Iran To 'Remove Fuel' From Bushehr Nuclear Plant 240
mangu writes "Iran said on Saturday it is removing the fuel from the reactor of a Russian-built nuclear power plant, a move seen as a big blow to its controversial nuclear program. The plant was first launched by the shah using contractors from Siemens. It was shelved after the Islamic revolution and it lay unfinished through the 1980s. In the early 1990s, Iran sought help for the project after being turned away by Siemens over nuclear proliferation concerns. In 1994, Russia agreed to complete the plant and provide the fuel, with the supply deal committing Iran to returning the spent fuel. The plant has faced hiccups even after its physical launch, with officials blaming the delays in generating electricity on a range of factors, including Bushehr's 'severe weather.' But they deny it was hit by the malicious Stuxent computer worm which struck industrial computers in Iran, although they acknowledge that the personal computers of some personnel at Bushehr were infected with it."
Re:Why dont they just (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf12nHhz5XM [youtube.com]
This is what he's talking about. ... It's oddly interesting, but I prefer this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jC8JIjW2cw [youtube.com] (this one is special for it does something few other videos do).
Re:more concerned about israels nukes. (Score:5, Informative)
Please supply a source that it was mis-translated.
No? If you read my sources you will see stuff like this...
BBC...
Iran's president has defended his widely criticised call for Israel to be "wiped off the map".
Attending an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his remarks were "just" - and the criticism did not "have any validity".
Hes not claiming he was mistranslated...
Washington post..
Most Arab countries have no diplomatic relations with Israel. But the Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said, according to the Associated Press: "We have recognized the state of Israel and we are pursuing a peace process with Israel, and . . . we do not accept the statements of the president of Iran. This is unacceptable."
Are you saying the Palestinians mistranslated him? You'd think they'd be able to get a good translation there.
Your WRONG! He said it, he admits it. The Palestinians even told him he shouldn't have said it.
Re:more concerned about israels nukes. (Score:2, Informative)
Oh you left some stuff out.. like the fact that the original translation came from a official source:
The translation presented by the official Islamic Republic News Agency has been challenged by Arash Norouzi, who says the statement "wiped off the map" was never made and that Ahmadinejad did not refer to the nation or land mass of Israel, but to the "regime occupying Jerusalem". Norouzi translated the original Persian to English, with the result, "the Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."
The Islamic Republic News Agency is :
The Islamic Republic News Agency (Persian: ), or IRNA, is the official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
How did the OFFICIAL IRANIAN NEWS CHANNEL screw that up so badly? If I was a despotic leader, and my minions misquoted me badly enough to almost get my country kicked out of the UN, I think Id be pretty upset. Anyways you don't think erasing from the pages of history sounds pretty threatening?
Or you left of stuff like this:
In a June 11, 2006 analysis of the translation controversy, New York Times editor Ethan Bronner stated:
[T]ranslators in Tehran who work for the president's office and the foreign ministry disagree with them. All official translations of Mr. Ahmadinejad's statement, including a description of it on his website, refer to wiping Israel away. Sohrab Mahdavi, one of Iran’s most prominent translators, and Siamak Namazi, managing director of a Tehran consulting firm, who is bilingual, both say “wipe off” or “wipe away” is more accurate than "vanish" because the Persian verb is active and transitive.
Emphasis mine.
Go on now go find me a real source.
Re:all this crap about israel (Score:4, Informative)
I'm happy you cite primary sources, but it's a bit more complicated than that, since Iran's theocracy is rooted in democracy and elected institutions.
Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, is chosen by the Assembly of Experts who are voted by the people; this is analogous to how the President is indirectly elected by the Electoral College. He in turn appoints the Courts and armed forces.
Here's a good flowchart [bbc.co.uk].
What makes it a bit harder for people to understand is that Iranians are electing a head of state who is also at the same time their religious leader (aka the marjiya), although many follow other Ayatollahs such as Sistani or Montazeri. Iran is not religiously homogeneous, there are about 25,000 Jews in Iran and they get guaranteed representatives in the Parliament as well as the Bahais and others.
Re:all this crap about israel (Score:5, Informative)
India - a nominally democratic country that has nucs so it can ward off Pakistan.
I guess you are using nominally - as - existing on name only - right?
From this sentence, I take it that you have never been to India - and dont even really know about it. There are many negatives for India, but being non-democratic is not one of them.
Democracy is the most important thing in our collective psyche. And when people kick your country down on the biggest thing it believes, due to their ignorance - it really really feels bad.