Reuters: Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday that he would not rule out any option in tackling Iran over its nuclear ambitions, but said he hoped to resolve the dispute through diplomacy.
Brown says does not rule out any option on Iran
Official: Iran opens border crossings
AP: Iran opened on Monday five border crossing points with Kurdish-run northern Iraq, closed last month by Tehran to protest the U.S. detention of an Iranian here, an Iraqi Kurdish official said.
Iran students protest over Ahmadinejad
AFP: A group of about 100 Iranian students at the country’s top university in Tehran staged a noisy protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday shortly before he gave a speech there.
Iran rejects nuclear program talks
Reuters: Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear enrichment activities would be meaningless because the country has a legal right to pursue the technology, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Iran envoy is denounced for terrorist links
The Times: The US military commander in Iraq has claimed Tehran’s ambassador to Baghdad is part of al-Quds force, an elite wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards which Washington wants to designate as “terrorist”.
Former US secretary of state says war on Iran cannot be ruled out
DPA: Former United States secretary of state Madeleine Albright does not rule out a war against Iran in the nuclear dispute between Tehran and the international community.
Bush’s willingness to talk a “surrender to Iran’s logic” – Mottaki
DPA: Willingness of US President George W.Bush to talk to Iran represents a ‘surrender to Iran’s logic’, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday.
Iraqi traders flock to Iran border ahead of reopening
AFP: Traders in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region flocked on Sunday to a border post Iran announced it would reopen after a two-week closure to protest at the US arrest of an Iranian national.
Brown aide plays down US talk of Iran threat
The Observer: Diplomatic relations between Britain and the United States over Iran are under increasing strain after Gordon Brown’s special security adviser warned that American claims about Tehran’s military capability should be taken ‘with a pinch of salt’.
Gordon Brown ‘will back air strikes on Iran’
Sunday Telegraph: Gordon Brown has agreed to support US air strikes against Iran if the Islamic republic orchestrates large-scale attacks by militants against British or American forces in Iraq, according to senior Pentagon officials.
