AFP: It makes no real difference to Iran whether US President George W. Bush or Democrat contender John Kerry wins the presidential elections, a senior Iranian official said Tuesday.
“It makes no difference for us which of the two parties wins the elections,” Iran’s top national security official Hassan Rowhani said in an interview on state television.
Kerry or Bush, makes no difference to us: Iran
Iran Warned over Suspected Nuclear Weapons
PA News: Britain and Germany today warned Iran to comply with international demands over its suspected nuclear weapons programme. Tehran has yet to honour a deal it agreed a year ago with the UK, France and Germany acting on behalf of the EU to suspend its uranium enrichment programme and comply with International Atomic Energy Agency inspections.
Britain warns Iran over nuclear ambitions
AFP: Iran must “act decisively” to cease its nuclear programme or else face referral to the United Nations Security Council, Britain warned on Tuesday. Tehran had to act swiftly to allay concerns raised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about its alleged to acquire nuclear weapons, International Security Minister Denis MacShane said. “Confidence cannot be restored unless Iran agrees to suspend its fuel cycle activity, including all centrifuge work and uranium conversion,” MacShane told a meeting in London.
Iranian reformist editor arrested in websites crackdown
AFP: The editor of a reformist Iranian newspaper has been arrested as part of the authorities’ crackdown on “illegal” Internet sites, the local media reported on Tuesday.
Javad Qolam Tamimi, editor of the pro-reform daily Mardomsalari, was arrested Monday evening for his involvement in the dissident sites, the daily Iran quoted a
local judiciary official as saying.
Iran says will never give up nuclear programme
Reuters: Iran said it would reject any EU proposal if it limited
its right to carry out a complete nuclear fuel cycle, state television reported on Tuesday. Gholamreza Aghazadeh,
head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, said Iran was determined to press ahead with its atomic programme. “We will review the European’s proposal only if it respects Iran’s right (of mastering the fuel cycle),” Aghazadeh told state television.
EU Makes Final Nuke Offer to Iran Thursday-Diplomats
Reuters: Officials from France, Britain and Germany will meet Iran’s top nuclear negotiator in Vienna on Thursday to offer Tehran a final chance to halt uranium enrichment plans or face possible U.N. sanctions, diplomats say.”The political directors from the EU three are meeting (Hassan) Rohani on Thursday here to formally hand over the offer,” said a Western diplomat familiar with the talks between the Europeans and Iran. “I think Iran may be disappointed.”
Following Zarqawi’s footsteps in Iran
Newsweek: The Bush administration has repeatedly fingered Abu Mussab al-Zarqawiself-confessed beheader of U.S. hostage Nicholas Berg and other Western captivesas a critical link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. In the
vice presidential debate, Dick Cheney said that after U.S.
forces attacked Afghanistan seeking to roust Osama bin Laden, al-Zarqawi “migrated to Baghdad.” But other U.S.
officials say the Jordanian terrorist’s contacts in neighboring
Iran are probably more extensive than any dealings he had with Saddam.
Iran ran away with the bomb
Washington Times – Commentry: Well, the talks and meetings will go on and on to the next Ramadan and the Ramadan after that and Iran will go on working on its nuclear arms program until it has the Bomb. There will be no deal with Iran no matter how costly nuclear bomb manufacture might be. With oil prices going through the roof, money is not a problem now nor in the foreseeable future.
Iran must show peaceful intentions over nuclear issue: US official
Xinhuanet: ABU DHABI – Iran needs to show the world itspeaceful intentions over its nuclear issue, a visiting US official said here on Monday, the official WAM news agency reported.
At a press conference, US Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs Lincoln Bloomfield said “it isnecessary for Iran to demonstrate to the world its peaceful intentions. The only way to do that is to come clean.”
US warns Iran against any support for Zarqawi
AFP: The United States on Monday warned Iran against providing any type of support to Al-Qaeda-linked foreign
militant Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi and his Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War) group, saying such backing would be a “very, very serious matter.” The State Department declined to comment on allegations of an Iran-Zarqawi link …
