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Splitting Defensive Win Shares between Pitching and Fielding
This process involves seven "Claim Point" formulas, which when combined give an estimate of the percentage of defense attributable to pitchers. Each one of these claim points is either classified as being a "pitching" claim point, i.e. one that is attributable to the skill of the pitchers, or a "fielding" claim point that is attributable to the fielders, with the except of the first. The first formula is based on the team's Defensive Efficiency Record, which as an estimate of the percentage of balls hit into play against them that are turned into an out. This one, called CL-1, counts for both pitching and fielding. We first find the DER = (BF - H - W - K - HB)/(BF - HR - W - K - HB). The Braves faced 6015 batters, and allowed 1297 hits, 480 walks, 22 hit batters, 101 homers, and 1036 strikeouts. So their DER is (6015 - 1297 - 480 - 1036 - 22)/(6015 - 101 - 480 - 1036 - 22) = .7267. We then find adjDER as 1 - (1 - DER)/PF(S). The Braves' PF(S) was .995, giving an adjusted DER of 1 - (1 - .7267)/.995 = .7253. The claim points are found by:
CL-1 = 100 + (adjDER - LgDER)*2500
The NL DER was .7114, so the Braves' CL-1 is 100 + (.7253 - .7114)*2500 = 134.75
The second criteria is a pitching claim point, based on the strikeout rate. First we find the team's strikeouts per game as K*9/IP = KG. The Braves had 6.408, and we easily convert this to CL-2:
For the Braves, (6.408 + 2.5)/7*200 = 254.51
The third criteria is a pitching claim point, based on walks compared to the league average. The formula is:
CL-3 = Lg(W + HB)/IP * TmIP - W - HB + 200
In words, we find the league average of walks and hit batters per innings and subtract the team in question's W and HB to find out how many above average they were, then add this to 200. The league average was .3782 and the Braves pitched 1455 innings with 502 W+HB, so:
.3782*1455 - 502 + 200 = 248.28
The fourth criteria is another pitching claim point, based on home runs allowed. We find the number of homers less then expected, multiply by 5 and add to 200.
CL-4 = (LgHR/IP*TmIP - HR/PF(HR))*5 + 200
The league average was .0964 HR/IP, and the Braves allowed 101 homers with a 1.019 PF(HR), so:
(.0964*1455 - 101/1.019)*5 + 200 = 405.73
The fifth criteria is the first of two that is for fielding only, and it is based on the rate of errors and passed balls. This is put together like this:
CL-5 = (Lg(E + .5*PB)/INN*TmIP - E - .5*PB) + 100
The league average of errors and half of PB per inning was .0974, while the Braves committed 108 errors and 13 passed balls, resulting in:
(.0974*1455 - 108 - .5*13) + 100 = 127.22
RoF = (H - HR)*Lg%S + W + HB - SH - WP - BK - PB
In the 1993 NL, 77.8% of non-HR hits were singles. The Braves allowed 77 sacrifice hits, 46 wild pitches, and 9 balks, giving:
(1297 - 101)*.778 + 480 + 22 - 77 - 46 - 9 - 13 = 1287.49
The league has a RoF estimate of 19790. Expected DPs is the league DP per RoF, times the team RoF, times the ratio of team assists per inning to league assists per inning (this is used as an estimation of the opposing hitters' groundball tendencies):
ExpDP = Lg(DP/RoF)*TmRoF*(A/IP)/Lg(A/IP)
The NL turned 2028 double plays, and the Braves recorded 1769 assists versus 24442 for the league(in 20284 innings). So the Braves had 1769/1455 = 1.216 assists/inning versus 24442/20284 = 1.205 for the league. Put it all together:
2028/19790*1287.49*1.216/1.205 = 133.14
CL-6 is just the excess double plays multiplied by 4/3, plus 100:
CL-6 = (DP - ExpDP)*4/3 + 100
For the Braves, who turned 146 DP, (146 - 133.14)*4/3 + 100 = 117.15
For the Braves(104-58, .642), 405*.642 = 260
The percentage of defense attributable to pitching is the sum of the pitching claim points, plus 650, divided by the sum of all claim points (with CL-1 double counted because it is credited to pitchers and fielder) plus 1097.5.
Pitch% = (CL-1 + CL-2 + CL-3 + CL-4 + CL-7 + 650)/(2*CL-1 + CL-2 + CL-3 + CL-4 + CL-5 + CL-6 + CL-7 + 1097.5)
For the Braves:
(134.75 + 254.51 + 248.28 + 405.73 + 260 + 650)/(2*134.75 + 254.51 + 248.28 + 405.73 + 127.22 + 117.15 + 260 + 1097.5) = .7026
Therefore, we will assign 70.26% of the Braves 182 defensive win shares to the pitchers, or 128. The Field% = 1 - Pitch%, of course, and PWS = Pitch%*DWS while FWS = Field%*DWS. The Braves' fielders get 54 win shares collectively.
There are a couple of constraints placed on these figures, but I it doesn't appear as if they are relevant today. The first is that the Pitch% must be between 60 and 75%, and the second, which takes precedence over the first, is that a team must have between .16375 and .32375 FWS/game.
My Take: I do not know exactly the logic behind these steps, because Bill does not explain what that is (specifically I mean; obviously, the formulas are given and we know which criteria are credited to pitcher and which to fielder's, but outside of that, we don't know much), but I do not like this step. If Win Shares truly represents a step forward in measuring fielding, then the step that determines how much of a team's defense the fielders deserve credit for is pretty darn important.
First let me explain the general logic behind the scales. Each CL-x formula has an average, which represents the amount of weight it is given. For example, the average CL-1 is 100, meaning it is weighted by 100. Let me just make a list of the averages:
Most of these are easy to figure out, because they just take some difference from league average and add it to the number. Obviously, if the team is average, zero plus that number will equal that number. The only exceptions are CL-2, which assumes an average team will have 4.5 KG, and CL-7, which is just 405*.500 = 202.5.
If you plug those averages into the Pitch% formula, you will get .675, meaning that Win Shares assumes that an average defense is 67.5% attributable to pitching, which is in line with the 2/3 approximation that some sabermetricians use.
For all I know, all of these formulas could be very well-founded and work. The only problem is, James does not explain the weightings or how he reached them. In such a crucial stage of the process, there is basically no justification offered other then "it works". I can accept that it may give a reasonable estimate, but do not expect me to adopt your system unless I have some hard data or reasoning to back it up.
One thing that puzzles me is the willy-nilly mix of counting numbers and rates. CL-1, uses a rate, DER. CL-2 uses a rate, KG. CL-3 uses counting, walks above average. CL-4 uses counting, homers above average. CL-5 uses counting, errors above average. CL-6 uses counting, double plays above average. CL-7 uses a rate, winning percentage. This is completely flummoxing. Why does a pitching staff's K ability get expressed as a rate, while their control ability gets expressed as a count? If a full season is played, these things should even out but what about strike seasons? What if you try to use Win Shares in the middle of a season? This part won't work. It takes a full season for the variances from expectation for walks, double plays, etc. get to the same proportion used in the formulas as the variances for the rates. KG is a number between 0 and 27 whether it is April 1 or the last day of the season. But how many errors above average can you possibly be after ten games?
I can't express just how bizarre I think this is. Win Shares will not work if you use them in the middle of a season, because these formulas will not work. They will be comparing apples and oranges.
There are other questions to be asked to. For one thing, strikeouts are not compared to the league average. This makes absolutely perfect sense--after all, if everybody in the league has a KG of 9, that is four less outs in the field then a league where everybody has a KG of 5, even if no teams deviate from the average. So I understand this step. But why aren't walks treated the same way? After all, if there is a league like the late 40s AL with a billion walks, won't everybody in that league allow a lot of runs due to walks, which are not controlled at all by the fielders? If one league has an average of 400 walks/team, and a second league has an average of 500 walks/team, the second league's pitchers are all allowing a lot of runs without involving the fielders at all. And the same argument goes for home runs. In a "three true outcomes" game, in which every play is a homer, walk, or strikeout, you don't need fielders. You can do the old Satchel Paige legend and have them sit on the mound.
