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Friday, 24 September 2004 |
 Reuters: European countries are losing patience with Iran over its nuclear program, diplomats said on Friday, as France's foreign minister insisted Tehran must assure the world it does not plan to acquire nuclear weapons.
Western diplomats close to negotiations between Britain, France and Germany and Iran said the European trio might soon be ready to support U.S. demands to refer Tehran's nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council in November. |
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Friday, 24 September 2004 |
 Reuters: Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Iran on
Friday to heed the demands of the U.N. nuclear watchdog after Tehran defied the United Nations by going ahead with its uranium enrichment programme.
Russia is helping the Islamic republic build a nuclear reactor
at the port of Bushehr despite strong criticism from the United States which says Tehran is seeking atomic weapons. |
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Friday, 24 September 2004 |
 The Economist:"WE HAVE made our choice: yes to peaceful nuclear technology and no to nuclear weapons," said Iran's president, Muhammad Khatami, this week. But few are convinced. Among the doubters are Britain, France and Germany, the European trio that last October thought they had the makings of a face-saving deal to head off Iran's nuclear ambitions. Since then, inspectors have turned up more evidence of past wrongdoing, and Iran has turned more belligerent. |
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Friday, 24 September 2004 |
 AFP: A prominent Democratic senator urged the Bush administration to directly engage Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons program and that preemptive military force should not be ruled out.
"I don't want to saber rattle, but I wouldn't take anything off the table," said Senator Joe Lieberman ... |
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Thursday, 23 September 2004 |
 New York Times: Iran reiterated its right on Wednesday to produce uranium fuel for nuclear energy, seizing on a rift between nuclear-weapon nations that want to slow the spread of such technology and developing countries that see the technology as the entitlement of every signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. |
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Thursday, 23 September 2004 |
 Kyodo News: Japan urged Iran on Wednesday to stop all uranium enrichment-related activities to dispel international concerns that Iran may be trying to develop nuclear weapons,
a Japanese official said.
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Thursday, 23 September 2004 |
 Los Angeles Times: Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that there are no plans to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, despite the Pentagon's recent agreement to sell
Israel 500 bunker-buster bombs capable of disabling underground weapons plants.
But speaking to reporters, Powell pointedly added, "Every
nation has all options available to it" to stop Iran from ... |
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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 |
 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 |
 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 |
 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 |
 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 |
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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 |
 AFP: Iran's conservative-controlled parliament said it would not ratify a treaty allowing tougher UN nuclear inspections after the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a tough resolution against the Islamic republic.
"The continued defiance of principles by the IAEA's board of governors leaves no room for us to ratify the additional protocol, and will lead us to question what is the point for the nation to leave its doors open for IAEA inspectors," said the statement read out in parliament. |
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Sunday, 19 September 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran rejected on Sunday a resolution from the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it should freeze uranium enrichment, and threatened to end snap checks of atomic facilities if its case were sent to the U.N. Security Council. |
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Saturday, 18 September 2004 |
 New York Times: The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of governors passed a resolution on Saturday criticizing Iran for a lack of candor over its nuclear program and calling for the country to suspend all uranium enrichment activities that could contribute to producing fuel for a nuclear bomb. |
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Saturday, 18 September 2004 |
 Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog called on Iran on Saturday to immediately halt activities related to uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to make atomic weapons.
The resolution called on Iran to suspend all "enrichment-related activities" and said the agency's governing board regretted Iran's suspension of enrichment as promised last year had fallen far short of what had been expected. |
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Saturday, 18 September 2004 |
 Reuters: The United States said on Saturday that Iran was "completely isolated" in what Washington says is Tehran's pursuit of an atom bomb, while talks at the U.N. atomic agency stalled over what to demand of Tehran.
France, Britain and Germany formally submitted a toughly-worded draft resolution to the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Friday ... |
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Saturday, 18 September 2004 |
 The Guardian: Four western countries set the scene yesterday for a showdown with Iran by demanding that it freeze its uranium enrichment activities immediately.
The US, Britain, France and Germany agreed on a form of words at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, which threatened tough action in November if Iran remained defiant.
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Saturday, 18 September 2004 |
 New York Times: The United States once again failed to persuade the International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday that it should
refer Iran's suspect nuclear program to the United Nations
Security Council, accepting instead a repetition of calls for the country to stop uranium enrichment activities and clear up remaining questions about its nuclear ambitions.
A resolution making those calls is expected to be approved by
the agency's 35-member board on Saturday ... |
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