Reuters: Iran’s top security official on Monday warned the European Union not to cross Tehran’s red lines innegotiations over its nuclear programme.The EU’s “big three” powers, Britain, France and Germany, have offered Iran a deal whereby it would scrap activities related to producing nuclear fuel in return for help with civilian nuclear technology and a resumption of trade talks.


New York Times: Iran on Sunday rejected a proposal by Britain, Germany and France to suspend its uranium enrichment program and urged those countries to offer a “more balanced” proposal. During a meeting on Thursday in Vienna, the three European countries asked Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program in return for a guarantee to help Iran build a light-water power reactor and to provide a supply of reactor fuel.
The Guardian: Iran refused yesterday to agree to suspend indefinitely its uranium enrichment activities although it would continue talks with Britain, France and Germany on a package of incentives. The foreign ministry said in a statement: “Indefinite suspension of nuclear enrichment activities is not acceptable … and it is not a subject of the talks.”
AP: They are the shock troops of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, the men who helped seize the U.S. embassy a generation ago
AFP: A uranium conversion facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan, whose activities European states want to suspend, is now “70 percent” operational, an official from the country’s nuclear agency said on Sunday.
AFP: Iranian women have been barred from standing in next year’s presidential election after a powerful conservative body stood by its literal interpretation of a single but ambiguous
Reuters: Iran on Sunday rejected a European Union proposal that it stop enriching uranium in return for nuclear technology, increasing the likelihood that it will be reported to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.
The Sunday Times: IRAN is to resist international demands to abandon a nuclear programme that has alarmed the West and worsened the risk of instability in the Middle East.
AFP: Iran on Sunday described a European proposal aimed at ending a nuclear standoff as “unbalanced” and rejected demands that the Islamic republic halt all uranium enrichment activities.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 23 – Students from the University of Hormozgan (southern Iran) are continuing their demonstration in the university campus which started Thursday afternoon in protest against lack of food hygiene and service.