The Sunday Times, September 25 - As the US special forces Hercules flew low over the desert in March 2003 before landing behind enemy lines, Hazim al-Shalan prepared to step onto Iraqi soil for the first time in almost 20 years.

Shalan — the exiled leader of a Shi’ite tribe with 1m members worldwide and 250,000 in southern Iraq — had already been helping British and American intelligence for several months.

AUVERS-SUR-OISE, France, September 24 - MARYAM RAJAVI, a wide-eyed woman who goes by the title president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, is eager to talk about the latest discovery by her spies: mile-long tunnels, large enough to drive trucks into, dug into the mountains outside of Tehran.

"There are at least 14 to 15 tunnels of this magnitude that have been built secretly," she said, sitting in a cream-colored reception room on the cramped grounds of her compound here. She suggested that the tunnels were hiding elements of a clandestine nuclear weapons program that the United States suspects exists but that inspectors have yet to find.

Commenting on the adoption of IAEA's resolution on the Iranian regime's nuclear program, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, said the resolution underscored the mullahs' repeated concealment and persistent breach of the NPT, and emphasized that the United Nations Security Council was the competent body to address these violations.

"This represented a major political and international victory for the Iranian people and Resistance in their confrontation with the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran," she said, adding that the Iranian people, especially members and supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, must be congratulated on this victory.

NCRI, September 24 - The National Council of Resistance of Iran welcomes the adoption of the International Atomic Energy Agency's resolutions and calls for immediate referral of Iran's nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council. The resolution underscores, "History of concealment of Iran’s nuclear activities have given rise to questions that are within the competence of the Security Council, as the organ bearing the main responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security."

Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI, welcomed the adoption of the EU's resolution, which emphasized the Iranian regime's noncompliance concerning its obligations in the framework of nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Reuters, VIENNA, September 24 - The U.N. nuclear watchdog passed a resolution on Saturday requiring Iran to be reported to the Security Council over a failure to convince the agency its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful.

"The resolution was adopted," an IAEA spokeswoman told reporters.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) governing board approved it despite Iranian threats to begin enriching uranium if the U.S.-backed resolution, drafted by the EU's three biggest powers, that could eventually lead to U.N. Security Council sanctions against Tehran was passed.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran held a press conference in Brussels giving a detailed report on the Iranian regime's clandestine nuclear program.

At the press conference, aired live by the Iranian Resistance's national TV Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee, said: A document obtained by the National Council of Resistance of Iran contains seven chapters with over a thousand reports.

These reports were obtained from sources in Iran and confirmed as authentic by a variety of sources. They prove that the clerical regime is pushing ahead to create nuclear facilities to use in its nuclear weapons project.

On the advent of the new school year and fearful of uprisings and protests by students, the clerical regime has embarked on a further crackdown in Tehran and other Iranian cities.

During this suppressive campaign, begun several weeks ago code-named "Victory" and on the pretext of "combating trouble-makers," thousands of people, especially teenagers, have been arrested on bogus charges.

NCRI, September 23 - A 130-page report, the outcome of a research conducted by an interparliamentary group of the European Parliament regarding the Human Rights Watch's allegations against the PMOI was presented in a conference on Wednesday, September 21, at the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels.

The conference was organized by Friends of a Free Iran and it was chaired by the First Vice-President of the European Parliament Mr. Alejo Vidal Quadras.

On Thursday, September 22, branch 16 of Cologne's administrative court completed its consideration of the lawsuit filed by four Iranian political refugees affiliated with the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI). It rejected the decision by Nuremberg Federal Refugee Office to revoke the asylum status of the four women.