Reuters: The governors of the U.N. nuclear watchdog will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday after Iran resumed work at a uranium conversion plant, fanning Western fears it may be seeking nuclear weapons.
IAEA board meets after Iran restarts nuclear work
U.S. Says Iran Thumbs Nose at Nuke Talks
AP: Iran is “thumbing its nose” at a proposed international deal on its nuclear ambitions, the State Department said Monday, but the Bush administration seemed in no hurry to invoke punitive economic sanctions. Iran resumed uranium conversion activities at its Isfahan nuclear facility, a step that Europeans and the United States have warned in the past would prompt them to seek United Nations sanctions.
Iran restarts its nuclear activities
Washington Times: Iran resumed uranium-conversion activities at its Isfahan nuclear facility yesterday, breaching an agreement with European countries in an action that Western nations have said could lead them to seek U.N. sanctions against Tehran. The United States will consult with its European allies before deciding whether to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said in Washington.
Iranians’ nuclear work gets warning
USA TODAY: The International Atomic Energy Agency plans to warn Iran to suspend new efforts to make nuclear fuel and resume talks with Europeans or face possible punishment, two European diplomats said Monday. European nations and the United States called for an emergency meeting today of the board of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency in anticipation that Iran would carry out its threats to resume a uranium program.
Iran’s Nuclear Program
Washington Post – Editorial: LAST FRIDAY, Britain, France and Germany — the three European nations that had been negotiating the future of the Iranian nuclear program — put their final proposal on the table. Among other things, they offered Iran a role in the discussion of regional security issues, a trade and cooperation agreement, and technical advice on everything from seismology to aircraft safety.
Annan Urges Iran to Exercise `Restraint’ With Nuclear Program
Bloomberg: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan urged Iran to exercise “restraint” after the government
restarted conversion of uranium. Iran yesterday resumed uranium conversion activities at its nuclear plant in the central city of Isfahan, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in an e-mailed statement.
Britain, France condemn Iran nuclear decision
Reuters: Britain said on Monday it was deeply concerned by Iran’s decision to restart its nuclear programme and France described the tone of Tehran’s rejection of EU proposals as particularly alarming. The two EU allies were responding to Iran’s decisions to resume work at a uranium conversion plant near the central city of Isfahan and to reject a package of European Union proposals aimed at solving a stand-off over Iran’s nuclear plans.
Dissident: Tehran has 4,000 centrifuges
AP: Iran has manufactured about 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade, an exiled Iranian dissident who helped uncover nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity in 2002 said Tuesday.
U.N. Nuke Watchdog Holds Meeting on Iran
AP: Diplomats gathered Tuesday for an emergency meeting of the U.N. nuclear agency to assess Iran’s resumption of uranium conversion, but the agency appeared unlikely to report Tehran to the U.N. Security Council.
Iran secretly builds nuclear fuel machines–exiles
Reuters: Iran has secretly built thousands of nuclear fuel enrichment machines and intends to use them at hidden sites across the country, an exile group said on Monday, citing what it said was an Iranian state document. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which has provided accurate information on Iran’s nuclear programme in the past, said it obtained a copy of a report by Iran’s powerful Supreme National Security Council written a week after last month’s presidential elections.
