Daily Telegraph: Iran completed the reactivation of its uranium conversion plant yesterday in defiance of international calls for it to suspend all work on nuclear fuel. Technicians cut away the remaining security seals on the production line at the Isfahan plant, meaning that the factory was back to full capacity.
Teheran’s nuclear defiance continues
Iranian arms intercepted at Iraqi border
The Guardian: Britain yesterday described as “unacceptable” the smuggling of weapons from Iran into Iraq after revealing that a consignment was intercepted at the border between the two countries.
While complaints have been made in the past, it is relatively rare to have concrete evidence of such smuggling.
Five against Iran
The Times – Leading Article: Two conclusions, one grim and the other potentially more encouraging, can be drawn from Irans resumption of uranium conversion at its Isfahan plant. The first is that the regime has no intention of dismantling what it euphemistically calls its national nuclear industry an industry that includes facilities, clandestinely constructed and hidden from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which
have no plausible non-military purpose.
Britain lobbies Iran over weapons smuggling into Iraq
AP: British authorities are telling Iran to better secure its border against weapons reportedly being smuggled into Iraq. They’ve lodged a complaint to the Iranian government, after a stash of bomb-making supplies was found in southern Iraq. A senior official says it included timers, detonators and other devices.
Abduction of Iran dissidents in Iraq may signal new policy
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 10 Two members of Irans main opposition group have been kidnapped in Baghdad by Iraqi security forces, the Associated Press reported from Baghdad on Monday. The Peoples Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran, or Mujahedeen Khalq (MeK), identified the two as Hossein Pouyan and Mohammad-Ali Zahedi and said they were abducted by Iraqs Interior Ministry Special Forces on …
Abduction of Iran dissidents in Iraq may signal new policy experts
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 10 Two members of Irans main opposition group have been kidnapped in Baghdad by Iraqi security forces, the Associated Press reported from Baghdad on Monday. The Peoples Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran, or Mujahedeen Khalq (MeK), identified the two as Hossein Pouyan and Mohammad-Ali Zahedi and said they were abducted by Iraqs Interior Ministry Special Forces on …
Dozens missing in Iran flooding
BBC: At least 10 people have drowned and dozens are missing in north-east Iran after heavy rain caused flash floods.
An official in Golestan province says floods overnight on Tuesday were worse than those which had swept through the area a few days before.
UN watchdog cancels meeting to allow more talks on Iran
AFP: The UN atomic agency has cancelled a planned formal meeting Wednesday on Iran’s nuclear program because diplomats remain locked in closed-door talks on an EU proposal to stop fuel cycle work, a spokesman here said. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation board of governors is expected to meet again on Thursday.
Iran breaks U.N. seals at Isfahan plant-IAEA
Reuters: Iran began breaking U.N. seals at a uranium processing plant on Wednesday, the IAEA said. “They have begun breaking the seals,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokesman Mark Gwozdecky said. “They are going to break all the seals and begin operating the plant in full.”
Three drug traffickers hanged in Iran: report
AFP: Three Iranian men convicted of drug trafficking have been hanged in the western city of Hamedan, the Etemad daily reported Wednesday. The men only identified as Hamid Reza, Nosratollah and Reza were hanged Tuesday by the Hamedan revolutionary court for possession and sale of more than 10 kilos (22 pounds) of opium and heroin, the report said without specifying whether the hangings took place in public.
