Russia tells Iran to suspend enrichment (AP)

Iran says it now runs more than 5,000 centrifuges (AP)
AP - Iran has more than 5,000 centrifuges to process uranium at its enrichment plant, its nuclear chief said Wednesday, in the country's latest defiance of U.N. demands that it halt the...

Analysis: Stable Iraq could influence Mideast (AP)
AP - As violence in Iraq recedes, neighboring states are pondering how to deal with an unwieldy country that could re-emerge as a key player along with Saudi Arabia and Iran in one of the...

Iran prez: 'Bullying powers' try to halt nuke plan (AP)
AP - Iran's president accused "a few bullying powers" of trying to thwart his country's peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that "the...

71 dead in crash of Iran-bound jet in Kyrgyzstan (AP)
AP - A government spokesmwoman in Kyrgyzstan says 71 people are dead after a passenger plane bound for Iran crashed shortly after taking off.

Iran says 'no' to suspending enrichment (AP)
AP - An Iranian official says his country will refuse requests to freeze its uranium enrichment program in exchange for a pledge of no new U.N. Security Council sanctions.