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Saturday, 07 June 2008 |
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 The Guardian: Israel "will attack" Iran if it continues to develop nuclear weapons, one of prime minister Ehud Olmert's deputies warned yesterday. Shaul Mofaz, a former defence minister and a contender to replace the scandal-battered Olmert, said military action would be "unavoidable" if Tehran proved able to acquire the technology to manufacture atomic bombs.
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iran, under heavy fire at a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog here for failing to come clean on alleged nuclear weapons work, has told the IAEA that the matter is "over", Iranian ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said Thursday. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
 AP: Iran is threatening to sue countries that it says have damaged its reputation and pushed to have U.N. Security Council involvement in its nuclear program. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
 UPI: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Wednesday called for tightening sanctions against Iran. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 AP: The United States urged Iran to abandon the pursuit of nuclear arms forever, saying Wednesday that the International Atomic Energy Agency had overwhelming evidence of an Iranian weapons program. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 Reuters: EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana confirmed on Wednesday he would travel shortly to Iran to present a major powers' offer of incentives for it to suspend uranium enrichment, but played down prospects of a breakthrough. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 AFP: European countries urged Iran Wednesday to furnish all outstanding information on its disputed nuclear programme to the UN atomic watchdog to end a long-running impasse. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday Iran posed a serious threat in the Middle East and vowed to stop it from acquiring a nuclear weapon. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 New York Times: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice escalated the Bush administration’s anti-Iran rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing its government of pursuing nuclear weapons and calling any dialogue with its leaders pointless until they suspend the country’s enrichment of uranium. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 04 - Japan’s Prime Minister demanded on Tuesday that Iran heed United Nations Security Council calls for an end to uranium enrichment, state media reported.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 AFP: Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama vowed Wednesday he would work to "eliminate" the threat posed by Iran to security in the Middle East and around the globe. |
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on "partners in Europe and beyond" today to help exploit what she described as Iran's weaknesses to boost pressure on the regime to curtail its nuclear ambitions. |
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran ruled out halting its disputed nuclear program on Tuesday, days before world powers are expected to offer economic and other benefits to coax Tehran into stopping atomic work they fear is aimed at making bombs. |
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
 AFP: Republican White House candidate John McCain Monday threatened tough new sanctions on Iran if it fails to halt its nuclear program, advocating a bid to starve the US foe of gasoline. |
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran appears to be holding back information needed to clarify intelligence allegations that it secretly studied how to design nuclear weapons, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Monday. |
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
 AFP: UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday urged "full disclosure" from Iran over its nuclear programme and said he was sending experts to Syria to probe allegations of a secret nuclear reactor. |
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
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 New York Sun: Iran is threatening to limit its cooperation with the U.N. atomic watchdog, complaining that a recent assessment from that agency was written under pressure from America and Europe.
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Sunday, 01 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran said on Sunday it might have to limit its cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, criticising the agency's report which said Tehran's alleged research into nuclear warheads was a matter of serious concern. |
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Sunday, 01 June 2008 |
 AFP: The UN atomic watchdog will meet this week to discuss what its inspectors term "alarming" indications that Iran may have been working to build a nuclear bomb until just a few years ago. |
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Sunday, 01 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran should open its nuclear installations to international scrutiny to clear suspicions about its nuclear ambitions, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 01 June 2008 |
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New York Times: In the annals of role reversal, the switch by the United Nations’ atomic sleuths in Vienna and the American intelligence community has been striking. Having long taken a back seat to the Bush administration in publicly challenging Iran’s nuclear program, the global inspectors last week moved into the driver’s seat, demanding that Tehran come clean on any progress it has made toward building a bomb. |
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Sunday, 01 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 01 - Iran’s top envoy to the United Nations emphasised that Tehran’s desire to fulfil its nuclear ambitions has become even greater, state media reported on Saturday.
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Saturday, 31 May 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran will not give up its right to enrich uranium, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday, days before major powers submit an upgraded package of incentives to try to coax Tehran into halting the work. |
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Saturday, 31 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iran on Saturday reiterated that it will not discuss halting uranium enrichment ahead of the arrival of a top international envoy expected to propose new incentives aimed at encouraging Iran to do so. |
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
 AFP: Senior Iranian cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday branded as a trap the UN nuclear watchdog's demand that Iran come clean over its past atomic work suspected of weaponisation studies. |
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
 Reuters: U.S. intelligence has no plans to revise an estimate of Iran's nuclear ambitions that critics say underplayed Tehran's efforts to make weapons, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Thursday he expected an EU envoy to visit Tehran "soon" to deliver new international incentives aimed at encouraging Iran to halt uranium enrichment. |
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
 AFP: Inspectors from the UN atomic watchdog are "alarmed" that Iran has in its possession a document describing the process for making what could be the core of a nuclear weapon, a western diplomat said Thursday. |
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
 AP: The chief U.S. delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency said evidence described by the nuclear watchdog Thursday increased concerns that Iran had tried to make nuclear weapons. |
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
 Reuters: The United Nations received intelligence from around 10 countries on Iran engaging in studies, engineering work or procurement which could be relevant to designing and building a nuclear bomb, diplomats said. |
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