AFP: Iran’s new foreign minister said Sunday that Tehran would not return to a full suspension of nuclear fuel activities and warned a referral of the issue to the UN Security Council would be a “lose-lose” game. “There is no question of returning to a new suspension at Isfahan,” Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters.
Iran won’t return to nuclear suspension: FM
UN inspectors ‘powerless to stop atom bomb plans in Iran’
Sunday Telegraph: The former head of the United Nations inspection team that is investigating Iran’s nuclear programme has called on the Security Council to give it greater powers so it can determine whether Teheran is trying to build an atomic bomb.
200 security checkpoints set up across Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 10 Some 200 special units of the State Security Forces (SSF) moved into different locations across the Iranian capital on Saturday as part of the new wave of crackdown of social corruption, the head of security patrols of Greater Tehrans police force told reporters as the units were being dispatched.
200 security checkpoints set up across Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 10 Some 200 special units of the State Security Forces (SSF) moved into different locations across the Iranian capital on Saturday as part of the new wave of crackdown of social corruption, the head of security patrols of Greater Tehrans police force told reporters as the units were being dispatched.
Iran says arrested trouble-makers will not be released
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 10 Trouble-makers that are arrested in Iran will be held in prison indefinitely until their networks are rooted out by the State Security Forces (SSF), the state prosecutors office told a state-owned news agency on Saturday.
Iran says arrested trouble-makers will not be released
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 10 Trouble-makers that are arrested in Iran will be held in prison indefinitely until their networks are rooted out by the State Security Forces (SSF), the state prosecutors office told a state-owned news agency on Saturday.
Straws handshake with the Butcher angers Iran dissidents
Iran Focus: London, Sep. 10 A handshake between British Foreign Minister Jack Straw and one of Irans new Vice-Presidents on Friday has aroused much anger and indignation among Iranian exiles, who say the official has a long history as a torturer and executioner of political dissidents in Iran.
Straws handshake with the Butcher angers Iran dissidents
Iran Focus: London, Sep. 10 A handshake between British Foreign Minister Jack Straw and one of Irans new Vice-Presidents on Friday has aroused much anger and indignation among Iranian exiles, who say the official has a long history as a torturer and executioner of political dissidents in Iran.
Wider U.S. Net Seeks Allies Against Iran’s Nuclear Plan
New York Times: Stymied in its effort to rally a worldwide coalition to press Iran, the Bush administration has opened an unusual diplomatic struggle with Russia, China and India to have Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons activities brought before the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions.
Irans top brass says U.S., Israel behind terror attacks in Iraq
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 09 A top military commander in Iran accused the United States and Israel on Friday of being behind terrorist attacks in Iraq, which he said were being carried out to justify the continuing military occupation of the oil-rich Arab country.


