The Guardian: Iranian hardliners escalated the war of nerves with the west over nuclear bomb materials yesterday, introducing a fast-track bill that would pledge the regime to push ahead with uranium enrichment.
On the eve of crucial talks in Vienna today between Iran and
the EU on how to defuse the crisis, the bill also called on the …
Iran’s hardliners push ahead with uranium enrichment
Iran MPs propose bill to resume uranium enrichment
Reuters: Hardline lawmakers, who control a majority in Iran’s parliament, on Tuesday introduced a bill which would force
the government to resume uranium enrichment and halt snap U.N. inspections of nuclear facilities.
Medicine prices triple in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 26 The Iranian regimes Social Development Organisation announced that in the past six weeks prices have gone up from 40 to 300 percent for a large number of commonly required medicines.
20 boys and girls arrested in party in northern Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 26 Agents of Irans State Security Forces (SSF) raided a house-party in the town of Imam Hossein in the northern province of Rasht and arrested 20 young boys and girls.
Those arrested were charged with attending a mixed-sex
party.
Youths clash with security forces after football match
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 26 Thousands of young people began a spontaneous anti-government demonstration after a football match on Saturday, clashing with agents of the
security forces, eye-witnesses reported. Clashes began at the end of match between Esteghlal and Persepolis teams in Tehrans Azadi Stadium.
Iran develops key metal used in nuclear fuel
AP: Iranian scientists have developed technology to produce zirconium, a key metal used in the heart of a nuclear reactor to produce nuclear fuel, a top nuclear official said Monday.
“Iranian scientists have achieved the technology to design and produce zirconium, the world’s most sophisticated nuclear metal,” Mansour Habashizadeh told state-run radio.
1,152 murders and 1,600 suicides recorded in first half of Iranian year
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 25 The head of the coordination center of Irans security forces yesterday revealed that 1,152 murders have been recorded in the past six months.
Over 150 people arrested in the past 48 hours in the Iranian city of Shiraz
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 25 – At least 150 people have been arrested over the past two days in the southern city of Shiraz in the latest crackdown by agents of the State Security Forces (SSF), local residents reported. Eyewitnesses said that dozens of people, mostly youth, were arrested on the streets for their
un-Islamic attire.
EU nuke offer could help Iran get arms – think-tank
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.
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.
