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		<title>By: Should any Iraq lessons be applied to Iran? - Salon.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Should any Iraq lessons be applied to Iran? - Salon.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 12:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] contrast, The Washington Independent&#8217;s&#160;Spencer Ackerman spent all day yesterday diligently and critically grappling with the question of whether Iran even breached any of its [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Should any Iraq lessons be applied to Iran?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Should any Iraq lessons be applied to Iran?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] contrast, The Washington Independent&#8217;s&#160;Spencer Ackerman spent all day yesterday diligently and critically grappling with the question of whether Iran even breached any of its [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Jaffsassani</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/60932/has-iran-actually-violated-any-specific-international-obligations-here/comment-page-1#comment-134241</link>
		<dc:creator>Jaffsassani</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Darius the Great answer our question and said stop the war for languages&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please read below:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jaff-sassanie.com/ShowContent.aspx?i&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.jaff-sassanie.com/ShowContent.aspx?i&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br&gt;Thank you&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Darius the Great answer our question and said stop the war for languages&lt;br&gt;First Greek scholars, second Jewish scholars, third Arab scholars, fourth those Jewish and Arab scholars whom they claimed to be one of us, through history they called themselves Persian and made Persian to fight other branches of their own under the name of false languages of Persian, Kurds, Elamitie, Lor, Lak, Giliany, Mazanderani, Bluch, Tajick, Peshtu, Taylish, Azeri and hundred more names.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Today let celibate for the finding of scholar Hamma Mirwaisi who found out that&lt;br&gt;BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Is not what we have been told as Old Persian language? It is Aryan language with 80 % are used today by Kurds in Turkey and 20 % by Persian and Elamitie.&lt;br&gt;“They called in purpose&lt;br&gt;OLD PERSIAN TEXTS&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#amh%E2%80%9D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#amh”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Median Empire, Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great and Parthian Empire, Sassanid Empire used the language of Prophet Zoroaster called Aryan language of Avesta.&lt;br&gt;Those scholars lie, to make us fight for 2500 years. The Islamic Arab army used us to fight each other. Today the Islamic Republic of Iran (Arab Government) is using us to fight each other, about the language.&lt;br&gt;Thank you Oh God, for your kindness, you guide honorable scholars like Hamma Mirwaisi to find out the truth. Today is the beginning of the end of Jewish and Arab scholars plus those Persian traders whom they went along to make money by having our people fight each other because of language.&lt;br&gt;We are Persian apologizing on behave of our Persian people after we read the content of BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS.&lt;br&gt;They use us to fight each other for language, for religion, for regional’s, for no reason so they can destroy our unity. Since Alexander the Great they never let us have peace.&lt;br&gt;We are calling on each one of you to read the content of BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI&lt;br&gt;And then understand those people calling them self Persian and see really whom they are. You will find out very fast that majority of them are working for Israel.&lt;br&gt;We are going to fight for the establishment of Aryan Economic Union for our Aryan people much better than the European Economic Union (EU). Support us as much as you can.&lt;br&gt;We are going to give what we had during Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-behishtan-cuneiform-inscriptions-to-the-kurmanji-kurdish-alphabet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Discovery of 2500 years old Aryan language (Kurdish, Elam, Persian and others language) below for you to read&lt;br&gt;From Behishtan cuneiform inscriptions to the Kurmanji Kurdish Alphabet&lt;br&gt;Note&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In Darius, Behishtan (DB), Column 4, number 89 below:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He is saying I used Aryan language in my inscreptions writing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;89 ramazdâha : i(ya)m : dipîmaiy : ty(âm) : adam : akunavam : patisham : ariyâ : âha : utâ : pavast&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Of God, this is the inscription which I made. Besides, it was in Aryan, and as you&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; know on clay tablets&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br&gt;Jaff Sassani</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Darius the Great answer our question and said stop the war for languages</p>
