"I would expect in the coming days we'll see a statement coming from the Security Council...," Gregory Schulte, U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told Reuters TV during a visit to Brussels.

He said such a statement would request that Tehran implement a resolution by U.N. nuclear watchdog's board of governors calling on it to suspend enrichment activities, which is widely believed to be aimed at developing atomic weapons.

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By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor

The Daily Telegraph - Nuclear inspectors have established a link between Iranian nuclear documents and the blueprint for a warhead bought by Libya on the black market. The discovery increases suspicions that Teheran is trying to build atomic weapons under the cloak of its "civil" nuclear programme.

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NASSAU, Bahamas (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she was confident an international agreement would be reached on way to pressure Iran to stop enriching uranium.

"Sometimes diplomacy takes a little bit of time but we're working very hard on it," Rice told reporters. "We will come up with a vehicle, I am quite certain of that. We have work to do, but this is the natural course of diplomacy."

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"Given Tehran's record of lies and deceptions, using academic institutions to develop a nuclear bomb, makes it even more difficult to stop Iran's secret development of a nuclear weapon," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, president of Strategic Policy Consulting.

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Alireza Jafarzadeh, former spokesman for the The National Council of Resistance of Iran, the political wing of an armed resistance exile group, said that 21 professors and researchers of Imam Hossein University in Tehran are involved in the program, and that most of them are members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran's main military branch.

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The group met with the Committee Chair, Prof. Hank de Haan, from the ruling Christian Democratic Party, and discussed the government's policy on Iran.

The Iranian youth spoke about the threats posed by the clerical regime to world peace and growing suppression of Iranians, particularly the students and young people.

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''What we're doing tonight is celebrating free expression," said Adam Scheuer, a Harvard senior and executive editor of the Harvard Middle East Review, one of the nine student groups that cosponsored the Iranian Freedom Concert. ''We're having bands come up and play music because we value that free expression."

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By Kim Willsher in Auvers-sur-Oise

The Sunday Telegraph - She is the female figurehead of what she hopes will become a new Iranian revolution. Now, after almost 25 years in exile, the world is beginning to beat a path to her door.

Maryam Rajavi wants those who visit her near Paris to know what sort of regime Iran's mullahs are running.

As the leader of the largest exiled Iranian opposition group, she talks angrily of the 15-year-old boy flogged to death for eating during Ramadan, and the girl of 13 buried up to her neck and stoned for a similarly trivial "crime"

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The New York Times — Sunni Arab political leaders on Friday denounced an agreement between the United States and Iran to hold face-to-face talks about solutions to the unrest in Iraq, saying the conversations would amount to meddling by foreign nations in Iraq's domestic affairs.

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Washington, DC - The Iran Policy Committee (IPC) is holding a press conference, 11:00 am, Monday, 20 March 2006, First Amendment Lounge, National Press Club, regarding Iran’s nuclear program - with new revelations about its nuclear program.

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The 15-member council met for over one hour Friday to review the revised text, which incorporated comments made by members after a series of informal sessions earlier this week. Members agreed to meet again Tuesday after getting reactions from their capitals.

"The response we got from our colleagues today suggests that we are pretty close to where they wanted us to be," Britain's UN envoy Emyr Jones Parry told reporters.

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Holding pictures of Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, protestors chanted "no war, no appeasement, democratic change by Resistance." They also called on the United Nations Security Council to impose immediate sanctions against the Iranian regime.

The Washington Post - It's easy to see the potential advantage to Iran of opening negotiations with the United States on Iraq. The sudden announcement by Iran's national security chief Thursday that Tehran would accept an offer of dialogue made months ago by the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad came as members of the U.N. Security Council were meeting to discuss a council statement about the Iranian nuclear program.

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By Roya Johnson
Vice President of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran

The American Thinker - Iran’s theocratic government has devised a system that is unequivocally stacked against Iranian women, yet they still manage to organize and confront their oppressors. Stories of Iranian women resisting their ruling theocracy to achieve equality, justice and social rights are very compelling. This year’s commemoration of international women’s day was no different.

On the evening of the March 8th, hundreds of Iranian women took a stand in Tehran’s Laleh Park. Risking their lives, they held their defiant rally and asked that the West not pursue a policy of appeasement with the Iranian government – and instead help the Iranian people to determine their own destiny. They said that their government was spending incredible resources to develop a nuclear program while basic social imperatives go unmet. Admonishing the advocates of appeasement abroad, they said that conduct of such a tyrannical system can not be changed unless the entire ruling regime in Iran is brought down.

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