Reuters: The United Nations Security Council must be ready to take action on Iran over any failure to comply with international demands to curb its nuclear ambitions, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Paris, Apr. 27 – Iran’s main opposition movement National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) charged on Thursday that Tehran was working to develop P-2 centrifuges in an effort to obtain nuclear weapons.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 27 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that Iran would make nations who oppose the Islamic Republic’s nuclear efforts regret their stances, a day before the deadline set by the United Nations Security Council for Tehran to suspend all uranium enrichment activities.

Reuters: The United States on Wednesday called on Iran to pursue diplomacy in the standoff over its nuclear ambitions and warned that a confrontational approach would affect U.N. Security Council deliberations.

Washington Times: The House yesterday overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill that toughens sanctions against Iran until the country dismantles its nuclear programs, with supporters saying the move is a “key component of our war on terror.”

Reuters: No apparent breakthrough was made at eleventh-hour talks between the U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran on Wednesday, 48 hours before the U.N. Security Council receives a report on Tehran’s atomic programme.

Reuters: Russia and China said on Thursday diplomacy was the best way to tackle the dispute over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a day before a U.N. watchdog delivers its verdict on whether Tehran has met Security Council demands.