This would cause problems in the Win Shares system, though, because one can argue against that by saying that we cannot know whether a certain walk rate is good or not unless we evaluate it against the context (read league average). 4 walks/game is a solid performance in the 1949 AL where the average is 4.5, but atrocious in the 1880 NL where the average is 1.1 But is this not true for Ks as well? Walter Johnson was a great strikeout pitcher in his day, but his strikeout rates look like Nate Conejo compared to Nolan Ryan. Part of the problem, then, is that the pitching/fielding split is kept constant over time. If you had a league with a very low strikeout and walk rate, you would want to increase the fielding share, but still credit those pitchers that excelled in strikeouts and walks.
My point is that there are two aspects to the K/W/HR rates. One is obvious: how does it relatively compare to the other pitchers in the league. The second is more subtle: what do the absolute weights say about the importance of pitching in this league. The W and HR claim formulas address the first question, the K formula addresses the second question.
James says that even with the use of .52/1.52 instead of .5/1.5, pitchers seem to rate too low. And pursuing Win Shares lists, one tends to agree with him. According to Win Shares, as best as I can tell, the last pitcher ranked as the top player in the league was Steve Carlton in 1972. In the most recent year published in the book, 2001, the majors' top rated pitcher was Randy Johnson with 25.70 Win Shares. The top five position players in each league easily exceeded this. The AL WS leader was Jason Giambi at 35.81, but fifth place Jim Thome came in at 29.44. The NL WS leader was Barry Bonds at 52.22, but Gary Sheffield came in fifth at 28.32.
One reason for the low ranking of pitchers could be a flaw in other sabermetric methods. For example, when we use Run Average or ERA together with a baseline to rank pitchers, we credit all of the marginal impact to the pitcher. But of course we also recognize that the defense has playd a part in preventing those runs. So we may well be overrating the pitcher's impact. While that is likely a factor, I think there is a much more basic reason for the relatively low rankings of pitchers: the fact that the pitchers' share is determined at the team level, and not the individual level.
Win Shares holds that excellence in getting strikeouts and preventing walks and homers shows that more credit should be given to the pitchers. But of course the K, W, and HR skills vary wildly among individuals on a staff. When the Diamondbacks 2001 Win Shares were split up, Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling both were excellent in those areas to help bolster the team's pitching share. But soft-tossers like Mike Morgan and Greg Swindell were on that team too, bringing it down. The pitching share is obviously different depending on who is on the mound.
But Win Shares, by apportioning the Win Shares to the pitching staff and then to individuals, uses the total team performance, and therefore cannot properly credit Johnson and Schilling. I would suggest that it could do more to properly credit them by emphasizing the three true outcomes in the pitcher claim point process which distributes the team pitching WS to the individual pitchers. But as we will see, the criteria there are R, ER, IP, W, L, SV, and HLD, essentially, nothing that will allow Johnson to gain tons of points for not relying on his defense (outside of the positive effect excellence in the three true outcomes has on ERA, Wins, etc.) What I am suggesting are additional bonuses for doing things that increase the team's pitchers' share. I am not suggesting that this approach would be ideal, because I think the best thing to do would be to allocate the percentage differently for each pitcher. However, the "bonuses" might be the easiest way for these factors to be incorporated into the Win Shares framework.
One final little thing is that the pitching/fielding split excludes pitchers from receiving fielding win shares. There is a good case to be made I think for doing this, given that pitcher's runs allowed totals include whatever defensive impact they had. However, I am not sure how this would impact comparisons of the pitching/fielding breakdown to other estimates of the breakdown done by other people who may have included pitcher's fielding in the total share for fielding (of course, the fielding impact of pitchers is very small compared to other positions, at least as far as I know).
Component ERA in Win Shares
Component ERA(ERC) is used for a very small portion of the Win Shares method of distributing pitching win shares to individuals, but the formula is complex and so I put it in a separate section. ERC is an estimate of what a pitcher's ERA should be given his component stats(IP, H, W, HR, etc.) It is based on the Runs Created model of runs = A*B/C where A = baserunners, B = advancement, and C = PA.
You then take A*B/C to estimate runs allowed. Runs allowed are divided by innings and multiplied by 9 to estimate run average. Then, if the RA estimate is >=2.24, subtract .56 to get ERC. If it is less then 2.24, multiply by .75 to get ERC.
However, in the Win Shares methodology, Bill just adds back the earned run part, so we can ignore it. Therefore, I will simplify the formula and call it RAC (for Component RA). RAC = A*B*9/(BF*IP)
His RAC is 80*79.06*9/(236*52) = 4.64, significantly better then the 6.06 RA he actually allowed.
My Take: The ERC formula is pretty straightforward assuming use of Runs Created. Of course, I would prefer to see a more accurate run estimator used as the basis, but that's not happening. 1.255 is an approximation of the average number of TB per non-HR hit. I am not exactly sure why Bill takes estimated TB by .89 and walks by .56, while in the regular RC formula TB are weighted around 1 and walks around .26.
The subtraction of .56 is also a little confusing, since I believe research shows that assuming a multiplier all the way is more accurate (approximately 90% of runs are earned). If anything, one would expect the ERA and RA for very good pitchers to be closer (linearly) then those for bad pitchers, so multiplying by 75% for low RAs would make it worse. Of course, this is of no consequence in Win Shares because the unearned part is added back in.


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Putin to offer Iran 'arms, nuclear deal' at summit
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Iran's new president for the first time this week, reportedly armed with an offer to supply missile systems and build a second nuclear power reactor that is likely to gladden Tehran and trouble the United States.
President Hassan Rowhani is set to meet Putin on the sidelines of a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation held in Kyrgyzstan on Friday, in the newly-elected centrist cleric's first meeting with a major world leader.
The Kommersant daily reported Wednesday that Putin would offer to supply Iran S-300 air defence missile systems as well as build a second reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant.
The S-300 offer would be a particularly contentious development given it would essentially revive a contract for similar missile systems that Russia cancelled in 2010 after heavy Israeli and US pressure
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Kommersant that Putin and Rowhani were expected to discuss "working together in the nuclear energy sphere" and "questions of military technical cooperation" at the summit in Bishkek.
However, Peskov denied Wednesday evening that Putin had tasked officials with preparing the new arms agremeent.
"No," Russian news agencies quoted Peskov as saying when asked whether Putin ordered to put together such a deal.
Putin's meeting with the leader of Moscow's long-standing regional ally comes shortly after he hosted Western powers for a G20 summit focused on Syria in Saint Petersburg last week.
Putin will make significant concessions to Iran by offering to supply Tehran with five S-300 ground-to-air missile systems, Kommersant reported earlier Wednesday, quoting a source close to the Kremlin
Putin would offer to supply Tehran with a modified export version of the S-300 systems called S-300VM Antey-2500, the source said.
The source also said Russia would offer to build a second reactor for the Bushehr nuclear plant, Iran's only functioning nuclear power station whose construction was completed by Russia, as a political gesture.
Putin took the decisions on September 5, the source said
Russia in 2007 signed a contract to deliver five of the advanced S-300 ground-to-air weapons systems -- which can take out aircraft or guided missiles -- to Iran at a cost of $800 million.
In 2010, then president Dmitry Medvedev cancelled the contract after coming under strong US and Israeli pressure not to go ahead with the sale of the weapons system, drawing vehement protests from Tehran.
Kommersant cited a source as saying that Russia's offer would depend on Iran's withdrawing a $4-billion lawsuit that it has lodged at an international court in Geneva against Russia's arms export agency
Russia could increase supplies of arms to Iran if Washington decides on military intervention in Syria, the head of the lower house's committee on international relations, Alexei Pushkov, told parliament on Wednesday.
