Financial Times: European officials have warned of a “managed crisis” in Europe’s dialogue with Iran over the country’s nuclear ambitions, after Iranian negotiators said they would consider resuming part of the uranium enrichment process suspended since 2003.

AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday in comments apparently directed at the United States that the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme was “none of your business”.
In a speech carried on state television, the all-powerful Khamenei also said that the June presidential election would not bring any change to Iran’s determination to press on with
its controversial atomic actvities.

The Observer: Across a landscape scattered with snow, we drove along silent roads, past pitted fields, until the first gun tower came into view. A whole line of them followed the contours of the mountainside. What they’re defending lies beneath, a warren of rooms and tunnels the size of eight football pitches. It’s home to Iran’s most sensitive nuclear facility, Natanz.

The Sunday Times: IRAN may resume work on its nuclear programme at Esfahan as early as next week, the country’s top nuclear negotiator was quoted as saying yesterday. Hassan Rohani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, reportedly said it was likely that unspecified nuclear activities related to uranium enrichment would begin again.