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| October 1, 2012
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Syria blasts France & U.S. for supporting ‘terrorists,’ says Israel must submit to NPT

Syrian FM Walid al-Moualem accuses France & U.S. of “blatant interference in the domestic affairs of Syria,” & says Israel must join NPT & be forced to submit nuclear sites to IAEA supervision.

By Reuters and Jack Khoury

 

Syria accused the United States, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey on Monday of hijacking the country’s 18-month conflict between government forces and pro-democracy rebel groups by supporting ‘terrorism’  with arms, money and foreign fighters, and said Israel should be forced to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

AP

al-Moualem, Foreign Minister of Syria, addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, October.

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| March 8, 2012
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Report: Iran Tried to Clean-Up Traces of Nuclear Tests

Diplomats say satellite images from show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the Parchin military site.

Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The diplomats who spoke to the news agency are all nuclear experts accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano - Photo by Reuters

Two of the diplomats told AP the crews at the Parchin military site may be trying to erase evidence of tests of a small experimental neutron device used to set off a nuclear explosion. Continue Reading »

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