"If the 'party of war' prevails in the United States... then I consider it absolutely justified to suggest considering more serious measures by Russia, including broadening of supplies of defensive weapons to Iran," Pushkov was quoted as saying by Interfax.
Iran is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main regional ally and has warned Western powers against intervention in the conflict.
Russia has opposed international military intervention against Assad and is negotiating with Damascus on a plan for it to hand over chemical weapons in order to avoid US strikes.
An arms industry source told Interfax on Wednesday that supplies of Antey-2500 S-300s to Iran "could not be ruled out in the future, but so far no pre-contractual work is being carried out by Russian exporters".
Kommersant also cited the source close to the Kremlin as saying that Russia was ready to build a second reactor for Bushehr power station in a deal that was not "particularly profitable from an economic point of view, but is rather political".
Moscow has cooperated with Iran on nuclear power generation despite international opposition to a programme that Western powers and Israel believe is being used as a smokescreen for building a nuclear bomb, while Iran insists it is peaceful.
Russia had urged the West to soften sanctions against Iran after the election of Rowhani, a centrist cleric, in June, expressing hopes for a major breakthrough in the nuclear standoff. Rowhani has pledged greater transparency in talks.
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At UN, Israel likely to stand alone against Iran
While Western powers appear ready to embrace Rouhani, who will speak later Tuesday, Netanyahu expected to warn next week against trusting new Iranian president
This years United Nations General Assembly enters a critical phase Tuesday, with a speech by President Barack Obama and the first appearance on the world stage of Irans new president, Hasan Rouhani, who is expected to attempt to convince the West of the Islamic Republics peaceful intentions.
As diplomacy takes center stage in New York, the US and Great Britain appear willing to thaw ties with the Islamist regime following a charm offensive by Rouhani, who in recent days has been keen to show his regimes ostensible readiness to compromise in the nuclear standoff with the West.
Israel stands alone in its rejection of Rouhanis overtures, arguing that Rouhani merely put a friendlier face on a rogue regime still bent on acquiring nuclear weapons.
Irans negotiation strategy is entirely consistent with Rouhanis policy of smile and enrich, stated an internal Israeli government document which surfaced Tuesday.
Obamas address is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. (10 a.m. in New York). Rouhani is scheduled to speak at 1:00 a.m. (6 p.m. in New York). In between the two speeches, the two leaders could meet and exchange a handshake during a reception for heads of state hosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon but no official meeting has been scheduled so far.
Several top Israeli officials are already in New York, including International Relations and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who is in charge of peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will land in the US on Sunday, where he will first meet Obama at the White House on Monday and then deliver the final address at this years General Assembly on Tuesday.
As he did during last years GA, during which he presented a cartoon bomb meant to warn the world of imminent Iranian nuclear weapons capability, Netanyahu will focus his remarks on the Iranian threat, arguing that Rouhani might agree to minor concessions in return to an easing of the sanctions against the regime but seeks to preserve the ability to build a nuclear weapon at any time.
Amid a possible détente between the West and Iran which has reportedly agreed to close down its Fordo uranium enrichment facility if the sanctions against its banking and oil industries are lifted the prime minister will warn against any agreement that would allow the Iran to continue its nuclear ambitions.
A bad agreement is worse than no agreement at all, Netanyahu is expected to say, the New York Times reported on Sunday, quoting an Israeli official who was reading from a preliminary draft of Netanyahus speech. Iran must not be allowed to repeat North Koreas ploy to get nuclear weapons. Just like North Korea before it, Iran professes to seemingly peaceful intentions; it talks the talk of nonproliferation while seeking to ease sanctions and buy more time for its nuclear program.
The prime ministers speech has yet to be finalized, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Monday. However, he confirmed that an explicit comparison with North Korea would likely be an integral part of it.
After years of deadlock, Pyongyang in 2005 agreed to suspend its nuclear program in return to assurances that the US would not attack the reclusive regime. However, on February 12, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un authorized an underground nuclear test, raising international concerns and condemnations.
Israeli leaders have drawn comparisons between Pyongyang and Tehran in the past.
Have tough sanctions stopped North Korea? No. And the fact that they produced a nuclear explosion reverberates everywhere in the Middle East, and especially in Iran, the prime minister told Jewish Agency officials a week after the North Korean nuclear test.
On April 16, Netanyahu said at an Independence Day reception for the foreign diplomatic corps: We have recently seen the results of a wild regime that possesses nuclear weapons. We have also seen that heavy sanctions are not always effective against a sufficiently determined regime. Therefore, we have an obligation to ensure that this will not happen again. If Iran achieves nuclear weapons, this will change the world. Seeing Kims blatant disregard for international obligations, despite crippling sanctions, offered an additional perspective on Israels position vis-à-vis Iran, he added.
The North Korea parallel has been mentioned in the past, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel, but now it will take center stage.
Irans Rouhani is seeking a deal similar to the one the West struck with North Korea eight years ago one that reduces pressure on the regime and eases sanctions but nevertheless allows them to continue fostering their nuclear ambitions, the official said. The international community was obviously not happy about North Korea achieving nuclear capability. So we will say to them: Do not make the same mistake. By raising the North Korean issue were raising a precedent that all the policymakers in international community are aware of.
According to an internal document authorized by the highest levels of the Israeli government, Iran seeks an arrangement in which sanctions are eased or lifted in exchange for cosmetic concessions, while allowing Iran to retain sufficient nuclear material and no less importantly nuclear infrastructure to complete its military nuclear program on short notice.
Tehran is developing and installing new and advanced centrifuges for this purpose, states the document, published Tuesday by the Washington Post. These centrifuges enable Iran to enrich within weeks even low enriched uranium to weapons grade highly enriched uranium, the most critical component in making nuclear weapons. This speedy enrichment capability will make timely detection and effective response to an Iranian nuclear breakout increasingly difficult, if not impossible.
Therefore, even an Iranian cessation of high enrichment and an agreement to hand existing highly enriched uranium would be insufficient, the document states, as Tehran could quickly transform its low enriched uranium to weapons grade highly enriched uranium.
The prime minister is aware that hes spoiling the party, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel, referring to Jerusalems skepticism. Many people in the international community want to believe in Rouhanis charm offensive. But the prime minister believes firmly that we havent seen change of substance. And he will make his case even if there are those who believe that hes spoiling the party, even if he risks sounding like a broken record. He believes thats his moral obligation.
Netanyahu and his aides will bring relevant, current and timely information to shed light on these issues to their meetings in Washington and New York next week, the official said, refusing to elaborate. We have no expectation that we will convince everyone who wants to celebrate the party, but we wont give up.
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Obama and Rouhani make history with phone call, thawing three decade freeze between US and Iran
President Barack Obama revealed he talked with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, marking the first time leaders from the U.S. and Iran have directly communicated since the 1979 Iranian revolution.
"Just now I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran," he said from the White House Friday afternoon.
Rouhani has been engaged in a publicity blitz as of late, a streak that began with his sit-down with NBC News' Ann Curry last week. Rouhani spent the last few days at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, making a number of public addresses indicating that Iran was open to a deeper relationship with the U.S. and the West, and resolving conflict around his country's nuclear program.
"The two of us discussed our ongoing efforts to reach an agreement over Iran's nuclear program," Obama said. "I reiterated to President Rouhani what I said in New York: While there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward, and success is by no means guaranteed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive agreement."
The president noted that his conversation with Rouhani, which took place Iranian president headed to the airport, "underscores the deep mistrust between our countries, but also indicates the prospect of moving on that difficult history."
Moments before Obama took the podium, Rouhani tweeted the news.
