United Press International: The Iranian regime has no intention of honoring its pledge to end nuclear activities, an Iranian opposition spokesman said Monday. Farid Sulamani of the People’s Mujahedin, or Mujahedin Khalq, told the BBC: “The Iran regime is intent on acquiring an atomic bomb and the world has a duty to stop that.”

AFP: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw voiced hope Monday for an accord to end a nuclear standoff with Iran, but reiterated the row could still end up in the UN Security Council if Tehran fails to comply. Speaking ahead of a crunch meeting of the UN’s nuclear watchdog body this week, he said he hoped an accord reached between Iran and the European Union’s so-called Euro three — Britain, France and Germany — would be formally approved.

Reuters: Iran has suspended its uranium enrichment programme to ease fears that its nuclear programme is aimed at developing weapons, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says.

AFP: Iran has produced up to two tons of uranium gas that can be used to make nuclear weapons, but this amount is not enough to make a bomb, UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei told journalists Monday. ElBaradei said the amount of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) produced by Iran prior to a ban of uranium enrichment activites that began Monday was “probably a maximum of two tons.”

AP: Iran has suspended uranium enrichment and all related activities, state-run radio reported Monday, honoring an agreement with Europe designed to head off possible U.N. sanctions. “To build confidence and in line with implementing the Paris Agreement, Iran suspended uranium enrichment (and related activities) as of today,” said the brief radio announcement.

Reuters: Iran says it will meet the European Union’s deadline for suspending uranium enrichment and allay fears it is trying to make a nuclear bomb — the freeze could spare it from U.N. sanctions. Tehran promised the EU last week it would freeze enrichment by November 22, in time for Thursday’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board meeting
which is due decide whether to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.

New York Times: Iran pledged Sunday to meet its deadline
and suspend its uranium enrichment activities on Monday,
in a sign of cooperation even as the United States has been stepping up pressure over the country’s nuclear program.
“The suspension will begin tomorrow,” the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Assefi, told journalists.

AFP: US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday rejected criticism of his accusations that Iran is seeking to adapt its missiles to carry nuclear warheads. “The people who are raising the questions are people who have not seen the information,” Powell told journalists accompanying him on
a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories.