UPI: Washington may press Iran to import nuclear fuel rather than make it, an official said as talks to end the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program were to begin.
U.S. may press Iran to import nuclear fuel
Peres warns allies not to trust Iran
AFP: Shimon Peres says Israel and its allies must retain a firm stance on Iran until it can show it does not threaten regional stability, despite its election of Hassan Rouhani as president.
U.S. Congress calls for hard line on Iran sanctions
Reuters: U.S. lawmakers urged President Barack Obama to keep to a hard line on sanctions imposed on Iran on Monday, a day before the resumption of talks on its nuclear program between world powers and Tehran.
US senators to ice new sanctions if Iran ends enrichment
AFP: US senators have vowed to stay the implementation of new Iran sanctions if Tehran takes verifiable steps such as immediately halting uranium enrichment, ahead of a new round of talks on its suspect nuclear program.
World powers set for nuclear talks with Rouhani’s Iran
AFP: World powers will meet for fresh talks with Iran on its controversial nuclear programme on Tuesday, as hopes rise for a more conciliatory approach from the new Tehran government.
Iran nuclear talks pit UN demands against atomic treaty
Bloomberg: The political clash over Iran’s nuclear program reflects an equally implacable legal conflict between treaties that both sides say back up their positions. Iran, with enough enriched uranium to make 15 atomic weapons if it chooses, has called the sanctions illegal.
Broken promises on Iranian dissidents
Washington Times: Michael B. Mukasey feels betrayed. The attorney general under President George W. Bush gave his personal assurance to the president of the Iranian resistance that its dissidents would be protected by Iraqi troops, not massacred by Iraqi gunmen.
Kerry on Iran: Diplomatic window `cracking open’
AP: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the window for diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear program is “cracking open,” but that “no deal is better than a bad deal.” Kerry made the comments in a speech Sunday via satellite from London to a foreign policy conference in California.
The slaughter intensifies under Rouhani
Iran Focus: Iran has registered 471 executions for the year as the world marked the Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10. Nearly half of those executions, 231, have occurred since the presidential election in June which brought to power Hassan Rouhani.
Iran rejects demand to ship out uranium stockpiles
Reuters: Iran will not ship enriched uranium stockpiles out of the country, the Iranian deputy foreign minister said on Sunday, rejecting one key demand of world powers due to resume nuclear negotiations with Tehran this week.
