AFP: Six world powers will discuss on Wednesday in Brussels making a “more creative” and sweetened offer to persuade Iran to scale back its controversial nuclear programme, diplomats said.
World powers to mull improving Iran offer: diplomats
IAEA: Iran nuclear program unaffected by sanctions
AP: The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog says he has no evidence that international sanctions against Iran have had any impact on its nuclear program.
Iranian charged in export of US military antennas
AP: An Iranian citizen has been charged with a plot to export military antennas from the United States in violation of the Arms Export Control Act
Iran’s fingerprints on Hamas weaponry
NBC News: It was an unguarded comment that may have strayed close to the truth: Britain’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said he believes tensions over Iran were behind the Israel-Gaza violence.
West concerned about fuel move at Iran nuclear power plant
Reuters: Western officials voiced concern on Tuesday about what they described as an unexpected unloading of fuel at Iran’s first nuclear energy plant and said Tehran, which has dismissed it as a normal step, must clarify the issue.
Time to empower the Iranian Resistance
UPI: One of the major foreign policy tasks for Western leaders in the past 10 years has been the threat of Iran’s steady progress toward a possible nuclear weapon. The world’s powers’ approach to solving this problem has been focused on appeasing the theocratic rulers in order to change its rogue behavior.
Israel’s Peres accuses Iran of instigating Gaza violence
AFP: Israel’s President Shimon Peres accused Iran of encouraging the Palestinians to continue rocket attacks on Israel rather than negotiating a ceasefire, saying “they are out of their mind.”
Imported or homemade, Gaza’s rocket arsenals bedevil Israel
Reuters: Israel’s assault on Gaza’s rocket arsenals is aimed at countering what it sees as a growing strategic threat posed by Iranian-supplied missiles smuggled in through Egypt.
UN nuclear chief says Iran standoff ‘worrying’
AFP: The standoff on Iran’s nuclear programme is worrying, the head of the UN atomic watchdog said Monday, but stressed that work for a diplomatic solution should continue.
Iran starts building gas pipeline to Syria
AP: Iran has started construction on a $10 billion natural gas pipeline to key ally Syria, a news agency reported Monday, in an apparent nod of support to President Bashar Assad’s embattled regime and a further attempt by Tehran to boost energy exports battered by international sanctions.
