Associated Press: Iran ruled out a total suspension of
uranium enrichment Wednesday as a second round of talks with European negotiators failed to produce an agreement aimed at avoiding a showdown and the possible threat of U.N. sanctions.

Reuters: France, Britain and Germany failed to reach a deal with Iran on Wednesday under which Tehran would scrap its uranium enrichment program in exchange for nuclear power technology, but the two sides agreed to meet again.
Talks in Vienna on the European proposal ended without agreement, but Britain and Iran said the talks had been constructive.

AFP: Iran said Wednesday a heavy water plant will go online within a month near the central city of Arak, despite international pressure for Tehran to suspend such nuclear-related activities.
“With two out of three units already operational, we are currently able to produce heavy water with 15 percent,” said the plant’s research and development chief, Manoushehr Madadi, the state news agency IRNA reported.

UPI: An Iranian opposition group claims Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the secret continuation of nuclear weapons development.
Speaking to reporters in Paris, Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman
of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said the Iranian regime
is “playing a double game” with Europe as the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency keeps an uneasy eye on the country’s nuclear possessions.

AFP: Iran returned to talks here Wednesday with Europe’s three heavyweight countries aimed at resolving a long-running dispute over its nuclear program, although diplomats were sceptical of a breakthrough.
The meeting started behind closed doors at the French embassy in Vienna, a French diplomat said shortly after midday (1000 GMT).

AFP: Iran’s supreme guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Wednesday that Tehran could break off nuclear talks with the international community if “illogical demands” were made
such as long-term suspension of uranium enrichment.

The Washington Times: The Iranian opposition group that exposed the nation’s covert nuclear weapons program two years ago said yesterday that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the effort to continue in secret.
The opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also disclosed the existence of what it said is a new uranium enrichment facility in central Iran that is nearing completion.