Bloomberg: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan urged Iran to exercise “restraint” after the government
restarted conversion of uranium. Iran yesterday resumed uranium conversion activities at its nuclear plant in the central city of Isfahan, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in an e-mailed statement.

Reuters: Britain said on Monday it was deeply concerned by Iran’s decision to restart its nuclear programme and France described the tone of Tehran’s rejection of EU proposals as particularly alarming. The two EU allies were responding to Iran’s decisions to resume work at a uranium conversion plant near the central city of Isfahan and to reject a package of European Union proposals aimed at solving a stand-off over Iran’s nuclear plans.

AP: Iran has manufactured about 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade, an exiled Iranian dissident who helped uncover nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity in 2002 said Tuesday.

AP: Diplomats gathered Tuesday for an emergency meeting of the U.N. nuclear agency to assess Iran’s resumption of uranium conversion, but the agency appeared unlikely to report Tehran to the U.N. Security Council.

Reuters: Iran has secretly built thousands of nuclear fuel enrichment machines and intends to use them at hidden sites across the country, an exile group said on Monday, citing what it said was an Iranian state document. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which has provided accurate information on Iran’s nuclear programme in the past, said it obtained a copy of a report by Iran’s powerful Supreme National Security Council written a week after last month’s presidential elections.

AFP: German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer urged Iran Monday to return to talks with the European Union on its nuclear program and warned of “disastrous consequences” if Tehran were to acquire an atomic bomb.
Fischer told reporters that the basis for any talks must remain the suspension of operations at the uranium conversion facility at Isfahan, which Tehran announced Monday it was resuming.

AFP: Britain reacted with concern to news that Iran has resumed ultra-sensitive nuclear fuel work at its uranium conversion plant in Isfahan despite warnings from the international community. A Foreign Office official said Britain would discuss “next steps” with its international partners at an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday.