Iran’s nuclear plant ‘inconsistent’ with peaceful use: Obama

September 26th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran's new nuclear fuel enrichment plant will be operational soon, head of the office of Iran's supreme leader Mohammad Mohammadi-Golpayegani said Saturday, according to a media report. "This new plant, god willing, will be operational soon," Mohammadi-Golpayegani was quoted as saying.

September 26th, 2009 TEHRAN - The head of Iran's Atomic Organization said Saturday that agreements have been made with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect the new uranium-enrichment plant near Tehran. "Considering the suitable cooperation between Iran and the IAEA, there will be an inspection of the new plant in due time," Ali-Akbar Salehi told state television without giving a precise date.

September 25th, 2009 Obama, other leaders: Iran has secret nuke sitePITTSBURGH — President Barack Obama declared Friday that Iran is on a path to confrontation with world powers unless it agrees to "come clean" and disclose all its nuclear activities. He said he would not rule out military action.

September 25th, 2009 NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Friday denounced Western reaction to news that Tehran was building a second uranium enrichment plant and said Iran had complied with all international regulation. Ahmadinejad told reporters in New York that he was surprised by the reaction because Iran had gone beyond its obligations by informing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the plant.

September 25th, 2009 NEW YORK - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cancelled a press conference scheduled for later Friday at United Nations headquarters in New York. No reasons were provided to the UN secretariat, which organises the event for Ahmadinejad each year when he comes to New York to attend the UN General Assembly.

September 20th, 2009 Iran's top leader: US "wrong" on nuke threatTEHRAN,Iran — Iran's supreme leader says U.S. officials are "wrong" about his country's nuclear program and the threat Iran's missiles pose.

July 29th, 2009 NICOSIA - The new head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran Ali-Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying that the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant would be operational by the end of next September. MP Alireza Salimi said that Salimi told a Majlis (Parliament) committee on Sunday that the controversial nuclear power plant will be operational in two months.

May 29th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Friday reiterated that Tehran was ready to negotiate with the US but stressed that the talks should be held under "equal conditions". The Americans keep sending us messages for negotiation.

April 9th, 2009 ISFAHAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday inaugurated the country's first nuclear fuel manufacturing plant (FMP) located near this central Iranian city. The FMP, reportedly based solely on work by Iranian experts, is to provide the Arak 40-megawatt research reactor with fuel, producing nuclear fuel tablets, rods and assemblies for the plant, which is to be launched within the next two or three years.

February 26th, 2009 BUSHEHR - Russia has completed the construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr and is launching start-up operations, the head of Russian nuclear power corporation Rosatom said Wednesday. The plant in south Iran, which Russia undertook to finish as part of a 1998 contract, was originally scheduled to go on line at the end of 2006, but the date has been pushed back several times.

February 26th, 2009 TEHRAN - The test run of Iran's first nuclear power plant started here Wednesday, Iran's Mehr news agency reported. The test involved the use of non-nuclear material instead of enriched uranium.

February 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iran has yet to convince the international community that it has no intention to build nuclear weapons, the US said Thursday after the release by the UN's nuclear watchdog of a new report on Iran's activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said Iran had considerably slowed - but not halted - its uranium-enrichment programme and was still not cooperating fully with the agency.

February 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iran has yet to convince the international community that it has no intention to build nuclear weapons, the US said Thursday after the release by the UN's nuclear watchdog of a new report on Iran's activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said Iran had considerably slowed - but not halted - its uranium-enrichment programme and was still not cooperating fully with the agency.

February 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iran has yet to convince the international community that it has no intention to build nuclear weapons, the US said Thursday after the release by the UN's nuclear watchdog of a new report on Iran's activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said Iran had considerably slowed - but not halted - its uranium-enrichment programme and was still not cooperating fully with the agency.

February 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iran has yet to convince the international community that it has no intention to build nuclear weapons, the US said Thursday after the release by the UN's nuclear watchdog of a new report on Iran's activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said Iran had considerably slowed - but not halted - its uranium-enrichment programme and was still not cooperating fully with the agency.