AP: An 18-month attempt to persuade Iran to mothball uranium enrichment collapsed Friday after a senior European Union envoy failed to dent Tehran’s resolve to expand the technology, despite the threat of new U.N. sanctions.
EU-Iranian talks break up; no compromise
US hopes Iran will bend on nuclear issue
AFP: The United States said Friday it hoped Iran would bow to pressure to freeze sensitive nuclear work, amid talks seen as a last chance before a possible new round of sanctions against Tehran.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards patrol Persian Gulf, U.S. says
CNN: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has taken command of Iranian naval operations in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military has revealed.
Iran offers no concessions in nuclear talks
New York Times: Negotiators for Iran and the European Union held a new round of talks today on Irans uranium enrichment program, but the meeting ended with indications that the Iranians had offered no new concessions to ease Western concerns that Iran plans to develop nuclear weapons.
On nuclear seesaw, the balance seems to shift to Iran
New York Times: Irans president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is known for overheated, boastful pronouncements. So it was hardly a surprise earlier this month when he declared that despite demands from the United States and other countries that Iran stop enriching uranium, Tehran was pressing ahead and negotiations were out of the question.
UK court tells UK government to lift Iran opposition ban
Dow Jones: A U.K. court Friday ordered the U.K.’s home secretary to lift a six-year ban on Iran’s Peoples Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, which is part of a broader coalition group that forms the main opposition to the current regime in Tehran.
EU disappointed after nuclear talks, Iran digs in
Reuters: The European Union said it was disappointed after talks with Iran on Friday seen as a last chance to avert U.S. pressure for tougher international sanctions over Tehran’s disputed atomic program.
Germany holds man over classified exports to Iran
DPA: A man has been arrested in Germany for exporting military or nuclear items to Iran, federal prosecutors in the southern justice capital of Karlsruhe said Thursday.
Iran defiant ahead of EU nuclear talks
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad remains defiant ahead of the latest talks with the European Union seeking a solution to the crisis over Iran’s nuclear programme, media reported on Thursday.
Iran leader issues warning in spy case
AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened Wednesday that his government would expose details of conversations between a former Iranian nuclear negotiator whom the president had labeled a spy and foreigners he was accused of colluding with.
