Reuters: The United States said on Wednesday that a resumption in uranium enrichment by Iran would run contrary
to a commitment Tehran made to let negotiations proceed
over Iran’s nuclear program. White House spokesman Scott McClellan took a dim view of Iran’s vow on Tuesday, at a U.N. conference to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to press ahead with uranium enrichment.
U.S. says Iran resuming enrichment would break deal
Irans ex-Foreign Minister hints at official role in terror abroad
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 04 – In an interview with a government-run website, Ali-Akbar Velayati, Irans former Foreign Minister and a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is also a candidate in the forthcoming June 17 presidential elections, hinted at official responsibility for terrorist operations abroad against its opponents.
Irans ex-Foreign Minister hints at official role in terror abroad
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 04 – In an interview with a government-run website, Ali-Akbar Velayati, Irans former Foreign Minister and a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is also a candidate in the forthcoming June 17 presidential elections, hinted at official responsibility for terrorist operations abroad against its opponents.
5 people hanged in Iran cities in one day
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 04 One man was publicly hanged in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz, while four other prisoners were executed in the Iranian capital today, charged with armed robbery or murder. Reza H. was hanged in public in Ahwaz in the early hours of the day, accused of stabbing to death a man identified only as Hossein A.
5 people hanged in Iran cities in one day
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 04 One man was publicly hanged in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz, while four other prisoners were executed in the Iranian capital today, charged with armed robbery or murder. Reza H. was hanged in public in Ahwaz in the early hours of the day, accused of stabbing to death a man identified only as Hossein A.
Iran to Resume Nuclear Plans, Official States at U.N. Conference
New York Times: Iran declared Tuesday that it would soon resume some of the nuclear activities it had suspended during negotiations with Europe, and it used a conference here to accuse the United States and other nations of using the fear of nuclear weapons proliferation to deny peaceful nuclear technology to developing nations.
Iran Says It Will Keep Its Nuclear Program
Washington Post: A defiant Iran said Tuesday that it is determined to hold on to all aspects of its nuclear program, including uranium enrichment, and lashed out at the United States and Europe for trying to limit its efforts. The comments, made by Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi at a conference on the future of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, came as officials in Tehran indicated that they are ready to end a suspension of some of their nuclear programs.
On Nuclear Issue, Iran Is United, West Is Divided
The Wall Street Journal: Iran may be preparing for a new showdown over its nuclear ambitions with European negotiators and their wary supporters in Washington. In recent days, Iranian officials have signaled repeatedly that they may resume the first stage of nuclear-fuel production, making uranium feedstock that can be enriched for reactor fuel or a nuclear bomb. Europe and the U.S. are pressing Tehran to abandon all efforts to produce nuclear fuel.
Rice reiterates Iran should not seek nukes
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday
that Iran should not seek to develop nuclear weapons under the pretenses of developing a civilian nuclear program. “There needs to be a very clear commitment from the Iranians to live up to their international obligations and not to seek nuclear weapons under cover of nuclear civilian power,” Rice told …
Europeans Seek U.S. Help in Iran Talks
Los Angeles Times: European countries seeking to negotiate an end to Iran’s nuclear enrichment program are asking the Bush administration for more help, saying the United States should offer Tehran new incentives to revive foundering talks, U.S. officials said. The request for a new U.S. overture, made last week, was viewed as another sign that the talks between Iran and European Union representatives had made little headway since the two sides renewed efforts last fall to reach
an agreement.