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Iran hints it could consider wider nuclear inspections
GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran suggested it was ready to address calls to give the U.N. atomic watchdog wider inspection powers as part of Tehran's proposals to resolve a decade-old nuclear dispute with the West.
The comments from Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi appeared to be the first specific indication of what concessions Tehran might be prepared to make in return for the removal of sanctions hurting its oil-dependent economy.
Iran presented a three-phase plan for ending the standoff over its nuclear program during the first day of an October 15-16 meeting with six world powers in Geneva on Tuesday. The talks were due to resume later on Wednesday.
Iran did not give details of its proposal On Tuesday, but said it included monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear body which regularly inspects declared Iranian facilities.
Iran's official IRNA news agency asked Araqchi about the issues of uranium enrichment and the so-called Additional Protocol to Iran's agreement with the IAEA.
"Neither of these issues are within the first step (of the Iranian proposal) but form part of our last steps," he replied without going into further details, in comments reported on Wednesday.
The Additional Protocol allows unannounced inspections outside of declared nuclear sites and it is seen as a vital tool at the IAEA's disposal to make sure that a country does not have any hidden nuclear work.
The world powers have long demanded that Iran implement the protocol. Iran says it is voluntary.
The powers - the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia - also want Iran to scale back its uranium enrichment program and suspend higher-level activity.
Refined uranium can be used to fuel nuclear power plants, Iran's stated aim, but can also provide the fissile core of a nuclear bomb if processed further, which the West fears may be Tehran's ultimate goal.
Western diplomats stress they want Tehran to back up its newly conciliatory language with concrete actions.
Both sides are trying to dampen expectations of any rapid breakthrough at the two-day meeting, the first to be held since President Hassan Rouhani took office, promising conciliation over confrontation in Iran's relations with the world.
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US Fears Israel Now Preparing To Strike Iran Alone
Talks in Geneva on Irans nuclear program are triggering fears within U.S. intelligence agencies that Israel is hardening its stance on Iran and could conduct a military attack to stave off what the Jewish state believes is a delaying tactic for Tehran to buy time to build nuclear weapons. The clearest indicator of growing Israeli concerns, according to defense officials, is the recent large-scale Israeli air force drill Tuesday in the northern part of the country.
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Iran Announces 34 New Nuke Sites
Working with Russia to boost nuclear program
Iran plans to build many new nuclear plants with atomic reactors along its coastlines with the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea, Irans top nuclear official announced on Thursday.
The announcement comes just a week after Western nuclear negotiators claimed that Iran was giving ground in talks aimed at ending Tehrans contested enrichment program.
Iranian leaders, however, have remained defiant in the face of talks, announcing on Thursday that Tehran will build enough atomic reactors to generate a total of 20,000 megawatts of electricity by 2020, according to the countrys state-run Fars News Agency.
Top Iranian leaders and those involved with negotiations have also been quoted in the Persian language press as rejecting key details of the proposed nuclear deal.
Iran also announced that it was Chinas largest oil supplier in the month of September.
We are considering construction of power plants along the coasts of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea as well as the Central parts of Iran, but priority is given to the Persian Gulf coasts because we want to pave the way for [the construction of] water desalination facilities to supply drinking water for the Southern provinces of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Irans Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO), said Tuesday Fars reported.
At least 34 sites have already been designated for future nuclear power plants, according to Fars.
Additionally, Salehi announced just two days after nuclear negotiations ended that Russia would help Iran build new nuclear power plants across the country, according to Persian language press reports.
Salehi also suggested that Irans top nuclear negotiators lack the authority to agree to a deal with the West.
The IAEO, he claimed, also plays a role in Irans nuclear decision-making and would instruct negotiating officials, according to a Farsi-language Fars article translated by the Open Source Center.
Around 13,000 people are involved in Irans nuclear sector, according to Salehi, who also revealed that Russia could soon begin construction on a second nuclear power plant in Iran.
We had a meeting [with Russians] at the beginning of this week regarding the signing of a protocol on the construction of the next power plant, Salehi told Fars in Persian last week. Once this protocol is prepared, Russia will start the constructing of another power pant in Bushehr.
The latest power plant models have been designed and are ready to be constructed, and the foundation of the next power plant is prepared in Bushehr, where the Russians are helping Iran run final tests on another soon to be completed nuke plant, Salehi said.
Russia has helped Iran quicken its nuclear pace, according to Salehi.
We worked with the Russians and it is a good opportunity, because it expedites our work and is not aimed at diminishing political pressure, he said.
Irans top nuclear negotiators have also been quoted in the Iranian press downplaying progress in talks.
Iranian deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi, who played a lead role in the negotiations, said that the Iranian side made no commitment, according to Irans conservative Tasnim News Agency.
Araqchis comments run against Western reports claiming substantive progress in the most recent round of negotiations.
Irans main goal is to preserve its nuclear enrichment program, according to Araqchi.
The countrys proposal presented in the latest talks between Tehran and world powers was aimed at protecting Iranian rights to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, Tasnim reported this week.
The defined goal is safeguarding Irans nuclear rights, both in terms of uranium enrichment and in [the] fuel production field, Araqchi was quoted as saying.
Once the West is assured that Irans nuclear program is peaceful, the sanctions would be totally lifted, Araqchi claimed.
Iran reportedly presented to the West a three-step plan and promised to consider a proposal known as the Additional Protocol, which would make Iran subject to strict nuclear inspections, according to Tasnim.
Araqchi has also been telling Iranian lawmakers that the issue of Fordow, one of Irans top nuclear enrichment facilities, is not even on the negotiating agenda.
Araqchi reportedly told the West during talks that Tehran would not stop uranium enrichment and that the closure of Fordow was not on the agenda of the Iranian negotiating team, according to Irans Press TV.
Fordow has long been used by Iran to enrich uranium, the key element in a nuclear bomb. Iran has been producing 20 percent enriched uranium at the site for several months now, according to the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS).
ISIS announced in a report late Thursday that Iran would have the ability to create weapons grade uranium by mid-2014, though its ability to produce a working nuclear weapons could come much sooner.
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October 26, 2013, 11:40:26 am »
US should drop atomic bomb on Iran
During a panel at Yeshiva University on Tuesday evening, Sheldon Adelson, noted businessman and owner of the newspaper Israel Hayom, suggested that the US should use nuclear weapons on Iran to impose its demands from a position of strength.
Asked by moderator Rabbi Shmuley Boteach whether the US should negotiate with Iran if it were to cease its uranium enrichment program, Adelson retorted, What are we going to negotiate about?
Adelson then imagined what might happen if an American official were to call up an Iranian official, say watch this, and subsequently drop a nuclear bomb in the middle of the Iranian desert.
"Then you say, See! The next one is in the middle of Tehran. So, we mean business. You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development. You want to be peaceful? Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee you that you can have a nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy purposes," Adelson said.
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Sheldon Adelson, noted businessman and owner of the newspaper Israel Hayom
Noted businessman? That's an understatement. He's one of the riches men in the world.
I'd like to know though how he managed to lose over 90% of his wealth between 08 and 09, then within 2 years, his worth went from just over $3 billion to over $20 billion, and is now worth estimated $34 billion according to Bloomberg. So, according to that, he's made about $10 billion in about 2 years.
Strange. Went from estimated 34 billion by 2008, then by 2009, he lost approx. 93% to about 3.5 billion. And today, he's back up to over 30 billion.
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German men sentenced for smuggling nuclear components to Iran
Procurement of parts for Irans heavy water reactor in Arak believed to be largest violation so far of trade embargo with Iran
By JTA November 16, 2013, 9:03 am
ERLIN A Hamburg court sentenced four men for smuggling products for use in Irans nuclear program, believed to be the largest violation so far of the trade embargo with Iran.
Critics said the sentences, ranging from four years in prison to 18 months probation, are too lenient, and called for repercussions for the German Office for Export Control.
