Financial Times: Hassan Rowhani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, defied threats from Britain, France and Germany to cut off talks on its nuclear programme and said yesterday the decision to resume uranium conversion activity was irreversible.
Iran calls decision on uranium ‘irreversible’
Iran Tells Europe It’s Devoted to Nuclear Efforts and Talks
New York Times: The leader of Iran’s team negotiating with Europe over its nuclear program sent a letter on Wednesday to the foreign ministers of the three nations involved in the talks, saying that Iran was determined to resume its nuclear
activities but that it also wanted to continue the negotiations.
Nuclear storm
The Times – Leading articles: All the ingredients are now in place for the perfect diplomatic storm: a new US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, who has made no secret of his support for a much tougher, if not openly interventionist, American policy towards Iran; a new hardline Islamist President in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has promised to press ahead with Irans nuclear programme; and a group of frustrated European nations almost ready to abandon apparently pointless talks with Tehran.
Iran Gets New President Amid Tension With the West
Washington Post: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the conservative son of a blacksmith, became Iran’s president yesterday in the midst of the biggest confrontation with the West since the seizure of the U.S. Embassy a quarter of a century ago, this time over Tehran’s long-term nuclear ambitions.
Can eurocrats stop the Iranian bomb?
Washington Times – EDITORIAL: As the new Iranian president prepares to be sworn into office, the Islamist regime in Tehran has been stepping up its campaign of threats and brinksmanship directed at the European Union.
U.S. calls Iran backtracking on nuke threat positive
Reuters: The United States welcomed news Iran had backed away from a threat to restart work at a uranium conversion plant on Wednesday, a move that averted an immediate crisis over the Islamic republic’s nuclear program. Faced with repeated warnings in recent days from the West not to resume nuclear fuel activities, Iran said it now hoped to do so by early next week.
Iranian hardline weekly seeks ‘martyrs’
AFP: An advertisement appeared in a conservative-radical Iranian weekly Wednesday seeking people to register for “martyrdom seeking operations” against Islam’s foes. “Central command of martyrdom lovers is to prepare one division from every province among the martyrdom seekers to receive specialized training, making them ready against the enemies of Islam and the sacred regime of the Islamic republic,” the advertisement in Parto Shokhan (Light of speech) read.
11 die in northwest Iran clashes
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 Heavy clashes which
broke out between protesters and State Security Forces on Wednesday in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran,
have claimed 11 lives, according to Kurdish sources.
Witnesses reported that agents of the SSF fired lethal rounds on protestors from helicopters in the air.
11 die in northwest Iran clashes
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 Heavy clashes which
broke out between protesters and State Security Forces on Wednesday in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran,
have claimed 11 lives, according to Kurdish sources.
Witnesses reported that agents of the SSF fired lethal rounds on protestors from helicopters in the air.
Hardliner takes over as Irans new president
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was confirmed on Wednesday as the sixth President of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the countrys Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad, a former Revolutionary Guards commander and mayor of Teheran who won the June elections amid allegations of massive electoral fraud, has pledged to restore an Islamic government in Iran, implying that the previous administrations of Ali-Akbar Hashemi …
