Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 20 Irans Interior Ministry has set up a new intelligence-gathering directorate across the country, the semi-official daily Kayhan reported on Monday.
Irans Interior Ministry launches new intelligence network
Iran nears industrial N-fuel production
Financial Times: Iran has mastered crucial nuclear technology since August and could be as little as six months away from being able to enrich uranium on an industrial scale, the United Nations chief nuclear watchdog warned on Monday.
Iran sets condition to halt nuke program
AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran would only halt its uranium enrichment program and return to negotiations if other Western nations do the same.
How Iran is vulnerable to a decline in oil exports
Wall Street Journal: Tehran’s chest-beating over its nuclear-development program has masked a longstanding but growing Iranian vulnerability: its oil exports.
Strategic pressures on Iran are growing
Wall Street Journal: The U.S.’s escalating pressure on Iran appears to be having some impact, opening up opportunities for real advancements in U.S. foreign policy, whether containing Iran’s nuclear ambitions or underpinning a democratically elected government in Lebanon.
Europe and the mullahs
Wall Street Journal – REVIEW & OUTLOOK: On the record, Europe claims to be as concerned as America about a nuclear-armed Iran. The record also shows, however, that Europe’s biggest countries do a booming business with the Islamic Republic. And so far for the Continentals, manna trumps security.
US ‘Iran attack plans’ revealed
BBC: US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country’s military infrastructure, the BBC has learned.
Iran denies delaying payment for reactor
AP: The launch of a Russian-built nuclear power plant in Iran could be delayed because Iran has fallen behind in payments, Russian officials said Monday. Top Iranian officials swiftly denied that payments had been disrupted, in the latest dispute surrounding the deal at the heart of the two countries’ nuclear cooperation.
Irans Larijani to meet IAEA chief in Vienna on Tuesday
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 Irans chief nuclear negotiator will meet the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei on Tuesday in Vienna, the official news agency IRNA quoted a top Iranian envoy as saying on Monday.
Irans Larijani to meet IAEA chief in Vienna on Tuesday
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 Irans chief nuclear negotiator will meet the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei on Tuesday in Vienna, the official news agency IRNA quoted a top Iranian envoy as saying on Monday.
