The Daily Telegraph: Iran brushed aside Kofi Annan’s efforts to mediate in the crisis over its nuclear ambitions yesterday even as Western powers struggled to maintain momentum for sanctions against the Islamic state.
Iran snubs Annan and rejects nuclear plea
Annan says Irans president holds to nuclear program
New York Times: The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, said Sunday after meeting here with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran that the president was willing to enter into negotiations on his countrys nuclear program but would not agree to suspending uranium enrichment beforehand, as demanded by the Security Council.
Iran impasse
The Times – Leading articles: Kofi Annans meetings with the Iranian leadership this weekend appear to have yielded little progress. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Irans President, made it plain that, while he was interested in more talks about his countrys evident nuclear ambitions, he would not contemplate any suspension of uranium enrichment in advance of those negotiations. That requirement, however, is the essence of UN Resolution 1696 passed on July 31 and whose deadline expired without compliance last Thursday.
Crime boss brokered nuclear-delivery missile sale to Iran
Sunday Times: The British government was warned more than two years ago that Iran had illegally acquired a missile system capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
Iran MPs mull blocking UN nuclear inspections
AFP: Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament is to examine a bill that would block the UN watchdog’s inspections of its nuclear facilities, a parliamentary source told AFP on Sunday.
Irans Air Force holds war-games
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 Irans air force has begun a series of military manoeuvres in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan, state television reported.
Irans Air Force holds war-games
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 Irans air force has begun a series of military manoeuvres in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan, state television reported.
Bus, truck collision leaves 27 dead in central Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 A passenger bus collided with a truck on a highway in central Iran leaving 27 people dead and five others injured, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Sunday.
Bus, truck collision leaves 27 dead in central Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 A passenger bus collided with a truck on a highway in central Iran leaving 27 people dead and five others injured, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Sunday.
Annan questions Iran Holocaust exhibit
AP: U.N. Secretary of State Kofi Annan, visiting Iran Saturday, raised concerns with officials over an exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust that opened in response to Muslim outrage over the Prophet Muhammad caricatures.