According to the Hamburg Abendblatt newspaper, the four men procured reactor parts for Irans heavy water reactor in Arak, but claimed they were sending the goods to Turkey and Azerbaijan.
U.S. intelligence services reportedly informed German export authorities about the planned illegal shipments in 2009, but the shipments went ahead in 2010 and 2011
German Member of Parliament Klaus Barthel, economic policy speaker for the opposition Social Democratic Party,has blasted the Federal Government in recent weeks for refusing to answer questions about the lapse.
This week, the German non-governmental organization Stop the Bomb criticized the lenient sentences and called on Germany to fire the director of the Federal Office for Export Control, Arnold Wallraff.
Despite all warnings, they still gave their permission for the exports, Stop the Bomb Executive Director Michael Spaney told JTA. It is a major scandal.
Despite the reported U.S. warnings, a German businessman identified as Rudolf M. was able to deliver 92 valves for nuclear power plants via an Iranian middleman, Hossein Tanideh, who currently is in jail in Turkey. Rudolf M. was assisted by three German-Iranians identified as Gholamali K., Kianzad K. and Hamid K.
Gholamali K. also helped organize delivery of nearly 900 valves from India
The Hamburg judge said the four men had not only violated the embargo but endangered German foreign relations. They knew exactly that this was business with a nuclear background, he said.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Wednesday that Iran will not step back 'one iota' from its nuclear rights
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Obama backs them too...
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Experts: Obama's Iran Moves Could Start World War III
According to a recent news report, President Barack Obama has for over a year secretly conducted negotiations with Iran (through his adviser Valerie Jarrett) and the Geneva talks on Iranian nukes now appear to be just a facade providing international legitimacy for Obama's secret deal with Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry's contradictory criticism of Israeli objections to that deal only suggests more bad faith by the Obama administration. Kerry claims that Israel has been kept fully apprised of the negotiations with Iran but then argues that Israel has never seen the terms of the proposed deal with Iran and therefore shouldn't question it. The Obama administration apparently wants to present the nuclear deal as a fait accompli that Israel must simply accept as is. In what is becoming a familiar pattern, Russia is readily moving in to the Mideast areas where U.S. influence has waned because of Obama's many fumbles in the region.
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'Israel, US to stage large-scale military drill when Iran nuclear deal expires'
Israel and the United States will stage a large-scale military exercise toward the end of the six-month period in which the interim agreement between the P5+1 powers and Iran takes effect... The drill is intended to signal to the Iranians that while the West may prefer diplomacy to solve the nuclear stalemate, it is still keeping the military option alive...
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January 25, 2014, 11:46:15 am »
In first, Iranian warships en route to Atlantic
Khark helicopter-carrier warship and Sabalan destroyer said heading west in historic trip, no military objective mentioned
Irans navy has dispatched warships on a mission to the Atlantic Ocean
for the first time in history
, an Iranian news agency said.
The flotilla, consisting of a Khark logistic and helicopter-carrier warship and Sabalan destroyer,
could journey as much as 25,000 nautical kilometers in the next three months
, Fars News reported Tuesday.
No specific military mission was identified, and no ports of call were mentioned.
Bidding farewell to the crews, Rear Admiral Seyyed Mahmoud Moussavi said
Iran has a message of peace and friendship for the nations of the world
and only seeks to display its defensive power capabilities.
But previous statements by high-ranking Iranian naval personnel had declared Irans intention to dispatch a next flotilla of warships to the high seas at around this date to protect the countrys cargo ships and oil tankers against pirate attacks.
According to navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, The navys next flotilla will be dispatched to either the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic on January 21 February 20. He underlined that the flotilla will pass through the Mediterranean Sea to reach the Atlantic Ocean.
Since November 2008, the Iranian navy has been operating anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden, after Somali buccaneers hijacked the Iranian-chartered cargo ship, MV Delight, off the coast of Yemen.
The Gulf of Aden which links the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal is a critical energy corridor and the primary route for Persian Gulf oil shipped to Western markets
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seeks to display its defensive power capabilities
The "Iranian Navy" is like a contradiction in terms! What navy? They got a couple ships and a bunch of speed boats. They'd have a hard time defending a bath tub.
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Rear Admiral Seyyed Mahmoud Moussavi said Iran has a message of peace and friendship for the nations of the world and only seeks to display its defensive power capabilities.
isnt that wonderful Mr sailor but i dont think you get the game.
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Iran says warships headed close to US borders
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranian warships dispatched to the Atlantic Ocean will travel close to U.S. maritime borders
for the first time
, a senior Iranian naval commander said Saturday.
The commander of Iran's Northern Navy Fleet, Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad, said the vessels have already entered the Atlantic Ocean via waters near South Africa, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The fleet, consisting of a destroyer and a helicopter-carrying supply ship, began its voyage last month from the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. The ships, carrying some 30 navy academy cadets for training along with their regular crews, are on a three-month mission.
The voyage comes amid an ongoing push by Iran
to demonstrate its ability to project power across the Middle East and beyond
IRNA quoted Haddad as saying the fleet is approaching U.S. maritime borders for the first time.
The Islamic Republic considers the move as a response to U.S. naval deployments near its own coastlines
. The U.S. Navy's 5th fleet is based in Bahrain, just across the Persian Gulf.
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Two ships.
Well, seeing they claim to be near US shores, they should just cruise right on over to NOB Norfolk and say hello. While they are there, they can see what real navy ships look like.
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Iranian Official: 'We are Preparing to Liberate Jerusalem'
The Islamist Basij militia force in Tehran ran a special military exercise Thursday and Friday preparing for an Iranian takeover of Jerusalem. ?The exercise, entitled "March to Al-Maqdis (Jerusalem)," included training in the event of such a takeover, including drills for the protection of cities, assistance and rescue, dealing with social unrest, the protection of sensitive and important military centers, dealing with the invasion and landing of "enemy" (IDF) forces from helicopters, and carrying out complicated tactical maneuvers at night.
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Analysis: Ukraine casts pall over Iran nuke talks
VIENNA (AP) Tehran may have a new ally when Iran nuclear talks reconvene Tuesday the Ukraine crisis. U.S.-Russian tensions over Ukraine could fray the search for consensus on what Iran needs to do to ease fears it could make atomic arms.
Both Washington and Moscow are emphasizing that their commitment to eliminating any Iranian proliferation threat overrides their clash over Ukraine.
But diplomats tell The Associated Press that Moscow and Washington are wide apart on how much Tehran needs to trim its nuclear program, a split that Iran could exploit
In a more immediate sign of possible trouble ahead, Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency reported that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif cancelled a planned pre-talks dinner Monday with the European Union's foreign policy chief over her meetings with opposition activists in Iran earlier this month.
Ahead of the resumption of the Vienna talks, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said she expects Russia to "remain an active partner" in the attempt to persuade Tehran to agree to long-term nuclear curbs in exchange for full sanctions relief.
A senior Russian diplomat said his country would work "actively" to reach a deal. He demanded anonymity because he did not have permission from Moscow to comment.
But former U.S. nuclear negotiator Gary Samore says any superpower tensions will make Tehran feel "under much less pressure to make concessions."
That, in turn, could affect what the U.S. sees as central goal reducing the number of Iranian centrifuges set up at uranium enrichment sites
Iran says its enrichment program is meant only to make lower-enriched fuel for reactors, scientific research or for medical treatments.
But because enrichment to very high levels creates weapons-grade uranium that can be used in nuclear warheads, Washington wants Tehran to scale back from nearly 20,000 centrifuges to no more than a few thousand.
Russia's demands are far less strict. Two diplomats told the AP that Moscow was open to Iran keeping many more of the machines perhaps even the status quo of the nearly 20,000 with further negotiations on how many would be allowed to operate
Moscow's condition would be that Iran ratify an agreement with the U.N. nuclear agency that would give agency experts wide-ranging inspection powers to make sure Tehran's nuclear program is peaceful, they said. The diplomats are familiar with the details of the closed-door talks but demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them.
