Iran
Iran says it wants nuclear energy to fuel its economy. The US says it wants to build an ‘Islamic bomb’. But what do Iranians think about the deepening crisis? Given rare access, Simon Tisdall spoke to people on the streets of Tehran – and to the men in charge of the country’s nuclear programme.
Guardian 21st August 2006
IRAN appears set for further confrontation with the West on two fronts.
Scotsman 21st August 2006
Buoyed by the success of its proxy militia in Lebanon, Iran has rejected a demand from the West, aimed at curbing Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme, setting itself on a new course of confrontation.
Indepenent 21st August 2006
Sky 20th August 2006
Guardian 21st August 2006
Decommissioning
British Nuclear Fuels is to hold an emergency board meeting tomorrow to decide whether to delay the £500m sale of its nuclear clean-up subsidiary by a year. A delay, thought to be likely, would give the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) breathing space to finalise the complex £1bn-a-year contract to decommission Sellafield, the Cumbria site where much of the UK’s nuclear waste is stored.
Telegraph 21st August 2006
