Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 02 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting leader of Lebanese Hezbollah that the United States has been genuinely weakened in the region, as shown by its defeat in Iraq and the failure of their plans for Lebanon and Iran, the official Iranian news agency reported on Tuesday.
We defeated U.S., Iran leader tells Hezbollah
Police shoot dead protesters in northwest Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 02 Irans State Security Forces on Monday evening opened fire at a peaceful anti-government demonstration in the Kurdish town of Sanandaj, northwest Iran, killing several people including two children and starting riots throughout the town, eye-witnesses reported.
Police shoot dead protesters in northwest Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 02 Irans State Security Forces on Monday evening opened fire at a peaceful anti-government demonstration in the Kurdish town of Sanandaj, northwest Iran, killing several people including two children and starting riots throughout the town, eye-witnesses reported.
Iran must honour deal suspending nuclear activities: French PM
AFP: Iran must abide by a deal with the European Union to suspend its nuclear programme or face UN Security Council retribution, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Tuesday.
“Iran must honour the commitments it has made. These commitments are commitments suspending all activity, conversion, treatment and enrichment of uranium,” Villepin told Europe 1 radio.
Iran says resumption of nuclear work irreversible
Reuters: Iran said on Tuesday its decision to resume activities at a sensitive nuclear plant near the central city of Isfahan was irreversible. Two years of hard bargaining over a nuclear programme that Tehran had kept secret for 18 years appeared to be heading towards a crisis that could see Iran’s case sent to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions.
Bomb blast against British interests in Iran raises questions
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 2 – A small bomb exploded outside the offices of British Airways, British Petroleum and DaimlerChrysler in the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday, but there were no casualties, officials of the State Security Forces, Irans law enforcement agency, announced.
Bomb blast against British interests in Iran raises questions
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 2 – A small bomb exploded outside the offices of British Airways, British Petroleum and DaimlerChrysler in the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday, but there were no casualties, officials of the State Security Forces, Irans law enforcement agency, announced.
Iran Says It Will Break U.N. Seals Placed at a Nuclear Plant
New York Times: Defying the warning of European leaders,
Iran said Monday that it was removing the seals placed by the United Nations nuclear agency at one of its nuclear sites to restart activities there.
Iran to reopen nuclear plant as dispute escalates
The Guardian: Iran threw down the gauntlet to the west yesterday, telling UN nuclear inspectors it was preparing to resume part of its uranium enrichment programme in breach
of a pact with the EU. The enrichment programme could be used to arm nuclear warheads. It was a high-risk move that could shatter two years of negotiations with the EU, trigger an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog in Vienna, and see Tehran referred for penalties to the UN security council.
Review Finds Iran Far From Nuclear Bomb
Washington Post: A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.
