...been a secret Syrian nuclear reactor in September 2007. The reactor, built with North Korean help, was said to be designed for the production of plutonium. Syria insists that Israel bombed an unused military...

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...Nations and the Reagan administration - defended its right to do so. He says Saudi Arabia has an influence on Washington equal to Israel's. His votes against support for Israel follow quite naturally from his...

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... attack the wastewater treatment plant in Gaza City. But there is a good chance the plant was damaged by Hamas to hamper the movement of IDF soldiers. • Israel did not blow up the Bader flour factory to...

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...begins producing weapons grade material. Tensions flare again over the main religious site in Jerusalem, the location of both the Temple Mount and the Noble Sanctuary. The holy site had been closed to...

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..., where sloppy material accounting would have masked the theft. By 1974 US intelligence believed Israel had stockpiled a small number of fission weapons, and by 1979 were perhaps in a position so they...

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...2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. The plant's damaged tanks leaked 20,000 to 30,000 tonnes of oil into the eastern Mediterranean Sea, comparable in size to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. A 10 km wide oil slick covered...

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...much greater importance than any other sites the terrorists can attack (e.g. - the White House, the Capitol, nuclear power plants, etc.). But we should not expend enormous resources or impose great inconvenience on...

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...nuclear plants to prevent it acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. The launch came amidst intensifying diplomatic moves to impose additional sanctions on Iran because of its failure to respond to UN calls...

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...moment is nearing. But the discovery of the scale of fortifications surrounding the plant near Qom has left Israeli officials uncertain whether they would be able to inflict a disabling blow. Iran claims the...

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...through with threats to attack the country's primary enrichment site at Natanz. "It's a hole in a mountain," concluded ElBaradei. Then the report came out and the mud-slinging started. The Associated Press,...

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...backup for other, known facilities in case they were bombed by Israel. The last IAEA board resolution slapped on Iran was in February 2006 when governors referred Tehran's dossier to the UN Security Council over...

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...by Israel. The six world powers also initiated the resolution because Iran has still not officially responded to a proposed nuclear fuel agreement aimed at reducing tensions and opening the path to US...

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...Natanz, also initially kept secret, was bombed by enemies such as Israel. The IAEA confirmed that the facility was intended to house 3,000 centrifuges, enough to enrich uranium for one nuclear weapon per year.

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...by enemies such as Israel. The inspectors' report said the Qom site was in an "advanced state" of construction but did not yet have centrifuges or other nuclear-related equipment. It confirmed that it was...

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...program in case its larger Natanz enrichment plant were bombed by a foe like Israel. "It's a hole in a mountain," he said. But, let's not let you get too comfortable about Iran...GuardianUK's Julian Borger...

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...States or Israel. </p><p>Officials say the plant won't be operational for another 18 months and would produce uranium enrichment levels up to 5 percent, suitable only for peaceful purposes. Weapons-grade...

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...the Natanz site was attacked by Israel. "Therefore we had to have a contingency plan in order to have a sustained enrichment programme," he told the BBC recently. Israel's policy is to keep open the option...

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...aboveground Iraqi plutonium reactor that Israel bombed in 1981. The Iranian facilities could be quickly rebuilt, and some would escape bombing. Meantime, in retaliation, Iran could create havoc for U.S. troops...

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...Iran, could bomb the plants. Israel said on Saturday that this week's disclosure proved the country was seeking nuclear weapons, and demanded an "unequivocal" Western response. "The revelations of this second...

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...plant in Iraq in 1981. Many Israelis believe that Iran is now developing nuclear weapons that could be aimed at Israel, and they support bombing Iranian nuclear facilities, too. In an interview Sunday on...

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