Financial Times: The US is drawing up proposals for United Nations sanctions against Iran aimed at stopping its suspected nuclear weapons programme, according to US and European officials.
At talks this week in Vienna, the US is pushing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to adopt a resolution that would give Iran a deadline of October 31 to satisfy the concerns of the UN nuclear watchdog or be referred to the UN Security Council.

Reuters: Iran could acquire a nuclear bomb in the next one to four years and would become more willing to aid terrorist groups once it has an atomic capability, according to a U.S. study released on Tuesday.
The study by the Non-proliferation Policy Education Center, which was partly funded by the Pentagon, said U.S. talks with Iran on the nuclear issue — which the Bush administration opposes — would be “self-defeating.”

AFP: Iran’s powerful former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, vowed the Islamic republic would resist international efforts to prevent it from mastering advanced nuclear technology.
“The Europeans and the Americans say with determination that Iran must not master nuclear technology and we respond with determination that we reply with determination that we will not renounce our legitimate right,” he was quoted as saying by the student news agency ISNA.

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.

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.

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.

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.