CNN: An Iranian delegation met with officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, on Monday as diplomatic wrangling continues over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.
Iranian officials visit the IAEA in Vienna for nuclear talks
Iran’s Parchin site may top UN inspectors’ meeting agenda
Bloomberg: A United Nations visit to Iran’s Parchin military complex may top the agenda of a two-day meeting between Iranian diplomats and UN nuclear inspectors.
UN inspectors to press Iran on military site access
Reuters: The U.N. atomic watchdog will press its demand for access to an Iranian military site in talks starting on Monday that could influence the prospects for a broader diplomatic push to settle the decade-old stand-off over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Iran turns off tracking systems on tankers: report
AFP: In a bid to circumvent crippling international sanctions, Iran has been routinely switching off satellite tracking systems on its sea-bound oil tankers, The Washington Post reported.
Revealed: how Bush offered to bring Iran back into the international fold
Independent: Iran spurned a previously undisclosed American offer from President George W Bush of talks aimed at reaching a “grand bargain” over long-standing differences between Washington and Tehran, a leading figure in the country’s theocratic regime has revealed.
Iranians have democratic values
Wall Street Journal: New research reveals that Iranian society has a pro-liberal value structure deeply at odds with the fundamentalist regime.
AP Exclusive: Drawing focuses on Iran’s nuke work
AP: A drawing based on information from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted there.
Rocard went to Iran on own initiative, socialist lawmaker says
Bloomberg: Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard went to Iran for a private visit, not at the request of President-elect Francois Hollande, according to a Socialist lawmaker.
Iran warns West ahead of IAEA, Baghdad talks
AFP: Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Sunday that Tehran will not yield to pressure ahead of talks with the UN atomic watchdog and the world powers over its controversial nuclear drive.
Iranian president: Israel ‘nothing more than a mosquito’ to Iran
CNN: Ahead of upcoming nuclear talks, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad downplayed the threat Israel poses to Iran, comparing it to an annoying bug.