<p>Please read below:<br /><a href="http://www.jaff-sassanie.com/ShowContent.aspx?i" rel="nofollow">http://www.jaff-sassanie.com/ShowContent.aspx?i</a>&#8230;<br />Thank you</p>
<p>Darius the Great answer our question and said stop the war for languages<br />First Greek scholars, second Jewish scholars, third Arab scholars, fourth those Jewish and Arab scholars whom they claimed to be one of us, through history they called themselves Persian and made Persian to fight other branches of their own under the name of false languages of Persian, Kurds, Elamitie, Lor, Lak, Giliany, Mazanderani, Bluch, Tajick, Peshtu, Taylish, Azeri and hundred more names.</p>
<p>Today let celibate for the finding of scholar Hamma Mirwaisi who found out that<br />BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI<br /><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b" rel="nofollow">http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>Is not what we have been told as Old Persian language? It is Aryan language with 80 % are used today by Kurds in Turkey and 20 % by Persian and Elamitie.<br />“They called in purpose<br />OLD PERSIAN TEXTS<br /><a href="http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#amh%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow">http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#amh”</a></p>
<p>Median Empire, Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great and Parthian Empire, Sassanid Empire used the language of Prophet Zoroaster called Aryan language of Avesta.<br />Those scholars lie, to make us fight for 2500 years. The Islamic Arab army used us to fight each other. Today the Islamic Republic of Iran (Arab Government) is using us to fight each other, about the language.<br />Thank you Oh God, for your kindness, you guide honorable scholars like Hamma Mirwaisi to find out the truth. Today is the beginning of the end of Jewish and Arab scholars plus those Persian traders whom they went along to make money by having our people fight each other because of language.<br />We are Persian apologizing on behave of our Persian people after we read the content of BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS.<br />They use us to fight each other for language, for religion, for regional’s, for no reason so they can destroy our unity. Since Alexander the Great they never let us have peace.<br />We are calling on each one of you to read the content of BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI<br />And then understand those people calling them self Persian and see really whom they are. You will find out very fast that majority of them are working for Israel.<br />We are going to fight for the establishment of Aryan Economic Union for our Aryan people much better than the European Economic Union (EU). Support us as much as you can.<br />We are going to give what we had during Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great.</p>
<p>BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI</p>
<p><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-behishtan-cuneiform-inscriptions-to-the-kurmanji-kurdish-alphabet" rel="nofollow">http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b&#8230;</a></p>
<p>Discovery of 2500 years old Aryan language (Kurdish, Elam, Persian and others language) below for you to read<br />From Behishtan cuneiform inscriptions to the Kurmanji Kurdish Alphabet<br />Note</p>
<p>In Darius, Behishtan (DB), Column 4, number 89 below:</p>
<p>He is saying I used Aryan language in my inscreptions writing.</p>
<p>89 ramazdâha : i(ya)m : dipîmaiy : ty(âm) : adam : akunavam : patisham : ariyâ : âha : utâ : pavast</p>
<p>Of God, this is the inscription which I made. Besides, it was in Aryan, and as you</p>
<p> know on clay tablets</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />Jaff Sassani</p>
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		<title>By: Jaffsassani</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/60932/has-iran-actually-violated-any-specific-international-obligations-here/comment-page-1#comment-106270</link>
		<dc:creator>Jaffsassani</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Darius the Great answer our question and said stop the war for languages&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please read below:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jaff-sassanie.com/ShowContent.aspx?i&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.jaff-sassanie.com/ShowContent.aspx?i&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br&gt;Thank you&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Darius the Great answer our question and said stop the war for languages&lt;br&gt;First Greek scholars, second Jewish scholars, third Arab scholars, fourth those Jewish and Arab scholars whom they claimed to be one of us, through history they called themselves Persian and made Persian to fight other branches of their own under the name of false languages of Persian, Kurds, Elamitie, Lor, Lak, Giliany, Mazanderani, Bluch, Tajick, Peshtu, Taylish, Azeri and hundred more names.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Today let celibate for the finding of scholar Hamma Mirwaisi who found out that&lt;br&gt;BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Is not what we have been told as Old Persian language? It is Aryan language with 80 % are used today by Kurds in Turkey and 20 % by Persian and Elamitie.&lt;br&gt;“They called in purpose&lt;br&gt;OLD PERSIAN TEXTS&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#amh%E2%80%9D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#amh”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Median Empire, Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great and Parthian Empire, Sassanid Empire used the language of Prophet Zoroaster called Aryan language of Avesta.