Iran nuclear program negotiations

Iran's nuclear program

At the UN meeting September 23, 2009 the president of Iran made conciliatory statements about negotiations concerning their nuclear program -- reported by The Washington Post. It was an interesting parallel to the Russian president saying a new START treaty could be negotiated by December.

The first Archivist search found 1,500 micro messages going back as far as 12:08 a.m. September 22 -- day before the announcement. Trendistic did not produce a decent figure for this search. However, Twitter Streamgaphs produced a figure that seems to indicate that this 1,500 is back to the beginning of what probably should be called a new spurt since this has been on the international agenda for more than a decade.

Obama then Russia and then China are important rivulets.

Today, September 25, 2009, it became breaking news.

News Alert - http://www.washingtonpost.com?referrer=email
6:35 a.m. ET Friday, September 25, 2009

Iran Reveals Existence of Second Uranium Enrichment Plant - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/25/AR2009092500289.html

The government of Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it is building a second uranium enrichment plant, the nuclear watchdog agency said Friday.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com - http://www.washingtonpost.com?referrer=email

So, watching to see if there is bounce now is worth doing. Also I am going to move this into the breaking news folder.

The second revelation -- a second power plant -- produced enough messages to make a trendistic figure.

Trendistic has a hard time with this because it looks for the exact phrase rather than messages that contain both words. There are lots of messages with the words but few with the exact phrase.

On the first of October the diplomatic manuevering with Iran became breaking news for a second time.

News Alert - http://www.washingtonpost.com?referrer=email
12:26 p.m. ET Thursday, October 1, 2009

Iran Accepts More Talks, IAEA Site Inspection - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100101294.html

A senior U.S. diplomat held a rare bilateral meeting Thursday with his Iranian counterpart, and officials said Iran agreed to further talks with six major powers on its nuclear program.

Western diplomat sources said preparations were also underway for the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit Iran's newly disclosed uranium enrichment facility near Qom before the next meeting takes place.

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Iran keeps on keeping on -- as does The Washington Post. This is a third breaking news for Iran's nuclear program.

News Alert
11:12 AM EST Saturday, November 29, 2009

State-run media says Tehran has approved a plan Sunday to build 10 industrial scale uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion of the program in defiance of U.N. demands it halt enrichment efforts.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com - http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/F490YD/S98BT/Z6JDIZ/M11CZH/TBB3Y/RF/t

This is the timeline just as the 'breaking news' is sounded. There had been only 2 messages about Iran's nuclear program before the breaking news on November 29. That is the 'before.'

The after

By 9:10 p.m. the number of messages had jumped to over a thousand. After the announcement there was lots of messaging.

Perhaps, we think being a second class citizen is an honor and the Iranians should be grateful to us for putting them there. N.B. this is November 29. We may bring Huntington's war of cultures to fruition yet.

More breaking news from The Post

News Alert: Iran informs U.N. nuclear agency of fuel production
06:51 AM EST Monday, February 8, 2010
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Iran handed over a letter to the U.N. nuclear agency on Monday informing it about the Islamic republic's plans to start enriching higher-grade atom fuel from Tuesday, state television reported.

"Today we handed over the letter," Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, told Arabic-language al Alam television.

This has been a very busy week tweeting about Iran and nuclear power. The Post reported they started an increased yield of nuclear materials with the IAEA inspectors present. Of course, the 'western leaders' are frothing at the mouth and warning about sanctions. Israel is doing 'dark.'

News Alert: Iran begins controversial new nuclear process
06:57 AM EST Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Iran's state TV says the country started enriching its uranium to a higher level of 20 percent, over the objections of the international community.

The Tuesday report said enrichment began after Iranian scientists injected 25 kilograms of 3.5 percent enriched uranium gas into a cascade of centrifuges in a laboratory in Natanz, south of Tehran.

It says inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency were present during the process.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com:
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/E5QODK/AC6SK/Y8SKYA/FFQXZG/DEM9D/CM/t

A new high for twitter messages was established.

Finally negotiations by not major powers. Turkey and Brazil make the deal with Iran, and The Post thought it breaking news.

News alert: Iran to ship uranium to Turkey in nuclear deal
02:05 AM EDT Monday, May 17, 2010
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Iran agrees to ship much of its enriched uranium to Turkey in a nuclear fuel swap deal, the Associated Press reported Monday morning. The swap of enriched uranium was reached with the help of mediation from Brazil and Turkey.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com:
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/5O5UA2/HWL7L/0ORYE7/NGMDEW/HNM4M/UP/t

The alert was 2:05 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2010. What I should see is a big blip for the file I have been collecting. It will be interesting to see if it is bigger than some of the earlier blips.