AFP: US intelligence believes that a cache of manufactured bombs seized in Iraq about two weeks ago was smuggled into the country from Iran by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, an intelligence official said Tuesday. “We believe they came from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards,” the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Bomb cache found in Iraq believed to be from Iranian Revolutionary Guard: official
Iranian opposition calls for UN action on nuclear standoff
AFP: An exiled Iranian opposition group Tuesday called on the United Nations nuclear watchdog to take Iran’s resuming uranium enrichment work before the UN Security Council, which could impose sanctions. The head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Maryam Radjavi, addressed the group’s appeal to the governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), meeting in
emergency session in Vienna.
Halt uranium conversion “without delay”, Russia tells Iran
AFP: Russia called Tuesday on Iran to halt work on uranium conversion “without delay.”
“The wise decision would be to stop work that has begun on uranium conversion without delay,” the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Iran vows to ‘resist’ pressure on nuclear programme
AFP: Iran will “resist” mounting international pressure over its nuclear programme and is not worried about threats of UN Security Council intervention, a top minister said on Monday. “Should we accept humiliation, the sanctions, see ourselves
be punished, or should we resist? I think that we should
resist,” Defence Minister Ali Shamkhani told journalists.
Iran dissident Ganji stops hunger strike-judiciary
Reuters: Jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji has broken his eight-week-old hunger strike after calls by family and friends concerned about his deteriorating health, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday. “Thankfully his condition is better than before … He has recently broken his hunger strike,” he said.
IAEA board meets after Iran restarts nuclear work
Reuters: The governors of the U.N. nuclear watchdog will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday after Iran resumed work at a uranium conversion plant, fanning Western fears it may be seeking nuclear weapons.
U.S. Says Iran Thumbs Nose at Nuke Talks
AP: Iran is “thumbing its nose” at a proposed international deal on its nuclear ambitions, the State Department said Monday, but the Bush administration seemed in no hurry to invoke punitive economic sanctions. Iran resumed uranium conversion activities at its Isfahan nuclear facility, a step that Europeans and the United States have warned in the past would prompt them to seek United Nations sanctions.
Iran restarts its nuclear activities
Washington Times: Iran resumed uranium-conversion activities at its Isfahan nuclear facility yesterday, breaching an agreement with European countries in an action that Western nations have said could lead them to seek U.N. sanctions against Tehran. The United States will consult with its European allies before deciding whether to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said in Washington.
Iranians’ nuclear work gets warning
USA TODAY: The International Atomic Energy Agency plans to warn Iran to suspend new efforts to make nuclear fuel and resume talks with Europeans or face possible punishment, two European diplomats said Monday. European nations and the United States called for an emergency meeting today of the board of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency in anticipation that Iran would carry out its threats to resume a uranium program.
Iran’s Nuclear Program
Washington Post – Editorial: LAST FRIDAY, Britain, France and Germany — the three European nations that had been negotiating the future of the Iranian nuclear program — put their final proposal on the table. Among other things, they offered Iran a role in the discussion of regional security issues, a trade and cooperation agreement, and technical advice on everything from seismology to aircraft safety.
