Agence France Presse, NEWPORT, Wales, September 1 - The European Union said on Thursday that it may refer Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions over its nuclear program after it breached an accord with the European bloc.

Speaking at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the bloc was watching to see if Iran would comply with a deadline this week set by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Associated Press, WASHINGTON, September 1 _ The Bush administration is trying to rally other nations to agree to impose U.N. sanctions on Iran to force it to negotiate an end to its nuclear programs.

"What we see is Iran acting in defiance of the international community." Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said Wednesday in an Associated Press interview.

Bloomberg, August 29 - French President Jacques Chirac said Iran will face referral to the United Nations Security Council if it doesn't suspend its nuclear program and respond to proposals by European Union negotiators.

Iran should re-examine EU offers to help it develop a civilian energy program under international supervision and give it access to technology and ``return to the commitment to suspend activities related to the production of fissile materials,'' Chirac told French ambassadors in Paris today.

By Alex Morales

Bloomberg, August 18 - Iran has continued to produce centrifuges, which are used in the uranium enrichment process, in contravention of a November 2004 agreement with the U.K., France and Germany to suspend all such activities, the exiled opposition National Council for Resistance in Iran said.

"A controlled and limited crisis with the IAEA and the West over the nuclear program will be to our advantage and will enable us to compel them to significantly raise the concessions" - Appraisal

A week after the second round of presidential elections in Iran, the Supreme National Security Council of Iran submitted a report to the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, entitled "An appraisal of two years of nuclear talks with the European powers".
The principal points in the conclusions of the report, a copy of which was obtained by the NCRI, were as follows:

VIENNA, Austria (AP) August 9 — Iran has manufactured about 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade, an exiled Iranian dissident who helped uncover nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity in 2002 said Tuesday.

Alireza Jafarzadeh told The Associated Press the centrifuges — which he said are unknown to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency — are ready to be installed at Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz.

Jafarzadeh, who runs Strategic Policy Consulting, a Washington-based think tank focusing on Iran and Iraq, said the information — which he described as "very recent" — came from sources within the Tehran regime who have proven accurate in the past.