Reuters: The United States does not consider comments on Thursday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be Iran’s formal response to a major power offer of talks and incentives on the nuclear issue, a U.S. official said.
U.S. waits for Iran’s formal response to nuclear offer
Iran begins fresh atom enrichment despite powers’ offer
Reuters: Iran began a fresh phase of uranium enrichment this week just as world powers presented it with incentives to halt nuclear fuel work, according to a U.N. nuclear watchdog agency report obtained by Reuters on Thursday.
Bush wants diplomatic solution to Iran crisis: UK
Reuters: President Bush wants and believes in a diplomatic solution to the international standoff with Iran over its nuclear program, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday.
Iran seeks to become regions top power
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 08 The Supreme Commander of Irans elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic sought to become the top power in the region within the next two decades, the state-run news agency ISNA reported.
Iran seeks to become regions top power
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 08 The Supreme Commander of Irans elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic sought to become the top power in the region within the next two decades, the state-run news agency ISNA reported.
Iran says threats won’t work in any atomic talks
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday threats would not work in solving a dispute over the country’s nuclear programme but Iran was ready to clear up misunderstandings with the world.
Al-Qaeda’s Zarqawi killed in Iraq
Reuters: Al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, blamed for the beheading of foreign captives and the death of hundreds in suicide bombings, has been killed in a raid north of Baghdad, Iraq’s prime minister said on Thursday.
U.S. says plan offers Iran uranium option
New York Times: Bush administration officials said on Wednesday that the package of incentives offered to Iran could theoretically allow it to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes someday, but expressed severe doubts that Iran could satisfy the conditions that would allow it to do so.
Al-Zarqawi killed in U.S. bombing in Iraq
AP: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, carried out some of the bloodiest suicide attacks in Iraq and led a campaign of kidnappings and hostage beheadings until he was killed in a U.S. bombing Thursday.
Iraqi ties to Iran create new risks for Washington
New York Times: The single most influential man in Iraq today, the Shiite religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, provides cash, free housing and medical care to tens of thousands of religious students and operates hundreds of religious Web sites across the globe.
