AP: Iran bought blueprints of a nuclear bomb from the same black-market network that gave Libya such diagrams and continues to enrich uranium despite a commitment to
suspend the technology that can be used for atomic weapons, an Iranian opposition group said Wednesday.
Group: Tehran Received Nuke Bomb Drawings
UK Annual Report on Human Rights Condemns Iran
Radio Farda: United Kingdoms Foreign and Commonwealth Office published it annual report on human rights on November 10. Jack Straw the British Foreign Secretary presented the report, on the same day, at a press conference at the Foreign office and answered questions from the media. The first chapter of the nine-part report lists twenty countries with critical human rights records.
Iran hiding military nuke site say exiles
Reuters: Iran’s government is conducting nuclear activities linked to a covert atomic weapons programme at a military site unknown to U.N. inspectors, says an exiled opposition group that has given accurate information before. “We know of a military site where Iran has been carrying out nuclear work,” Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told Reuters.
Iran group ‘locates’ weapons site
CNN: An Iranian opposition group says it has disclosed the location of what it says is a newly discovered nuclear weapons research facility in Tehran. The allegation was made three
days after Iran agreed with European nations to suspend its uranium enrichment program, a move that could improve the Islamic republic’s relations with the West.
Group Says Iran Has Secret Nuclear Arms Program
New York Times: An Iranian opposition group says it has new evidence that Iran is producing enriched uranium at a covert Defense Ministry facility in Tehran that has not been disclosed to United Nations inspectors. The group, the National Council for Resistance in Iran, is planning to announce its finding in Paris on Wednesday.
Uranium metal may suggest Iran arms plan-diplomats
Reuters: Plans by Iran to manufacture uranium metal suggest Tehran could have had ambitions to develop capacity for atomic arms production, Western diplomats and a prominent nuclear analyst said on Tuesday.
Iran’s Nuclear Freeze
Los Angeles Times – EDITORIAL: Sunday’s announcement by Iran that it would suspend its program to enrich uranium might generate more enthusiasm if such promises hadn’t come to seem like a meaningless annual ritual. Iran made the same announcement in October 2003, but evidence shows that it continued other efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
U.N. Sees No New Nuclear Signs in Iran
Los Angeles Times: The U.N. nuclear watchdog said Monday that inspectors had uncovered no new evidence of concealed nuclear activities or an atomic weapons program in Iran, though it cautioned that the agency could not rule out covert activities. The findings by the International Atomic Energy Agency were contained in a confidential report revealed the day after Iran’s new pledge to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
Iranian boy,16, sentenced to death for murder
AFP: Iran’s hardline judiciary has sentenced a 16-year-old boy to death for murder, the reformist Shargh daily reported Tuesday.
According to the report, the boy — only identified as Vahid from near Tehran — confessed to stabbing his friend Mehdi to death but insisted he did it in self-defence, saying the victim wanted to sexually abuse him.
EU nuclear deal with Iran puts hardline US on spot – analysts
AFP: The EU deal that got Iran to freeze key nuclear activities puts the United States on the spot since Washington must now decide whether to continue confronting Iran as an enemy or join Europe in trying to engage it, analysts and diplomats told AFP. The UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency reported Monday that Iran has pledged to suspend all uranium enrichment activities as of November 22, in time for an IAEA meeting in Vienna November 25 that will decide whether to take the Islamic Republic to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
