Reuters: Iran shrugged off U.S. and EU warnings that it could be hauled before the U.N. Security Council and confirmed on Tuesday it would resume some sensitive nuclear work very soon. “The decision to resume some activities has been taken and now we are discussing the timing for resuming. But this decision is imminent as well,” Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, told Reuters.
Iran says resumption of some nuclear work imminent
Europeans braced for Iran crisis meeting
Financial Times: European governments intend to call a crisis meeting of the United Nations nuclear watchdog’s governing board next week if Iran carries out its threat to resume sensitive nuclear processes, western diplomats in Vienna said on Tuesday. The meeting at the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency would discuss the prospects of a referral of the Iran nuclear dispute to the UN Security Council, where the US would lobby for sanctions.
Iran nuclear case to be referred to IAEA if talks with EU fail: Solana
AFP: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he favors transferring the case of Iran’s nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if talks break down between Iran and the EU, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Tuesday.
Iran no-hopers rile officials with presidency bids
Reuters: Schoolgirls, factory workers and wizened clerics flowed into Iran’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday to register to stand for president in an election next month, annoying
officials who said they were time-wasters.
The Interior Ministry has flung open its doors for five days of registration for the June 17 poll.
Convicted murderer hanged in Iran
AFP: An Iranian man convicted of murder has been hanged in prison in the Caspian Sea town of Noshahr, the Jomhuri Eslami newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Quoted by the paper, a judiciary official in the port city said 23-year-old Majid Alghosi was executed for killing Siavosh Abassian in a family feud some four years ago. No further details were given.
Iran just days away from deciding next nuclear step
AFP: Iran will decide within the next few days on whether to resume some sensitive nuclear activities that were suspended as part of a deal with the European Union, a senior official told AFP on Tuesday. “It (the decision) will come at the end of the week (Friday), at the latest,” said Ali Agha Mohammadi, a spokesman for the Islamic republic’s Supreme National Security Council.
Iran nuclear talks near collapse, UK warns
Financial Times: Senior British officials warned last night that talks with Iran over its nuclear ambitions were on the point of collapse and that it risked referral to the United Nations Security Council.
US warns Iran against resuming uranium enrichment
AFP: The United States warned Iran on Monday that a resumption of its suspended nuclear fuel activities would have “consequences” for the Islamic Republic, suspected of working toward an atomic bomb. But acting State Department spokesman Tom Casey did not specify what steps the United States and its European allies might take if Iran broke an agreement struck last year during negotiations on its nuclear program.
Berlin convention demands new Iran policy
Iran Focus: Berlin, May 09 Thousands of Iranians from
across Germany held their first-ever major convention in Berlin this afternoon, in which they rejected the policy of appeasement and a foreign war in dealing with the Tehran regime. The participants, who represented various Iranian communities throughout the country, declared their support for the Third Option, introduced by Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of
the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Berlin convention demands new Iran policy
Iran Focus: Berlin, May 09 Thousands of Iranians from
across Germany held their first-ever major convention in Berlin this afternoon, in which they rejected the policy of appeasement and a foreign war in dealing with the Tehran regime. The participants, who represented various Iranian communities throughout the country, declared their support for the Third Option, introduced by Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of
the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
