Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 20 A series of government-released statistics and interviews with a number of Iranian officials indicate that despair and frustration are on the rise withinIrans huge under-30 population.
The head of the government-run National Youth Organization told local journalists last week that according to our studies, forty percent of young people across the country suffer from depression.


Reuters: The United States, the EU and Russia urged Iran on Monday to comply with the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s demand that it halt all activities linked to uranium enrichment, a
AP: Iran may resume uranium enrichment “any moment,” Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said on state television Monday. “We suspended (enrichment) voluntarily and we may continue it voluntarily,” Yunesi said. “And we may resume (enrichment) any moment.”
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 19 The Assembly of Experts, an exclusive body of Muslim clerics who appoint the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, opened its twelfth session today amid heightened regional and international tensions
Sunday Times: British intelligence has identified a group of Iranian warlords as the main source of funding and training for the Shiite insurgency in southern Iraq.
New York Times: Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have raised sharp complaints in recent days that Iran is providing support for the insurgency in Iraq, expressing concerns over what they say are Iran’s attempt to shape Iraq’s future.
Washington Post: High on the list of issues so far absent from this year’s presidential campaign debate is Iran, home to a militant Islamic regime that openly sponsors terrorism, foments anti-American resistance in Iraq and has confessed
United Press International: CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency war-games have predicted unfavorable consequences of a U.S. pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The Guardian: Iran rejected UN demands that it freeze all aspects of its uranium enrichment programme yesterday, threatening to cancel access for nuclear inspectors and abandon its international nuclear commitments if the issue is taken to the security council. 