China usually supports Russia's position at the negotiations, but Moscow's stance is rejected by the United States, Britain, France and Germany
Moscow and Washington have been able to bridge previous differences over Iran. And former State Department official Mark Fitzpatrick notes that even during the Cold War, the two nations cooperated "despite many periods of intense distrust."
Fitzpatrick, who is now with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, lists Russian-U.S teamwork on bringing about the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and extending its reach as well as concluding several arms control agreements as examples of how common interests can override even the worst tensions.
Still, he says a Moscow at odds with Washington over larger geopolitical issues could put its own agenda including building nuclear reactors for Iran above cooperation. Russia, he says, always "marches to its own drum."
Samore, of Harvard's Belfer Center,
says Iran is bound to feel "emboldened," and public statements and actions from Tehran seem to mesh with that view, including the reported dinner cancellation
. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's spokesman, Michael Mann confirmed only that contrary to established routine the two would not meet for dinner on the eve of the upcoming nuclear round.
Formally at least, Ashton is the chief negotiator for the six powers. Zarif leads the Iranian negotiating team.
At the same time Moscow is negotiating on reducing Iran's nuclear program, it is in talks on expanding it by building new reactors there. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said last week his country and Russia had common interests and that Tehran was banking on "Moscow's help to reach the final agreement."
Iran's Fars news agency, meanwhile, appeared to take a dig at veiled U.S. threats of military strikes if negotiations fail and Washington believes that Tehran is working on a bomb. It republished a cartoon showing President Barack Obama peering into an empty paint can marked "Red Line."
The cartoon shows a grinning Russian President Vladimir Putin walking away, with the caption: "I think you used it all on Syria."
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Netanyahu orders IDF to prepare for possible strike on Iran during 2014
Despite talks between Iran and West, senior officers tell MKs 10b shekels ($2.9b) allocated to IDF to prepare for possible attack.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon have ordered the army to continue preparing for a possible military strike on Irans nuclear facilities at a cost of at least 10 billion shekels ($2.89 billion) this year, despite the talks between Iran and the West, according to recent statements by senior military officers.
Three Knesset members who were present at Knesset joint committee hearings on Israel Defense Forces plans that were held in January and February say they learned during the hearings that 10 billion shekels to 12 billion shekels of the defense budget would be allocated this year for preparations for a strike on Iran, approximately the same amount that was allocated in 2013.
Some MKs asked the armys deputy chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, and planning directorate official Brig. Gen. Agai Yehezkel whether they felt there was justification for investing so much money in those preparations, said the MKs present at the meetings, who asked that their names be withheld because of the sensitivity of the issue. They said some lawmakers also asked whether the interim agreement reached between Iran and the six powers in November 2013, and the ongoing negotiations for a full nuclear accord, had caused any change in the IDFs preparations.
The IDF representatives said the army had received a clear directive from government officials from the political echelon meaning Netanyahu and Yaalon to continue readying for a possible independent strike by Israel on the Iranian nuclear sites, regardless of the talks now happening between Iran and the West, the three MKs said.
The IDF Spokespersons Unit declined to respond to questions by Haaretz on the matter, as did the Prime Ministers Office.
Ever since the interim accord between Iran and the six powers was reached, Netanyahu has stressed that Israel will not consider itself bound by it. In the last few weeks, as talks on a permanent accord have resumed, Netanyahu has upped his rhetoric on the Iranian issue, and is again making implied threats about a possible unilateral Israeli strike on the Iranian nuclear sites.
My friends, I believe that letting Iran enrich uranium would open up the floodgates, Netanyahu said at the AIPAC conference earlier this month. That must not happen. And we will make sure it does not happen.
Yaalon recently indicated during a speech at Tel Aviv University that his view has shifed and he is now likely to support a unilateral Israeli strike on Iran, in light of his assessment that the Obama administration will not do so.
We think that the United States should be the one leading the campaign against Iran, Yaalon said this week. But the U.S. has entered talks with them and unfortunately, in the haggling in the Persian bazaar, the Iranians were better. ... Therefore, on this matter, we have to behave as though we have nobody to look out for us but ourselves.
The second round of nuclear talks opened in Vienna on Tuesday, with the participation of European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Jawad Zarif and senior diplomats from the six powers. This was followed by a session involving the Iranian delegation and representatives of the six powers, and by separate meetings between Iranian representatives and representatives from each delegation. The U.S. and Iranian negotiating teams also met.
After the first day of talks, Ashtons spokesman, Michael Mann, described them as positive, serious and substantive. Iranian media reported that officials with the Iranian delegation said this round of talks will focus on how much uranium enrichment Iran will be permitted as part of a final accord, along with the future of the heavy water plant at Arak and the lifting of sanctions.
In an opinion piece in Britains Financial Times this week, Zarif argued that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons and said the Wests suspicions will threaten Irans national security. Nuclear weapons are a tool of the past, Zarif argued, writing: Israels nuclear arsenal was of little help in Lebanon in 2006.
Zarif said Iran must convince the West that it is not seeking nuclear arms, citing the fatwa ostensibly written by supreme leader Ali Khamenei that forbids the production of nuclear weapons. The exact language of this fatwa has never been made public.
Few now doubt that the only way to ensure that Irans nuclear energy programme will remain exclusively peaceful is to reach a mutually acceptable agreement, wrote Zarif. This shift did not occur overnight. It was prompted by the realisation that coercion, pressure and sanctions only result in more centrifuges, more resentment and deeper mistrust.
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Isn't Israel always in preparation for attacks on their neighbors?
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Large explosion rocks northern Iranian city
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says a heavy explosion has rocked Qazvin city in the country's north, and that authorities expect many casualties.
The Tuesday report said the explosion happened in a storage facility. Qazvin is a commercial city with many stores.
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Large explosion rocks northern Iranian city
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says a heavy explosion has rocked Qazvin city in the country's north, and that authorities expect many casualties.
The Tuesday report said the explosion happened in a storage facility. Qazvin is a commercial city with many stores.
Iranian official: Fire in Qazvin started in a wood and oil storage facility; no deaths reported - @AP
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Irans Supreme Leader: Jihad Will Continue Until America is No More
Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, all but said on Sunday that negotiations over the countrys illicit nuclear program are over and that the Islamic Republics ideals include destroying America.
Those [Iranians] who want to promote negotiation and surrender to the oppressors and blame the Islamic Republic as a warmonger in reality commit treason, Khamenei told a meeting of members of parliament, according to the regimes Fars News Agency.
Khamenei emphasized that without a combative mindset, the regime cannot reach its higher Islamic role against the oppressors front.
The reason for continuation of this battle is not the warmongering of the Islamic Republic. Logic and reason command that for Iran, in order to pass through a region full of pirates, needs to arm itself and must have the capability to defend itself, he said.
Todays world is full of thieves and plunderers of human honor, dignity and morality who are equipped with knowledge, wealth and power, and under the pretense of humanity easily commit crimes and betray human ideals and start wars in different parts of the world.
In response to a question by a parliamentarian on how long this battle will continue, Khamenei said,Battle and jihad are endless because evil and its front continue to exist. This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought. This requires a difficult and lengthy struggle and need for great strides.
Khamenei cited the scientific advancement of the country. The accelerated scientific advancement of the last 12 years cannot stop under any circumstances, he said, referring to the strides the regime has made toward becoming a nuclear power.
As reported on May 19 on The Daily Caller, Iran has put up new roadblocks to reaching a deal with the P5+1 world powers over its illicit nuclear program. The powers are the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany.
Three days of negotiations in the fourth round of Geneva meetings ended recently without concrete results when the Iranian team presented the countrys new red lines diminishing any hope by the Obama administration to claim victory in its approach to Irans nuclear ambitions, according to reports from Iran.
