AFP: Germany urged Iran Monday not to take any “unilateral steps” on uranium enrichment that could endanger negotiations with the European Union on its nuclear program. 
Reuters: Iran said it would resume nuclear fuel activities on Monday after the European Union failed to respond in time to its offer of new talks. Two years of hard bargaining over a nuclear programme that Tehran had kept secret for 18 years appeared to be heading towards a crisis that could see Iran’s case sent to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions.
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 31 Irans Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi wrote in an article that the international community should not ignore the plight of other political prisoners in Iran as well as focusing on the case of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji, a Persian-language website reported on Sunday. Ebadi said that while the case of Akbar Ganji was a regretful example of the harsh situation of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Iran that has gained attention in recent weeks, other political prisoners must not be forgotten. Iran Focus: London, Jul. 31 Irans Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi wrote in an article that the international community should not ignore the plight of other political prisoners in Iran as well as focusing on the case of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji, a Persian-language website reported on Sunday. Ebadi said that while the case of Akbar Ganji was a regretful example of the harsh situation of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Iran that has gained attention in recent weeks, other political prisoners must not be forgotten. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 – The head of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrollah, is scheduled to meet Iran’s ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Monday. Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 – The head of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrollah, is scheduled to meet Iran’s ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Monday. 
The Independent on Sunday: Two British security guards were killed on the outskirts of Basra yesterday when a British consulate convoy was hit by a roadside bomb. The attack was the latest in a series of sophisticated strikes threatening to disrupt Britain’s plans to reduce its troop presence in southern Iraq. 
AFP: At least three days would be needed to convene an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog agency if the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program were to escalate, an agency spokesman said Sunday. It would take “at least 72 hours” to convene a session in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation board of governors, which could then send the Iranian dossier to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions against Tehran, said the spokesman, who asked not to be named. 
Reuters: Floods caused by heavy rain killed 27 people in northeastern Iran on Sunday, state radio reported. It quoted a local governor as saying the people were killed in the village of Galidagh in Golestan province, which borders Turkmenistan
AFP: Britain warned Sunday that a threatened resumption of sensitive nuclear activities by Iran would be an “unnecessary and damaging step” which could jeopardise key European Union nuclear talks with Tehran. 
