Reuters: Officials from France, Britain and Germany will meet Iran’s top nuclear negotiator in Vienna on Thursday to offer Tehran a final chance to halt uranium enrichment plans or face possible U.N. sanctions, diplomats say.”The political directors from the EU three are meeting (Hassan) Rohani on Thursday here to formally hand over the offer,” said a Western diplomat familiar with the talks between the Europeans and Iran. “I think Iran may be disappointed.” EU Makes Final Nuke Offer to Iran Thursday-Diplomats
Reuters: Officials from France, Britain and Germany will meet Iran’s top nuclear negotiator in Vienna on Thursday to offer Tehran a final chance to halt uranium enrichment plans or face possible U.N. sanctions, diplomats say.”The political directors from the EU three are meeting (Hassan) Rohani on Thursday here to formally hand over the offer,” said a Western diplomat familiar with the talks between the Europeans and Iran. “I think Iran may be disappointed.” Following Zarqawi’s footsteps in Iran
Newsweek: The Bush administration has repeatedly fingered Abu Mussab al-Zarqawiself-confessed beheader of U.S. hostage Nicholas Berg and other Western captivesas a critical link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. In thevice presidential debate, Dick Cheney said that after U.S.
forces attacked Afghanistan seeking to roust Osama bin Laden, al-Zarqawi “migrated to Baghdad.” But other U.S.
officials say the Jordanian terrorist’s contacts in neighboring
Iran are probably more extensive than any dealings he had with Saddam.
Iran ran away with the bomb
Washington Times – Commentry: Well, the talks and meetings will go on and on to the next Ramadan and the Ramadan after that and Iran will go on working on its nuclear arms program until it has the Bomb. There will be no deal with Iran no matter how costly nuclear bomb manufacture might be. With oil prices going through the roof, money is not a problem now nor in the foreseeable future. Iran must show peaceful intentions over nuclear issue: US official
Xinhuanet: ABU DHABI – Iran needs to show the world itspeaceful intentions over its nuclear issue, a visiting US official said here on Monday, the official WAM news agency reported. At a press conference, US Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs Lincoln Bloomfield said “it isnecessary for Iran to demonstrate to the world its peaceful intentions. The only way to do that is to come clean.”
US warns Iran against any support for Zarqawi
AFP: The United States on Monday warned Iran against providing any type of support to Al-Qaeda-linked foreignmilitant Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi and his Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War) group, saying such backing would be a “very, very serious matter.” The State Department declined to comment on allegations of an Iran-Zarqawi link …
Iran well-prepared for “any scenario” over nuclear issue: official
Xinhuanet: Iran said on Monday that it was well-prepared for “any scenario” over nuclear issue, the official IRNA news agency reported. “I believes that Iran’s case will not be referred to the UN Security Council. But, Iran is also well-prepared beforehand for any scenario in this respect,” government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh was quoted as saying. Spain’s Repsol YPF to prospect in Iran: report
AFP: Spain’s leading energy group Repsol YPF has signed a 27-million-dollar (21.6-million-euro) deal with Iran to obtain prospection rights in two fields over the next 30 months, the financial newspaper Expansion reported on Monday. A Repsol YPF statement confirmed the firm would prospect at Mehr and Foruz, near Kish Island off the port of Bushir in the southern Persian Gulf, with the total project covering 14,600 square kilometres (5,000 square miles). Hardline Iranian militia wants observers at US election
AFP: Iran’s hardline Basij militia has written to UN secretary general Kofi Annan to ask if the Islamic republic can send observers to the US presidential election in November, a government newspaper said on Monday. “By this symbolic request, we want to ridicule the so-called democratic slogans of the American leaders,” a Basij official …
Minister Who Converted From Islam Risks Death Penalty in Iran
Asia News: Hamid Pourmand is a Protestant minister of the Assemblies of God Church. He converted from Islam several years ago. Since September he has been held in prison at an undisclosed location and under Iranian law he can be put to death for “apostasy against Islam”. He was arrested on September 9 in Karaj, a town 30 km west of the capital Tehran during a police raid against the annual General Council of the Assemblies of God Church. 3 teenage boys sentenced to execution
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 18 – The Supreme Court hasapproved and upheld the execution sentence of 3 teenage boys. The boys who were aged between 15 and 16 years
when they were charged are currently in the Center for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison) until they turn 18 when they shall be executed.