The Obama administration had hoped that with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif showing an eagerness to solve the nuclear issue and address the Wests concerns, there would be a possibility for a negotiated solution. An interim agreement penned last November in Geneva was touted as an historic nuclear deal.
Under that agreement, Iran, in return for billions of dollars in sanctions relief, limited its enrichment activity to the 5 percent level with a current stockpile of over 10 tons (enough for six nuclear bombs), converted much of its 20 percent enriched stock to harmless oxide, and agreed to allow more intrusive inspections of its nuclear plants by the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose inspections were limited to only agreed-upon facilities.
The Iranian delegation last week presented new red lines that could not be crossed, including the expansion of the countrys research and development for its nuclear program, the need of the country to continue enrichment, and the fact that the countrys ballistic missile program despite U.N. sanctions is not up for negotiation.
At the same time, IAEA officials met again with their Iranian counterparts last week in Tehran to discuss information on the work on detonators and needed collaboration by the regime to clear outstanding issues on its nuclear program as part of seven transparency steps Iran had agreed to fulfill by May 15, which has yet to take place.
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Iran says it gave missile technology to Hamas
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Hamas is able to fire missiles into Israel because Tehran provided weapons technology to the militant group to defend itself against Israeli attacks, a senior Iranian official said Monday.
Officials from Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards have said in the past that Fajr-5 missiles are part of Hamas' Gaza Strip arsenal, whose technology has been supplied by Iran and produced locally without needing direct shipment.
"Palestinian resistance missiles are the blessings of Iran's transfer of technology," the Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council, Mohsen Rezaei, was quoted as saying by Al-Alam, the Arabic channel of Iran's state TV. "We need to transfer defensive and military technology to Palestinians so that they can build weapons under the blockade and defend themselves," he added.
Hamas has fired more than 3,200 rockets into Israel during the recent conflict, with some intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome defense system and many of the crude missiles landing in open areas away from cities. Israel, which launched its military operation in Gaza on July 8, has since carried out more than 4,600 airstrikes across the crowded seaside area. More than 1,880 Palestinians and over 60 Israelis have been killed in the fighting.
Rezaei, a former Revolutionary Guard chief commander, wrote to President Hassan Rouhani this week calling on him to provide air defense systems to Hamas to hit invading Israeli planes. He also said Hamas should dig tunnels to be used as shelter to protect Gaza's population from Israeli assaults.
"I've requested Rouhani to provide air defense systems to Gaza so that Palestinians can defend themselves against invading planes," he said, adding that Iran was not shy to publicly declare its military support for Hamas.
"The Americans in recent days approved about $300 million to strengthen (Israel's) Iron Dome. You should provide air defense systems to Palestinians to be able to defend their people against aerial bombardment," he said in the appeal to Rouhani.
Rezaei also urged Hamas to capture Israeli soldiers to use them as bargaining chips in its battle against Israel.
"Getting their soldiers captured is the weak point of Israelis. Should two or three be captured, all Zionists will surrender," he said.
Rezaei said Israel's goal in the ongoing war was to disarm Hamas and destroy its missile power, but that it has failed to do so despite discovering and hitting some underground tunnels.
"The Zionists seized some tunnels but they can't plow the entire Gaza Strip. Facilities where weapons are produced remain intact," he said.
Iran's Guard commanders have boasted that stone-throwing Palestinians are hitting Tel Aviv with missiles, thanks to Iran's support.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, called on Muslims from around the world last week to help arm Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to defend themselves against Israel.
Iran, a Hamas backer, does not recognize Israel and supports militant anti-Israeli groups such as the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group.
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Indirect Israel-Hamas talks on Gaza start in Cairo
CAIRO (AP) Israel and Hamas began indirect talks on a new border deal for the blockaded Gaza Strip as a cease-fire ending their month-long war entered its second day Wednesday.
Israel has said it wants the Islamic militant Hamas to disarm, or at least ensure it cannot re-arm, before considering the group's demand that the territory's borders be opened. Israel and Egypt imposed a closure after the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007.
The indirect talks are being held in Cairo, with Egyptian mediators shuttling between the delegations.
Disarming Hamas tops the list of Israeli demands presented in a meeting with Egyptian mediators late Tuesday, said an Egyptian security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The Israeli delegation has since left for Israel but was to return to Cairo later Wednesday, the official added.
The Palestinian delegation is composed of negotiators from all major factions, including Hamas and was to meet with Egyptian officials later Wednesday to be briefed on Israel's demands, said Bassam Salhi, a Palestinian delegate,.
"The most important thing to us is removing the blockade and start reconstructing Gaza," he said. "There can be no deal without that."
He said the cease-fire, set to expire at 8 a.m. Friday (0500 GMT), would likely be extended if more time for talks is needed.
Talks are still in the early stages, but the outlines of a possible solution have emerged, including internationally funded reconstruction of Gaza overseen by a Palestinian unity government led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Western-backed Abbas lost control of Gaza in the Hamas takeover of 2007.
In a step toward reconstruction, Norway is organizing a donor conference, tentatively set for the beginning of September.
Regarding easing the blockade, a statement by Egyptian intelligence indicated it would not agree to major changes at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, and the onus of lifting the border closure would fall on Israel.
The cease-fire is the longest lull in a war that has killed nearly 1,900 Palestinians 75 percent of them civilians according to the United Nations. Israel has lost 67 people, including three civilians.
The war broke out on July 8, when the Israeli military began bombarding targets in Gaza in an attempt to stop Hamas from launching rockets at Israel and then nine days later it sent in ground troops to destroy underground tunnels it said were built to attack Israel.
But in the weeks leading up to the war, Israeli-Palestinian tensions had already been rising following the June killings of three Israeli teenagers, whose bodies were discovered two weeks after they disappeared in the West Bank.
Israel accused Hamas of being behind the abductions, and subsequently carried out a massive ground operation in the West Bank, arresting hundreds of Hamas operatives as part of a manhunt. And in early July, an Arab teenager was abducted and burned alive by Israeli extremists in an apparent revenge attack. Six Jewish Israelis were arrested in that killing.
On Wednesday, Israel's Justice Ministry said it had arrested Hussam al-Qawasmi, the suspected mastermind behind the killing of the Israeli teens, in July.
He allegedly led a three-man cell, all of whom were affiliated with Hamas. The militant group has not claimed any connection to the teens' abduction and killings.
In Gaza, people took advantage on Wednesday of the calm to return to their devastated homes and inspect the damage.
People trickled back to their homes making their way over buckled roads, through dangling power lines and overturned trees to inspect their neighborhoods. Along the way, rows of flattened buildings alternated with moderately damaged structures and rare buildings with no damage.
Cars and donkey carts loaded with household goods and mattresses filled the streets and queues formed at banks as people waited to withdraw cash from ATMs.
Crews from utility companies worked frantically to repair downed electricity and telephone lines. Gaza's only power plant was shut down after it was badly damaged by an Israeli attack and repairs are expected to take months.
The densely populated strip now only has 2-3 hours of electricity a day which trickles in from Egypt and Israel.
In the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, some expressed hope that the intensity of the destruction in this round of fighting the third since Hamas took control of Gaza would ratchet up enough pressure on the international community to find solutions to the territory's problems.
"The war was necessary to force the blockade to be lifted," said Mohammed Musleh, 27, as he surveyed his now uninhabital third floor apartment damaged by the shelling. "I hope that this time there will be a really permanent solution for it."
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Report: Netanyahu, Kerry Phone Call Cut Off Sunday, Have Not Spoken Since
A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that ended a month of war was holding for a second day Wednesday, ahead of negotiations in Cairo on a long-term truce and a broader deal for the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
CBS News correspondent Charlie DAgata reported from Tel Aviv on Wednesday that despite the longest lull in fighting since the current crisis began, the cease-fire felt more like a standoff, and the prospect of a return to war wasnt far away; Israeli tanks were still positioned right on the Gaza border.
