The next steps in international efforts to pressure Iran over its nuclear program (AP):
Tuesday, May 2 – Officials from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany – who report directly to their foreign ministers – meet in Paris to discuss strategy on Iran.
Wednesday, May 3 – The Security Council is expected to meet informally on the report.
Tuesday, May 9 – The foreign ministers of the Security Council’s five permanent members plus Germany meet at U.N. headquarters in New York. The council will meet on Iran formally after those talks.
Iran Focus: London, Apr. 28 A senior United States official accused Iran on Friday of supporting rejectionist groups and attempting to destabilise the Middle East. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 28 Irans radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Friday that the Islamic Republic would ignore resolutions by the United Nations Security Council calling on it to suspend its uranium enrichment. His remarks, which were aired on state television and carried by the official news agency, came on the final day of a 30-day deadline Tehran had been given by the Security Council to suspend all its uranium enrichment activities. 
Reuters: Washington is trying to arrange a meeting of foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany in New York on May 9 to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, Chinese and U.S. diplomats said on Thursday. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 28 The top commander of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the governor of Irans southern province of Khuzestan issued a stern warning to the United States and Britain on Thursday to stop meddling in Irans internal affairs and creating insecurity in the province, the heart of Irans oil industry. 
New York Times: Iran vowed yesterday to defy any United Nations Security Council resolution on its nuclear activities on the eve of a major report by atomic inspectors on the status of its nuclear program. 
Washington Times: Some observers ask, why not just let Iran go nuclear? The answer is that nuclear weapons in the hands of the mullahs would be the most dangerous combination since the dawn of the nuclear age — a nuclear-armed state with ballistic missiles led by religious zealots. It would be a serious threat to world peace and to the very survival of the 6 million people, Jews and Arabs alike, who live in Israel. 