Reuters, LONDON, October 15 - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton accused Iran of spending the last 18 years trying to develop nuclear weapons to intimidate the Middle East and "possibly to supply to terrorists".

Bolton, in an interview with the BBC broadcast late on Friday, said Iran had lied about its nuclear programme and said the international community needed to react.

By LEIGH BALDWIN

United Press International, WASHINGTON, October 13 - Human Rights Watch reasserted claims of abuses by an Iranian dissident group Wednesday even after a report compiled by a European Parliament delegation denounced its initial report as "devoid of any truth."

NCRI, October 14 – Abbe Pierre, founder of the Emmaus International aiding the poor and homeless, was warmly received by Mrs. Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran at her residence in Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris, on Thursday, October 13.

Abbe Pierre was a member of the French Resistance during World War II and has been a fervent defender of human rights and especially the right to housing which has turned him into one of the most popular personalities in France.

Two days ago, in a transparent ploy, the clerical regime "declared its readiness to engage in negotiations, without any pre-conditions, with all members of the International Atomic Energy Agency, including the EU-3." The state-run media also reported that the regime had accepted IAEA inspection of a number of sites it had requested to visit. News agencies wrote that Tehran had accepted inspections of Lavizan-Parchin site.

NCRI, October 13 – To mark the World Day Against Death Penalty a major conference was held in Paris on Monday October 10.

The conference, chaired by Mr. Pierre Bercis, the President of the new Human Rights in France, also featured French Senator Jean-Pierre Michel; Jean Kahn, former chairman of the Human Rights Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister’s office; Bishop Jacques Gaillot; Violette Daguerre, chair of the Arab Human Rights Committee and its former chair Dr. Mansouf Mazrouki, Dr. Saleh Rajavi, NCRI representative in France and Switzerland, Stephane Rajavi, juriste and a number of other prominent politicians, human rights activists and lawyers.

Agence France Presse, October 13 - British Defence Secretary John Reid issued a new warning to Iran and the militant group Hezbollah on Thursday over a recent series of bomb attacks on British troops in Iraq.
 
"The nature of these leads us to believe that they are associated or originating with Hezbollah -- Hezbollah, associated with, supported by the Iranians," he told reporters at Lyneham airbase in southwest England.

United Press International, Washington, October 12 -  Suddenly, Iran's growing influence in Iraq is top of the national security agenda again in Britain and America. The influence is real, massive and growing. More than that, following the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the empowerment of Iraq's Shiite majority, it became inevitable. The question is, what to do about it?

Britain last week blamed Iran's Revolutionary Guards for supplying weapons to Shiite militias in southern Iraq in order to attack the 8,000 British troops still deployed there. The attacks included the use of more sophisticated and deadly roadside bombs that killed three British soldiers. Iran has denied the allegations.

NCRI, October 12 - In a London conference on Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraq on October 10, Hossein Abedini gave a detailed account of mullahs’ meddling in Iraq. Other speakers in the conference included, Andrew Mackinlay and David Amess, member of the British Parliament, Dr. Abdullah Jabouri, former governor of Diyala Province in Iraq, Clair Miskin, British Barrister and Masoud Zabeti, chair of the Anglo-Iranian Lawyers’ Committee.

NCRI, October 12 - In an appeal published in the Washington Times today addressing President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Iraqi leaders, and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, more than 150 Parliamentarians from 20 European countries called for an urgent modification of Article 21C of the draft Iraqi constitution on asylum rights.