AFP: A clause dropped from a UN resolution on Iran this week calling for “unrestricted access” is now haunting UN inspectors as they investigate Tehran’s nuclear program, diplomats and analysts said Thursday. The problem is that access is often restricted. Iran is still refusing to give allow inspectors from the UN International Atomic Energy Agency to visit the Parchin …
Lack of “unrestricted access” hindering UN nuclear inspection of Iran
Iran working on secret missile programs: opposition group
AFP: Iran is developing new medium- and long-range
missiles which can reach Western Europe and target US-led forces in Iraq, an Iranian opposition group claimed Thursday. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said the
new long-range missiles, the Ghadr and Shahab-4, had a planned range of 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) which would allow them to reach as far as Berlin.
Diplomats: U.N. Lacks Right to Inspect Sites in Iran
Reuters: Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog would like to visit a military complex in Iran that an exile group said housed a nuclear weapons site, but they lack the legal
authority to go there, U.N. diplomats said. Iran, which insists its nuclear program is solely for electricity generation, earlier this week escaped possible U.N. Security Council economic …
Diplomats: Iran may be hiding nuke equipment
AP: Iran may be hiding equipment from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, foiling efforts to police a freeze of all programs that Tehran could use to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Thursday. The diplomats told The Associated Press that Iran has yet to respond to a request by the International Atomic Energy Agency …
Arms Inspectors Said to Seek Access to Sites in Iran
New York Times: International inspectors are requesting access to two secret Iranian military sites where intelligence suggests that Tehran’s Ministry of Defense may be working on atomic weapons, despite the agreement that Iran reached this week to suspend its production of enriched uranium, according to diplomats here.
Iran “making missiles that could hit Europe”
Reuters: Iran is working on long-range missiles capable of hitting European capitals, as well as nuclear and chemical warheads, an exile group has said. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which has in the past given accurate information on some of Iran’s nuclear facilities, said Tehran was working on missiles with a range of 2,500 to 3,000 km (1,600 to 1,900 miles), capable of hitting cities such as Berlin.
Iran Reportedly Hides Work on a Longer-Range Missile
New York Times: Iran is secretly developing a longer-range ballistic missile than it has publicly acknowledged, with the capacity to strike targets as far away as Berlin, an opposition group plans to assert publicly on Thursday. The group says
the missile, which it says could have the capacity to carry nuclear warheads, is being developed with help from …
Tehran’s Triumph
The Wall Street Journal – Outlook: So the International Atomic Energy Agency adopts a resolution Monday holding Iran to a “non-legally binding,” “voluntary” and “confidence-building” commitment to suspend its uranium enrichment program. Tehran immediately declares it will abide by the agreement for no more than a few months. And our European friends tell us it’s a triumph of their tough-minded but subtly adaptive brand of diplomacy.
Five webloggers jailed
Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders has strongly protested against the Iran’s relentless efforts to stifle free expression online after the arrest of five webloggers in less than two months, the latest on 28 November 2004.
Kowtowing to Tehran
Washington Times – Editorials: In the latest sign that Washington and its European allies have failed to persuade Iran to end its nuclear weapons programs, the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday passed a watered-down resolution that is likely to encourage more defiance from the ruling mullahs. At a meeting in Vienna, the IAEA board of governors approved a resolution that “welcomes the fact that Iran has decided to continue and extend its suspension of all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities.”
