Wall Street Journal: Iran’s rapid progress toward making nuclear fuel has brought renewed urgency to international efforts to halt the program, but divisions over how to persuade Tehran appear about to deepen. Iran’s progress on nuclear fuel brings new urgency, divisions
Wall Street Journal: Iran’s rapid progress toward making nuclear fuel has brought renewed urgency to international efforts to halt the program, but divisions over how to persuade Tehran appear about to deepen. Iran not complying with U.N. demands
AP: Iran persists in its brazen defiance of U.N. Security Council demands that it halt uranium enrichment, the chief U.S. nuclear envoy warned Tuesday ahead of a fresh assessment that could lead to tougher sanctions against Tehran. We must attack Iran before it gets the bomb
Daily Telegraph: Iran should be attacked before it develops nuclear weapons, America’s former ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday. Ahmadinejad pledges regional stability on Oman visit
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Tuesday to work to avoid regional instability over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, as he wound up a Gulf tour in Oman, an Omani minister said.
Iran conservatives denounce US talks
AFP: Iranian conservative deputies and newspapers have criticised a decision by Iran to hold talks with the United States over Iraq, with a hardline newspaper describing it as “dancing with wolves”. Iran says ready for full diplomatic ties with Egypt
AFP: Iran is ready to restore full diplomatic relations with Egypt by reopening its embassy in Cairo the “very day” the Egyptian government agrees, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday. Iran making progress in enriching uranium: diplomats
AFP: Iran has made progress in enriching uranium despite UN sanctions against this strategic work, UN nuclear inspectors have learned, diplomats told AFP Tuesday. Keep up pressure on Iran, US says
AFP: International pressure must be kept on Iran to halt its suspect nuclear program, the US said Tuesday, amid reports that Tehran has made progress enriching uranium in defiance of UN sanctions.
U.S.-Iran “parliament friendship” idea draws fire
Reuters: A senior Iranian lawmaker hit out on Tuesday at a proposal by some fellow MPs to set up a “parliamentary friendship group” with the United States, the Islamic Republic’s arch-foe.
Rice calls on Iran to release jailed US-Iranian scholar
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Iran Tuesday to release immediately a US-Iranian scholar jailed in Tehran on charges of acting against Iran’s national security.
