Washington Post: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that the United States would rebuff European efforts to bring it into negotiations with Iran aimed at preventing the Islamic state from developing nuclear weapons. Flying to Europe for her first trip abroad as secretary, she told reporters that the United States was confronting the theocratic …
Rice Says U.S. Won’t Join Europe in Iran Nuclear Talks
Rice Says U.S. Won’t Aid Europe on Plans for Incentives to Iran
New York Times: Less than a day after President Bush declared he was “working with European allies” to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear program, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States would continue to rebuff European requests to participate directly in offering incentives for Iran to drop what is suspected of being a nuclear arms program.
Iran Has Nuclear Detonator, Opposition Group Says
Bloomberg: Iran has made a nuclear detonator in defiance of international commitments not to develop atomic weapons, the exiled opposition National Council for Resistance in Iran said. Iranian scientists are now trying to set up serial production of detonators — which are designed to set off a chain reaction of uranium fuel — and have enough material to produce detonators for about 12 nuclear bombs, Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the council’s foreign affairs committee, said at a news conference in Paris today.
Capitol Hill Mulls ‘Regime Change’ in Iran
Fox News: Though the Bush administration denies it has any designs on changing Iran’s theocracy, members of Congress are planning ways to assist in a possible “regime change.” Movements are afoot in both the House and Senate to pass legislation that would enable the U.S. government to support foreign and domestic pro-democracy groups opposed to the current Islamic republic of Iran.
Rice Says U.S. Involvement Not Needed in EU-Iran Drive
Reuters: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday there was no need for U.S. involvement in European attempts
to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear program. Her comments were likely to disappoint Europeans who would like the United States to throw greater weight behind its efforts to persuade Iran to give up nuclear activities in return for political and economic incentives.
Iran making nuke detonators: opposition
Iran Focus: Paris, Feb. 03 Iran is developing “neutron initiators to trigger a chain reaction for a nuclear bomb rendering false the mullahs claims that they are only seeking a peaceful use of nuclear technology”, according to the main Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. At a conference in Paris on Thursday Mohammad Mohaddessin, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman of the NCRI, accused the Iranian regime of “producing Polonium-210, Beryllium and Neutron Generators”.
Iran making nuke detonators: opposition
Iran Focus: Paris, Feb. 03 Iran is developing “neutron initiators to trigger a chain reaction for a nuclear bomb rendering false the mullahs claims that they are only seeking
a peaceful use of nuclear technology”, according to the main Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance
of Iran. At a conference in Paris on Thursday Mohammad Mohaddessin, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman of the NCRI, accused the Iranian regime of “producing Polonium-210, Beryllium and Neutron Generators”.
Iran human rights record ‘to be loathed’ — Rice
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped up Washington’s verbal assault on Iran on Thursday, saying the hardline Islamic regime’s treatment of its people was “something to be loathed”. “I don’t think anybody thinks that the unelected mullahs who run that regime are a good thing for either the Iranian people or for the region,” Rice told reporters accompanying her to Europe and the Middle East.
US warns Iran may be violating nuclear freeze: diplomats
AFP: The United States has complained to the European Union about centrifuge-related work by Iran that could be used to make nuclear weapons and may violate a uranium enrichment freeze Tehran agreed with the EU, diplomats said Thursday.
Suspected Iran spy says planned “president’s” killing in Egypt
Reuters: An Egyptian accused of spying for Iran said Iranians paid him for information about a road often used by President Hosni Mubarak and he planned an assassination there, according to a video shown in court on Thursday. Mahmoud Eid Mohamed Dabbous said in the video he was going to plant bombs on the road in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh …
