Washington Post: European officials notified Iran for the first time yesterday that they will walk away from two years of talks and sign on to a Bush administration strategy for punitive measures against Tehran if it makes good on threats to resume nuclear work in coming days. In a sharply worded letter to Hassan Rouhani, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany warned that such work “would bring the negotiating process to an end.” The letter added: “The consequences could only be negative for Iran.”
The Times: A Former Iranian diplomat has been charged in absentia with the murder of an Iranian opposition leader shot dead in Rome 12 years ago. Italian prosecutors said that Amir Mansur Assl Bozorgian was responsible for the killing in 1993 of Mohammed Hossein Naghdi, 42, who had joined the exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran in 1981. 
The Guardian: European powers are poised to call an emergency meeting of the board of the UN’s nuclear watchdog after an escalating dispute with Iran about its nuclear projects. Iran appears about to renege on a six-month-old pact with Britain, Germany and France, which freezes all of its uranium enrichment activities – a gamble that could see it penalised by the UN security council but also win a diplomatic victory in the battle of wits over its ambitions. 
New York Times: Leading European nations may call an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency next week to act against Iran if it resumes some nuclear activities it has suspended, European diplomats said Wednesday.
Washington Times: He survived 14 assassination attempts as governor of Iraq’s Diyala province and is ready to risk his life again as a candidate in the parliamentary elections expected
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 11 The prayer leader of the central prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, was killed by an unidentified person, according to a state-run daily.
Reuters: Iran is expected to notify the United Nations by the end of the week that it is resuming sensitive nuclear work, almost certainly killing off Tehran’s negotiations with the European Union, a European diplomat said on Wednesday. The collapse of the talks likely would bring the controversy over Iran’s nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions or other actions. 
AP: The trial began on Wednesday of an Iranian accused of the 1993 slaying of an Iranian dissident who died in a hail of automatic gunfire
Reuters: An Iranian man accused of organizing the 1993 murder of an Iranian opposition leader on behalf of Tehran’s secret services went on trial in absentia in an Italian court on Wednesday. Amir Mansur Bozorgian, whose whereabouts are unknown, is being represented by a court-appointed lawyer. The prosecution says Bozorgian was behind the shooting of Mohammed Hossein Naqdi, a leading member of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which wants to oust Iran’s clerical rulers.