Reuters: Iran is unlikely to be able to develop a nuclear bomb before 2015, the chief of Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency said on Tuesday.
Iran could have nuclear bomb by 2015: Germany
US: Iran uranium enrichment ‘full steam ahead’
AFP: The United States deplored on Tuesday Iran’s race to enrich uranium and confirmed the presence of a second set of centrifuges in the Islamic republic to do the work, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Europeans move Iran resolution without U.S
Reuters: Key European states on Tuesday circulated their own draft resolution imposing nuclear and missile-related sanctions on Iran after failing to reach agreement with Washington, U.S. and European officials said.
U.S. blames Iran, Syria for Iraq violence
Reuters: America’s civilian and military leaders in Iraq linked Iran and Syria with al Qaeda on Tuesday as forces trying to tear the country apart and prevent the United States from establishing a stable democracy.
Ahmadinejad does Europe
Wall Street Journal – REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Whatever Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s other faults, lack of candor isn’t one of them. This week the U.N. Security Council is set to begin discussing the imposition of (very) limited sanctions against Iran for refusing to halt uranium enrichment to build a nuclear weapon.
West wants Iran technology sales banned
AP: The United States, France and Britain will urge the U.N. Security Council to ban the sale of missile and nuclear technology to Iran for its defiance of demands to stop uranium enrichment, diplomats said Tuesday.
Ahmadinejad opposes finger-print bill
AP: Iran’s fiercely anti-U.S. president has come out against a bill that would require Americans to be fingerprinted on arrival in Iran.
Iran shuts down new daily for resembling banned paper
AFP: Iran’s press watchdog has shut down the new moderate daily Rozegar (“Times”) for resembling a newspaper with a similar stance that was banned last month, the student news agency ISNA reported.
“Tortuous road” to settlement of Iran nuclear issue, says Ban
AFP: The incoming United Nations secretary-general Tuesday played down hopes of an early end to the crisis over Iran’s nuclear programme.
Stay united amid US plots, Khamenei warns Arabs
AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday warned Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinians to remain united in the face of “cunning” US plots to destabilise the region.
