Putin to Offer Advanced Antimissiles to Soothe Iran's S-300 Grudge

Putin is expected to fly to Iran on August 12 to meet in person the country’s newly-elected President Hassan Rouhani. The two leaders are likely to discuss a number of pressing political and economic issues from Iran’s controversial nuclear program to Russia’s participation in the expansion of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, the report says.

 

The International Atomic Energy Agency held a comprehensive safety inspection of the Soreq Nuclear Research Institute two weeks ago and found the facility to be safe.

 

The US House started work on a 2014 Pentagon spending bill by blocking a Democratic effort to zero funding for a GOP-proposed East Coast missile shield while voting to build Israel’s Iron Dome missiles in America.

 

In what is his first visit to India as vice president Joe Biden on Tuesday discussed ways to take forward the commercial aspects of the civil nuclear agreement between the US and India with PM Manmohan Singh. 

 

TerraPower, the Bill Gates-chaired nuclear company, has altered the design of its so-called traveling wave reactor and has begun exploring other fission technologies as well, including thorium fuel and molten salt reactors.

 

The tightening of the nuclear technology transfer regime as a result of India's 1974 test would have a considerable effect on the Brazilian and Argentine programs.