Washington Post – A test for China and Russia – Editorial: It’s been four years since the existence of Iran’s nuclear program was confirmed, and since then Iran has succeeded in stalling the world’s efforts to ensure that the country’s enriched uranium is used exclusively for peaceful purposes. Sometimes inspectors from the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency have been granted permission to enter the country; sometimes they have been denied access.
Iran stalls
Authorities hang man in public in southeast Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the south-eastern Iranian town of Khash, Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province, the official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday.
Authorities hang man in public in southeast Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the south-eastern Iranian town of Khash, Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province, the official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday.
Iran secretly builds advanced nuclear centrifuges – exiles
Iran Focus: Paris, Aug. 24 – Iran has secretly built more than a dozen advanced P2 nuclear centrifuges in breach of is commitments to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), an Iranian opposition leader announced on Thursday.
Iran secretly builds advanced nuclear centrifuges – exiles
Iran Focus: Paris, Aug. 24 – Iran has secretly built more than a dozen advanced P2 nuclear centrifuges in breach of is commitments to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), an Iranian opposition leader announced on Thursday.
Merkel ‘cannot be satisfied’ with Iran’s nuclear response to UN
Bloomberg: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she is not satisfied with Iran’s response to the United Nations offer of economic benefits in exchange for curtailing its nuclear program.
Iran nuclear issue may head next to U.N.
AP: The United States is working with European allies and other governments over a possible U.N. response to what the Bush administration characterizes as Iran’s inadequate answer to demands that it cease uranium enrichment.
Annan expected to visit Syria and Iran
Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to go to Lebanon and Israel shortly and probably Syria and Iran as well to help enforce the cease-fire in Lebanon, the United Nations announced on Wednesday.
US in the dark over Iran : Congress intel report
AFP: A congressional committee warned Wednesday of “significant” gaps in US intelligence on Iran, a scenario it said precluded confident assessments on Tehran’s weapons of mass destruction programs.
US closely reviewing Iran answer: White House
AFP: The United States said Wednesday it was carefully reviewing Iran’s reply to an offer meant to end the standoff over Tehran’s atomic programs, but insisted the Islamic republic must freeze sensitive nuclear activities.
