AFP: The UN atomic agency has asked to visit one of Iran’s main military sites, Parchin near Tehran, but the Iranians have not agreed to the visit, diplomats said Friday, as an Iranian resistance group said Tehran planned to build a nuclear bomb by next year.
UN atomic agency seeks to visit key Iranian defense site: diplomats
Iranian cleric calls on Islamic nations to educate veiled French students
AFP: A top Iranian cleric on Friday called on Islamic nations to take in French students who have been deprived of education for wearing Muslim headscarves.
G-8 countries make progress over nuclear tensions with Iran, official says
Associated Press: The United States narrowed differences with European allies Friday on how to pressure Iran to renounce the development of nuclear weapons, but it hasn’t yet won agreement to haul the country before the U.N. Security Council, a U.S. official said.
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Says Human Rights Ignored by Tehran
Voice of America: Human rights activist, Shirin Ebadi, says Iran has signed international treaties protecting young people from execution, but constantly ignores the agreements. Ms. Ebadi spke at a news conference in Vienna.
Ms. Ebadi told reporters that Iran is violating international obligations on human rights especially those concerning women and children.
She said Iran’s legal system is not in tune with the country’s international obligations.
Iran uses front companies for nuke shopping exiles
Reuters: PARIS, Sept 10 – Iran is using numerous front companies to buy materials for its secret nuclear weapons programme, a group of Iranian exiles that has reported accurately about Tehran’s atomic programme said on Friday.
Three journalists arrested in continued crackdown against Internet
Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the latest escalation in a crackdown against news on the Internet as three journalists contributing or having contributed to a reformist site were arrested on 7-8 August.
They were Babak Ghafori Azar, Shahram Rafihzadeh and Hanif Mazroi – the latest victims of a wave of arrests and closures launched by Iranian judicial authorities against news sites with reformist leanings.
EU trio toughen stance on Iran nuke plan-diplomats
Reuters: France, Britain and Germany have toughened their stance on Iran’s nuclear programme, demanding that Tehran halt all parts of the atomic fuel cycle that can be used to make a bomb, Western diplomats said on Friday.
Iran Regime Not For Turning On Nuclear Programme: Top Official
AFP: A leading Iranian hardliner warned the international community Friday not delude itself into thinking the Islamic regime could be persuaded to abandon its nuclear programme, as it had been approved at the highest level of the leadership.
“They should know that the Iranian nation has taken its decision and that the supreme leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) is firmly behind the notion of acquiring nuclear technology,” said Ayatollah Ahmad Janati.
U.S. taking hard line on Iran nuke program
The Associated Press: With pressure building to curb Iran’s nuclear program, disarmament officials from major nations began meetings Thursday that the United States says will focus on Tehran in the campaign to stop the spread of atomic weapons.
Top G-8 officials gather in Geneva to discuss nuclear tensions with Iran
Associated Press: With pressure building to curb Iran’s nuclear program, top disarmament officials from major countries gathered Thursday for two days of meetings that the United States says will focus on Tehran in the campaign to stop the spread of atomic weapons.
