AFP: Iran will “suspend” uranium enrichment but will never agree to a total halt, Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday after a crucial deal on easing nuclear concerns was struck with Britain, France and Germany. “We stayed within our red lines, and this red line meant we could suspend enrichment but not stop it,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
Iran says has ‘suspended’, not ‘halted’ uranium enrichment
Iran says nuclear freeze will be brief
Reuters: Iran has stressed that its decision to freeze sensitive nuclear work is a voluntary move to dispel concerns it is secretly building atomic arms and that it will last only for a
short time. Iran told the United Nations atomic watchdog on Sunday it would suspend uranium enrichment and processing activities as part of a deal with the European Union to avert any U.N. Security Council sanctions.
Iran Gives Pledge on Uranium, but Europeans Are Cautious
New York Times: The governments of France, Germany and Britain are studying a letter delivered Sunday by Iran in which it pledged to suspend uranium enrichment activities temporarily in exchange for economic and political incentives, European officials said.
Iran bows to EU pressure to freeze uranium programme
The Guardian: Iran announced last night that it was freezing all operations connected with uranium enrichment in a diplomatic victory for the European Union and a move that should spare Tehran being sent to the UN security council.
Iran Vows To Freeze Nuclear Programs
Washington Post: Iran agreed yesterday to immediately suspend its nuclear programs in exchange for European guarantees that it will not face the prospect of U.N. Security Council sanctions as long as their agreement holds. The nuclear deal, accepted by Iranian officials in a meeting in Tehran with French, German and British ambassadors, set the stage for a serious test of whether diplomatic engagement is capable of halting Tehran’s nuclear ambitions in the long term.
Verdict due on Iran nuclear plans
BBC: The UN nuclear watchdog is preparing to issue a report on investigations into Iran’s nuclear activities. The report will include an agreement Iran reached with EU states last week to halt uranium enrichment plans. Iran is facing a 25 November deadline to comply with an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution ordering the suspension.
The Iran Connection
US News & World Report: In the summer of last year, Iranian intelligence agents in Tehran began planning something quite spectacular for September 11, the two-year anniversary of al Qaeda’s attack on the United States, according to a classified American intelligence report. Iranian agents disbursed $20,000 to a team of assassins, the report said, to kill Paul Bremer, then the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq.
Iran agrees to full nuclear enrichment freeze
Reuters: Iran has pledged to suspend its uranium enrichment programme to ease concerns that its nuclear programme is aimed at developing weapons, but has warned that the freeze is only temporary. Hassan Rohani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, said on Sunday the suspension would remain in place as long as talks with the EU continued on a final resolution of the issue.
Italian DM calls for diplomacy to resolve Iran nuclear dispute
Xinhuanet: Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino said Sunday that he hopes Iran’s nuclear program dispute would
be resolved by diplomatic means, Italian News Agency ANSA reported. Iran and the European Union (EU) heavyweights, Britain, Franceand Germany, on Thursday initiated
discussions in Tehran on Iran’s nuclear program.
Kurds in Iran Cheer Iraqi Neighbors’ Efforts for Greater Voice
New York Times: Iran’s six million Kurds are avidly following events across the border in Iraq, hoping that the Kurds there will blaze a trail to greater freedoms that can be duplicated in Iran.
But lately, the Iranian Kurds are discouraged.
