By ELIZABETH BRYANT

The United Press International, PARIS - It has been variously described as a cult and the only significant Iranian resistance movement. The People's Mujahedeen is listed as a terrorist organization in Europe and the United States, yet the group continues to stage rallies and court lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic.

NCRI - An Iranian state-run daily, Hamshahri, initiated a contest to find the best cartoons on the Holocaust in an apparent retaliation for the publication of cartoons in European countries resembling the Prophet Mohammad.

By BARRY SCHWEID

The Associated Press, WASHINGTON - Iran used negotiations with the European Union to play for time and has now achieved the ability to both develop nuclear weapons and deliver them, a senior Bush administration official said Monday.

NCRI - The White House on Monday condemned "threats and confrontation" from Iranian regime after Tehran said it would restart sensitive nuclear work. "The actions and comments coming out of the regime only further isolate it from the rest of the world," spokesman Scott McClellan said after Iran said it had formally notified the UN nuclear watchdog agency of its decision.

Agence France Presse - Key US Senator Richard Lugar called for strict UN sanctions against Iran if its fails to allay fears it is seeking nuclear weapons capability.

But Lugar, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also restated Washington's commitment to multilateral diplomacy in the Iran nuclear crisis.

By Professor Daniel M. Zucker

Global Politician - The threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran grows every day as the antagonistic regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene and his appointed president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, continues in its relentless pursuit of nuclear capabilities. Iran's claim that it seeks to use nuclear energy for peaceful production of electricity has been proven a lie by the announcement of Russia that none of Iran's atomic sites hold any of the necessary ancillary equipment needed for producing electricity. On the other hand, there is abundant evidence that Iran is busy producing long range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. When one recalls Iran's twenty-seven year history of calling for the destruction of this country and of the State of Israel, reasonable prudence would council extreme caution against labeling the Iranian threat "empty boasting or mere rhetoric".

By Philip Sherwell in Washington and Kim Willsher in Paris

The Sunday Telegraph - Iran escalated its nuclear showdown with the West last night by ending international inspections of its atomic sites and preparing to restart uranium enrichment.

Hours after Iran was reported to the United Nations Security Council for its nuclear programme, its officials were taking the first steps towards carrying out their threat to produce the material - which Western intelligence believes will be used for atomic weapons.

NCRI - A day after Iranian regime declared that the Russian plan for enrichment was dead because Tehran was reported to the U.N. Security Council, it announced on today that it would hold talks with Moscow on its plan.

Deutsche Welle - German chancellor took a hard stance in her speech at the Munich Security Conference Saturday.
 
Germany's Angela Merkel called on the world to stop Iran from going nuclear and controversially likened the threat of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to that of the pre-war rise of Adolf Hitler.