AFP: Iranian opposition groups are preparing to hold fresh protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday, several websites reported, as the nation marks the annual Students Day.
Iran braces for Student Day protests
Iran says needs 20 nuclear sites – agency
Reuters: Iran needs 20 uranium enrichment plants to produce enough fuel for its nuclear power plants and has no plans to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
Iran puts reformist back in jail: party
AFP: Iranian authorities returned leading reformist Behzad Nabavi to jail on Saturday after he was freed on bail following his arrest in the wake of disputed June elections, his party said.
Iran sets limit to what it tells atomic agency
New York Times: Iran said Friday that it would keep plans for 10 new enrichment plants secret until six months before they were ready to concentrate uranium into nuclear fuel, a policy sure to heighten tensions with the West over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.
US envoy to discuss Iran, climate on visit to Asia
AFP: A top US diplomat will travel to China and Indonesia next week to discuss Iran's feared nuclear ambitions, climate change and democratic reform in Asia, officials said Friday.
Russia, China closer to approving Iran sanctions
AFP: Iran's defiant pursuit of its nuclear programme has tested the patience of Moscow and Beijing and increased the chances that they might support sanctions against Tehran, analysts said on Friday.
AP sources: US eyes January for new Iran sanctions
AP: The Obama administration is looking to press in early January for a new round of United Nations sanctions against Iran for its continued defiance of demands to come clean about its nuclear program, U.S. officials said Friday.
Iranian group: health care blocked at Iraq camp
AP: Members of an Iranian opposition group claimed Friday that Iraqi authorities are limiting their access to outside health care at a camp in northern Iraq where they have been under watch since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Iran cracks down on dissent in universities
AP: As they gear up for a major anti-government protest Monday, Iranian students are besieged by a clampdown in the universities, with a wave of arrests and expulsions.
Iran won’t work with UN nuke agency beyond minimum
AP: An Iranian nuclear official says Tehran will not answer to the U.N. nuclear watchdog beyond the barest minimum required under the international nonproliferation treaty.
