CNN: Iran has restarted a nuclear facility for uranium conversion, saying the process is for producing nuclear fuel.
Tehran said Monday’s resumption would not include the enrichment of uranium, which the United States and some other countries fear could be part of a covert nuclear weapons program.

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 08 – Ali Larijani, a top confidant of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will take over as Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and Iran’s new chief nuclear negotiator, the country’s state-run news agency, IRNA, reported. IRNA quoted Ali Aghamohammadi, the spokesman for the SNSC, as saying that the hard-line former head of state broadcasting was expected to soon be officially appointed to the post by Iran’s new ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Reuters: Iran resumed uranium conversion on Monday at its facility near Isfahan, a move EU officials have warned will probably see its nuclear case sent to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. “The uranium conversion facility in Isfahan has started its activities under IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) supervision,” Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, told reporters at the plant.

AFP: UN nuclear inspectors still need a few days to set up surveillance cameras at a sensitive nuclear facility where Iran was hoping to resume fuel cycle work as of Monday, a UN atomic agency spokeswoman said in Vienna. “Nothing’s changed. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) team still needs until the middle of this week to get the inspection system set up and in place before the facility could be restarted,” Melissa Fleming told AFP.

Reuters: U.N. inspectors have arrived at a uranium conversion plant in Iran to install surveillance equipment and oversee the removal of seals as Tehran prepared to resume work there, a senior Iranian official said on Monday. Such a move would lead the Islamic state into direct confrontation with the European Union, which has warned Iran it faces being referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions if it resumes work at the plant near the central Iranian city of Isfahan.