Iran News

• Russia warns against 'hasty conclusions' over Iran (AP)
  

  AP - Russia said Wednesday the world should not draw "hasty conclusions" over Iran's most recent rebuff of U.N. attempts to investigate allegations the Islamic Republic hid secret work on atomic arms, but the U.S. and its allies accused Tehran of nuclear defiance.

  
  
  
  
• U.S., European security officials discount Iran-Al Qaeda links (Reuters)
  Reuters - U.S. and European officials are downplaying allegations that Iran and al Qaeda have recently stepped up cooperation in preparation for possible attacks on U.S. and other Western targets.
  
  
• Iran defiant as U.N. nuclear talks fail (Reuters)
  

  Reuters - 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.

  
  
  
  
• Russia warns Israel not to attack Iran (Reuters)
  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 program.
  
  
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  AP - Italy officials: Divers find 4 more bodies in cruise ship wreckage, bringing day's total to 8.
  
  
• Israeli minister rejects foreign warnings on Iran (AP)
  AP - Israel's foreign minister says the Jewish state will not bow to foreign pressure in deciding whether to attack Iran.
  
  
• Questions remain: Iran blocks nuclear experts from key site (The Christian Science Monitor)
  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.
  
  
• Khamenei: No obstacles can stop Iran's nuclear course (Reuters)
  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)
  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)
  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.