&lt;br&gt;Those scholars lie, to make us fight for 2500 years. The Islamic Arab army used us to fight each other. Today the Islamic Republic of Iran (Arab Government) is using us to fight each other, about the language.&lt;br&gt;Thank you Oh God, for your kindness, you guide honorable scholars like Hamma Mirwaisi to find out the truth. Today is the beginning of the end of Jewish and Arab scholars plus those Persian traders whom they went along to make money by having our people fight each other because of language.&lt;br&gt;We are Persian apologizing on behave of our Persian people after we read the content of BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS.&lt;br&gt;They use us to fight each other for language, for religion, for regional’s, for no reason so they can destroy our unity. Since Alexander the Great they never let us have peace.&lt;br&gt;We are calling on each one of you to read the content of BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI&lt;br&gt;And then understand those people calling them self Persian and see really whom they are. You will find out very fast that majority of them are working for Israel.&lt;br&gt;We are going to fight for the establishment of Aryan Economic Union for our Aryan people much better than the European Economic Union (EU). Support us as much as you can.&lt;br&gt;We are going to give what we had during Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-behishtan-cuneiform-inscriptions-to-the-kurmanji-kurdish-alphabet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Discovery of 2500 years old Aryan language (Kurdish, Elam, Persian and others language) below for you to read&lt;br&gt;From Behishtan cuneiform inscriptions to the Kurmanji Kurdish Alphabet&lt;br&gt;Note&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In Darius, Behishtan (DB), Column 4, number 89 below:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He is saying I used Aryan language in my inscreptions writing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;89 ramazdâha : i(ya)m : dipîmaiy : ty(âm) : adam : akunavam : patisham : ariyâ : âha : utâ : pavast&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Of God, this is the inscription which I made. Besides, it was in Aryan, and as you&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; know on clay tablets&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br&gt;Jaff Sassani</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Darius the Great answer our question and said stop the war for languages</p>
<p>Please read below:<br /><a href="http://www.jaff-sassanie.com/ShowContent.aspx?i" rel="nofollow">http://www.jaff-sassanie.com/ShowContent.aspx?i</a>&#8230;<br />Thank you</p>
<p>Darius the Great answer our question and said stop the war for languages<br />First Greek scholars, second Jewish scholars, third Arab scholars, fourth those Jewish and Arab scholars whom they claimed to be one of us, through history they called themselves Persian and made Persian to fight other branches of their own under the name of false languages of Persian, Kurds, Elamitie, Lor, Lak, Giliany, Mazanderani, Bluch, Tajick, Peshtu, Taylish, Azeri and hundred more names.</p>
<p>Today let celibate for the finding of scholar Hamma Mirwaisi who found out that<br />BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI<br /><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b" rel="nofollow">http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>Is not what we have been told as Old Persian language? It is Aryan language with 80 % are used today by Kurds in Turkey and 20 % by Persian and Elamitie.<br />“They called in purpose<br />OLD PERSIAN TEXTS<br /><a href="http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#amh%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow">http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#amh”</a></p>
<p>Median Empire, Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great and Parthian Empire, Sassanid Empire used the language of Prophet Zoroaster called Aryan language of Avesta.<br />Those scholars lie, to make us fight for 2500 years. The Islamic Arab army used us to fight each other. Today the Islamic Republic of Iran (Arab Government) is using us to fight each other, about the language.<br />Thank you Oh God, for your kindness, you guide honorable scholars like Hamma Mirwaisi to find out the truth. Today is the beginning of the end of Jewish and Arab scholars plus those Persian traders whom they went along to make money by having our people fight each other because of language.<br />We are Persian apologizing on behave of our Persian people after we read the content of BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS.<br />They use us to fight each other for language, for religion, for regional’s, for no reason so they can destroy our unity. Since Alexander the Great they never let us have peace.<br />We are calling on each one of you to read the content of BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI<br />And then understand those people calling them self Persian and see really whom they are. You will find out very fast that majority of them are working for Israel.<br />We are going to fight for the establishment of Aryan Economic Union for our Aryan people much better than the European Economic Union (EU). Support us as much as you can.<br />We are going to give what we had during Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great.</p>
