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or any other response that involves force against Iran's nuclear program, will be welcomed by the Sunni regimes in the Arab world, particularly in the Persian Gulf; but no Arab leader will applaud it publicly for fear that the "street," and not just in the Arab segment of the Muslim world, will have a entirely
, which consists of many facilities, widely dispersed and well protected. The most critical one, nestled deep underground within a mountain, is the Fordow site, and its -three thousand-plus centrifuges have enabled Iran to spin out enriched uranium from uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6) to a level of 19.
ranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and said Iran was ready to play a more active role in ending the war in Syria and in providing greater security in the Persian Gulf. Zarif, seen by critics as the leader of Iran's "charm offensive," has become the most visible international face of a regime seeking a deal that w
are various ways of making sure that this reactor will remain exclusively peaceful." Asked about a U.S. demand to close the enrichment facility at Fordow, built into a mountainside, Zarif said: "If you sit in Iran, and you see people having concerns about Fordow, the only conclusion you can draw is t
dlocked and Israel will decide to take unilateral military action. In the resulting fog of war, there will be a need for reliable communications in the Persian Gulf and a hotline with Tehran. EFTA00712896 Establishing these communications links is an urgent priority, as the rumors of war continue. The Weekly
tiated outcome is far more desirable, and then state that any acceptable negotiated deal must require immediate closing the underground facility at Fordow, freezing of all enrichment above five percent and exporting of all of Iran's stockpile of uranium enriched above that level, and imposing intrusiv
J.P. Morgan Eye on the Market 2/27/2012: Dire Straits
es now 5 times higher than natural gas prices on a BTU basis. So, let's assume that the US wanted to cease all oil imports from Venezuela, Russia and the Persian Gulf. This would reduce oil imports by ~30%. If Americans still wanted to drive around just as much, absent an increase of 2.8 million bpd in US domestic
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031149 →stment Officer [Note a] Austin Long at Columbia University walked me through the geodynamics of the MOP and how many would be needed to penetrate the Fordow facility. His calculations are a function of soil hardness/density, the weapon's mass and impact velocity, the shape of its cone, and the percentage
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031150 →Entities connected to both the Persian Gulf and Fordow

Barack Obama
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Tehran
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bill Clinton
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Yemen
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Saddam Hussein
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Marc Rich
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Middle East
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Hosni Mubarak
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Damascus
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Hillary Clinton
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Tunisia
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Bahrain
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Cairo
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