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Thursday, 18 November 2004 |
 New York Times: An Iranian opposition group leveled startling but unconfirmed charges on Wednesday that Iran had bought blueprints for a nuclear bomb and obtained weapons-grade uranium on the black market. The group also charged that Iran was still secretly enriching uranium at an undisclosed
Defense Ministry site in Tehran, despite an agreement with the Europeans two days ago to suspend all enrichment activities.
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Wednesday, 17 November 2004 |
 AFP: An Iranian opposition group alleged Tuesday that Iran was hiding a uranium enrichment facility in Tehran and aims at getting the atomic bomb next year. The claims by the National Council for Resistance in Iran (NCRI) come two days after Iran agreed to suspend enrichment in order to defuse international concern about its nuclear program. |
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Wednesday, 17 November 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran obtained weapons-grade uranium and a nuclear bomb design from a Pakistani scientist who has admitted to selling nuclear secrets abroad, says an exiled Iranian opposition group. The group, which has given accurate information before, also said Iran is secretly enriching uranium at a military site previously unknown to the United Nations, despite promising France, Britain and Germany that it would halt all such work. |
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Wednesday, 17 November 2004 |
 AP: Iran bought blueprints of a nuclear bomb from the same black-market network that gave Libya such diagrams and continues to enrich uranium despite a commitment to
suspend the technology that can be used for atomic weapons, an Iranian opposition group said Wednesday.
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Wednesday, 17 November 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran's government is conducting nuclear activities linked to a covert atomic weapons programme at a military site unknown to U.N. inspectors, says an exiled opposition group that has given accurate information before. "We know of a military site where Iran has been carrying out nuclear work," Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told Reuters. |
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Wednesday, 17 November 2004 |
 CNN: An Iranian opposition group says it has disclosed the location of what it says is a newly discovered nuclear weapons research facility in Tehran. The allegation was made three
days after Iran agreed with European nations to suspend its uranium enrichment program, a move that could improve the Islamic republic's relations with the West.
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Wednesday, 17 November 2004 |
 New York Times: An Iranian opposition group says it has new evidence that Iran is producing enriched uranium at a covert Defense Ministry facility in Tehran that has not been disclosed to United Nations inspectors. The group, the National Council for Resistance in Iran, is planning to announce its finding in Paris on Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 16 November 2004 |
 Reuters: Plans by Iran to manufacture uranium metal suggest Tehran could have had ambitions to develop capacity for atomic arms production, Western diplomats and a prominent nuclear analyst said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 16 November 2004 |
 Los Angeles Times: The U.N. nuclear watchdog said Monday that inspectors had uncovered no new evidence of concealed nuclear activities or an atomic weapons program in Iran, though it cautioned that the agency could not rule out covert activities. The findings by the International Atomic Energy Agency were contained in a confidential report revealed the day after Iran's new pledge to suspend its uranium enrichment program. |
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Tuesday, 16 November 2004 |
 AFP: The EU deal that got Iran to freeze key nuclear activities puts the United States on the spot since Washington must now decide whether to continue confronting Iran as an enemy or join Europe in trying to engage it, analysts and diplomats told AFP. The UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency reported Monday that Iran has pledged to suspend all uranium enrichment activities as of November 22, in time for an IAEA meeting in Vienna November 25 that will decide whether to take the Islamic Republic to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions. |
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Tuesday, 16 November 2004 |
 AFP: European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana said Monday a hard-fought agreement clinched by the EU to get Iran to suspend its nuclear uranium drive was "only the start" before a long-term accord. "This is a welcome agreement. |
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Tuesday, 16 November 2004 |
 AFP: Iran tried to acquire equipment that could have been used in uranium enrichment at the Lavizan site in Tehran which the United States says was used for developing weapons of mass destruction, the UN atomic agency said in a report Monday. Iran gave this new information only last month about Lavizan, a plot
of land from which buildings and topsoil were removed over the past year. |
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
 AFP: Some may see it as a climbdown but, by finally agreeing to international demands it suspend its sensitive nuclear work, Iran is likely to again escape the threat of sanctions and extract some concessions in the process. In an 11th-hour deal with Britain, France and Germany struck late Sunday, the clerical regime agreed to freeze uranium enrichment-related activities to ease fears its fuel cycle work could be diverted to make an atomic bomb. |
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran still wants a full nuclear fuel cycle and says Europeans have assented to this goal in an agreement struck to dispel fears Tehran is pursuing nuclear arms, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said on Monday. "It is no problem if Iran wants to start uranium enrichment," Hassan Rohani told a news conference broadcast on state television. |
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
 AFP: Iran will "suspend" uranium enrichment but will never agree to a total halt, Iran's foreign ministry said Monday after a crucial deal on easing nuclear concerns was struck with Britain, France and Germany. "We stayed within our red lines, and this red line meant we could suspend enrichment but not stop it," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran has stressed that its decision to freeze sensitive nuclear work is a voluntary move to dispel concerns it is secretly building atomic arms and that it will last only for a
short time. Iran told the United Nations atomic watchdog on Sunday it would suspend uranium enrichment and processing activities as part of a deal with the European Union to avert any U.N. Security Council sanctions. |
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
 New York Times: The governments of France, Germany and Britain are studying a letter delivered Sunday by Iran in which it pledged to suspend uranium enrichment activities temporarily in exchange for economic and political incentives, European officials said. |
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
 The Guardian: Iran announced last night that it was freezing all operations connected with uranium enrichment in a diplomatic victory for the European Union and a move that should spare Tehran being sent to the UN security council. |
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
 Washington Post: Iran agreed yesterday to immediately suspend its nuclear programs in exchange for European guarantees that it will not face the prospect of U.N. Security Council sanctions as long as their agreement holds. The nuclear deal, accepted by Iranian officials in a meeting in Tehran with French, German and British ambassadors, set the stage for a serious test of whether diplomatic engagement is capable of halting Tehran's nuclear ambitions in the long term.
