AP: New allegations that Iran’s nuclear activities are more widespread than it has made public come from a group that has been right before on this subject – and one that wants to topple the theocracy in Tehran.
Days before the UN International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors opened a meeting on Monday expected to be dominated by the question of whether the Security Council should be asked to consider imposing sanctions on Iran to rein in its nuclear ambitions, the National Council of Resistance of Iran held a news conference in Paris claiming to
have uncovered more about Tehran’s nuclear activities.
Iranian opposition makes allegations on Tehran
Britain Raises Alarm over Iran’s Nuclear Program
Voice of America: Britain says Iranian threats to resume uranium enrichment undermine earlier assurances that Iran would curb its nuclear program.
The issue of Iran’s nuclear program arose as European foreign ministers met in Brussels. Britain, France, and Germany have lead European Union diplomatic efforts on the Iranian nuclear dispute.
Iranians turn out in force to demand EU policy change
Iran Focus: Thousands of Iranians from as far away as Australia gathered outside the headquarters of the European Union today to demand the removal of the largest Iranian opposition group from the European Unions list of terrorist groups. They called on the EU to abandon its failed policy of engagement vis-à-vis the Iranian regime and adopt a firmer approach to Tehran.
Iranians turn out in force to demand EU policy change
Iran Focus: Thousands of Iranians from as far away as Australia gathered outside the headquarters of the European Union today to demand the removal of the largest Iranian opposition group from the European Unions list of terrorist groups. They called on the EU to abandon its failed policy of engagement vis-à-vis the Iranian regime and adopt a firmer approach to Tehran.
U.S. Seeks Tougher Tone in Resolution on Iran’s Nuclear Program
New York Times: The United States lobbied Monday to toughen an International Atomic Energy Agency draft resolution on Iran’s nuclear program, hoping to include a clear “trigger” that would send Iran’s case to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions if the country fails to comply with I.A.E.A. demands by November.
Iranian opposition rallies in front of EU Council
AFP: Around 5,000 supporters of Iran’s main armed opposition group, the People’s Mujahedeen, demonstrated in Brussels Monday in front of the building where EU foreign ministers were meeting, police said.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, which called the rally, claimed that 25,000 people took part.
ElBaradei says unclear if Iran nuclear plans peaceful
Reuters: It is unclear if Iran’s nuclear ambitions are entirely peaceful, but there is still no firm evidence that Tehran is secretly developing atomic weapons as Washington asserts, the U.N. nuclear watchdog says.
Iran seeing opportunities to capitalize on turmoil in Iraq
USA TODAY: Seventeen months after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein, instability in Iraq is creating opportunities for its mainly Shiite Muslim neighbor, Iran.
“The real long-term geopolitical winner of the ‘War on Terror’ could be Iran,” concludes a new report by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Britain’s most respected foreign-policy research organization.
U.S. Wants Iran to Go Before U.N. Council
AP: Buoyed by growing European support, the United States lobbied the U.N. atomic watchdog agency Monday to send Iran before the U.N. Security Council for refusing to freeze work that can produce nuclear weapons.
A European diplomat said Washington had revised a resolution originally drafted by France, Germany and Britain, adding an Oct. 31 deadline and toughening language meant to force Iran to dispel all suspicions it is trying to make nuclear arms in
violation of treaty commitments.
Iran says it won’t halt nuclear technology drive
Reuters: Iran on Sunday rejected European demands it halt its pursuit of nuclear technology but reiterated its readiness to provide assurances it would not use that technology to build atomic weapons.
Western diplomats have said Britain, France and Germany are demanding that Tehran halt all parts of the atomic fuel cycle — particularly uranium enrichment — that can be used to make a bomb.
