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Total Lunar Eclipse, Western States show Saturday

Written By Guru Cool on Sunday, December 11, 2011 | 2:42 PM

By Karin Matz

Friday, 9 December 2011 5: 46 pm EST

n">(Reuters) - inhabitants in the Western United States which will see last total lunar eclipse for almost three years in the early Saturday morning.

"A total lunar eclipse, where is the full moon is in the middle of the Earth's shadow," said Larry Ciupik, an astronomer with the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

The Eclipse starts at 04: 45 Pacific time, see Pacific time with the best of times between 06: 06 and 06: 57.

"To to" see, you will need to be somewhere all in the Western States such as Nevada and California, Ciupik said. For the people of Hawaii, the moon will be higher in the sky so the view might also spectacular.

The Eclipse very easily can be seen, although "often disappears during a total lunar eclipse Moon", Ciupik said. This is because of light pollution, dust in the air locally and dust in the air around the world

This will be the second total lunar eclipse for the United States this year. The next materialisation until 15 April 2014 not.

(Editing by Greg McCune)

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United States, Israel talk hard before the nuclear Iran report

Written By Guru Cool on Saturday, November 5, 2011 | 7:26 AM

n">(Reuters) - a senior official who U.S. military said on Friday Iran had become the greatest threat to the United States and Israel's President said the military option to stop the Islamic Republic from obtaining nuclear weapons was closer.

In Tehran, seizure of US embassy burned thousands students U.S. flags and pictures of President Barack Obama in a rally on the anniversary of the 1979.

Both sides have stepped up their rhetoric before the expected release next week of a report from the UN Atomic watchdog. Sources, which provides information on the document said that it would support the allegations, the Iran built a large steel container could be used for the carrying out of tests with explosives, nuclear weapons.

"The greatest threat to the United States and our interests, and for our friends... comes in the Center and Iran,", said the U.S. military official, addressing a forum in Washington. The official could not be identified the event provided reporters.

The official said that he did not believe, wanted, that is a Iran to provoke conflict, and that he did not know if the Islamic Member States decide to build a nuclear weapon.

President Shimon Peres was in Israel by two news channel asked whether events in the direction of a military option rather than a diplomatic move. He replied: "I do believe, I appreciate that intelligence services of all these countries are looking on the ticking clock, warning heads of State and Government, that it doesn't have much time left."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on the occasion of a G20 Summit, the world leader in France, said: "Iran behavior and obsessional desire to acquire nuclear military (function) is contrary to all international rules." ... When Israel's existence were under threat, France would not idly.

US QUOTED DIPLOMATIC FOCUS

Iran's Islamic rulers, who say that Israel deny any right to exist, Tehran seeks nuclear weapons and have be warned that they respond to attacks, through an attack on Israel and the United States interests in the Gulf.

Both the United States and Israel, which largely have only nuclear arsenal in the Middle East as, have repeatedly said that all options-including military melee-in their efforts to stop the Iran, to keep open to a nuclear power.

But during speculation about an imminent attack on the nuclear facilities of Iran has heated and cooled, several times in recent years, economic pressure by the United Nations and other bodies to put on sanctions, was the thrust of US policy on the Iran has.

This attitude was the Pentagon reiterated on Friday spokesman George little, who said, "makes the tools of the national, which we are currently busy, the focus is on diplomatic and economic.".

China, which only reluctantly supported UN Security Council sanctions against the Iran along with Russia, said it against the threat of force, but urged the Iran to be flexible about its nuclear program to show.

Analysts say Iran, a major oil exporter, could any attack by the Strait of Hormuz close retribution of the waterway, where about 40 percent of all traded übergibt-- probably blind controls crude oil prices and provide a major setback for the weak global economy. (Reporting by Phil Stewart Washington, Ramin Mostafavi in Tehran, Fredrik Dahl in Vienna, Maayan Ljubel in Jerusalem, Ralph Boulton in Cannes, France, and Ben Blanchard in Beijing;) Written by Mohammad Zargham. (Editing by Peter Cooney)

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United States, UK, France, the pressure on the Iran ratchet

Written By Guru Cool on Friday, November 4, 2011 | 8:42 PM

By Louis Charbonneau

Wed, November 3, 2011 4: 32 pm EDT

n">(Reuters) - the United States, the UK and France enabled the pressure on Tehran on Thursday before next week version of a voltage of expected UN report, which can provide new information on the military side of Iran's nuclear programme.

