Associated Press: Iran is acknowledging it’s planning to process tons of raw uranium that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
Voice of America: The United States confirmed Thursday it will press for a referral of Iran’s nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions against Tehran. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) begins a critical meeting on Iranian compliance with nuclear agreements September 13 in Vienna. 
RFE/RL: The EU’s outgoing external relations commissioner, Chris Patten, has said Iran’s “backward movement” on human rights and unwillingness to fully meet UN nuclear demands constitute one of the biggest regrets of his career. Patten, who will step down at the end of October, made the remarks in a farewell talk to members of the European Parliament’s foreign relations committee in Brussels yesterday. 
Iran Focus: Paris – Iran on Wednesday revised upwards to 31,000 from an earlier estimate of 26,000 the number of people killed in a devastating tremor in the southern Iranian city of Bam last December.
Iran Focus: Tehran – A man was hanged in public in the city of Arak, (central Iran) on Sunday, August 29. 
Associated Press: QUETTA, Pakistan – A suspected al-Qaida operative who was captured along with another man during raids in this southwestern city is an “explosives expert” who had arrived here from Iran, a security official said Thursday. 
BBC: The US wants the UN to impose sanctions on Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons programme, says Secretary of State Colin Powell. 
Associated Press: Secretary of State Colin Powell says the United States plans to press for a range of possible U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran in response to what he describes as a concerted effort by that country to develop nuclear weapons. 
Reuters: VIENNA, Austria – The United States accused Iran Wednesday of threatening global peace with its plans to process 37 tons of raw “yellowcake” uranium, which one Western nuclear expert said would be enough to build five atomic bombs. 
Iran Focus: Paris, Sep. 1 – Iran has announced that it will convert tons of raw uranium, yellow cake into Uranium hexafluoride, used to produce enriched uranium, according to a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Uranium hexafluoride is spun in centrifuges to produce enriched uranium. Highly enriched uranium is used for making nuclear weapons.
