Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 12 – A top aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that “withstanding and resistance” in the face of foreign pressure vis-à-vis the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is the nation’s will and that Tehran would never abandon its nuclear stance.

The Sunday Telegraph: Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites as a “last resort” to block Teheran’s efforts to develop an atomic bomb.

The Sunday Telegraph: Iran has drawn up designs for a deep underground tunnel with remote-controlled heat and pressure sensors as part of what Western intelligence officials believe are preparations for a secret atomic test.

The Sunday Telegraph: When it comes to dealing with the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear programme, the Bush administration is prepared to take a far more measured – some would say mature – approach to coalition-building than was obvious during the build-up to the Iraq war.

Reuters: German prosecutors are preparing criminal charges against a group of Germans whom they suspect of illegally helping Iran obtain technology that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, officials and diplomats told Reuters.