Reuters: Iran is forging ahead with a program to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons while the European Union focuses its energy on shutting down Tehran’s uranium enrichment activities, an Iranian exile said on Friday.
Iran forges ahead with plutonium project – exiles
Iran regime ‘solid’ in pursuing nuclear drive: Khamenei
AFP: Iran’s Islamic regime is as “solid as a mountain” and can easily stand up to international pressure for it to abandon sensitive nuclear activities, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday. In a sermon at Tehran University, Iran’s top cleric accused the West of trying to bully the Islamic
republic into abandoning atomic energy technology but said its campaign did not have the backing of the wider international community.
Spokesman: Iran not afraid of UN Security Council
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman in an interview with a Saudi newspaper on Friday stated that Tehran is not afraid of its [nuclear”> file being sent to [the United Nations”> Security Council.
Hamid-Reza Asefi told the daily Okaz, Sending Irans case to the Security Council will not make us abandon our peaceful nuclear activities.
Spokesman: Iran not afraid of UN Security Council
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman in an interview with a Saudi newspaper on Friday stated that Tehran is not afraid of its [nuclear”> file being sent to [the United Nations”> Security Council.
Hamid-Reza Asefi told the daily Okaz, Sending Irans case to the Security Council will not make us abandon our peaceful nuclear activities.
Police launch stop-and-search in central Iran city
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 Plainclothes agents of
Irans State Security Forces (SSF) have been placed at major squares in the town of Isfahan, central Iran, since Thursday
and have launched a stop-and-search operation for drivers passing by, residents reported on Friday.
Police launch stop-and-search in central Iran city
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 Plainclothes agents of
Irans State Security Forces (SSF) have been placed at major squares in the town of Isfahan, central Iran, since Thursday
and have launched a stop-and-search operation for drivers passing by, residents reported on Friday.
Iran Made Thousands of Centrifuges, Breaking Pledge, Exiles Say
Bloomberg: Iran has continued to produce centrifuges, which are used in the uranium enrichment process, in contravention of a November 2004 agreement with the U.K., France and Germany to suspend all such activities, the exiled opposition National Council for Resistance in Iran said. Iran this month removed United Nations seals on equipment used in uranium enrichment at its Isfahan plant, after rejecting an offer from the so-called EU-3 of technology and economic incentives in
exchange for halting processing activity.
19 workers die in Iran bus crash
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18 Nineteen workers died in a motorway accident south of the Iranian capital. The incident happened as a minibus with 37 passengers on board fell into
a water canal as it was moving in the Ghiam-Dasht Highway, close to the town of Pakdasht which is in the suburbs of Tehran.
19 workers die in Iran bus crash
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18 Nineteen workers died in a motorway accident south of the Iranian capital. The incident happened as a minibus with 37 passengers on board fell into
a water canal as it was moving in the Ghiam-Dasht Highway, close to the town of Pakdasht which is in the suburbs of Tehran.
Iraqi Foreign Minister says terrorists get arms from Iran
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 18 Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told a London-based Arabic newspaper on Wednesday that Iran continues to be the transit point for arms smuggled to insurgents in Iraq. Credible intelligence shows that arms smuggling continues through the Iran-Iraq border and the shipment of arms to terrorist groups in Iraq is a clear reality, Zebari said in an interview with the daily Al-Hayat.
