AP: A team of U.N. inspectors went to Iran on Saturday to visit a recently revealed nuclear site, amid new efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program.
UN nuclear inspectors head to Iran to visit site
Iran misses nuclear deal deadline in defiance of West
Daily Telegraph: Iran defied the West by missing a deadline it had been set to agree to hand over its stockpiles of enriched uranium for processing abroad.
Clashes as Iran opposition leader visits exhibition
AFP: Clashes erupted on Friday between hardliners and supporters of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi when he visited a media exhibition in the capital, ISNA news agency reported.
France says Iran indications “not very positive”
Reuters: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was quoted as saying on Friday that indications received from Iran were "not very positive."
US displeased at delay in Iran response on uranium
AP: The Obama administration expressed mild disappointment Friday that Iran withheld a decision on whether to accept a U.N.-coordinated plan that could ease fears about Iran's potential for making a nuclear weapon.
Iran says will reply to IAEA proposal next week: report
Reuters: Iran will reply next week to a U.N.-drafted plan for it to cut a stockpile of nuclear fuel, Iranian state television quoted a senior official as saying on Friday.
A lone cleric is loudly defying Irans leaders
New York Times: A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman’s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in Tehran in recent months as his aides have been arrested, his offices raided, his newspaper shut down. He himself has been threatened with arrest and, indirectly, the death penalty.
US lawmakers unveil new Iran sanctions bill
AFP: US lawmakers unveiled new Iran sanctions legislation Thursday that could bar major global telecommunications giants that do business with the Islamic republic from lucrative US government contracts.
Russia pledges to continue arms supplies to Iran
AFP: Russia on Thursday said it would continue military cooperation with Iran amid widespread unease in the West over Moscow's controversial contract to sell advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Tehran.
Death fall of Iran nuclear expert may be murder
METRO: A British nuclear expert who plunged to his death a day before talks with Iran began may have been murdered.
