Daily Telegraph: Washington announced a major shift in its policy on Iran yesterday when it agreed to back Europe in offering economic incentives for Teheran to abandon its nuclear programme. The decision is the fruit of months of transatlantic diplomatic wrangling over the best way to stop
The Times: PRESIDENT BUSH backed European efforts to persuade Iran to drop its nuclear ambitions, opening the way for a country the US views with hostility eventually to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In the first foreign policy compromise of Mr Bushs second term, Washington said that 
Los Angeles Times: In a major concession to European allies and a blow to the administration’s most conservative supporters, the United States has agreed to abandon its objections to Iranian membership in the World Trade Organization, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today. 
Reuters: Britain, France and Germany told their European Union partners on Friday they would support referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council if it resumes uranium enrichment or breaches nuclear commitments. The three European powers said in a letter to EU president Luxembourg that “progress is not as fast as we would wish” in talks launched last December to persuade Tehran to end its most sensitive nuclear work in return for economic and political benefits.
AP: The European Union will support U.S. calls to bring Tehran before the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions unless it agrees to scrap the technology that can be used to make nuclear arms, according to a document obtained Friday by The Associated Press. If Iran does not agree, “We shall have no choice but to support referring Iran’s nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council,” said the confidential EU document on the state of negotiations on uranium enrichment between Iran, Germany, France and Britain. 
Washington Times: As Washington considers backing the European Union’s proposal for trade benefits for Iran, troubling revelations emerged this week about Tehran’s continued mislead-and-cheat tactics to hide the extent of its nuclear weapons program. The International Atomic Energy Agency revealed earlier that the clerical regime had refused the inspection of the Parchin military site near Tehran. It also reported that Iran has started building a heavy-water reactor near the central city of Arak. 
Reuters: The Bush administration, in a major shift, will adopt a European proposal to offer Iran economic incentives to abandon its nuclear ambitions, U.S. and European officials say. The United States is expected to allow Iran to join the World Trade Organisation and buy aircraft spare parts and, in return, Britain, France and Germany have agreed to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council if it fails to give up its suspected nuclear weapons program, the officials said. 
Washington Post: President Bush has decided to back European allies in their plan to offer economic incentives to persuade Iran to abandon any effort to build nuclear weapons, a sharp shift in policy for a government that had long refused to bargain for Tehran’s cooperation, senior administration 
New York Times: A Pakistani official said Thursday that his country’s disgraced nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, had given centrifuges to Iran, but not with the government’s consent. It was Pakistan’s first specific public declaration of the nuclear technology that had been sold to Iran, though it stopped short of saying what else had been supplied by Dr. Khan’s black-market network. The official, Information Minister Sheik Rashid Ahmed, did not discuss sales to other nations and he reiterated Pakistan’s refusal to let foreign investigators interview Dr. Khan. 
Reuters: Pakistan acknowledged on Thursday for the first time that a disgraced Pakistani scientist at the centre of a nuclear black market gave Iran centrifuges which can be used to make atomic weapons.
