AP: Iran’s new hard-line president skirted the nuclear dispute with Europe and the United States on Wednesday in his General Assembly debut.
Iran leader warns U.N. not to follow U.S.
Decision time on Iran
New York Times – By PIERRE GOLDSCHMIDT: In November 2003, Iran averted a crisis when it agreed to suspend activities that could one day give it the capacity to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. The International Atomic Energy Agency had discovered an 18-year pattern of noncompliance by Iran with its obligations to report all its nuclear activities, during which time international inspectors could not verify that they were solely for peaceful purposes.
Iranian exiles protest “terrorist” Ahmadinejad at UN
AFP: Several thousand Iranian exiles protested in front of the UN headquarters, denouncing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a “terrorist” as he attended the UN summit of world leaders.
France threatens Iran with UN Security Council action
AFP: French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin “strongly” called Wednesday for Iran to keep its nuclear non-proliferation promises or face action before the UN Security Council.
Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: U.S. losing in Iraq, Middle East
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 The commander of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that the United States had been unable to control unrest in neighbouring Iraq, while the representative of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the IRGC said that Islamic spirituality was aiding individuals who stood against American aggression, during a ceremony attended by top Revolutionary Guards commanders.
Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: U.S. losing in Iraq, Middle East
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 The commander of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that the United States had been unable to control unrest in neighbouring Iraq, while the representative of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the IRGC said that Islamic spirituality was aiding individuals who stood against American aggression, during a ceremony attended by top Revolutionary Guards commanders.
172 trouble-makers prosecuted in Iran capital daily
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 Some 172 individuals in the Iranian capital were being prosecuted for disrupting national security, the man in charge of organising a new crackdown on trouble-makers said in an interview with Irans state-run television.
172 trouble-makers prosecuted in Iran capital daily
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 Some 172 individuals in the Iranian capital were being prosecuted for disrupting national security, the man in charge of organising a new crackdown on trouble-makers said in an interview with Irans state-run television.
U.S. Presses to Corral Iran at U.N.
Los Angeles Times: The United States has launched a major push to isolate Iran diplomatically and force Tehran to face U.N. Security Council sanctions if it refuses to give up its efforts to develop its own nuclear technology, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Bush puts Iraq, China and Iran on agenda
New York Times: For the first time since the Hurricane Katrina crisis, President Bush returned yesterday to dealing with festering global problems, trying to bolster Iraq’s president at the White House and then flying to New York to urge President Hu Jintao of China to join him in trying to stop nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.
