Iran waiting for Ayatollah Khamenei’s order to build first nuclear bomb

October 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. James Jones has refuted a newly uncovered IAEA report that suggests Iran has the information needed to build a nuclear bomb.

October 4th, 2009 LONDON - Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has handed over a list and evidence to Moscow, showing that some Russian scientists have been helping Iran to develop a nuclear bomb. Netanyahu's revelation came during his secret Moscow visit where he held urgent talks with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev.

September 30th, 2009 Iran accuses UN chief of parroting West on nukesUNITED NATIONS — Iran's president is accusing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of parroting Western criticism of its new uranium enrichment facility instead of waiting for a report from the U.N.

September 25th, 2009 Obama, other leaders: Iran has secret nuke sitePITTSBURGH — President Barack Obama declared Friday that Iran is on a path to confrontation with world powers unless it agrees to "come clean" and disclose all its nuclear activities. He said he would not rule out military action.

September 18th, 2009 TEHRAN - Even as a secret IAEA report revealed that Iran is capable of making a nuclear bomb and is developing a missile system to carry an atomic warhead, Iranian officials have reiterated claims that the Islamic nation's nuclear program is intended for peaceful purposes. Fox News quoted Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, as saying that Iran is sincere in wanting to negotiate with the West.

September 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's claim that Iran's short- and medium-range missiles posed the highest risk may come under question following an IAEA report warning that Iran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is developing a missile system to carry it. Within hours of US Defense Secretary Robert Gates announcing that they were shelving plans for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe because of Iran's shift in strategy, IAEA's confidential report revealed that Iran has "sufficient information" to build a bomb, Fox News reports.

July 25th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's pick for first vice president officially withdrew from the post after the supreme leader ordered Ahmadinejad to sack his deputy, the ISNA news agency reported Saturday. "Following the order by the supreme leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei), I do not consider myself as first vice president anymore and will serve the people wherever else needed," Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie said in a short statement carried by ISNA.

July 20th, 2009 JERUSALEM - In a startling disclosure, a serving member of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's loyal militia, has revealed how his duty required him to temporarily marry and rape young Iranian girls before executing them. In Iran, it is illegal to execute a young woman, if she is a virgin, he explained.

July 19th, 2009 JERUSALEM - In a startling disclosure, a serving member of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's loyal militia, has revealed how his duty required him to temporarily marry and rape young Iranian girls before executing them. In Iran, it is illegal to execute a young woman, if she is a virgin, he explained.

July 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Senior conservative clerics in Iran are concerned over Ayatollah Khamenei's alleged attempt to groom his son, Mojtaba Khamenei for leadership, who is leading the government's anti-protest militias, according to a report The Guardian reports that, according to "a politician with strong connections with the security apparatus" in Iran, Mojtaba's leading role in the crackdown has dismayed many of the country's senior clerics, conservative politicians, and Revolutionary Guard generals." "Mojtaba is the commander of this coup d'etat. The Basiji are operating on Mojtaba's orders, but his name is always hidden in all of this.

July 10th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Although Iran is capable of building a nuclear bomb within a year, but the Islamic republic is unlikely to take such a decision, both Israel and the US believe. According to the Israeli assessment, Iran will decide to make a nuclear bomb only in the "worst case scenario," but both Jerusalem and Washington currently believe that such a scenario is not likely to materialize.

June 17th, 2009 JERUSALEM - The chief of Israel's intelligence agency has expressed fear over Iran's capability to make a nuclear bomb by 2014, which he claims, could have "an existential threat to Israel." "Iran wants to be like Egypt was in the 1960s and 1970s. There is a lot of cooperation between Iran, North Korea and Syria.

June 12th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Israel has said that even if former Iran Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi wins Friday's presidential elections, his country's quest for being nuclear-armed will not diminish. As more than 46.2 million eligible Iranian voters choose their president in elections on Friday, senior Israeli defense officials have stressed that the outcome is unlikely to have any impact on Teheran's continued race toward nuclear power.

April 18th, 2009 TORONTO - An Iranian-Canadian has been charged with trying to export technology that could have helped Tehran get the nuclear bomb it so desperately seeks. Mahmoud Yadegari, a 35-year-old Torontonian, appeared bewildered Friday during a bail hearing.

April 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States has said it would start negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. The decision is has being seen as a further step toward the direct engagement with Iran that US President Barack Obama has promised.