The Times Online: Iran today raised last minute objections to the wording of an agreement to limit its controversial nuclear programme, raising fears of a confrontation on Thursday at a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Kamal Kharrazi, the Iranian Foreign Minister, told Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, at a meeting in Egypt that Iran wanted
two key paragraphs reworked, two weeks after the text of the agreement was finalised in Paris.
Iranian objections threaten nuclear deal
Impunity triumphs in Iranian justice
Reporters Without Borders: Six years after a wave of murders of intellectuals and journalists in Iran, the Kazemi, Forouhar, Charif, Mokhtari, Pouyandeh and Davani families, and other families like them, still wait to know the truth about what happened to their loved ones, while the instigators and perpetrators of these killings celebrate six long years of almost total impunity that shows no sign of stopping given the frequent displays of judicial complicity and hypocrisy in these cases, Reporters Without Borders said today.
15,000 killed in Irans roads in past six months
Iran Focus: Tehran, Nov. 23 – At least 15,000 people have been killed in road accidents in the past six months, according to a senior official of Irans Ministry of Health. Ali Reza Moqisi, the head of the Accident Department of the Ministry stated yesterday that the death toll includes people from all age groups.
Bush wants proof from Iran
The Washington Times: President Bush yesterday called for independent verification of Iran’s claim that it has stopped enriching uranium that could be used in the development of a nuclear weapon. “Well, let’s say, I hope it’s true,” Mr. Bush said in a joint press conference with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. “And I think the definition of truth is the willingness for
the Iranian regime to allow for verification.
Iran leaves nuclear freeze to last minute
Daily Telegraph: Iran suspended sensitive nuclear work yesterday in the hope of averting a referral to the United
Nations Security Council for possible sanctions over fears
that it is seeking to develop a nuclear bomb.
Iran bows to UN threat over nuclear programme
The Times: Iran formally suspended its controversial uranium-enrichment programme yesterday but doubts remain about its true intentions. The United States is convinced that Tehran is engaged in a clandestine nuclear weapons project.
Regime change may one day be better than a nuclear-armed Iran
Daily Telegraph: The more one looks at Iran’s civil nuclear programme, the more it looks like a concerted project to build an atomic bomb. So Teheran’s decision yesterday to suspend all aspects of uranium enrichment is, on the face of it, good news because it blocks the mullahs’ most direct route to making weapons-grade fissile material.
U.N. Official Says Iranians Seem to Curb Atom Activity
New York Times: Iran appears to have frozen major nuclear activities in an effort to persuade the world that it does not intend to build nuclear bombs, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency said Monday.
Iran suspends uranium enrichment and opens way to fresh nuclear deal with EU
The Independent: A claim by Iran that it has suspended uranium enrichment appears to open a three-month window for a compromise over what it insists is its peaceful atomic energy programme. But the US remains convinced that Tehran remains determined to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran has suspended nuclear operations ahead of IAEA meeting, diplomats say
Financial Times: Iran appears to have ceased all sensitive nuclear operations ahead of a crucial meeting later this week of the board of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, according to western diplomats. The apparent suspension of activities follows an agreement last week with Britain, France and Germany designed to stave off US efforts to report Iran to the United Nations Security Council, a move that could result in UN sanctions.
