Iran

Israeli minister rejects foreign warnings on Iran (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - Israel's foreign minister says the Jewish state will not bow to foreign pressure in deciding whether to attack Iran.

Iran defiant as U.N. nuclear talks fail (Reuters) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

Herman Nackaerts (L), head of a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), checks in for a flight to Iran next to other IAEA delegates at the international airport in Vienna February 19, 2012. REUTERS/Herwig PrammerReuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran's suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of confrontation with the West.


Questions remain: Iran blocks nuclear experts from key site (The Christian Science Monitor) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
The Christian Science Monitor - Key questions about Iran's nuclear program remain unresolved despite two days of talks with UN experts in Tehran about possible weapons efforts.

Russia warns Israel not to attack Iran (Reuters) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Reuters - Russia warned Israel on Wednesday that attacking Iran would be a disastrous and played down the failure of a U.N. nuclear agency mission to Tehran, saying there is still a chance for new talks over the Iranian atomic programme.

UN nuclear agency reports failed Iran talks (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012

Herman Nackaerts (R), head of a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), arrives from Iran next to delegates Raphael Grossi (L) and Laura Rockwook at the airport in Vienna February 22, 2012. The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday it had failed to secure an agreement with Iran during talks over disputed atomic activities and that the Islamic Republic had rejected a request to visit a military site. The team from the IAEA had hoped to inspect a site at Parchin, southeast of the capital Tehran, where the agency believes there is a containment chamber to test explosives, suggesting possible weapon development. Iran has denied the charge that it is developing nuclear weapons. REUTERS/Herwig PrammerAP - The U.N. nuclear agency acknowledged renewed failure Wednesday after a trip to probe suspicions of covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, in a statement issued just hours after an Iranian general warned of a pre-emptive strike against any foe threatening the country.


Khamenei: No obstacles can stop Iran's nuclear course (Reuters) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Reuters - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Iran's nuclear course would not change regardless of international sanctions, assassinations or other pressures.

A Diplomatic Solution to the Iran Nuclear Standoff May Depend On Compromises (Time.com) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Time.com - Sanctions on Iran are beginning to work, goes the argument from the Obama Administration, and they should be given more time to bring Tehran to heel

Mother visits ex-Marine sentenced to death in Iran (AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - The mother of a former U.S. Marine sentenced to death in Iran on a spying conviction has visited her son in an Iranian prison, a spokesman for the Michigan family said Tuesday.

(AP) - Wed, 22 Feb 2012
AP - Italy officials: Divers find 4 more bodies in cruise ship wreckage, bringing day's total to 8.




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