Reuters: 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.
Western powers pressure Iran over nuclear programme
UN nuclear watchdog says Iran hiding weapons studies
AFP: 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
AFP: Iran has delivered scant evidence to suggest that its atomic drive has no military dimension, a top United States official said here on Monday.
Nuclear agency accuses Iran of willful lack of cooperation
New York Times: The International Atomic Energy Agency, in an unusually blunt and detailed report, said Monday that Iran’s suspected research into the development of nuclear weapons remained “a matter of serious concern” and that Iran continued to owe the agency “substantial explanations.”
Iran’s Ahmadinejad requests meeting with pope
Reuters: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked for an audience next week with Pope Benedict which would be the first meeting between the two leaders, a diplomatic source said on Tuesday.
IAEA says Iran nuclear arms studies “serious concern”
Reuters: Iran's alleged research into designing nuclear warheads remains a matter of serious concern and needs "substantive explanations", the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
IAEA suggests Iran may be withholding evidence
AP: The U.N. nuclear watchdog suggests Iran may be withholding information the agency needs to establish whether Tehran tried to make nuclear arms.
EU’s Solana hopes for Iran trip within month
Reuters: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Monday he hoped to go to Iran in the next month to discuss Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
Iran jails male backer of feminism petition: report
AFP: A male defender of the feminist cause in Iran has been sentenced to a year in prison, the moderate Kargozaran newspaper reported on Monday without providing further details.
Iran-Turkey gas flow halted after blast
Reuters: The flow of Iranian natural gas to Turkey was halted early on Monday after an explosion hit a gas pipeline in eastern Turkey, Turkish energy officials said.
