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Iran sends EU new letter over nuclear dispute

Iran publishes cartoon book on HolocaustTehran- Iran has sent a new letter to the European Union over the ongoing nuclear dispute, ISNA news agency reported Monday.

ISNA quoted an unnamed official as saying that the Iranian ambassador in Brussels would deliver a letter by Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Monday.

Without disclosing any details about the contents of the letter, the official just said that the letter deals with the latest developments in the nuclear dispute and the recent approach by the West against Iran.

Mottaki: Iran does not trust West over future nuclear cooperation

Iran, Tehran, NuclearTehran  - Iran would not trust the West over future nuclear cooperation, especially in the field of nuclear fuel, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Sunday.

The five member states of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany would be ready to provide Iran with nuclear fuel for its civil nuclear programmes if the Islamic state gave in to their demand to suspend uranium enrichment.

"We have been deceived in the past over this issue and will not be deceived again - we have had promises from several

Iranian MP against set up of US Council in Tehran

Iranian MP against set up of US Council in Tehran Tehran - A senior Iranian member of parliament on Sunday harshly opposed the establishment of the American Iranian Council (AIC) in Tehran, ISNA news agency reported.

Washington last week granted permission for the New Jersey-based research and policy think tank group to set up an office in Tehran in what is widely believed to be an effort to improve ties after almost three decades of political hostility.

Iran to reduce gas supply to Pak, if Indian supplies disrupted

Islamabad, Oct 5: Iran has proposed a new clause in the Gas Sale Purchase Agreement of the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, according to which it would reduce gas supply to Pakistan in case the supply to India was willfully disrupted (by Pakistan).

The Pakistan cabinet’s Sub-Committee on Gas Import Projects has been informed that Iran has proposed to include the new clause to the proposed, the Daily Times quoted official sources in Islamabad as saying.

If the supply of gas to India is wilfully disrupted by Pakistan, Iran shall have the right to reduce Pakistan’s gas supply in the same proportion, says the new clause, according to the sources.

Iran could reconsider uranium enrichment with fuel guarantees

New York, Oct. 3: A leading Iranian nuclear envoy has suggested that his country could reconsider its uranium enrichment program if it gets cast-iron guarantees of regular international fuel supplies for its nuclear power plants.

"We are going to continue as long as there is no legally binding internationally recognized instrument for assurance of supply," said Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

However, he declined to clarify whether that meant that Iran would halt its enrichment program in return for such international guarantees, suggesting it might have to continue at a diminished level in case the outside supply stops.

N. Korea, Russia and Iran pose greatest security challenges for next US Prez

Washington, Oct 3: CIA Director Michael Hayden has said that The fragile state of North Korea and the booming, oil-rich trio of Iran, Venezuela and Russia have grown increasingly aggressive and pose some of the greatest security challenges for the next US President.

Hayden told FOX News that weakness and poverty have made North Korea more aggressive as it threatens to restart work on its nuclear weapons programme.

“This is a country in very, very desperate straits. But out of this weakness, out of this very fragility, there’s this danger of great chaos; they seem to have a knack for using that very fragility to the best of their ability to affect the nations around them - ourselves included,” he said.

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