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US: Strong reasons to suspect Iran was working covertly to build atomic bomb
yediotaharonot Thursday, May 29, 2008 Translate:[ar] [zh] [fr] [de] [it] [ja] [ko] [pt] [ru] [es]

Western diplomat says IAEA 'alarmed' that Islamic Republic in possession of document describing process of machining uranium metal into two hemispheres of the kind used in nuclear warheads. Iran's ambassador to UN atomic watchdog says intelligence 'lousy, fake'...

Germany pledges support for Israel
NEWScomAU Thursday, May 29, 2008 Translate:[ar] [zh] [fr] [de] [it] [ja] [ko] [pt] [ru] [es]

GERMANY'S foreign minister pledged today to stand up for the security of Israel and urged a tough line against Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling his denial of the Holocaust "unbearable".

Iran Needs to Come Clean on Nuclear Military Plans
globalsecurity Thursday, May 29, 2008 Translate:[ar] [zh] [fr] [de] [it] [ja] [ko] [pt] [ru] [es]

Council on Foreign Relations Interviewee: David Albright, President, Institute for Science and International Security Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor May 29, 2008 David Albright, a leading expert on Iranian nuclear issues, says the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).......

Ten nations give Iran information to IAEA - diplomats
thestar Thursday, May 29, 2008 Translate:[ar] [zh] [fr] [de] [it] [ja] [ko] [pt] [ru] [es]

VIENNA (Reuters) - The United Nations received intelligence from around 10 countries on Iran engaging in studies, engineering work or procurement which could be relevant to designing and building a nuclear bomb, diplomats said....

Gates seen reassuring U.S. Arab allies over Iran
thestar Thursday, May 29, 2008 Translate:[ar] [zh] [fr] [de] [it] [ja] [ko] [pt] [ru] [es]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration, beset by new signs of Iran's growing influence in the Middle East, has moved to reassure Arab allies with what analysts call its most credible voice in the region: Defense Secretary Robert Gates....

IAEA says Iran may be stonewalling
msnbc Thursday, May 29, 2008 Translate:[ar] [zh] [fr] [de] [it] [ja] [ko] [pt] [ru] [es]

Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report....

G8 ponders new approach to Tehran
ft Thursday, May 29, 2008 Translate:[ar] [zh] [fr] [de] [it] [ja] [ko] [pt] [ru] [es]

The world’s big powers will meet this week to discuss how to increase incentives for Iran to rein in its nuclear programme. But their parallel effort to intensify sanctions on Tehran is encountering difficulties, with long-awaited European Union measures unlikely to be agreed before June and set to fall short of the US’s ambitions....