Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has recently started his own blog. There’s a link to the English-language site. [RFE/RL via Payvand News]. FYI, Ahmadinejad’s 60 Minutes interview, which aired last night, can be found here. Kim Jong-il has had his own blog for a while and seems to have resumed updating it.
Iran, P5+1 Proposal Documents
ACA has posted some documents describing proposals made by Iran, the E3, and the P5+1. As far as I know, some have never been made public before. [Such as this one, this one, and this one.] I referenced some of them in this June ACT article. The documents contain quite a bit of interesting material. …
James Van Allen, 1914-2006
James A. Van Allen, discoverer of the Earth’s radiation belts, died on Wednesday, aged 91. Others will record Van Allen’s scientific achievements and the loved ones he leaves behind. I remember Van Allen most, however, for how then-President John F. Kennedy invoked Van Allen’s repution to deflect brilliantly a tough question about the possible environmental …
Iran Sought Significant Quantities of Uranium from Africa
Sorry, couldn’t resist. By now, most of you have probably heard that the London Sunday Times reports that a shipment of smuggled uranium from Congo was intercepted on its way to Iran: IRAN is seeking to import large consignments of bomb-making uranium from the African mining area that produced the Hiroshima bomb, an investigation has …
