The Independent on Sunday: Two British security guards were killed on the outskirts of Basra yesterday when a British consulate convoy was hit by a roadside bomb. The attack was the latest in a series of sophisticated strikes threatening to disrupt Britain’s plans to reduce its troop presence in southern Iraq.
Sophisticated strikes threaten British withdrawal from Iraq
UN atomic agency would need three days to call Iran emergency session
AFP: At least three days would be needed to convene an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog agency if the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program were to escalate, an agency spokesman said Sunday. It would take “at least 72 hours” to convene a session in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation board of governors, which could then send the Iranian dossier to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions against Tehran, said the spokesman, who asked not to be named.
Floods kill 27 in northeast Iran
Reuters: Floods caused by heavy rain killed 27 people in northeastern Iran on Sunday, state radio reported. It quoted a local governor as saying the people were killed in the village of Galidagh in Golestan province, which borders Turkmenistan
on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
Britain warns Iran nuclear plans threaten EU talks
AFP: Britain warned Sunday that a threatened resumption of sensitive nuclear activities by Iran would be an “unnecessary and damaging step” which could jeopardise key European Union nuclear talks with Tehran.
Iran threatens to resume nuclear work without EU offer
AFP: Iran warned Sunday it would resume sensitive nuclear work within 24 hours if the European Union failed to submit proposals aimed at ending a long-running crisis over its nuclear programme. The move has raised the stakes in the nuclear standoff and risks seeing Iran hauled before the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, a persistent demand
of the United States which accuses Iran of seeking atomic weapons.
EU concerned at Iranian threats over nuclear program: diplomat
AFP: Iranian threats to resume sensitive nuclear uranium conversion work amount to “barely acceptable pressure” on the European Union, a European diplomat said Sunday. Iran said earlier it would resume sensitive uranium conversion work
from Monday unless EU negotiators came up with a package
of proposals aimed at ending a nuclear standoff by 1230 GMT Sunday.
Iraq Dances With Iran, While America Seethes
New York Times: Donald H. Rumsfeld, the defense secretary, delivered a blunt message to Iraqi leaders during a visit here last week: the Iraqis would have to be more aggressive in opposing the “harmful” meddling of Iran in this country’s affairs before the Americans could consider regional stability assured and the way clear for the United States forces to go home.
Iran says ready to restart nuclear work Monday
Reuters: Iran said it would restart some nuclear activities on Monday unless it receives European Union proposals on Sunday to break a diplomatic impasse. The EU is due to offer Iran some economic and political incentives in return for an indefinite suspension of uranium enrichment, nuclear fuel reprocessing and related activities.
Iran insists on rapid resumption of nuclear activities
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 30 Iran on Saturday rejected a request by the European trio Britain, France, and Germany to extend a deadline for offering a final set of proposals on the Islamic Republics controversial nuclear project, insisting that Tehran would go ahead with resumption of suspended
nuclear activities over the next few days.
Iran insists on rapid resumption of nuclear activities
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 30 Iran on Saturday rejected a request by the European trio Britain, France, and Germany to extend a deadline for offering a final set of proposals on the Islamic Republics controversial nuclear project, insisting that Tehran would go ahead with resumption of suspended
nuclear activities over the next few days.
