AFP: Iran expects its first nuclear power plant will produce electricity at full capacity in around a year after passing a “critical stage” with the delivery of fuel from Russia, a top official said.
Iran sees Bushehr plant working fully in one year: official
Iran’s actions in Iraq scrutinized
Wall Street Journal: A Pentagon report will accuse Iran of continuing to funnel weapons and training personnel into Iraq, adding fuel to a heated debate among U.S. policy makers about whether Iran deserves any credit for the steep declines in Iraq’s once-unrelenting violence.
Syrian and Iranian axis terrorize their opposition
Counterterrorism – By Walid Phares: While Petrodollars Propaganda showers networks in the Middle East, Europe and North America to weaken democracies’ resolve to confront the Iranian and Syrian regimes and as “lobbies” in the West accelerate the campaign to break the isolation of Damascus and Tehran, these two regimes turned against their opposition in several attempts to crush them as long as the “window of opportunity is open” according to insiders.
Iran receives nuclear fuel in blow to U.S.
New York Times: The United States lost a years-long battle when Russia delivered nuclear fuel on Monday for an Iranian power plant that is at the center of an international dispute over Irans nuclear program. Iran, for its part, rejected the idea that the delivery might mean it no longer needed to do its own uranium enrichment to make fuel, citing work on a second power plant.
European Parliament urges Iran to release students
Reuters: Iran should release students arrested for planning a protest, the president of the European Parliament said on Monday. A statement from Hans-Gert Poettering also condemned the execution of a man found guilty of a crime supposedly committed when he was 13.
Iranian president pulls candidate in bid to break FIFA deadlock
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has withdrawn his candidate to head the national football federation, in a bid to end a row with FIFA that threatened Iran’s future in world football.
Bush seeks more pressure on Iran after Russia moves
AFP: US President George W. Bush said Monday that Russian deliveries of nuclear fuel to Iran only fed the need for the world to clamp down more firmly on Tehran’s home-grown atomic work.
Iran jails 9 teachers over banned rally – report
Reuters: An Iranian court has jailed nine teachers for 91 days on charges of disturbing public opinion by encouraging colleagues to stage illegal protests, an Iranian daily reported on Monday.
Iran says won’t stop making atomic fuel
Reuters: Iran will not halt uranium enrichment even with delivery of fuel from Russia for its first nuclear power plant, a senior Iranian official said on Monday, adding he could not yet confirm Iran had received the fuel.
Two Iranian feminists charged with terrorism: judge
AFP: Iran has charged two women’s rights activists with taking part in “terrorist” actions and belonging to a militant Kurdish separatist group, an investigating judge said on Sunday.
