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.
Iran impasse
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.
Bus, truck collision leaves 27 dead in central Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 A passenger bus collided with a truck on a highway in central Iran leaving 27 people dead and five others injured, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Sunday.
Bus, truck collision leaves 27 dead in central Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 A passenger bus collided with a truck on a highway in central Iran leaving 27 people dead and five others injured, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Sunday.
Annan questions Iran Holocaust exhibit
AP: U.N. Secretary of State Kofi Annan, visiting Iran Saturday, raised concerns with officials over an exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust that opened in response to Muslim outrage over the Prophet Muhammad caricatures.
Germany’s Merkel urges diplomacy, not force, in Iran dispute
Bloomberg: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Union and the U.S. must use diplomatic rather than military pressure on Iran, two days after it defied a United Nations deadline for the suspension of uranium enrichment.
EU gives Iran two more weeks in nuclear standoff
Reuters: The European Union agreed on Saturday to try to clarify Iran’s stance on halting uranium enrichment within two weeks and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan held talks in Tehran to try and settle the standoff.
