Reuters: The Group of Eight nations backs a U.S. policy of giving Iran a chance to negotiate over its nuclear program, but believes time is running out before new sanctions should be considered, Italy's foreign minister said on Thursday.
Italy: G8 backs talks with Iran but time limited
Iran has nuclear warhead plants in Tehran: exiled opposition
AFP: Iran's exiled opposition movement said Thursday it had learned of two previously unknown sites in and near Tehran that are being used to build nuclear warheads.
Get tough with Iran, Brown urges
BBC: Gordon Brown has called for the UN to consider "far tougher" sanctions on Iran and North Korea if they pursue nuclear weapons programmes.
Iran must be alert to US, British ‘plots’: Khamenei
AFP: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday Tehran must remain alert to what he called US and British plots against the Islamic republic.
Iran developing nuclear detonators, Resistance Council says
Bloomberg: Iran’s government is developing detonators capable of setting off a nuclear bomb, an Iranian resistance group said.
Russia says it will join sanctions against Iran
The Times: President Obama’s biggest foreign policy gamble appeared to pay off last night as Russia opened the door to punishing new sanctions on Iran to halt its nuclear programme.
Britain walks out of Iran’s Ahmadinejad’s anti-Semitic speech at UN
Daily Telegraph: Britain walked out of a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran at the United Nations on Wednesday night in protest at anti-Semitic remarks.
NKorea, Iran threaten ‘dangerous slope’: Obama
AFP: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on leaders to hold North Korea and Iran to account for their nuclear programs, warning they threatened to take the world down a "dangerous slope."
Moscow does not rule out new Iran sanctions: official
AFP: Russia does not ruling out backing fresh sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear program, a Russian official said Wednesday.
Sarkozy rejects Iran’s offer on detainees, calls it ‘blackmail’
AFP: President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday rejected as "blackmail" Iran's offer to help a French teaching assistant detained in Tehran if France reciprocates with Iranian prisoners on its territory.
