AP: President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday Iran will continue its nuclear program even if that means ending inspections by the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency.
“We’ve made our choice: yes to peaceful nuclear technology,
no to atomic weapons,” Khatami told a military parade in Tehran.
Khatami: Iran Will Pursue Nuclear Program
Libya tells Iran: Be like us and comply with IAEA
Reuters: Libya, which last year renounced its nuclear weapons programme, on Monday urged Iran to follow suit and comply with the demands of the U.N. nuclear watchdog to stop enriching uranium which can be used to make atomic bombs.
Khatami defends Iran nuclear right
United Press International: Iranian President Mohammed Khatami Monday insisted his country has a right to possess nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
The official Iranian News Agency, IRNA, quoted him as asking, “Why would the Iranian people be deprived of the right to be capable and strong?”
U.N. Nuclear Chief Repeats Call For Iran To Suspend Uranium Enrichment
AFP: UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei opened a general conference of his agency by reiterating its call on Iran to fully suspend uranium enrichment, despite Tehran’s apparent defiance.
His comments came the day after Iran rejected the International Atomic Energy Agency’s resolution calling for a halt to sensitive nuclear work.
Despair, anger soar among young Iranians
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 20 A series of government-released statistics and interviews with a number of Iranian officials indicate that despair and frustration are on the rise within
Irans huge under-30 population.
The head of the government-run National Youth Organization told local journalists last week that according to our studies, forty percent of young people across the country suffer from depression.
Despair, anger soar among young Iranians
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 20 A series of government-released statistics and interviews with a number of Iranian officials indicate that despair and frustration are on the rise within
Irans huge under-30 population.
The head of the government-run National Youth Organization told local journalists last week that according to our studies, forty percent of young people across the country suffer from depression.
Big powers urge Iran to heed UN nuke freeze demand
Reuters: The United States, the EU and Russia urged Iran on Monday to comply with the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s demand that it halt all activities linked to uranium enrichment, a
process that can be used to build an atom bomb.
Iran says it may resume uranium enrichment any time
AP: Iran may resume uranium enrichment “any moment,” Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said on state television Monday. “We suspended (enrichment) voluntarily and we may continue it voluntarily,” Yunesi said. “And we may resume (enrichment) any moment.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency demanded on Saturday that Iran halt all uranium enrichment activity …
Irans Top Clerical Body Calls for Islamic government in Iraq
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 19 The Assembly of Experts, an exclusive body of Muslim clerics who appoint the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, opened its twelfth session today amid heightened regional and international tensions
over Irans nuclear project and its meddling in Iraq.
Irans Top Clerical Body Calls for Islamic government in Iraq
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 19 The Assembly of Experts, an exclusive body of Muslim clerics who appoint the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, opened its twelfth session today amid heightened regional and international tensions
over Irans nuclear project and its meddling in Iraq.
