactor if it obtains “concrete guarantees,” Al-Alam television reported.
The Arabic-language channel quoted foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast as saying that Tehran struck a deal on the amount of uranium to be exchanged and the modality of the swap — simultaneously or in batches.
“There is an agreement on the time and the volume of the fuel to be exchanged,” Mehmanparast said according to Al-Alam, without elaborating on the deal or with whom it was reached.
“But there is still the venue (to be decided) and if there are concrete guarantees, Iran is willing to discuss the location,” he added.
Shahbaz Sharif: Not So Savvy After All
Mar 16th
It had to happen. The dirt was almost willfully being swallowed whole by the likes of Rana Sanaullah and a few other gnomes, while the Chief Minister, our very own builder of roads and opener of clogged gutters, came out relatively clean every time. At…
