Reuters: Military action against Iran would be a last resort but the United States and its allies have not done enough to promote the alternative, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Wednesday.
Iran strike an unattractive last resort: Bolton
US: Iran must not ‘stall’ on nuclear issue
AFP: The United States warned Wednesday that it would not let Iran "stall" the world with nuclear negotiations while Tehran pursues what the West fears is an atomic weapons quest.
Iran must explain IAEA nuclear report: Rice
Reuters: Iran has much to explain about a new report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog that says its alleged research into nuclear warheads remains of great concern, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday.
Iran’s failed ‘litmus test’
Washington Post – Editorials: Will there be consequences for Tehran's stonewalling of U.N. nuclear inspectors? Last August, the International Atomic Energy Agency struck a deal with Iran on a "work plan" for clearing up outstanding questions about its nuclear program within three months — in other words, before December 2007.
Iran new speaker in nuclear watchdog threat
CNN: Ali Larijani, formerly Iran's top nuclear negotiator, was overwhelmingly elected as parliament speaker Wednesday — and immediately warned that Tehran may reconsider cooperating with the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.
Larijani warns IAEA over Iran’s cooperation
AFP: Iran's new parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Wednesday warned the UN nuclear watchdog that the country could revise its cooperation with it, after the body expressed grave concern about Tehran's contested atomic drive.
U.S. commander: Iran war would be ‘disastrous’
ABC News: The top U.S. Navy official in the Persian Gulf warned in an interview with ABC News that war with Iran would be "pretty disastrous," with "echoes and aftershocks" reverberating throughout the region.
Iranian guilty of using US nuclear software
AP: An engineer from Iran was convicted Tuesday of illegally accessing a protected computer in the United States to use training software he obtained at a former job at a nuclear power plant in Arizona.
Iranian opposition confident on EU case
AP: A court ruling in Britain could force the European Union to remove a prominent Iranian opposition movement from its list of terrorist organizations despite concern over Tehran's reaction, a senior opposition figure said Tuesday.
U.S. says Rice not expecting to meet Iranian and Syrian
Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice does not expect to meet with her counterparts from foes Iran and Syria at an international conference on Iraq in Stockholm this week, her spokesman said on Tuesday.
