Reuters: Iran will push ahead with a major expansion of its uranium enrichment capacity, its nuclear chief said on Monday, despite international sanctions meant to force the Islamic Republic to curb its nuclear programme.
Iran says to push ahead with new enrichment plants
France: Europe looking to save Iranian death sentence woman
AFP: France and its European allies are looking for a way to work together to save an Iranian woman who was sentenced to death for adultery, the French foreign ministry said Monday.
Golf president Christopher Tappin ‘sold missile parts’
BBC: A golf club president from London is battling extradition to the US over claims he sold batteries for surface-to-air missiles to Iran.
Sanctions not affecting gasoline supply: Iran official
AFP: Iran is not having any problems procuring gasoline, a top official said on Monday, despite sanctions by the United States and European Union targetting refined petroleum imports.
U.S. urges vigilance in sanctions on Iran shipping
Reuters: All governments should step up their vigilance against dealings with Iran’s shipping sector, a senior U.S. official said Monday, describing it as a “critical lifeline for Iran’s proliferation and evasion.”
Four Iranian pilgrims on bus among five killed in Iraq bomb
AFP: A car bomb killed four Iranian Shiite pilgrims and an Iraqi citizen travelling on a bus northeast of Baghdad on Monday with women among nine others wounded, a police commander said.
Iran sets timetable for third uranium plant
AFP: Iran is to start building its third uranium enrichment plant in early 2011, as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a new law Monday binding Tehran to pursue the controversial work of refining uranium to 20 percent.
Iran satellite launch delayed
AFP: The launch of a new Iranian satellite has been pushed back by months as it is still undergoing development.
Iraq weighs new post to help form government
Wall Street Journal: Senior Iraqi politicians involved in forming a new government said they are weighing the creation of a new federal position that could break the nearly-six-month logjam over which faction gets the coveted premiership.
Final verdict postponed for Iranian woman facing stoning
CNN: An Iranian court has delayed the final verdict of a 43-year-old woman sentenced to death by stoning, a human rights group said Sunday, two days after the country announced she will not be executed during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
