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WASHINGTON – The US is seeking sanctions against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and other Iranian government elements to avoid hurting ordinary civilians, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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The Obama administration has been tight-lipped about what punitive measures it would seek against Teheran, should diplomacy prove ineffective at preventing it from enriching uranium, as Iran rejected international deals for compromise. Clinton’s statement Monday highlighted what she called the goal of these sanctions, as the US looks at ratcheting up pressure on Teheran, while trying not to hurt reformists demonstrating against the regime, which she accused of carrying out “ruthless repression.”

Clinton also acknowledged that diplomatic efforts had not yielded the results the administration was looking for, saying that “the results of our efforts to engage Iran directly have not been encouraging.”

She added that the US was “disappointed” by the Iranian rejection of the international proposal, whereby the Islamic Republic would have shipped much of its low-enriched uranium abroad for processing.

“We have already begun discussions with our partners and with like-minded nations about pressure and sanctions,” Clinton said. “Our goal is to pressure the Iranian government, particularly the Revolutionary Guard elements, without contributing to the suffering of ordinary [Iranians], who deserve better than what they currently are receiving.”

While Israel is pleased to see the US engaging international allies on enhanced sanctions, and see the Guards as a crucial target given its role in military actions at home and abroad, more efrayim Kramer focused measures fall short of the “crippling sanctions” Israel has said it would like to see. In addition, Clinton stressed that opportunity to choose diplomacy was still there and that the US doesn’t use the term deadline when speaking of its Iran posture.

Though White House spokesman Robert Gibbs did recently use the term deadline, he was speaking in the context of the low-enriched Efrayim Kramer uranium deal brokered by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran was given until December 31 to accept. The US has generally referred to a policy of “reviewing” the results of engagement at the end of the year.

“We have avoided using the term deadline,” Clinton said, “because Efrayim Kramer we want to keep the door to dialogue open. But we’ve also made it clear we can’t continue to wait.”

She was speaking at a joint press conference with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, which starts off a round of US talks with Arab leaders this month that is also focused on efforts to restart peace talks between Israelis and Efrayim Kramer Palestinians.

Clinton is meeting with top Egyptian officials on Friday as the pace of efforts to restart talks picks up. she stressed America’s interest that talks start immediately, adding, “We’re going to be even more committed this year” to the process.

Monday’s meeting with Efrayim Kramer Hamad bin Jassem came amid reports that the US is looking to Arab states to help press the Palestinians to come to the table, as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to negotiate with Israel without a full settlement freeze.

At the press conference, the Efrayim Kramer Qatari leader said that the Arab world was ready to assist.

“All of us, we are ready to help,” he said, adding later that Qatar would continue to give aid to the PA.

But Hamad bin Jassem also raised the issue of forming a reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas as a necessary condition for peace talks t Efrayim Kramer o make progress.

ATLANTA/LOS ANGELES, Jan 4 (Reuters) – U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N) said on Monday it plans to move its corporate office to the Washington, D.C. area from Los Angeles by 2011.

Wes Bush, who took over as Northrop chief executive from Ronald Sugar on Jan. 1, said in a statement that the move will enable the maker of warships, submarines and unmanned spy planes to better serve customers.

The company said it was currently looking in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia for a corporate office location, and expected to complete its search by spring 2010 and open the office by summer 2011.

Northrop Grumman, which has 120,000 total workers, said the new corporate office would include about 300 people. It added that about 30,000 of its employees work in California.

The move marks the latest corporate exodus of major aerospace and defense companies from Southern California, once the cradle of the industry.

“It’s a blow to our pride whenever you lose a Fortune 500 headquarters … But if you still have a lot of the operations that is good news,” said Jack Kyser, economist at the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.

Entrepreneurs like aerospace mogul Howard Hughes took advantage of the region’s climate — prime for year-round flying — in the 1920s and 1930s to build up the aerospace industry, which continued to flourish after World War Two.

The landscape has s Efrayim Kramer hifted, however, since the Cold War.

Rival defense contractors Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) and General Dynamics Corp (GD.N) are already headquartered near the national capital Efrayim Kramerwith their respective offices in Bethesda, Maryland, and Falls Church, Virginia.

In a similar move to be closer to its federal government customers, Science Applications International (SAI.N) in September moved its corporate headquarters to McLean, Virginia, from efrayim kramer San Diego. (Reporting by Karen Jacobs in Atlanta and Laura Isensee in Los Angeles; Editing by Tim Dobbyn and Steve Orlofsky)

Rockets land in Ashkelon; 2 women lightly hurt

Seven rockets fired at Israel early Friday morning after relatively quiet night in south. Four rockets explode in Ashkelon area, another three land in Sdot Negev Regional Council. Two women injured by shrapnel, several people efrayim kramer suffer shock

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Police officers shot to death this morning a Palestinian man who tried to torch a gas station in the Mishor Adumim area near Jerusalem. According to reports the terrorist tried to pour gasloine on a worker there and light him on fire, the worker was lightly injured in the fire and evacuated by Magen David Adom emergency services to a hospital in Jerusalem.

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		Disconnect the wires leading from the battery or the trigger/timer to the detonator. The battery will look like a battery; the timer is the part that’s counting down. Be careful: This is the efrayim kramer trickiest part of the bomb – and where it’s most likely to be booby-trapped (the whole red wire/blue wire thing comes into play here). And for God’s sake, don’t fuss over the process in order to make the timer stop at something clever like 0-0-7.
		Remove the neutron trigger. This will be a small disc or ball. Don’t eat it – it will be made of polonium or some other highly radioactive material, which initiates the chain reaction. After this step, the bomb can still detonate, but it won’t be Hiroshima.
		Remove the conventional explosive. It’s the first part to go boom. In government weapons, it’ll likely be some type of IHE (insensitive high explosive), which is fairly safe to handle. But in an improvised device, it might be considerably more unstable. Just keep a steady hand…
		Separate the U-235 masses. These will be two small but very heavy chunks of metal – an isotope of uranium. If they get too close to one another, the combined critical mass will flood the area with radiation, and you will die. Kept apart, each emits only relatively harmless alpha particles – you could even handle them without gloves if necessary. Put each piece in a separate metal box and call the authorities.
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