Bloomberg: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan urged Iran to exercise “restraint” after the government
restarted conversion of uranium. Iran yesterday resumed uranium conversion activities at its nuclear plant in the central city of Isfahan, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in an e-mailed statement.
Annan Urges Iran to Exercise `Restraint’ With Nuclear Program
Britain, France condemn Iran nuclear decision
Reuters: Britain said on Monday it was deeply concerned by Iran’s decision to restart its nuclear programme and France described the tone of Tehran’s rejection of EU proposals as particularly alarming. The two EU allies were responding to Iran’s decisions to resume work at a uranium conversion plant near the central city of Isfahan and to reject a package of European Union proposals aimed at solving a stand-off over Iran’s nuclear plans.
Dissident: Tehran has 4,000 centrifuges
AP: Iran has manufactured about 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade, an exiled Iranian dissident who helped uncover nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity in 2002 said Tuesday.
U.N. Nuke Watchdog Holds Meeting on Iran
AP: Diplomats gathered Tuesday for an emergency meeting of the U.N. nuclear agency to assess Iran’s resumption of uranium conversion, but the agency appeared unlikely to report Tehran to the U.N. Security Council.
Iran secretly builds nuclear fuel machines–exiles
Reuters: Iran has secretly built thousands of nuclear fuel enrichment machines and intends to use them at hidden sites across the country, an exile group said on Monday, citing what it said was an Iranian state document. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which has provided accurate information on Iran’s nuclear programme in the past, said it obtained a copy of a report by Iran’s powerful Supreme National Security Council written a week after last month’s presidential elections.
Germany warns of ‘disastrous consequences’ if Iran gets nuclear arms
AFP: German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer urged Iran Monday to return to talks with the European Union on its nuclear program and warned of “disastrous consequences” if Tehran were to acquire an atomic bomb.
Fischer told reporters that the basis for any talks must remain the suspension of operations at the uranium conversion facility at Isfahan, which Tehran announced Monday it was resuming.
Britain, at EU helm, reacts with concern at Iran nuclear move
AFP: Britain reacted with concern to news that Iran has resumed ultra-sensitive nuclear fuel work at its uranium conversion plant in Isfahan despite warnings from the international community. A Foreign Office official said Britain would discuss “next steps” with its international partners at an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday.
Protest outside jail in restive Kurdish town continues
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 08 Relatives of those arrested in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran, during last weeks anti-government protests have continued their gathering and vigil outside the towns central prison where
they have demanded the immediate and unconditional release of their family members.
Protest outside jail in restive Kurdish town continues
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 08 Relatives of those arrested in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran, during last weeks anti-government protests have continued their gathering and vigil outside the towns central prison where
they have demanded the immediate and unconditional release of their family members.
US official presses UN action against Iran
AFP: The United States considers reports that Iran has restarted nuclear activities “unfortunate” and would expect Tehran to be taken before the United Nations, a State Department official said Monday. The official, who asked not to be named, made his comments after the vice president of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency announced the resumption of uranium conversion at its Isfahan plant despite warnings by the international community.
