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Wednesday, 22 September 2004 |
 Reuters: The world must recognise Iran's right to enrich uranium for fuelling power stations, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has said, responding to a U.N. call for Iran to suspend enrichment-related activities.
But he declined to say on Wednesday when Iran would
resume enrichment ... |
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Wednesday, 22 September 2004 |
 AFP: Iran is defying the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) while engaging in an "unrelenting push toward nuclear weapons capability", the US said today.
"It should come as no surprise that Iran has defied the board (of the IAEA) once again and announced it is producing uranium hexafluoride, the material for centrifuge enrichment," said Kurtis Cooper, a State Department spokesman. |
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Wednesday, 22 September 2004 |
 The Guardian: Iran announced yesterday that it had resumed producing a uranium gas for enrichment as a nuclear fuel,
three days after the International Atomic Energy Agency told it to freeze all operations connected with uranium enrichment or face possible retaliation.
The announcement suggested a calculated effort to raise the stakes in the row about its nuclear programme ... |
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Wednesday, 22 September 2004 |
 Reuters: Europe has warned that it will not tolerate an Iran with nuclear weapons after the Islamic republic defied the United Nations by announcing it has begun converting a large amount of raw uranium to prepare it for enrichment, a process that can be used to develop atomic bombs.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said ... |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
 DPA: In the harshest reaction so far made on the latest resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran's nuclear projects, a senior conservative Iranian official on Tuesday called on a revised approach towards the European Union's Big Three - Germany, France and Britain. |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran defied the United Nations on Tuesday by announcing it would go on converting a large amount of raw uranium to prepare it for enrichment, a process that can be used to develop atomic bombs. |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
 AFP: IRAN showed off its range of ballistic missiles at an annual military parade today, with the rockets draped in banners vowing to "crush America" and "wipe Israel off the map". |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
 AP: Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced Tuesday that it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
"Tests are going on successfully" to make uranium hexafluoride gas, the feed stock for enrichment ... |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
 AFP: Iran has become the latest country to edge towards ditching Windows in favour of Linux, even if its refusal to abide by copyright laws means that the country does not pay a penny to Bill Gates.
According to Mohammad Sephery-Rad, the man in charge of the government's computer systems, long-term political and security considerations have sparked a major initiative to make the switch. |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran will use a modified version of its Shahab-3 missile, which defence experts say can reach Israel or U.S. bases in the Gulf, to launch a test satellite before March 2005,
a defence industry source says. |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
 New York Times: At a time when the violent insurgency in Iraq is vexing the Bush administration and stirring worries among Americans, events may be propelling the United States into yet another confrontation, this time with Iran. The issues have an almost eerie familiarity, evoking the warnings and threats that led to the war to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and stirring an equally passionate debate. |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
 Washington Times: Iran's Assembly of Experts, the body of powerful Muslim clerics that chooses the country's supreme leader, opened its 12th session Sunday calling for an Islamic republic in Iraq.
In his opening speech, the assembly's speaker, Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, urged Iraqi leaders to unite to expel foreign troops in Iraq and establish a government based on the principles of Islam similar to the one in Iran ... |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2004 |
 AP: President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday Iran will continue its nuclear program even if that means ending inspections by the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency.
"We've made our choice: yes to peaceful nuclear technology,
no to atomic weapons,'' Khatami told a military parade in Tehran. |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 Reuters: Libya, which last year renounced its nuclear weapons programme, on Monday urged Iran to follow suit and comply with the demands of the U.N. nuclear watchdog to stop enriching uranium which can be used to make atomic bombs. |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 United Press International: Iranian President Mohammed Khatami Monday insisted his country has a right to possess nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
The official Iranian News Agency, IRNA, quoted him as asking, "Why would the Iranian people be deprived of the right to be capable and strong?" |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 AFP: UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei opened a general conference of his agency by reiterating its call on Iran to fully suspend uranium enrichment, despite Tehran's apparent defiance.
His comments came the day after Iran rejected the International Atomic Energy Agency's resolution calling for a halt to sensitive nuclear work. |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 20 – A series of government-released statistics and interviews with a number of Iranian officials indicate that despair and frustration are on the rise within
Iran’s huge under-30 population.
The head of the government-run National Youth Organization told local journalists last week that “according to our studies, forty percent of young people across the country suffer from depression.” |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 Reuters: The United States, the EU and Russia urged Iran on Monday to comply with the U.N. nuclear watchdog's demand that it halt all activities linked to uranium enrichment, a
process that can be used to build an atom bomb. |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 AP: Iran may resume uranium enrichment "any moment," Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said on state television Monday. "We suspended (enrichment) voluntarily and we may continue it voluntarily," Yunesi said. "And we may resume (enrichment) any moment."
The International Atomic Energy Agency demanded on Saturday that Iran halt all uranium enrichment activity ... |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 19 – The Assembly of Experts, an exclusive body of Muslim clerics who appoint the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, opened its twelfth session today amid heightened regional and international tensions
over Iran’s nuclear project and its meddling in Iraq. |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 Sunday Times: British intelligence has identified a group of Iranian “warlords” as the main source of funding and training for the Shi’ite insurgency in southern Iraq.
A joint operation in Iraq between army intelligence field agents and MI6 has revealed that a cell within the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard is intent on bringing bloodshed to Iraq. |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 New York Times: Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have raised sharp complaints in recent days that Iran is providing support for the insurgency in Iraq, expressing concerns over what they say are Iran's attempt to shape Iraq's future. |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 Washington Post: High on the list of issues so far absent from this year's presidential campaign debate is Iran, home to a militant Islamic regime that openly sponsors terrorism, foments anti-American resistance in Iraq and has confessed
to a secret campaign to acquire the technology needed to produce nuclear weapons. |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
 United Press International: CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency war-games have predicted unfavorable consequences of a U.S. pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Newsweek quoted an Air Force source as saying, "The war-games were unsuccessful at preventing the conflict from escalating." |
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Monday, 20 September 2004 |
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The Guardian: Iran rejected UN demands that it freeze all aspects of its uranium enrichment programme yesterday, threatening to cancel access for nuclear inspectors and abandon its international nuclear commitments if the issue is taken to the security council. |
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Sunday, 19 September 2004 |
 New York Times: Iran rejected today an order by the United
Nations nuclear watchdog to freeze all its nuclear enrichment programs and warned that it would drop out of the nonproliferation treaty if its case is sent to the Security Council.
The International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution on Saturday calling on Iran to suspend all its activities related to uranium enrichment before its next meeting in November. |
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Sunday, 19 September 2004 |
 Reuters: A bus, a lorry and a car collided in southern Iran on Sunday, killing 18 people, police said.
At least 22 people were injured in the accident between the cities of Shiraz and Fasa in southern central Iran, state television quoted a police officer as saying. |
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Sunday, 19 September 2004 |
 New York Times: The hard-liners who won Iran's parliamentary elections last February have focused on women's rights in their efforts to reverse some of the reforms carried out under the moderate president, Mohammad Khatami. |
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AFP: Iran's conservative-held parliament has approved the first reading of a bill that will place tough controls on foreign investment.