Washington and its European allies suspect that Iran become the possibility of nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear energy program. Iran denies want nuclear bombs and insists that its program to generate electricity.

The report of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to detailed intelligence on military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme when the stop which explicitly say that Tehran is trying to reveal such weapons.

"A (issue), I would like to mention, in particular the continuing threat of nuclear program of Iran," said President Barack Obama reporter of a heads of State and Government of the G20 Summit in the French town of Cannes.

"The IAEA is intended, a report on Iran's nuclear program next week and (French) (Nicolas) President Sarkozy publish, and I agree on the need, the unprecedented pressure on Iran to perform its obligations,", Obama said.

The United States, European Union and its allies around the world have imposed economic sanctions against Tehran for refusing to stop its uranium enrichment program, which Western powers to believe atomic bomb program is at the heart of a Iran.

The United States and Israel have repeatedly indicated the possible use of force against Iranian nuclear sites, technology-based threats of violent retaliation from the Islamic Republic.

The UN Security Council, the support of the traditional supporters of Iran, Russia, and China, has imposed since 2006 four round always tougher sanctions against Tehran.

In response to a newspaper report that military contingency plans amid mounting concerns about Iran Great Britain was, strengthened a spokesman for the British Foreign Office said on Wednesday that London all options offen-- keep including the possibility of a military operation was.

"We want to be kept a negotiated solution, but all options on the table," a spokesman of the Foreign Ministry said.

READY TO USE "ALL MEANS" TO UNITED STATES

The report in the guardian, without giving a source says, UK Ministry of defence believed that the United States could speed up plans for missile strikes on some key Iranian facilities and quoted British officials say it would seek and receive military assistance from the United Kingdom for each mission.

UN diplomats in New York and Government officials, which exaggerated elsewhere as the guardian report. She said, that Israel would be rather is stuck with military violence against Iranian nuclear facilities as the United States, the conflicts in the Iraq and Afghanistan.

The pressure on the Iran comes weeks after the United States Iran plotting to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador in Washington accused, denied a claim Tehran.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed that the Obama management the door all the options in the use was not closed with Tehran's nuclear program.

"Many times in the last few weeks and months, said that we are a military confrontation with the Iran striving not", she said.

Nuland, "that is to say, we are all means of available to use, continue to try to meet the international pressure on the Iran to the IAEA obligations and to increase, on its nuclear program," told reporters in Washington.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told reporters in the Libyan city of Benghazi that drastic measures against Tehran should avoid Washington.

"We hope that they think twice before putting on a collision course with the Iran," Salehi said.

Diplomats in New York confirmed the West almost a two-track strategy of negotiations to resolve Iran's decades of nuclear confrontation it should refuse cooperation with the West and the threat of further sanctions.

Years of troubled negotiations with Tehran have gone nowhere. Western diplomats say the new IAEA report on the Iran shows what might they have no choice but try sanctions extend regime against Tehran the United Nations.

WOUNDED BEAR

There was a wave of speculation in the Israeli media this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to safe Cabinet working consensus for an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Israel bombed Iraqi reactor in 1981 and started a similar sortie against Syria in the year 2007 precedents weight, his veiled threats, similar measures on the Iran if foreign pressure fails, put an end to areas its nuclear program.

But many independent analysts see on such a mission as too much for Israel alone against the Iran too.

A senior Western diplomat said that the international sanctions combined with acts of sabotage such as the Stuxnet computer virus, which temporarily hobbled Iran's enrichment program Tehran's nuclear progress has slowed down to reduce the need for the use of military force anytime soon.

"Our policy of slowing down things was successful, but it has not stopped it in its title" the diplomat said on condition of anonymity.

A RAID on the nuclear facilities of Iran would cause such damage to the global prosperity and security, that other central-a mix of sanctions and sabotage-the lever remains pressure on Tehran, analysts say.

There are fears that Iran an attack could hit back, through demolition temporarily the marine and pipeline arteries delivers a large part of the global oil and gas demand.

Malcolm Chalmers, Research Director of at Britain's Royal United Services Institute, the effects for the attack on Iran described strongly expressed: "you are talking about the create a wounded bear follow with very unpredictable."

(Writing by Louis Charbonneau;) Reporting by Reuters offices around the world editing by Vicki Allen)

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