Iran on Monday said it did not see possibility of an Israeli attack on its nuclear facility, the country's English language international news channel Press TV said.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband will urge Arab leaders to clearly state their opposition to a nuclear-armed Iran and to engage more fully with the Middle East peace process.
Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency Mohammed ElBaradei in a report on Wednesday said Tehran has obtained some two tonnes of enriched industrial uranium since it started refining the nuclear fuel in 2006, according to Iran's official IRNA news agency.
Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Iran and is keeping its "all options open" as the likelihood of diplomatic and economic efforts to thwart Islamic Republic's atomic plan succeeding is doubtful,a top ranking Israeli officialhas said.
North Korea has told Russia that it will not allow its partners in six-party nuclear talks to take any samples from the reclusive country's nuclear facilities for the purpose of verifying Pyongyang's nuclear declaration, sources said on Thursday.
A six-way heads-of-delegation meeting is expected by the middle of November. The multilateral talks involve North and South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia.
Jordan on Thursday signed a preliminary nuclear cooperation deal with South Korea as part of the kingdom's efforts to meet its growing energy needs.
The Bush administration imposed financial sanctions on an Iranian state-owned financial institution on Thursday for allegedly providing financial services in support of the country's weapons programme.- The US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday that US officials in North Korea report that Pyongyang has removed more fuel rods from the Yongbyon nuclear reactor.
- North Korea planned to resume dismantling its nuclear program on Wednesday for the first time in two months, days after the United States removed the communist regime from a terrorism blacklist as a reward under a disarmament pact.
The chief US nuclear envoy said on Friday his negotiations in North Korea were "substantive" and "lengthy," but gave no indication how much progress he made in persuading the communist nation to resume dismantling its nuclear program.
With the US Congress giving its nod to the civil nuclear deal with India, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday indicated that the country may seek a similar arrangement with its close ally China.- US negotiator Christopher Hill arrived in North Korea on Wednesday in an attempt to save a crumbling nuclear disarmament deal, after saying negotiations with Pyongyang have reached a "very tough" phase.
- North Korea has amassed a "considerable" amount of enriched uranium, a high profile defector Hwang Jang-Yop was quoted as saying on Thursday.
- The UN atomic watchdog revealed on Wednesday North Korea is preparing to restart a key nuclear reprocessing plant used for the production of weapons-grade material as its crucial six-party disarmament-for-aid deal stalls.
A former top US general John Abizaid said Israel is not capable of seriously damaging the Iranian nuclear programme and a confrontation between the two countries could further destabilise the region.
The United States on Friday urged North Korea not to continue preparations to restart its nuclear reactor, saying the country must decide whether it wants to have a better relationship with the world or "keep themselves isolated."
South Korea said that North Korea had begun restoring its nuclear facilities. But the US played it down, saying the country apparently only moved some equipment out of storage.
ISNA news agency reported on Sunday Russia's nuclear power chief Sergei Kiriyenko would visit Iran to prepare the nuclear fuel operation of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran.
The United States has shrugged off criticism from North Korea and maintained that it should adopt measures to verify its nuclear program before being delisted from Washington's terrorism blacklist.
Six world powers have agreed to consider new sanctions on Iran after Tehran gave an ambiguous answer to their latest demand to freeze key nuclear work, the United States and Britain said.- The US will study Iran's response to an incentives offer by world's major powers to halt its nuclear programme, the State Department has said.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran not to delay a decision on an international offer of incentives if it halts sensitive nuclear work, ahead of a Saturday deadline.
Oil prices rebounded Monday in Asia on comments by Iran's president suggesting a significant increase in the country's nuclear programme.
Japan Wednesday called on foreign ministers from the six nations negotiating the denuclearisation of North Korea to recommit to the process and begin verifying Pyongyang's atomic declaration.
