Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 30 Iran reiterated on Sunday that it was under no circumstances willing to cease its research-orientated uranium enrichment, ignoring demands by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Security Council to suspend all such activities.
Iran: No compromise on enrichment
Rice says Iran playing games with offer
AP: The United States rejects Iran’s offer to allow a watchdog agency to inspect the country’s nuclear facilities and will press ahead for U.N. penalties against Tehran, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
Irans Revolutionary Guards get new deputy chief
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 30 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed on Sunday a senior military intelligence official as the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Islamic Republics ideological armed force.
Irans Revolutionary Guards get new deputy chief
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 30 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed on Sunday a senior military intelligence official as the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Islamic Republics ideological armed force.
UN won’t sanction Iran oil industry – Iran official
Reuters: A senior Iranian oil official said on Sunday the United Nations was unlikely to impose sanctions on Iran’s oil industry over its nuclear programme, because any such action would send world oil prices soaring.
Iraq says Iran forces shelled Kurds in Iraq
Reuters: Iraq’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday that Iranian forces had shelled Kurdish rebel positions this month and crossed 5 km (3 miles) into Iraqi territory.
Iran vows ‘never’ to give up nuclear programme
AFP: Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed never to give up his country’s disputed nuclear drive as Western powers pushed for tough Security Council action against the Islamic republic.
Iran enriched uranium to over 4 pct, says official
Reuters: Iran has enriched uranium to more than 4 percent, an Iranian official said on Saturday, a level higher than Iran previously told the U.N. nuclear watchdog but still in the range used for fuel in nuclear power stations.
Iraqis using ‘new Hizbollah bombs’ to kill British troops
Sunday Telegraph: A multi-charged roadside bomb, developed by Hizbollah in Lebanon, is being used against British and American soldiers by Iraqi insurgents linked to Iran, according to military intelligence sources.
Iran claims nuclear project breakthrough
Sunday Telegraph: Iran is developing an advanced centrifuge that would allow it to accelerate its controversial uranium enrichment programme, a senior official told state television yesterday.