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
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BBC: The UN nuclear watchdog is preparing to issue a report on investigations into Iran's nuclear activities. The report will include an agreement Iran reached with EU states last week to halt uranium enrichment plans. Iran is facing a 25 November deadline to comply with an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution ordering the suspension. |
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Sunday, 14 November 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran has pledged to suspend its uranium enrichment programme to ease concerns that its nuclear programme is aimed at developing weapons, but has warned that the freeze is only temporary. Hassan Rohani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, said on Sunday the suspension would remain in place as long as talks with the EU continued on a final resolution of the issue. |
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Sunday, 14 November 2004 |
 Xinhuanet: Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino said Sunday that he hopes Iran's nuclear program dispute would
be resolved by diplomatic means, Italian News Agency ANSA reported. Iran and the European Union (EU) heavyweights, Britain, Franceand Germany, on Thursday initiated
discussions in Tehran on Iran's nuclear program. |
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Sunday, 14 November 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran will announce its final decision later on Sunday on an EU proposal that it freeze sensitive nuclear work in
return for avoiding referral to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions, local news agencies reported.
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Sunday, 14 November 2004 |
 AFP: A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have arrived in Iran to carry out routine inspections, a spokesman of the United Nations atomic agency said. The IAEA has been conducting routine inspections in Iran since February last year. But a diplomat in Vienna did not rule out the possibility that the team would also check on the suspension of uranium enrichment ... |
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Saturday, 13 November 2004 |
 AFP: Iran insisted Saturday it has gone as far as it could to meet the demands of Europe and the rest of the international community over its nuclear activities, and said the ball was
now in their court. "We did our utmost to cooperate with the agency and build the needed confidence. Iran can take no further measures," Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said ... |
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Saturday, 13 November 2004 |
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AP: A tentative deal committing Iran to suspend activities that Washington says are part of a nuclear arms program was in jeopardy Friday, with diplomats suggesting Tehran had reneged on an agreement reached just days ago with European negotiators. |
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Saturday, 13 November 2004 |
 AFP: EU officials were Friday evaluating Iran's response to an offer for Tehran to avoid possible UN sanctions over its nuclear program in a wrangle that has led the UN atomic watchdog to hold up a key report. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is standing by in order to give Iran more time to hand over a letter officials hope will announce a halt in uranium enrichment, a key process in the nuclear fuel cycle. |
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Saturday, 13 November 2004 |
 Reuters: President George W. Bush lent support on Friday to European leaders trying to break a deadlock in talks with Iran over its nuclear program. France, Britain and Germany are trying to get Iran to agree to suspend sensitive nuclear work to avoid a referral to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions. |
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Friday, 12 November 2004 |
 AFP: Iran has given a response to EU pressure for it to suspend uranium enrichment, the French foreign ministry said Friday.
Iranian authorities delivered their reply late Thursday to Britain, France and Germany and to EU high representative Javier Solana late Thursday, the ministry said without divulging its contents.
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Friday, 12 November 2004 |
 AFP: The top advisor to Iran's supreme leader called on Friday for "resistance" to international pressure over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme, complaining that Tehran was subject to "idiotic and childish" demands. The Europeans "have told us to stop our nuclear programme and in return they will sell us commercial jets and trains", Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri said in a speech carried on state radio ahead of Friday's weekly prayers. |
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