FRANKFURT (AP) -- France and Germany are threatening Iran with more sanctions, following a report that Tehran may be working on a nuclear warhead.

A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency yesterday suggested Iran had either resumed working on a nuclear weapon or had never stopped.

"Pre-arranged media shows cannot hide the fact that Ashraf residents have been denied their fundamental rights in the past 14 months due to severe inhuman siege of the Camp.
"We call upon the US, the EU, the United Nations Secretary General and the Canadian Government to immediately intervene to end the siege of Ashraf and hold Al-Maliki accountable for denial of food, medicine, and humanitarian needs of the Camp residents." - Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran

By Lord Tarsem King, Special to the Times
Source: St. Petersburg Times
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed students in Doha this week, it appeared that President Barack Obama's administration had finally realized that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has taken on a controlling — not subservient — role among the Iranian leadership. "Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship," she said.

Highlighting the Guards' role in both Tehran's nuclear and military development and proposing to target the group in coming sanctions, U.S. authorities feel they can damage the regime without harming ordinary Iranians. Tactically, the policy seems sound if implemented with stringent controls.

Source: The Miami Herald, editorial
The world's nuclear watchdog agency has finally decided that, yes, it's apparently true -- Iran wants to build a nuclear weapon. Slowly but surely, the case for taking stronger action against Iran for violating international rules against nuclear weapons development grows more compelling.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has bent over backward for years to avoid taking sides between Iran's critics and the government, which insists that it wants nuclear power only to generate electricity and for other, non-aggressive purposes.

VIENNA — The UN atomic watchdog is concerned that its information about Iran's nuclear activities suggests Tehran may be working on a nuclear warhead, according to a restricted report obtained by AFP Thursday.

"The information available to the agency ... raises concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile," the watchdog's chief Yukiya Amano wrote in his first report to its board of governors.

LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's rejection of human rights recommendations made by Western nations shows contempt for both international obligations and its own people, rights group Amnesty International said late on Wednesday.

An official U.N. report published on Wednesday said Iran had rejected calls to release all political prisoners and accept an international inquiry into violence after last June's contested presidential elections.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Seven months after the Iraqi forces' deadly and unprovoked assault on the defenseless residents of Camp Ashraf, members of Iran's main opposition People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the continued inhumane and unlawful siege of the camp has put the lives of hundreds of its residents in great peril.

The U.S. Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR), representing U.S. families and relatives of the residents, strongly condemns the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's inhumane crackdown on Ashraf residents which is clearly designed to placate the Iranian regime.

International call to free political prisoners, halt executions in Iran

NCRI - The clerical regime ruling Iran sentenced a 21-years-old political prisoner, Amir Reza Aarefi, on the charge of “mohareb” (enemy of God).

Mr. Aarefi was arrested in April 2009 and he was in prison during the uprising that followed the sham presidential election last June in Iran. He was among those tried in kangaroo trials charged with “moharebeh; association and collusion against the security of the clerical regime, and propaganda against it,” and participation in post election "riots."