AFP: High-ranking officials from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany will meet in Berlin this week to discuss the Iranian nuclear crisis, a German government spokesman said Monday.
Diplomats to meet in Berlin on Iranian nuclear crisis
Russia faces humiliation at the hands of Tehran
Sunday Times: Things are not going well. Iran is a living nightmare for most of the world. Ruled by mullahs and exporting terror, it scares both the secular leaders of Muslim states and those who govern sizeable Muslim minorities. Its president wishes to destroy Israel and sponsors Hezbollah. Iranian fighters attack American and British forces in Iraq.
What a shambles over Iran
The Times: Persian proverbs have a particularly poetic quality to them. Among my personal favourites are: The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet; You cant pick up two melons with one hand; and When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth. Profound.
Iran snubs Annan and rejects nuclear plea
The Daily Telegraph: Iran brushed aside Kofi Annan’s efforts to mediate in the crisis over its nuclear ambitions yesterday even as Western powers struggled to maintain momentum for sanctions against the Islamic state.
Annan says Irans president holds to nuclear program
New York Times: The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, said Sunday after meeting here with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran that the president was willing to enter into negotiations on his countrys nuclear program but would not agree to suspending uranium enrichment beforehand, as demanded by the Security Council.
Iran impasse
The Times – Leading articles: Kofi Annans meetings with the Iranian leadership this weekend appear to have yielded little progress. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Irans President, made it plain that, while he was interested in more talks about his countrys evident nuclear ambitions, he would not contemplate any suspension of uranium enrichment in advance of those negotiations. That requirement, however, is the essence of UN Resolution 1696 passed on July 31 and whose deadline expired without compliance last Thursday.
Crime boss brokered nuclear-delivery missile sale to Iran
Sunday Times: The British government was warned more than two years ago that Iran had illegally acquired a missile system capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
Iran MPs mull blocking UN nuclear inspections
AFP: Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament is to examine a bill that would block the UN watchdog’s inspections of its nuclear facilities, a parliamentary source told AFP on Sunday.
Irans Air Force holds war-games
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 Irans air force has begun a series of military manoeuvres in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan, state television reported.
Irans Air Force holds war-games
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 Irans air force has begun a series of military manoeuvres in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan, state television reported.
