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Netanyahu Warns That Nuclear Deal 'Paves Iran's Path' to a Bomb

IN THIS ISSUE: Netanyahu warns of nuclear deal, Iran calls Obama's 10-year nuclear demand 'unacceptable,' IAEA: Iran still withholding key information, Iran looking into small reactors, US endorses India's peace moves, Russia 'ready to repel any nuke strike, retaliate'.

Published on March 3, 2015

Netanyahu Warns That Nuclear Deal 'Paves Iran's Path' to a Bomb

Katie Zezima | Washington Post

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forcefully argued against a nuclear deal with Iran, telling a joint meeting of Congress that such an agreement would have the opposite effect of what the international community intends, by effectively supplying Iran with the means to produce a nuclear weapon.

Iran Calls Obama's 10-Year Nuclear Demand 'Unacceptable'

Arshad Mohammed | Reuters

Iran on Tuesday rejected as "unacceptable" U.S. President Barack Obama's demand that it freeze sensitive nuclear activities for at least 10 years, but said it would continue talks aimed at securing a deal, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported. 

IAEA: Iran Still Withholding Key Information

Haaretz

The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said on Monday Iran had still not handed over key information to his staff, and his body's investigation into Tehran's atomic programme could not continue indefinitely.

Iran Looking Into Developing Small Reactors

Tehran Times

"During the recent talks with U.S. negotiators in Geneva, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Washington is also looking into the same strategy," AEOI chief Ali Akbar Salehi said.

U.S. Endorses India's Peace Moves, Ignores Pakistan Plaint

Chidanand Rajghatta | Times of India

"If Pakistan can't commit itself to working against the terrorists that have operated in India, then there's not much we can do to reassure them, there's probably not much we should do to reassure them, because that really is a problem," George Perkovich said.

Russia 'Ready to Repel Any Nuke Strike, Retaliate' 

RT

"If there's a challenge to repel a lightning-fast nuclear strike in any given conditions – it will be done in fixed time, that's dead true," the Strategic Missile Forces Central Command's chief, Major-General Andrey Burbin, told Russian News Service on Saturday.

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