Archive for October, 2009

Iran to propose third-party uranium enrichment: Ahmadinejad

Iran will propose that it is prepared to buy from a third party uranium enriched to the grade it requires for its Tehran reactor rather than carry out the enrichment itself, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.

US ‘threatened’ by Iran’s relationship with Latin America

Iran has moved to substantially increase its diplomatic, trade and military ties to countries in South America, posing a new challenge to US authority in the Western Hemisphere, a group of experts told a joint congressional subcommittee on Tuesday.

Iran’s conditions push nuclear deal close to collapse

Hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough over Iran’s nuclear programme were dwindling tonight after Tehran demanded changes to a uranium exchange deal that European diplomats described as “unacceptable”.

Iran seeks changes to international uranium deal

Iran delivered its reply to a planned nuclear fuel deal on Thursday, but demanded amendments to the proposal designed to reduce Iran’s enriched uranium stock and build confidence in its nuclear intentions. The United States, Russia and France already told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that they approve of the four-country deal drafted by [...]

Iran supreme leader: Questioning elections a crime

Iran’s top leader says questioning June election results a crime in new warning to opposition

UN chief says Iran should accept uranium plan

UN chief encourages Iran to accept UN-drafted plan to ship uranium abroad for enrichment

Yemen seizes boat off coast, arrests 5 Iranians

Yemen says it seized boat that illegally entered coastal waters, arrested 5 Iranians on board

US congressman: We must act, or Israel will

America must take action to resolve Iranian nuclear quagmire in order to avert risk of Israeli strike, US congressman warns; slow progress on Iran front raises prospect of Mideast war, he says

11 Iranians arrested in Pakistan as tensions rise

11 Iranians arrested in Pakistan amid tensions, Iran says they chased smugglers across border

UN inspectors visit formerly secret Iranian site

UN nuclear inspectors visit formerly secret uranium enrichment site in Iran

Iranian cleric says country is neither Islamic, nor republic

An Iranian opposition cleric said Monday that Islam in Iran has been made meaningless by the Tehran regime.

Iran may offer compromise on UN nuclear deal

Iran’s foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said the country may offer a fresh compromise on the nuclear deal offered to it last week.

Both Iran and West Fear a Trap on Uranium Deal

Just before international inspectors on Sunday were guided for the first time into an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant whose existence was a state secret until recently, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament warned his countrymen to beware of American efforts to “cheat” Iran out of the nuclear fuel that has become the country’s currency in reasserting [...]

Pakistan Assures Action Against Iran Bombers

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik has told his Iranian counterpart that Islamabad will extend all help to capture the militants responsible for the attack on the Revolutionary Guards in that country, a media report said Saturday.

Iran denies violating IAEA rules

Iran’s president has denied his government violated International Atomic Energy Agency rules after disclosing the existence of a new nuclear-enrichment facility to the UN watchdog.
Speaking in Tehran on Saturday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country had in fact informed the IAEA a full year in advance of the deadline set by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).


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