<p>BEHISTUN_INSCRIPTIONS by HAMMA MIRWAISI</p>
<p><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-behishtan-cuneiform-inscriptions-to-the-kurmanji-kurdish-alphabet" rel="nofollow">http://sites.google.com/site/behistunmin/from-b&#8230;</a></p>
<p>Discovery of 2500 years old Aryan language (Kurdish, Elam, Persian and others language) below for you to read<br />From Behishtan cuneiform inscriptions to the Kurmanji Kurdish Alphabet<br />Note</p>
<p>In Darius, Behishtan (DB), Column 4, number 89 below:</p>
<p>He is saying I used Aryan language in my inscreptions writing.</p>
<p>89 ramazdâha : i(ya)m : dipîmaiy : ty(âm) : adam : akunavam : patisham : ariyâ : âha : utâ : pavast</p>
<p>Of God, this is the inscription which I made. Besides, it was in Aryan, and as you</p>
<p> know on clay tablets</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />Jaff Sassani</p>
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		<title>By: telegramsam</title>
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		<dc:creator>telegramsam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The US should take out the Iranian and Israeli nuclear installations at the same time!  They&#039;re kicking ass in Iraq and Afghanistan so why not make it four wars simultaneously.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US should take out the Iranian and Israeli nuclear installations at the same time!  They&#39;re kicking ass in Iraq and Afghanistan so why not make it four wars simultaneously.</p>
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		<title>By: aliaaaaaaaaaaa</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/60932/has-iran-actually-violated-any-specific-international-obligations-here/comment-page-1#comment-82411</link>
		<dc:creator>aliaaaaaaaaaaa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you wish to learn about Iran visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.IranNegah.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.IranNegah.com&lt;/a&gt; (most comphrensive video archive)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you wish to learn about Iran visit <a href="http://www.IranNegah.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.IranNegah.com</a> (most comphrensive video archive)</p>
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		<title>By: bilejones</title>
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		<dc:creator>bilejones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The US, of course, has been in breach of its treaty obligations from day 1.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US, of course, has been in breach of its treaty obligations from day 1.</p>
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		<title>By: blowback</title>
		<link>http://washingtonindependent.com/60932/has-iran-actually-violated-any-specific-international-obligations-here/comment-page-1#comment-81906</link>
		<dc:creator>blowback</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Given the various threats from the US and Israel, it would be wise for Iran to have prepared a number of facilities deep underground. Since it takes time and real experience to construct facilities deep underground, it wouldn&#039;t surprise me if they started this process several years ago so I can well believe that the NRO might have satellite imagery of several such construction sites but not even the Iranians knew what they were going to use the facilities for. So, yes the IC has &quot;known&quot; about the sites for several years but they might have found out which particular site was involved from the Iranian letter to the IAEA. If the Iranians had a sense of humor, they could end up giving IAEA inspectors a tour of an empty but very deep hole in the ground. How exciting!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Given the various threats from the US and Israel, it would be wise for Iran to have prepared a number of facilities deep underground. Since it takes time and real experience to construct facilities deep underground, it wouldn&#39;t surprise me if they started this process several years ago so I can well believe that the NRO might have satellite imagery of several such construction sites but not even the Iranians knew what they were going to use the facilities for. So, yes the IC has &#8220;known&#8221; about the sites for several years but they might have found out which particular site was involved from the Iranian letter to the IAEA. If the Iranians had a sense of humor, they could end up giving IAEA inspectors a tour of an empty but very deep hole in the ground. How exciting!</p>
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		<title>By: wendy</title>
