Reuters: Iran has asked the U.N. nuclear watchdog to let it break U.N. seals and test atomic equipment that has been mothballed under an agreement with the EU’s three biggest powers, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday. A U.S. official said it appeared Tehran wanted to violate its pledge to suspend all activities linked to the production of enriched-uranium fuel, a technology that can be used in either atomic power plants or weapons.
Iran wants to break UN seals to test atomic parts
Iran, Arab neighbours spar over leaders caricature
Iran Focus: Dubai, Jul. 06 In an interview with the Kuwaiti news agency, the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) today sharply criticised Irans Foreign Ministry for using threatening language against GCC member Bahrain following the publication of a caricature in a Bahraini daily mocking Irans Supreme Leader.
Iran, Arab neighbours spar over leaders caricature
Iran Focus: Dubai, Jul. 06 In an interview with the Kuwaiti news agency, the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) today sharply criticised Irans Foreign Ministry for using threatening language against GCC member Bahrain following the publication of a caricature in a Bahraini daily mocking Irans Supreme Leader.
Iran MPs rip pseudo-democracies, defend President-elect
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 Some 215 of the 290 Iranian Majlis (Parliament) deputies issued a public statement today attacking pseudo-democracies and enemies of the Islamic Republic for criticising Irans presidential elections as undemocratic.
Iran MPs rip pseudo-democracies, defend President-elect
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 Some 215 of the 290 Iranian Majlis (Parliament) deputies issued a public statement today attacking pseudo-democracies and enemies of the Islamic Republic for criticising Irans presidential elections as undemocratic.
Iran vexed by possible EU policy shift
Iran Focus: Brussels, Jul. 06 Iranian officials are becoming increasingly anxious that the European Union may change its policy toward the clerical state after the consolidation of power by the ultra-conservative faction led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. So far the official line touted by the European Unions foreign policy point-man Javier Solana and other pronouncements by EU foreign ministers have been signalling a wait-and-see approach to Iran after the election
of hard-line candidate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran vexed by possible EU policy shift
Iran Focus: Brussels, Jul. 06 Iranian officials are becoming increasingly anxious that the European Union may change its policy toward the clerical state after the consolidation of power by the ultra-conservative faction led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. So far the official line touted by the European Unions foreign policy point-man Javier Solana and other pronouncements by EU foreign ministers have been signalling a wait-and-see approach to Iran after the election
of hard-line candidate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
N.Korea provides nuclear aid to Iran – intel reports
Reuters: Recent intelligence reports accuse North Korea of secretly helping Iran develop its nuclear programme, raising fresh concerns about Pyongyang’s nuclear proliferation and Tehran’s atomic intentions. The United States and the European Union fear Iran is using its nuclear energy programme as a front to develop nuclear weapons and have called on Iran to cease all sensitive atomic work.
Iran’s new president snubs Kurds
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 Irans President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad harshly turned down demands by Kurdish members of the Majlis (Parliament) to include Iranian Kurds in his cabinet, a Kurdish deputy said after meeting Ahmadinejad. Mohammad Karimian, a deputy from the Kurdish region of Sardasht and Piranshahr in western Iran, was …
Iran’s new president snubs Kurds
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 Irans President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad harshly turned down demands by Kurdish members of the Majlis (Parliament) to include Iranian Kurds in his cabinet, a Kurdish deputy said after meeting Ahmadinejad. Mohammad Karimian, a deputy from the Kurdish region of Sardasht and Piranshahr in western Iran, was …
