AP: Iran set a deadline Monday for European negotiators to submit proposals to Tehran before it resumes some of its frozen nuclear activities, the speaker of parliament said. Such
a move could lead to the Europeans calling for Iran to be hauled before the U.N. Security Council. The United States wants the world body to sanction Iran over its nuclear program, contending it wants to build nuclear bombs.
Iran Sets Deadline for EU Nuke Proposals
Germany warns Iran against ‘unilateral steps’ on nuclear work
AFP: Germany urged Iran Monday not to take any “unilateral steps” on uranium enrichment that could endanger negotiations with the European Union on its nuclear program.
“The German government calls on Tehran not to undertake any unilateral steps that would threaten the agreement from Paris,” a foreign ministry spokesman said, referring to a pledge Iran made in November to suspend uranium enrichment.
Iran to resume nuclear work in defiance of EU
Reuters: Iran said it would resume nuclear fuel activities on Monday after the European Union failed to respond in time to its offer of new talks. Two years of hard bargaining over a nuclear programme that Tehran had kept secret for 18 years appeared to be heading towards a crisis that could see Iran’s case sent to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions.
Irans Nobel laureate highlights plight of political prisoners
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 31 Irans Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi wrote in an article that the international community should not ignore the plight of other political prisoners in Iran as well as focusing on the case of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji, a Persian-language website reported on Sunday. Ebadi said that while the case of Akbar Ganji was a regretful example of the harsh situation of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Iran that has gained attention in recent weeks, other political prisoners must not be forgotten.
Irans Nobel laureate highlights plight of political prisoners
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 31 Irans Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi wrote in an article that the international community should not ignore the plight of other political prisoners in Iran as well as focusing on the case of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji, a Persian-language website reported on Sunday. Ebadi said that while the case of Akbar Ganji was a regretful example of the harsh situation of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Iran that has gained attention in recent weeks, other political prisoners must not be forgotten.
Lebanese Hezbollah chief to meet Iran’s Ahmadinejad
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 – The head of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrollah, is scheduled to meet Iran’s ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Monday.
Lebanese Hezbollah chief to meet Iran’s Ahmadinejad
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 – The head of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrollah, is scheduled to meet Iran’s ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Monday.
Sophisticated strikes threaten British withdrawal from Iraq
The Independent on Sunday: Two British security guards were killed on the outskirts of Basra yesterday when a British consulate convoy was hit by a roadside bomb. The attack was the latest in a series of sophisticated strikes threatening to disrupt Britain’s plans to reduce its troop presence in southern Iraq.
UN atomic agency would need three days to call Iran emergency session
AFP: At least three days would be needed to convene an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog agency if the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program were to escalate, an agency spokesman said Sunday. It would take “at least 72 hours” to convene a session in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation board of governors, which could then send the Iranian dossier to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions against Tehran, said the spokesman, who asked not to be named.
Floods kill 27 in northeast Iran
Reuters: Floods caused by heavy rain killed 27 people in northeastern Iran on Sunday, state radio reported. It quoted a local governor as saying the people were killed in the village of Galidagh in Golestan province, which borders Turkmenistan
on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
