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In Brief
Group discloses secret nuke effort
The Washington Times: The Iranian opposition group that exposed the nation’s covert nuclear weapons program two years ago said yesterday that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the effort to continue in secret.
The opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also disclosed the existence of what it said is a new uranium enrichment facility in central Iran that is nearing completion.
Task for next president: curb Iran’s nuclear appetite
Christian Science Monitor: I asked a visiting editor from Azerbaijan a few days ago what his countrymen’s principal concerns were. One of the most significant, he said, was that the US might use Azerbaijan as a base for the US to invade neighboring Iran.
While that might seem fanciful, given that the US military is already overextended in Iraq, Iran certainly seems likely to be high on the foreign policy agenda of whoever is the next US president.
Europeans to resume talks with Iran; ‘last chance’ offer to avoid UN sanctions
Associated Press: European negotiators resume talks with Iran on Wednesday on a last-chance offer of incentives aimed at getting Tehran to stop enriching uranium and avoid the
threat of possible UN sanctions.
The new round of talks comes as Iran hints it may voluntarily suspend some unspecified nuclear activities in an attempt to reach a compromise with the Europeans.
Iran could take months to agree to ‘ambiguous’ European nuclear offer
AFP: Iran could take months to agree to a European request not to resume uranium enrichment, a nuclear negotiation spokesman said Tuesday, saying the offer was riddled with ambiguities and must be more balanced. “There are many ambiguities in the European proposal … We are waiting for an answer from the Europeans on our questions before we can decide (to accept it),” Hossein Moussavian told AFP by
telephone from Vienna.
The clock ticks on Iran
Washington Times – Editorial: Today, negotiators from France, Germany and the United Kingdom are set to resume talks with Iran over that country’s nuclear ambitions. If top Iranian officials’ remarks over the weekend indicate anything, it is that these talks, like the ones that preceded it, are likely to fail. The good news is that the Europeans are starting to notice.
Iran’s hardliners push ahead with uranium enrichment
The Guardian: Iranian hardliners escalated the war of nerves with the west over nuclear bomb materials yesterday, introducing a fast-track bill that would pledge the regime to push ahead with uranium enrichment.
On the eve of crucial talks in Vienna today between Iran and
the EU on how to defuse the crisis, the bill also called on the …
Iran MPs propose bill to resume uranium enrichment
Reuters: Hardline lawmakers, who control a majority in Iran’s parliament, on Tuesday introduced a bill which would force
the government to resume uranium enrichment and halt snap U.N. inspections of nuclear facilities.
Medicine prices triple in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 26 The Iranian regimes Social Development Organisation announced that in the past six weeks prices have gone up from 40 to 300 percent for a large number of commonly required medicines.
20 boys and girls arrested in party in northern Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 26 Agents of Irans State Security Forces (SSF) raided a house-party in the town of Imam Hossein in the northern province of Rasht and arrested 20 young boys and girls.
Those arrested were charged with attending a mixed-sex
party.
