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Russia and US trade angry words over Iran at UN dinner

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Sunday Telegraph: The American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, traded barbs during bad-tempered talks at a foreign ministers’ summit in New York on Iran’s nuclear programme.

Suspicion grows on Iran’s uranium

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Sunday Times: Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are asking Iranian officials for samples of machinery taken from a nuclear site bulldozed in 2004 to confirm whether it bears traces of bomb-grade uranium.

Iran won’t accept offer on halting atomic work

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Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Iran would not accept any offer made by European states if it included a demand that Tehran stop what he called peaceful nuclear activities.

Iran will talk to any country but Israel: president

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Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday Iran was ready to talk with any country except Israel but not under threat of force.

Top cleric says Iran’s letter to Bush was “divine inspiration”

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 13 – A senior Iranian cleric described a letter sent by hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to United States’ President George W. Bush as a “divine inspiration”.

Top cleric says Iran’s letter to Bush was “divine inspiration”

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 13 – A senior Iranian cleric described a letter sent by hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to United States’ President George W. Bush as a “divine inspiration”.

Iran gave al-Qaeda in Iraq SAM-7 missiles – report

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Iran Focus: London, May 13 – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had provided the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq heavy weapons including anti-aircraft missiles, it emerged on Friday.

Iran gave al-Qaeda in Iraq SAM-7 missiles – report

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Iran Focus: London, May 13 – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had provided the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq heavy weapons including anti-aircraft missiles, it emerged on Friday.

Chirac for ‘imposing’ UN Security Council decisions on Iran

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AFP: French President Jacques Chirac said on Friday Europe should seek the imposition of UN Security Council decisions on Iran over Tehran’s refusal to give up its controversial nuclear programme.

Rights group urges EU to pressure Iran to stop execution

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Iran Focus: London, May 13 – A Tehran-based human rights group has called on the European Union to pressure Iran to suspend the imminent execution of a long-time political prisoner.