AFP: A Belgian-based company has been denied a licence to export materials to Iran to build a phosphoric acid factory over fears it could be used to enrich uranium, authorities in Brussels said on Thursday. Phosphoric acid is part of “fertilizer for use in agriculture, but with a few modifications it could be used to enrich uranium for a nuclear programme,” said a spokesman for the Brussels region external relations ministry.
Belgian authorities stop firm exporting to Iran over nuclear fears
Iran daily confirms deadly clashes in Kurdish town
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 04 Irans semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami on Thursday acknowledged yesterdays violent clashes in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran, where at least 11 people were reportedly killed after police opened fire on protestors from both the ground and military helicopters in the air.
Iran daily confirms deadly clashes in Kurdish town
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 04 Irans semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami on Thursday acknowledged yesterdays violent clashes in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran, where at least 11 people were reportedly killed after police opened fire on protestors from both the ground and military helicopters in the air.
Kurdish womens rights activist arrested in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 04 A prominent womens rights activist in Iranian Kurdistan was arrested during a gathering organised in protest against the murder of a young Kurd by Irans State Security Forces, a Persian-language website reported.
Kurdish womens rights activist arrested in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 04 A prominent womens rights activist in Iranian Kurdistan was arrested during a gathering organised in protest against the murder of a young Kurd by Irans State Security Forces, a Persian-language website reported.
World editorial round-up on Iran
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 04 Newspapers around the world expressed alarm in their Thursday editorials at the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran and dangers of postponing the referral of Irans nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council following the rise to power of Irans new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
World editorial round-up on Iran
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 04 Newspapers around the world expressed alarm in their Thursday editorials at the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran and dangers of postponing the referral of Irans nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council following the rise to power of Irans new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran calls decision on uranium ‘irreversible’
Financial Times: Hassan Rowhani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, defied threats from Britain, France and Germany to cut off talks on its nuclear programme and said yesterday the decision to resume uranium conversion activity was irreversible.
Iran Tells Europe It’s Devoted to Nuclear Efforts and Talks
New York Times: The leader of Iran’s team negotiating with Europe over its nuclear program sent a letter on Wednesday to the foreign ministers of the three nations involved in the talks, saying that Iran was determined to resume its nuclear
activities but that it also wanted to continue the negotiations.
Nuclear storm
The Times – Leading articles: All the ingredients are now in place for the perfect diplomatic storm: a new US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, who has made no secret of his support for a much tougher, if not openly interventionist, American policy towards Iran; a new hardline Islamist President in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has promised to press ahead with Irans nuclear programme; and a group of frustrated European nations almost ready to abandon apparently pointless talks with Tehran.
