Washington Post: Iran has entered a final stage of irrevocable choices about its nuclear program. It has backed out of a deal that would have sent most of its uranium stockpile abroad to be processed for peaceful purposes.
Green leverage over Iran
Iranian pleads guilty in US arms-trafficking case
AFP: An Iranian man has pleaded guilty to trafficking sensitive US weapons to the Islamic republic, part of what he believed were preparations for war between the two nations, US prosecutors said Wednesday.
Iran will enrich uranium to 20%: Ahmadinejad
AFP: A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Iran will itself enrich uranium up to 20 percent purity in a blow to Western efforts to stop Tehran's sensitive nuclear activities.
Top leaders fail to attend meeting in Iran’s Parliament
New York Times: In a sign of the increasing divide among Iranian leaders, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani did not attend a meeting aimed at creating political “unity” on Tuesday, news agencies reported.
Iran’s plan to phase out subsidies brings frenzied debate
New York Times: The outside world may be focused on Iran’s intensifying confrontation with the West over its nuclear program. But at home, Iranians are more concerned with an ambitious and risky new effort to overhaul the country’s troubled economy.
Iran prison doctor ‘was poisoned’, prosecutors say
BBC: The doctor who died at an Iranian detention centre holding opposition supporters was poisoned, the Iranian authorities have said.
PRESS DIGEST – Iran – Dec 2
Reuters: These are some of the leading stories in Iranian newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
British yachtsmen held for a week ‘freed by Iran’
BBC: The Foreign Office says it is "actively investigating" reports that five UK yachtsmen held by Iran's Revolutionary Guard for a week have been freed.
Iran editor gets 9-year jail term for vote protest
Reuters: A newspaper editor and well-known critic of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sentenced to nine years in jail for fomenting unrest after June's disputed elections, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Calif. insurers say $12 billion invested in Iran
AP: California's insurance commissioner said Tuesday he will push insurance companies doing business in California to divest up to $12 billion in indirect investments in Iran's defense, nuclear, energy and banking industries.
