BBC News: The unearthing of nuclear facilities in Iran, concealed from the outside world for 18 years, has reinforced the United States’ suspicion of the Islamic state, but is it too late for international arbitration? Three months ago, reporter Paul Kenyon and I received visas to go to Iran. After much negotiation, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation had agreed to help us make a documentary about the state of their nuclear programme.
Inspecting Iran’s nuclear hideaway
U.S. Lambastes Iran, N. Korea at U.N. Meeting
Los Angeles Times: At a key U.N. disarmament conference Monday, the U.S. lashed out at Iran and North Korea for their purported pursuit of atomic weapons and demanded that Iran dismantle its uranium enrichment facilities. But Iran said that it had an “inalienable right” to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and that it might restart its once-secret nuclear energy program. The entrenched conflicts may set the conference up for failure, diplomats said.
Iran vows to resume some nuclear activities
Reuters: Iran reiterated on Tuesday it would shortly resume sensitive nuclear work that could be used to make atomic arms, despite the risk of being sent to the U.N. Security Council.
In a deal with Britain, Germany and France last November Tehran agreed to suspend all nuclear fuel-related activities while both sides tried to negotiate a long-term solution regarding Iran’s atomic ambitions.
Annan Seeks Iran Nuclear Arms Restraint
AP: At a time of growing nuclear tensions in the world, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday urged non-weapons states like Iran to step back from the nuclear temptation, and America and Russia to cut back more sharply on their arsenals.
Iran shouldn’t resume nuke enrichment-UN’s ElBaradei
Reuters: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog urged Iran on Monday not to follow through on its threats to resume sensitive nuclear activities that could be used to produce atomic weapons. “I would hope that the Iranians would not take a unilateral decision to initiate any activities that now are currently suspended,” International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters after a meeting with …
Young man hanged in Iran for acting against the state
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 02 A young man was hanged in public in the northeastern Iranian town of Bojnourd for acting against the state, according to the state-run daily Iran.
Hadi Safdari was accused of creating public disorder and acting against the state.
Young man hanged in Iran for acting against the state
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 02 A young man was hanged in public in the northeastern Iranian town of Bojnourd for acting against the state, according to the state-run daily Iran.
Hadi Safdari was accused of creating public disorder and acting against the state.
Iran uranium enrichment would lead to end of EU talks: Germany
AFP: A resumption of Iran’s uranium enrichment activities would lead to an end of its nuclear talks with the European Union, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Monday. “This would lead to a collapse of the talks,” Fischer told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on non-proliferation at the United Nations in New York.
Four Iranian webloggers protest of being forced to confess
AFP: Four Iranian webloggers arrested during a crackdown last year have written to the judiciary head to complain of having been subjected to “physical and moral pressure” that forced them to confess, the official news agency IRNA said Monday. “During our detention, (we were) subjected to physical and moral pressure and all of our confessions were false and have no legal value,” wrote Mahbubeh Abbas-Golizadeh, Fereshteh Ghazi, Massud Ghoreyshi and Hanif Mazruwi.
Man hanged in Iran oil city
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 02 – A man accused of murdering a
taxi driver was hanged in Karoon Prison in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz on Monday morning, according to the state-run news agency. The man, only identified as Yaqoub R., was executed in the city which has been the scene of mass social unrest and clashes between anti-government protesters and State Security Forces.
