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World leaders to meet on Iran's failure to halt nuclear program...in September that it was building a secret uranium-enrichment facility at an underground site near the Shiite Muslim holy city of Qom, in addition to a known enrichment plant at Natanz. A team of U.N. nuclear experts from the International... In this article: Iran, Uranium, Barack Obama, Tehran, Russia, Manouchehr Mottaki, Geneva, United States, Cancer, and U.N. Security Council |
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BBC News | 6 days ago
US considering measures over Iran
US considering measures over Iran nuclear programme The IAEA wants "more clarification" about the purpose of the Qom facility President Barack Obama says the US and its partners are discussing "a package of potential steps" they could...
In this article: Iran, Barack Obama, Uranium, Tehran, International Atomic Energy Agency, US, UN Security Council, and UN
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Yahoo! News | 7 days ago
Iran rejects UN deal to send uranium abroad (AFP)
In this article: Uranium, UN, Iran, Tehran, Manouchehr Mottaki, Natanz, Agence France Presse, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, and All rights reserved
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L.A. Times - Middle East | November 17, 2009
U.N. report questions Iran's credibility on nuclear plant
The IAEA says satellite photos show construction on the facility near Qom began five years earlier than Tehran contends it did. A satellite photo provided by GeoEye shows the apparent nuclear facility under construction in the mountains...
In this article: Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, United Nations, Uranium, Allegation, Plutonium, and Federation of American Scientists
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washingtonpost.com | November 16, 2009
Obama says China agrees on Iran nuclear transparency
The United Nations' nuclear watchdog is concerned that Iran's belated revelation of a new uranium enrichment site near the holy city of Qom may mean it is hiding further nuclear activity, a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said...
In this article: Barack Obama, Iran, Hu Jintao, China, International Atomic Energy Agency, Beijing, Uranium, United Nations, and Chris Buckley
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Reuters | November 16, 2009
IAEA sees risk Iran hiding more nuclear activity
...International Atomic Energy Agency that it had begun building the plant within a bunker beneath a mountain near the holy city of Qom in 2007, but the IAEA had evidence the project had begun in 2002. Iran reported its existence to the IAEA...
In this article: International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Uranium, Thomson Reuters, Vienna, Small business, NYSE, Nasdaq, and United Nations
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BBC News | November 16, 2009
UN presses Iran on nuclear site
A UN team was allowed access to inspect the Qom site last month The UN's nuclear watchdog says it needs "more clarification" about the purpose of a recently declared Iranian nuclear site near the city of Qom. The International Atomic...
In this article: Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, Uranium, UN, Russia, Tehran, and US
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AP Online | November 16, 2009
UN says once-secret Iran facility to start in 2011
In this article: Iran, Uranium, UN, International Atomic Energy Agency, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama, Tehran, and Vienna
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DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security | November 15, 2009
IAEA sources: Site near Qom must be a military enrichment facility
...to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna confirm that the four inspectors who visited the newly discovered Fordo site near Qom last month found a fortified underground installation designed especially for the production of...
In this article: International Atomic Energy Agency, Uranium, UN, Vienna, and Iran
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JPost.com Front Page Top Stories | November 12, 2009
'Qom nuclear plant is 7 years old'
Article's topics: Qom, Iran, Nuclear Threat, IAEA, Mohamed Elbaradei Iran's recently revealed uranium enrichment hall is a highly fortified underground space that appears too small to house a civilian nuclear program, but large enough to...
In this article: International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Uranium, Teheran, UN Security Council, US, UN, and Britain
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AP Online | November 12, 2009
APNewsBreak: Diplomats: Iran nuke plant 7 yrs old
...to serve for military activities, diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday. Iran began building the facility near the holy city of Qom seven years ago, and after bouts of fitful construction could finish the project in a year, the...
In this article: Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, Uranium, Tehran, Mohamed ElBaradei, U.N. Security Council, U.N., Vienna, and U.S.
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Qom (قم, also known as Q'um or Ghom) is a city in Iran. It lies 156 km by road southwest of Tehran and is the capital of Qom Province. It has an estimated population of 1,042,309 in 2005. It is situated on the banks of the Qom river.
Qom is considered to be a holy city in Shi`a Islam, as it is the site of the shrine of Fatema Mæ'sume, sister of Imam `Ali ibn Musa Rida (Persian Imam Reza, 789–816 A.D.). The city is the largest center for Shi'a scholarship in the world, and is a significant destination of pilgrimage.
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