Reuters: The nuclear technology the European Union has offered Iran could help it make an atomic bomb, not prevent it,
a Washington-based think-tank warned.
The EU’s “Big Three” — France, Britain and Germany — have offered Iran reactor fuel and help developing light-water reactor (LWR) technology if Tehran stops uranium enrichment, a process which can be used to make nuclear arms.
EU nuke offer could help Iran get arms – think-tank
Iran Must Not Develop Nuclear Weapons, Says Blair
PA News: The international community will not accept Iran developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Tony Blair
warned today. At his monthly Downing Street press conference, Mr Blair stressed that dialogue with Tehran over its suspected weapons development efforts was not over.
Mr Blair insisted that he was not aware of any American plans to take military action against Iran.
Iran warns EU not to cross red lines in nuke talks
Reuters: Iran’s top security official on Monday warned the European Union not to cross Tehran’s red lines in
negotiations over its nuclear programme.The EU’s “big three” powers, Britain, France and Germany, have offered Iran a deal whereby it would scrap activities related to producing nuclear fuel in return for help with civilian nuclear technology and a resumption of trade talks.
Iran Rejects Nuclear Plan as Imbalanced, Europe Is Told
New York Times: Iran on Sunday rejected a proposal by Britain, Germany and France to suspend its uranium enrichment program and urged those countries to offer a “more balanced” proposal. During a meeting on Thursday in Vienna, the three European countries asked Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program in return for a guarantee to help Iran build a light-water power reactor and to provide a supply of reactor fuel.
Iran will not halt uranium project
The Guardian: Iran refused yesterday to agree to suspend indefinitely its uranium enrichment activities although it would continue talks with Britain, France and Germany on a package of incentives. The foreign ministry said in a statement: “Indefinite suspension of nuclear enrichment activities is not acceptable … and it is not a subject of the talks.”
Iran’s Guard may be gaining clout
AP: They are the shock troops of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, the men who helped seize the U.S. embassy a generation ago
and bore the brunt of their country’s eight-year war with Iraq.
The vast and well-funded Revolutionary Guards are still the most potent force available to the regime.
Iranian uranium facility ’70 percent’ operational: official
AFP: A uranium conversion facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan, whose activities European states want to suspend, is now “70 percent” operational, an official from the country’s nuclear agency said on Sunday.
Iranian women barred from standing in presidential vote
AFP: Iranian women have been barred from standing in next year’s presidential election after a powerful conservative body stood by its literal interpretation of a single but ambiguous
word in the constitution.
Iran Rejects EU Nuclear Proposal
Reuters: Iran on Sunday rejected a European Union proposal that it stop enriching uranium in return for nuclear technology, increasing the likelihood that it will be reported to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.
Iran will defy curbs on nuclear ambition
The Sunday Times: IRAN is to resist international demands to abandon a nuclear programme that has alarmed the West and worsened the risk of instability in the Middle East.
Secret intelligence seen by Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, reveals that Iran will not give up production of nuclear material that could be used in weapons.
