AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday a key US intelligence report on Iran’s nuclear programme could help end decades of enmity with the United States, but Washington shot back stating that the Islamic state remains a danger.

Bloomberg: European Union leaders plan to pursue a third round of sanctions against Iran for enriching uranium in violation of United Nations resolutions.

Reuters: World powers failed to agree on Tuesday on final elements of a new U.N. sanctions resolution against Iran over its nuclear program, but the United States hopes to get a deal within weeks, the State Department said.

AFP: Iran resumed its nuclear weapons program in 2004, according to a US-based dissident who said Tuesday that US intelligence had failed to include his findings in a surprise about-face downgrading the Iranian threat.

Reuters: An Iranian exile group accused Tehran on Tuesday of pursuing efforts to develop nuclear weapons, dismissing as incomplete a U.S. intelligence report that Iran’s nuclear arms program was frozen in 2003.