Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 06 In yet another snub to the United Nations Security Council which has demanded that Iran halt all uranium enrichment activities, Tehran has announced that it plans to set up a “uranium enrichment university faculty”.
Iran to launch Uranium Enrichment University
Construction begins on new Iran-Iraq railway
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 06 Construction work has begun on a new railway linking Iran and Iraq, Iranian state radio announced on Friday.
Construction begins on new Iran-Iraq railway
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 06 Construction work has begun on a new railway linking Iran and Iraq, Iranian state radio announced on Friday.
China advises ‘serious response’ by Iran to U.N. sanctions
Washington Post: China told Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Friday that Tehran should abandon its defiance of U.N. sanctions and work for a swift return to talks to resolve the standoff over its nuclear program.
EU distances itself from U.S. push to curtail lending to Iran
Bloomberg: The European Union is cool to a U.S. push for stricter financial sanctions on Iran that the Bush administration is prodding European countries and banks to impose, a senior EU official said.
Iran says it has increased nuclear feedstock
AFP: The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation said his country had 250 tons of nuclear feedstock for uranium enrichment, the student news agency ISNA reported Thursday.
Nigeria, Iran sign big oil deal
UPI: Nigeria and Iran have agreed to establish a multi-billion-dollar joint-venture oil company, several Nigerian oil industry officials said.
Iran says no truth to rumour of Khamenei death
Reuters: Iran’s U.N. ambassador denied on Friday reports circulating on the Internet that Tehran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had died.
China urges ‘serious response’ from Iran to nuclear resolution
AFP: China Friday told Iran to deliver a “serious response” to a United Nations resolution on its nuclear program, as a top Tehran envoy vowed to adhere to a key non-proliferation pact.
Bush says world cannot have peace with a nuclear Iran
Iran Focus: London, Jan. 05 United States President George W. Bush said on Thursday that there could not be peace in the world with a nuclear-armed Iran.