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		<dc:creator>wendy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Keeping Iran honest :&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Beware politically motivated hype. While on the surface, Obama&#039;s dramatic intervention seemed sound, the devil is always in the details. The &quot;rules&quot; Iran is accused of breaking are not vague, but rather spelled out in clear terms. In accordance with Article 42 of Iran&#039;s Safeguards Agreement, and Code 3.1 of the General Part of the Subsidiary Arrangements (also known as the &quot;additional protocol&quot;) to that agreement, Iran is obliged to inform the IAEA of any decision to construct a facility which would house operational centrifuges, and to provide preliminary design information about that facility, even if nuclear material had not been introduced. This would initiate a process of complementary access and design verification inspections by the IAEA.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This agreement was signed by Iran in December 2004. However, since the &quot;additional protocol&quot; has not been ratified by the Iranian parliament, and as such is not legally binding, Iran had viewed its implementation as being voluntary, and as such agreed to comply with these new measures as a confidence building measure more so than a mandated obligation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In March 2007, Iran suspended the implementation of the modified text of Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Arrangements General Part concerning the early provisions of design information. As such, Iran was reverting back to its legally-binding requirements of the original safeguards agreement, which did not require early declaration of nuclear-capable facilities prior to the introduction of nuclear material.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While this action is understandably vexing for the IAEA and those member states who are desirous of full transparency on the part of Iran, one cannot speak in absolute terms about Iran violating its obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. So when Obama announced that &quot;Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow&quot;, he is technically and legally wrong.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/25/iran-secret-nuclear-plant-inspections?commentpage=2&amp;commentposted=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamer...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keeping Iran honest :</p>
<p>Beware politically motivated hype. While on the surface, Obama&#39;s dramatic intervention seemed sound, the devil is always in the details. The &#8220;rules&#8221; Iran is accused of breaking are not vague, but rather spelled out in clear terms. In accordance with Article 42 of Iran&#39;s Safeguards Agreement, and Code 3.1 of the General Part of the Subsidiary Arrangements (also known as the &#8220;additional protocol&#8221;) to that agreement, Iran is obliged to inform the IAEA of any decision to construct a facility which would house operational centrifuges, and to provide preliminary design information about that facility, even if nuclear material had not been introduced. This would initiate a process of complementary access and design verification inspections by the IAEA.</p>
<p>This agreement was signed by Iran in December 2004. However, since the &#8220;additional protocol&#8221; has not been ratified by the Iranian parliament, and as such is not legally binding, Iran had viewed its implementation as being voluntary, and as such agreed to comply with these new measures as a confidence building measure more so than a mandated obligation.</p>
<p>In March 2007, Iran suspended the implementation of the modified text of Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Arrangements General Part concerning the early provisions of design information. As such, Iran was reverting back to its legally-binding requirements of the original safeguards agreement, which did not require early declaration of nuclear-capable facilities prior to the introduction of nuclear material.</p>
<p>While this action is understandably vexing for the IAEA and those member states who are desirous of full transparency on the part of Iran, one cannot speak in absolute terms about Iran violating its obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. So when Obama announced that &#8220;Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow&#8221;, he is technically and legally wrong.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/25/iran-secret-nuclear-plant-inspections?commentpage=2&#038;commentposted=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamer&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>By: mike black</title>
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		<dc:creator>mike black</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get what the Carnegie analysis was pointing out, but what I&#039;m not 100% is the simple question of what does &#039;start construction&#039; mean as far as the notification point? Does that mean that before they even pour cement for the foundation of the building they have to say &quot;this will be a nuclear facility at some point&quot; or is the &#039;start point&#039; when the actual machinery needed to produce nuclear material is introduced to said building? Some estimates say they won&#039;t even have centrifuges through the doors for a year or more, so is it a matter of intent or actual delivery and capability? Cheers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get what the Carnegie analysis was pointing out, but what I&#39;m not 100% is the simple question of what does &#39;start construction&#39; mean as far as the notification point? Does that mean that before they even pour cement for the foundation of the building they have to say &#8220;this will be a nuclear facility at some point&#8221; or is the &#39;start point&#39; when the actual machinery needed to produce nuclear material is introduced to said building? Some estimates say they won&#39;t even have centrifuges through the doors for a year or more, so is it a matter of intent or actual delivery and capability? Cheers.</p>
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