VIENNA: Iran has for the first time in six years addressed concerns about the so-called “possible military dimensions” of its nuclear programme, a new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report showed Friday.

Tehran handed over information related to detonators that can be used for several purposes but also for a nuclear weapon under a key November interim nuclear deal, the quarterly report, seen by AFP, showed.

In technical meetings with the United Nations (UN) atomic watchdog in late April and earlier this week in Iran, Tehran provided “information and explanations, including showing documents, to substantiate its stated need and application of EBW (Explosive Bridge Wire detonators),” the report by IAEA director-general Yukiya Amano for member states said.

“Iran showed information to the agency that simultaneous firing of EBW was tested for a civilian application,” it went on.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/712505/iran-addresses-nuclear-bomb-allegations-for-first-time-iaea/

Iran could just quit 'negotiating', and just give the IAEA carte blanc to its records, personnel, etc. . Sorry, but no pity party for the nuclear ayatollahs here.

VIENNA (AP)—Iran has neutralized most of its stockpile of higher-enriched uranium that could be turned quickly into the core of a nuclear weapon, the U.N. nuclear agency said Friday, leaving the country with only about one-fifth of what it would need for such a purpose.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report that Iran now has less than 40 kilograms of the material. The report, obtained by The Associated Press, said Tehran also was meeting all other obligations under the agreement, reached four months ago as a prelude to a comprehensive deal now being negotiated.

Iran denies any interest in having atomic arms. But it is ending some nuclear activities and limiting others under a first-step plan implemented in January that gives it some sanctions relief in return for the concessions.

As part of the deal, Iran agreed to dilute or convert all of its stock of uranium enriched to 20 percent. At that level, uranium is only a technical step away from use as the core of a nuclear warhead.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001304912

For six years, international nuclear inspectors have been demanding that Iran turn over evidence of experiments that they suspect could have been part of a secret effort to solve the complex science of detonating a nuclear weapon.

On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the monitoring arm of the United Nations, said it was finally beginning to see the information it had long sought, but that Iran insisted the detonators were for non-nuclear purposes.

The disclosure was buried in a report by the atomic agency that detailed major progress Iran had made in diluting most of its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium, nuclear fuel that the West has long feared could be converted relatively quickly into weapons-grade material.

Getting Iran to dilute that uranium was perhaps the biggest single accomplishment of the interim deal struck last year, creating room for the current negotiations, which hit their first major roadblock last week.

http://www.watoday.com.au/world/iran-finally-providing-details-of-its-detonators-20140524-38vsa.html

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, all but said on Sunday that negotiations over the country’s illicit nuclear program are over and that the Islamic Republic’s ideals include destroying America.

“Those (Iranians) who want to promote negotiation and surrender to the oppressors and blame the Islamic Republic as a warmonger in reality commit treason,” Khamenei told a meeting of members of parliament, according to the regime’s Fars News Agency.

Khamenei emphasized that without a combative mindset, the regime cannot reach its higher Islamic role against the “oppressors’ front.”

“The reason for continuation of this battle is not the warmongering of the Islamic Republic. Logic and reason command that for Iran, in order to pass through a region full of pirates, needs to arm itself and must have the capability to defend itself,” he said....

http://news.yahoo.com/iran-supreme-leader-jihad-continue-until-america-no-180230486.html

But even if he did, I don't give a fuck. I have better things to do than wallow in hate for some senile old man on the other side of the world. He is Iran's problem, not mine. And the Daily Caller makes things up.

But, to be fair, if you can come up with some other articles from News organizations that support that translation, I'll consider it is true. I just don't believe anything from Daily Caller on their say so.

I don't see why though, as I said, he is a senile old man and not long for this world. Obsessing about his obsessions won't get you far.

Ignoring what is plainly stated rarely garners one 'insight' into a problem.

I recommend you read more widely too.

I read quite widely, thank you very much. and across the entire political spectrum. Too bad that some feel the need to remain inside echo chambers.

If a man tells me to my face, "I'm going to kill you", I'm not so great a fool as to NOT believe him.

I'm not naive, either.

As I said before, he either said it, or he did not say it. You have yet to refute the source(s) reporting that he did say it.

Iran said on Monday that world powers were “demanding too much” in negotiations aimed at reaching a deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme by a July deadline, but hurdles could be overcome.

Tehran and six world powers made little progress in the latest round of talks earlier this month in Vienna on ending their stand-off, raising doubts about the chances of a breakthrough by July 20.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, speaking in Tehran before a visit to Turkey for talks with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on ways of advancing the talks, said a compromise was still possible despite the difficulties.

“They should stop demanding too much. We have our red line, and they too want assurances that our nuclear programme will always remain peaceful. We believe these two add up,” the state news agency IRNA quoted Mr Zarif as saying on Monday.

http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/iran-says-world-powers-are-demanding-too-much-in-nuke-talks