Reuters: The European Union plans to tell a U.N. nuclear meeting that Iran’s expansion of efforts to enrich uranium, a possible path to atom bombs, is deplorable but a negotiated solution remains possible.

Reuters: Major powers working on a U.N. resolution to impose new sanctions on Iran probably will not complete a draft text by the end of the week as expected, diplomats said after another round of talks on Tuesday.

Reuters: Iran has started construction of a domestically built nuclear power plant, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

Reuters: The head of the Iranian nuclear program said any attack on the country’s atomic facilities would not extinguish the knowledge gained by young Iranian scientists, Iran’s ISNA news agency reported.

Reuters: In an effort to pressure Iran into suspending uranium enrichment, six key U.N. ambassadors began a week of negotiations on possible new sanctions but agreement was still elusive.

Reuters: China called on Iran on Tuesday to step up its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, as world powers raise pressure on Tehran to curtail its nuclear program.

Reuters: Saudi Arabia said on Monday Iran’s nuclear program was an extra burden on a region already fraught with challenges, but that Gulf Arab allies had the right to their own peaceful atomic ambitions.