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Iran’s failed ‘litmus test’

ImageWashington 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

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ImageCNN: 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

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ImageAFP: 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’

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ImageABC 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

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ImageAP: 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

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ImageAP: 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

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ImageReuters: 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.

Western powers pressure Iran over nuclear programme

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ImageReuters: Germany said on Tuesday the international community must push for a faster response from Iran over its nuclear programme, while Washington said a new U.N. report suggested Tehran wanted to acquire nuclear weapons.

UN nuclear watchdog says Iran hiding weapons studies

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ImageAFP: The UN atomic watchdog has expressed serious concern that Iran is still hiding information about alleged studies into making nuclear warheads and defying UN demands to suspend uranium enrichment.

US finds scant progress in IAEA report on Iran: envoy

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ImageAFP: Iran has delivered scant evidence to suggest that its atomic drive has no military dimension, a top United States official said here on Monday.