Reuters: Iran will restart its uranium enrichment program if talks with European Union heavyweights France, Britain and Germany fail on Friday, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said on Thursday. “If there is no agreement and negotiations collapse, there is no choice but to restart the program,” Kharrazi told reporters in The Hague after talks with his Dutch counterpart Bernard Bot.
Iran Says Will Restart Enrichment if Talks Fail
Putin Says Iran Must Do More to Ease Concern on Nuclear Program
Bloomberg: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Iran must do more to assure the world that its nuclear program is peaceful and not designed to build a bomb. Putin, speaking today at a news conference in Jerusalem, said Iran must go beyond the agreement it signed in February to return the spent nuclear fuel it buys from Russia.
Irans Khatami declares UN chief a fascist
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 27 Todays world is suffering from the legitimising of fascism and I am astounded that the United Nations General Secretary is leading the way in this regard, Mohammad Khatami, the Iranian regimes president, said today. Khatami made the spiteful comments against Kofi Annan as he was receiving honorary international relations doctorate from Tehran University.
Irans Khatami declares UN chief a fascist
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 27 Todays world is suffering from the legitimising of fascism and I am astounded that the United Nations General Secretary is leading the way in this regard, Mohammad Khatami, the Iranian regimes president, said today. Khatami made the spiteful comments against Kofi Annan as he was receiving honorary international relations doctorate from Tehran University.
Iran warns of ‘radical review’ of EU nuclear talks if no progress
AFP: Iran warned Thursday that it could review its participation in negotiations with European states over its controverisal nuclear activities if there is no progress in the next round of talks. “The negotiations will go on if there is progress at (Friday’s) meeting,” said Ali Agha-Mohammadi, a spokesman for supreme national security council which is charge of the nuclear dossier.
Iran remains worlds biggest state-sponsor of terrorism: US State Dept
Iran Focus: Washington, Apr. 28 Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2004, according to the United States annual Country Reports on Terrorism, released yesterday by the State Department. The State Department report said that Irans Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security were involved in the planning and support of terrorist acts and continued to exhort a variety of groups to use terrorism in pursuit of their goals.
Iran remains worlds biggest state-sponsor of terrorism: US State Dept
Iran Focus: Washington, Apr. 28 Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2004, according to the United States annual Country Reports on Terrorism, released yesterday by the State Department. The State Department report said that Irans Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security were involved in the planning and support of terrorist acts and continued to exhort a variety of groups to use terrorism in pursuit of their goals.
Iranian Director Censored at Home, Praised Abroad
Reuters: Celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, the subject of a major retrospective in Britain, would never get the same treatment at home, where he says authorities have not shown his work for the past 10 years. The winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’Or in 1997, and regarded by the film industry as one of the most important
living directors, Kiarostami is used to struggling with a government wary of work it perceives as subversive.
EU to ask Iran for postponement of nuclear talks
DPA: The European Union ‘big three’ of Germany, France and Britain are to ask Iran to postpone the resumption of nuclear talks until after presidential elections in the country slated for
17 June, it was reported on Wednesday – then promptly
officially denied.
Iran steps up pressure on EU in nuke talks-diplomats
Reuters: Iran is ratcheting up the pressure on EU giants France, Britain and Germany to accept its plan to join the world’s nuclear club, European diplomats said on Wednesday. Sharing Washington’s suspicions that Iran is trying to develop the capability to produce atomic weapons, the European Union has demanded that Iran give up its nuclear fuel programme in exchange for economic and political incentives.
