Associated Press: Its a nightmare scenario for the West – a hostile Muslim state develops nuclear weapons, throwing the Middle East and the world into turmoil. American officials warn that fear could soon turn into reality with Iran.
In Teheran, government authorities deride such concerns and threats as US propaganda.
Weapons experts say Iran has the ability to build a nuclear bomb
US gives up on getting Iran to UN Security Council in September: US official
AFP: The United States now realizes that it does not have the majority it needs at the UN nuclear watchdog to bring Iran before the UN Security Council over Tehran’s alleged atomic weapons program, a US official told AFP.
“We recognize we are not going to get majority support for a non-compliance finding (to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) in September” at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation board of governors meeting in Vienna that begins Monday, a US state department official told AFP by phone from Washington.
Iran Arrests 80 Evangelicals, Amid Fears of New Crackdown on Christians
BosNewsLife News Center: Iranian police invaded the annual conference of Irans Assemblies of God and arrested at least 80 church leaders at the churchs denominational center near Tehran as part of the worst crack down on evangelical believers in a decade, a Christian news agency reported Friday, September 10.
Compass news agency said security forces raided the meeting “without warning” in Karaj, 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of the capital, after they surrounded the churchs garden property Thursday, September 9.
UN atomic agency seeks to visit key Iranian defense site: diplomats
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.
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.
