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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
 AFP: Iran returned to talks here Wednesday with Europe's three heavyweight countries aimed at resolving a long-running dispute over its nuclear program, although diplomats were sceptical of a breakthrough.
The meeting started behind closed doors at the French embassy in Vienna, a French diplomat said shortly after midday (1000 GMT). |
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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
 AFP: Iran's supreme guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Wednesday that Tehran could break off nuclear talks with the international community if "illogical demands" were made
such as long-term suspension of uranium enrichment. |
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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
 AFP: Iranian footballers have been banned from sporting "unconventional" hairstyles and beards on the pitch and offenders will be fined and banned from playing, football officials said. |
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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus:
Iran in top-ten press violators
4 million widows in Iran
Children in Prison
Iranians among detained attackers
Dehloran youth protest unemployment |
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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
 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. |
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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
 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. |
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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
 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. |
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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
 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. |
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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
 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. |
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Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
 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 ... |
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Tuesday, 26 October 2004 |
 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. |
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Tuesday, 26 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 26 – The Iranian regime’s 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. |
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Tuesday, 26 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 26 – Agents of Iran’s 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. |
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Tuesday, 26 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 26 – Thousands of young people began a spontaneous anti-government demonstration after a football match on Saturday, clashing with agents of the
security forces, eye-witnesses reported. Clashes began at the end of match between Esteghlal and Persepolis teams in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. |
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Tuesday, 26 October 2004 |
 AP: Iranian scientists have developed technology to produce zirconium, a key metal used in the heart of a nuclear reactor to produce nuclear fuel, a top nuclear official said Monday.
"Iranian scientists have achieved the technology to design and produce zirconium, the world's most sophisticated nuclear metal," Mansour Habashizadeh told state-run radio. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 25 – The head of the coordination center of Iran’s security forces yesterday revealed that 1,152 murders have been recorded in the past six months. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 25 - At least 150 people have been arrested over the past two days in the southern city of Shiraz in the latest crackdown by agents of the State Security Forces (SSF), local residents reported. Eyewitnesses said that dozens of people, mostly youth, were arrested on the streets for their
“un-Islamic attire”. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
Reuters: The nuclear technology the European Union has offered Iran could help it make an atomic bomb, not prevent it,
a Washington-based think-tank warned.
The EU's "Big Three" -- France, Britain and Germany -- have offered Iran reactor fuel and help developing light-water reactor (LWR) technology if Tehran stops uranium enrichment, a process which can be used to make nuclear arms. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 PA News: The international community will not accept Iran developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Tony Blair
warned today. At his monthly Downing Street press conference, Mr Blair stressed that dialogue with Tehran over its suspected weapons development efforts was not over.
Mr Blair insisted that he was not aware of any American plans to take military action against Iran. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran's top security official on Monday warned the European Union not to cross Tehran's red lines in
negotiations over its nuclear programme.The EU's "big three" powers, Britain, France and Germany, have offered Iran a deal whereby it would scrap activities related to producing nuclear fuel in return for help with civilian nuclear technology and a resumption of trade talks. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 New York Times: Iran on Sunday rejected a proposal by Britain, Germany and France to suspend its uranium enrichment program and urged those countries to offer a "more balanced" proposal. During a meeting on Thursday in Vienna, the three European countries asked Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program in return for a guarantee to help Iran build a light-water power reactor and to provide a supply of reactor fuel.
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 The Guardian: Iran refused yesterday to agree to suspend indefinitely its uranium enrichment activities although it would continue talks with Britain, France and Germany on a package of incentives. The foreign ministry said in a statement: "Indefinite suspension of nuclear enrichment activities is not acceptable ... and it is not a subject of the talks." |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 AP: They are the shock troops of Iran's Islamic Revolution, the men who helped seize the U.S. embassy a generation ago
and bore the brunt of their country's eight-year war with Iraq.
The vast and well-funded Revolutionary Guards are still the most potent force available to the regime. |
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 AFP: A uranium conversion facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan, whose activities European states want to suspend, is now "70 percent" operational, an official from the country's nuclear agency said on Sunday.
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 AFP: Iranian women have been barred from standing in next year's presidential election after a powerful conservative body stood by its literal interpretation of a single but ambiguous
word in the constitution. |
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran on Sunday rejected a European Union proposal that it stop enriching uranium in return for nuclear technology, increasing the likelihood that it will be reported to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. |
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 The Sunday Times: IRAN is to resist international demands to abandon a nuclear programme that has alarmed the West and worsened the risk of instability in the Middle East.
Secret intelligence seen by Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, reveals that Iran will not give up production of nuclear material that could be used in weapons. |
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 AFP: Iran on Sunday described a European proposal aimed at ending a nuclear standoff as "unbalanced" and rejected demands that the Islamic republic halt all uranium enrichment activities.
"The European proposal is their preliminary proposition and is not definitive but it is unbalanced," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said. |
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UPI: An Iranian opposition group claims Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the secret continuation of nuclear weapons development.