Whether the calm lasts, said DAgata, was entirely dependent on the success of the talks in Cairo. Both sides have sent teams to discuss opposing demands that Hamas demilitarize and Israel end its blockade of the Gaza Strip.
But theyve been fighting over those same opposing demands for eight years, and each minute of the 72-hour cease-fire that passes, is one minute closer to the deadline running out.
In the coming days, Egyptian mediators are to shuttle between delegations from both sides to try to work out a deal.
Some details have emerged about the negotiating points of Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, including an internationally funded reconstruction that would be overseen by a Palestinian unity government led by President Mahmoud Abbas.
Meanwhile, Norway is organizing a donor conference and the Western-backed Abbas is expected to take the lead in overseeing the rebuilding in the coastal territory, which his Fatah movement lost to Hamas in 2007.
The Times of Israel reports that a call between Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was disconnected Sunday. The two reportedly have not spoken since.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said their phone call was cut off and that there was a communications issue.
Sometimes calls get cut off. [I ]t was a brief call, is what Im trying to convey, Psaki said when asked if the Israeli prime minister might have hung up on Kerry in anger. There was nothing that interesting about it, no. That was not the case. That was not the case.
The cease-fire is the longest lull in a war that has killed nearly 1,900 Palestinians. Israel has lost 67 people, including three civilians.
The war broke out on July 8, when the Israeli military began bombarding targets in Gaza in an attempt to stop Hamas from launching rockets at Israel. On July 17, Israel sent ground troops into the densely-populated territory to destroy underground tunnels it said Hamas had constructed for attacks inside Israel.
But in the weeks leading up to the war, Israeli-Palestinian tensions were soaring in the wake of the June killings of three Israeli teenagers, whose bodies were discovered two weeks after they disappeared in the West Bank.
Israel accused Hamas of being behind the abductions, and subsequently carried out a massive ground operation in the West Bank, arresting hundreds of Hamas operatives as part of a manhunt. And in early July, an Arab teenager was abducted and burned alive by Israeli extremists in an apparent revenge attack. Six Jewish Israelis were arrested in that killing.
On Wednesday, Israels justice ministry confirmed that the suspected mastermind behind the killing of the three Israeli teens had been arrested in July. The suspect, Husam al-Qawasmi, allegedly led a three-man cell that Israeli prosecutors say kidnapped and murdered the teens. It wasnt immediately clear if al-Qawasmi has been charged.
In Gaza, meanwhile, people have taken advantage of the calm to return to their devastated homes and inspect the damage.
For the first time in nearly a month, CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward said the streets of Gaza were bustling Tuesday, as Israeli troops withdrew completely and both sides stopped firing.
Ward reported that after weeks of relentless bombardment, the full extent of the damage was only just beginning to sink in. Many of the people who were finally able to come home Tuesday found they had no homes to return to. Entire neighborhoods have been completely destroyed.
Cars and donkey carts loaded with household goods and mattresses filled the streets and queues formed at banks as people waited to withdraw cash from ATMs.
Crews from utility companies worked frantically to repair downed electricity and telephone lines, though with Gazas only electrical generating plant badly damaged by an Israeli attack, it may be a long while before anything resembling normal service is restored.
In the devastated Shijaiyah neighborhood east of Gaza city, carpenter Mahmoud Al Maghani, 44, surveyed the damage to his property.
I think my workshop was here, but honestly I cant make sure of that, he said. I came yesterday and all I found was rubble.
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Markell slams Carter as friend of terrorists
The leader of a Messianic Jewish ministry says recent comments by former president Jimmy Carter suggests that he hasn't met an Islamic terrorist that he doesn't like.
Jimmy Carter has proven over the years that he is not a friend of the nation of Israel.
Markell, Jan (Olive Tree Ministries)Now as Israel tries to root out Hamas terrorist cells in Gaza, Carter writes in "Foreign Policy" magazine, "There is no humane or legal justification for the way the Israeli Defense Forces are conducting this war."
He also suggested the West should recognize Hamas as a legitimate "political actor" that represents the bulk of the Palestinian population.
Jan Markell, founder and director of Olive Tree Ministries, alleges that Carter has become the "chief facilitator of modern terrorism."
She recalls that Carter, when president, allowed the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, which she observes has led to the current war with radical Islam.
"It's like Carter has never met a terrorist he doesn't like," she tells OneNewsNow.
Markell says while most of Carter's horrific offenses have been done since he left office, she predicts Barack Obama's anti-Israel legacy will be far worse.
"The last two years of Obama's administration are going to turn on Israel in ways we can't imagine right now," she says, predicting that Obama will prove to be a worse enemy of Israel than even Carter.
Once Obama leaves office, Markell also predicts he will be out of control with his vocal opposition to Israel.
Carter's commentary at "Foreign Policy" can be read here.
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Israel's Netanyahu: Iran poses greater threat than Islamic State
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday tried to shift the spotlight away from the Islamic State militant group and back to Iran, warning the United Nations that a nuclear-armed Tehran would pose a far greater threat than "militant Islamists on pickup trucks."
Islamic State's seizure of large swaths of Syria and Iraq and its killings of civilians and soldiers have dominated discussions during five days of speeches at the United Nations General Assembly podium and on the sidelines.
But Netanyahu described Iran, Islamic State and the militant group Hamas that controls the Gaza Strip as part of a single team, comparing them all to Germany's Nazis, who killed six million Jews in World War Two.
"The Nazis believed in a master race, the militant Islamists believe in a master faith," Netanyahu said in his speech at the annual gathering of the 193-nation assembly in New York. "They just disagree who among them will be the master of the master faith."
"Make no mistake, ISIS (Islamic State) must be defeated," Netanyahu added. "But to defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war."
"It's one thing to confront militant Islamists on pickup trucks armed with Kalashnikov rifles, it's another thing to confront militant Islamists armed with weapons of mass destruction," Netanyahu said.
Iran rejects allegations by Western powers and their allies that it is developing the capability to produce atomic weapons and wants economic sanctions lifted as part of any nuclear deal with six countries negotiating with Tehran.
By describing Iran, Islamic State and Hamas as part of the same team, Netanyahu appeared to play on doubts among U.S. lawmakers about the wisdom of President Barack Obama's decision to engage with Tehran after the 2013 election of President Hassan Rouhani, a soft-spoken pragmatist, to resolve the 12-year-old nuclear standoff between the Iran and the West.
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Israeli TV shows Iranian missile that can reach far beyond Europe
Satellite images taken outside Tehran feature first look at long-range missile newly developed by Iran, TV report says
Iran has built a 27-meter-long missile, capable of delivering a warhead far beyond Europe, and placed it on a launch pad at a site close to Tehran, an Israeli television report said Wednesday, showing what it said were the first satellite images of the missile ever seen in the West.
It stressed that the missile could be used to launch spacecraft or satellites, but also to carry warheads.
The Channel 2 news report showed satellite imagery documenting what it said was Irans very rapid progress on long-range missile manufacture.
It showed one photograph of a site near Tehran,
which it said the West had known about for two years
, where Iran was working on engines for its long-range missiles.
It then showed a satellite photograph of a second site, nearby, which featured a launch pad, with the 27-meter missile on it an Iranian missile never seen before by the West.
The missile is capable of taking a manned spacecraft or satellite into space
, the TV report said.
It is also capable of carrying a conventional or non-conventional warhead far beyond Europe, the report added.
The TV report said the satellite images were taken by the Eros B commercial Earth observation satellite, which was designed and manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries, launched in 2006, and is owned by the Israeli firm ImageSat International.
Israel has long charged that Iran is working toward a nuclear weapons capability, and has publicly opposed any negotiated accommodation with Iran that would leave it with a uranium enrichment capability for potential nuclear weapons use.
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