Argentina marks 200-year of independence

Independence celebrations kicked off in style in Argentina to mark 200-year celebration with military parades through downtown Buenos Aires.
Thousands of people from all ages gathered at major avenues in the capital city to watch five thousand soldiers from Argentina and Latin nations march through the streets, commemorating the day when rebels overthrew Spanish rule. People waved sky blue and white flags of Argentina. The armed forces including the army, air force and navy marched through the streets amidst applause.

Iran may withdraw from nuclear deal: Larijani

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned that if the western powers do not accept Irans right to the access of nuclear technology for civilian purpose then Iran would not abide by the agreement to send much of its enriched uranium to Turkey for further enrichment, if the G51 powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program do not approve it in its entirety.
If the powers including the US, UK, France, Russia and China seek to lay any further conditions on Iran beyond those negotiated with Brazil and Turkey, Larijani said, Teheran would withdraw from the deal.

Iran Ready to Send Uranium Abroad

TEHRAN: Iran said that it was ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment as requested by the UN. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the decision in an interview with state Iranian television.
He said Iran will have “no problem” giving the West its low-enriched uranium and taking it back several months later when it is enriched by 20 percent. The decision could signal a major shift in the Iranian position on the issue. Still, it was unclear how much of a concession the Ahmadinejad comments represented, even though he appeared to be saying for the first time that Iran was willing to ship out its enriched uranium and wait for it to be returned in the form of fuel for its Tehran research reactor. But his time frame of four or five months appeared to fall short of the year that Western officials say it would take for Iran’s enriched fuel to be turned into fuel rods for the reactor.
If that difference cannot be bridged, it could allow Iranian officials to assert that the deal failed due to Western foot-dragging, despite their readiness to accept the proposed formula of shipping out the bulk of their enriched uranium and waiting for it to be converted and returned as fuel.
Ahmadinejad also did not address whether his country was ready to ship out most of its stockpile in one batch — another condition set by the six world powers endorsing the fuel swap. If Iran were to agree to export most of its enriched uranium in one shipment, it would delay its ability to make a nuclear weapon by stripping it of the material it needs to make the fissile core of a warhead.

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Iran Ready to Send Uranium Abroad was first posted on February 3, 2010 at 1:38 pm.