AFP: Britain warned Sunday that a threatened resumption of sensitive nuclear activities by Iran would be an “unnecessary and damaging step” which could jeopardise key European Union nuclear talks with Tehran.
Britain warns Iran nuclear plans threaten EU talks
Iran threatens to resume nuclear work without EU offer
AFP: Iran warned Sunday it would resume sensitive nuclear work within 24 hours if the European Union failed to submit proposals aimed at ending a long-running crisis over its nuclear programme. The move has raised the stakes in the nuclear standoff and risks seeing Iran hauled before the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, a persistent demand
of the United States which accuses Iran of seeking atomic weapons.
EU concerned at Iranian threats over nuclear program: diplomat
AFP: Iranian threats to resume sensitive nuclear uranium conversion work amount to “barely acceptable pressure” on the European Union, a European diplomat said Sunday. Iran said earlier it would resume sensitive uranium conversion work
from Monday unless EU negotiators came up with a package
of proposals aimed at ending a nuclear standoff by 1230 GMT Sunday.
Iraq Dances With Iran, While America Seethes
New York Times: Donald H. Rumsfeld, the defense secretary, delivered a blunt message to Iraqi leaders during a visit here last week: the Iraqis would have to be more aggressive in opposing the “harmful” meddling of Iran in this country’s affairs before the Americans could consider regional stability assured and the way clear for the United States forces to go home.
Iran says ready to restart nuclear work Monday
Reuters: Iran said it would restart some nuclear activities on Monday unless it receives European Union proposals on Sunday to break a diplomatic impasse. The EU is due to offer Iran some economic and political incentives in return for an indefinite suspension of uranium enrichment, nuclear fuel reprocessing and related activities.
Iran insists on rapid resumption of nuclear activities
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 30 Iran on Saturday rejected a request by the European trio Britain, France, and Germany to extend a deadline for offering a final set of proposals on the Islamic Republics controversial nuclear project, insisting that Tehran would go ahead with resumption of suspended
nuclear activities over the next few days.
Iran insists on rapid resumption of nuclear activities
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 30 Iran on Saturday rejected a request by the European trio Britain, France, and Germany to extend a deadline for offering a final set of proposals on the Islamic Republics controversial nuclear project, insisting that Tehran would go ahead with resumption of suspended
nuclear activities over the next few days.
Protesting Iran human rights lawyer arrested
AFP: A colleague of the Nobel Prize winning Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Abdolfattah Soltani, was arrested on Saturday, a fellow lawyer said. A group of men appeared at a legal building where Soltani, already the subject of an arrest warrant, was holding a protest and “put him into a car and took him away,” Mohammad Sharif told the student agency ISNA.
Iran confiscating minorities’ land says UN report
Reuters: Iran is denying basic amenities to its ethnic and religious minorities and in some cases confiscating their land, a preliminary U.N. report said on Saturday. The report focused on accounts of discrimination in areas across the country’s western borders, home to Arab and Kurdish minorities, where ethnic unrest has flared this week.
Iran media fuel row with London over opposition leader
Iran Focus: Paris, Jul. 30 Irans officials and state-owned media have been launching virulent attacks on the British government for supposedly hosting an Iranian opposition leader in London. In a special report, the semi-official daily Kayhan wrote in its Saturday issue that Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran, held a meeting with British Parliamentarians in the House of Lords to present a report on the status of the group in Iraq.
