Reuters: Russia on Friday called on Iran to treat seriously a resolution from the U.N. nuclear agency rebuking Iran for building a uranium enrichment plant in secret.
Russia tells Iran to take IAEA rebuke seriously
‘Patience is running out’ over Iran: US ambassador
AFP: Patience is "running out" over Iran's nuclear programme, the US ambassador said here Friday after the UN atomic watchdog passed a resolution censuring Tehran.
Sanctions next if Iran doesn’t respond – British PM
Reuters: The next stage will have to be more sanctions against Iran if Tehran does not respond to a vote by U.N. nuclear watchdog governors, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday.
IAEA votes to censure Iran over nuclear cover-up
Reuters: U.N. nuclear watchdog governors voted on Friday to rebuke Iran for building a uranium enrichment plant in secret but Tehran dismissed the move as "intimidation" which would poison its negotiations with world powers.
Russia has assured Iran on missile delivery: diplomat
AFP: Russia has assured Iran it will honour a deal to supply the Islamic Republic with advanced S-300 air-defence missiles, Tehran's ambassador to Moscow said Friday.
U.N. nuclear agency calls Iran inquiry dead end
New York Times: The director general of the United Nations nuclear watchdog declared in unusually blunt language on Thursday that Iran had stonewalled investigators about evidence that the country had worked on nuclear weapons design, and that his efforts to reveal the truth had “effectively reached a dead end.”
World powers seek Iran nuclear censure
AFP: World powers united on Friday to seek a new UN censure of Iran's nuclear programme and demand that it halt construction of uranium enrichment site kept secret until recently.
India’s ONGC eyeing stake in Iran gas field-report
Reuters: Indian state explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp is seeking a 20-25 percent stake in a $7.5 billion phase-12 project of Iran's South Pars gas field, media reports said on Friday.
Mohamed ElBaradei tells Atomic Energy Agency he has hit dead end with Iran
The Times: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said yesterday that he had reached a “dead end” in his investigation into Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme.
Iranian militiamen try to cow opposition figure
New York Times: About 60 members of the hard-line Basij militia force demonstrated Thursday outside a house in Qum, Iran, where the opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi was staying, in an effort to intimidate him before a large opposition rally planned for next month.
