New York Times | Obama said that because Iran had not agreed to the proposal, the United States would begin “developing a package of potential steps that we could take that will indicate our seriousness to Iran.”

Gareth Porter | Report provides new evidence that the Qom enrichment facility was constructed on one of many sites where tunneling had been prepared as early as 2002 to protect various kinds of facilities from a possible U.S. air attack.

Sir Richard Dalton, a former British ambassador to Iran, has warned against attacking the country over its nuclear ambitions, saying doing so would “make the world a more dangerous place”.

BBC | Five people have so far been sentenced to death and 81 have received jail terms in connection with post-election unrest in Iran, prosecutors have said.

Guardian | Iran has moved to block the last remaining outlet of expression for the country’s political opposition with the launch of a special force to police the internet.

New York Times | Federal prosecutors began legal action to seize properties cross the country in a broad move against a nonprofit organization that was accused of illegally providing money and other services to Iran.

Arutz Sheva | Israel’s warnings that it will not tolerate an existential threat in the form of a nuclear Iran should be taken seriously, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon warned.

Press TV | Iran’s army chief says by accusing the Islamic Republic of pursuing a military nuclear program the US government is seeking to escalate its military spending budget.

Los Angeles Times | Large areas of Tehran are in chaos as troops fire tear gas and beat antigovernment protesters on the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy’s seizure.

Infowars | Dr. Paul explained to his colleagues the reasons for his opposition to the Iranian sanctions legislation.

Jerusalem Post | If world powers are not successful in efforts to contain the Iranian nuclear threat, an Israeli strike on Iran could become a reality.

JTA | Iran will continue to progress in its nuclear program as long as Israel continues to have nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.

Press TV | The news comes amid US denial of any involvement in a recent terrorist attack in Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran, which Jundullah claimed responsibility for.

Times Online | Tehran often blames the United States and Britain for any internal unrest, including the uproar after President Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election.

Telegraph | Gen Pakpour, whose deputy Gen Nour Ali Shoushtari was the most senior officer killed in the attack, said there would be retribution.

Press TV | Amid accusations of having played a role in a deadly suicide bombing in southeast Iran, the United States moves to deny any involvement in the terrorist attack.

Fox News | The headquarters of Iran’s armed forces blamed the bombing on “terrorists” backed by “the Great Satan America and its ally Britain,” Fars News Agency was quoted by Reuters.

Press TV | Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization has announced a near future plan to completely exclude the US dollar from the country’s foreign revenues and reserves.

CNSNews | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton found no support at the Kremlin for tightening sanctions against Iran.

Jeff Poor | “What happens when Israel strikes Iran or Iran has the earth rays and we know that they now have a nuclear weapon, what happens to our financial system at that point?”

Daniel Tencer | A Detroit-area businesswoman serving a six-year sentence in federal prison for selling goods to Iraq during the embargo against Saddam Hussein was unwittingly working for the CIA.

Devvy Kidd | Would Iran lob a nuclear weapon at these United States of America knowing we would carpet bomb them before the week is out?

Jerusalem Post | Iran will “blow up the heart of Israel” if the United States or the Jewish state attacked it first, a top official with Iran’s most powerful military force, the Revolutionary Guard, warned Friday.

BBC | Shahram Amiri disappeared in June in Saudi Arabia while on a pilgrimage.

New York Times | Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” atom bomb.

Sunday Express | Politicians are talking about trying to block fuel and refined petroleum exports to the country, possibly causing serious disruption to the lives of ordinary Iranians.

Guardian | The UN’s chief weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, said he had seen “no credible evidence” that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

Radio Free Europe | The only problem with this scenario is that Cuba actually had nuclear weapons provided by Russia, Iran does not.

Arabian Business News | Ahmadinejad has ordered the replacement of the US dollar by the euro in calculating the value of the country’s Oil Stabilization Fund.

Press TV | “Americans are working hard on the nuclear weapon posture review. These are all deceptions and concealment.”

Russia Today | Prof Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh from the University of Tehran says America is committed to the existence and security of Israel, therefore wants to punish any country it doesn’t like.

Washington Post | “Will the international community stop the terrorist regime of Iran from developing atomic weapons?” said Israel’s prime minister.

JTA | Zbigniew Brzezinski said the United States should make clear that it will attack Israeli jets if they fly over Iraq on their way to attack Iran.

Fox News | Israel has not given up the option of a military strike on Iran’s nuclear program, the chief of Israel’s military and a senior Israeli official said on Monday.

Zero Hedge | The Iran war drum is beating loud and clear.

Radio Free Europe | By blocking sanctions, Moscow is trying to deprive the international community of any leverage against Tehran.

Press TV | American intelligence agencies reached the conclusion in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) update they presented to US President Barack Obama in recent months.

AFP | Top US lawmakers vowed tough action on Iran as tensions mounted ahead of a late September deadline for negotiations and amid speculation Israel may launch a preemptive strike.

BBC | Russian PM Vladimir Putin has warned against military action targeting Iran or imposing new sanctions to curb its nuclear program.

Yedioth Internet | Kommersant paper quotes ‘informed Israeli’ source as saying ‘It can’t be ruled out that Israel may be ready to move on to decisive actions with regards to Iran, and Netanyahu decided to inform Kremlin of this.’

New York Times | New intelligence reports delivered to the White House say that the country has deliberately stopped short of the critical last steps to make a bomb.

Arutz Sheva | Gates told the Al Jazeera network Monday that the Arab world should build up its “security capabilities” as a signal to Iran to think twice about developing a nuclear weapon.

Stephen Sniegoski | The United States could be involved in a war with Iran without Obama actually intending to bring about such a conflagration.

Gareth Porter | Roadside bomb attacks are acknowledged by U.S. and NATO officials to be the cause of most of the casualties and deaths of foreign troops in the country.

AFP | Iran has charged that Washington provided forged intelligence to the UN nuclear watchdog claiming that Tehran studied how to make atomic bomb.

Political Theatrics | “No one can impose sanctions on Iran anymore. We welcome sanctions. We have given our proposed package,” Ahmadinejad told reporters.

Jerusalem Post | Mohamed ElBaradei, outgoing chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has called the Iranian threat “hyped,” saying there is no proof the Islamic republic will soon have nuclear weapons.

Reuters | Sunni rebel said his group had received support from both the United States and al Qaeda to attack targets inside Iran.

AFP | IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei has said the UN watchdog does not have any evidence suggesting Iran is developing a nuclear weapons program.

New York Times | Iran has asked the United Nations to call a meeting to consider banning attacks on nuclear installations.