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Sunday, 18 December 2005 |
ANKARA (AFP) - A Turkish court has said that neighboring Iran
trained Turkish Islamist radicals and supported "terrorist" activities
aimed at undermining Turkey's strictly secular order, media reports
said Sunday.
The accusations came in the reasoning that an Ankara court wrote over
the convictions in July of nine Islamist militants in a long-running
case over the murders of four prominent pro-secular intellectuals in
the 1990s.
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Saturday, 17 December 2005 |
VOA News - Iran is promising a mighty response to any aggression
from Israel, as political hostilities between the two governments
continue to increase.
The latest warning from Tehran came during an interview with Iranian
Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar Friday by the official Islamic
Republic News Agency.
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Saturday, 17 December 2005 |
 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Iran could face sanctions if it
keeps provoking Israel and the West, European
leaders warned Saturday, even as the Tehran regime's interior minister
said the Iranian president's remarks had been "misunderstood."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad aggravated tensions with the West
this week by calling the Holocaust a "myth," a statement that came two
months after he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
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Saturday, 17 December 2005 |
 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders on
Saturday condemned Iran's president for denying the Holocaust, and
warned Tehran the chance of a diplomatic solution on its disputed
nuclear programme would not last forever.
The 25 EU heads of state and government said of President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad's statement that the Nazi mass extermination of Jews was a
myth: "These comments are wholly unacceptable and have no place in
civilised political debate."
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Saturday, 17 December 2005 |
Iran Focus
Baghdad/Tehran– Iranian agents in Iraq carried out a widespread
campaign of poll manipulation to ensure victory by Shiite groups allied
to Tehran in Thursday’s presidential election in the Islamic Republic’s
eastern neighbour, according to reports received by Iran Focus.
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
 WASHINGTON (AFP) - A top US commander Friday accused Iran of
meddling in Iraq's elections, saying it invested heavily in political
parties in the south and seeks to influence the formation of a new
government.
"I don't have hard, smoking gun-type evidence, but the intelligence we
have tells us they invested heavily in political parties supportive of
Iran in the south," said General George Casey, who commands US forces
in Iraq.
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus
Baghdad – As part of a campaign to ensure the victory of its Shiite
allies in the parliamentary elections, Iran attempted to buy votes in
the southern Iraqi provinces for a list it backed during Thursday’s
presidential elections in Iraq, according to reports received by Iran
Focus.
In al-Qadisyah, the capital city of al-Diwaniyah province, Iranian
agents offered secular Shiites money and food to participate in the
polls and cast their ballots in favour of the United Iraqi Alliance
(UIA), led by Tehran’s long-time ally, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the Shiite
cleric who heads the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq
(SCIRI).
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus
Baghdad– Iraq’s Interior Ministry, already under a barrage of
allegations of running secret torture chambers managed by agents of
Iran’s intelligence services, was on Friday reported to have prevented
Sunni voters from participating in Thursday’s parliamentary elections
in the key province of Diyala, Iran Focus has learnt.
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus
Baghdad – Iran was accused on Friday of tampering with election ballots
in Thursday’s parliamentary elections in neighbouring Iraq and
attempting to influence voters to cast their ballots in favour of a
Shiite slate with which it is allied, Iran Focus has learnt.
A security official in the western city of Ramadi told Iran Focus that
on Wednesday three agents working for Tehran had been arrested on
charges of attempting to meddle with local election ballots.
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US federal judge has ordered Iran to pay
victims of a 1983 suicide bombing of the US embassy in Beirut 126
million dollars, lawyers for the victims said.
Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia
ruled Wednesday that Iran supported Hezbollah militants in the April
1983 bombing, the first suicide attack ever against a US embassy.
Citing evidence that Iran provided Hezbollah with arms, money and other
support, Bates ruled that Iran must pay 29 victims and their families
126 million dollars.
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
 TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's response to a potential attack
by arch-enemy Israel would be "swift and destructive," Defense Minister
Mustafa Mohammad Najjar said.
"The policy of the Islamic republic of Iran is completely defensive,
but if we are attacked, the answer of the armed forces will be swift,
firm and destructive," Najjar was quoted as saying by the official IRNA
news agency on Friday.
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Thursday, 15 December 2005 |
 Daily Telegraph
By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor
Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has packed his government
with former security and intelligence officials responsible for serious
human rights abuses, including the killing of thousands of dissidents
in Iranian jails, a leading human rights group said yesterday.
After Mr Ahmadinejad caused renewed international outrage by calling
the Nazi Holocaust of Jews a "myth", a report by Human Rights Watch,
based in New York, took aim at his hardline cabinet - in particular the
new interior minister, Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi.
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Thursday, 15 December 2005 |
 The Jerusalem Post
Sheera Claire Frenkel
The Swedish parliament ceased all bilateral contacts with the Iranian parliament Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The move follows a letter Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin sent asking
parliaments worldwide to express their support for Israel. The letter,
which was sent to more than 80 parliaments, called for an international
response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call in October to
"wipe Israel off the map."
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Thursday, 15 December 2005 |
 Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) - European Union leaders will address the Iranian
president's denial of the Holocaust as a ``myth,'' Germany's foreign
minister said Thursday, warning that patience is running out with
Tehran.
The German government has condemned the remarks by Iran's Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and called on the United Nations as well as the EU to
follow suit. Berlin says the comments will also weigh on talks over
Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
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Thursday, 15 December 2005 |
 United Press International
By CLAUDE SALHANI (UPI International Editor)
WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- Should the world take Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seriously? No, I mean seriously!
Consider his recent antics: First, Ahmadinejad declared to a group of
students in Tehran in October that "Israel should be wiped off the
map." Israel certainly takes him seriously.
If that first statement were not bad enough, and even before the dust
from that storm he created had time to settle, the Iranian president
suggested Israel be moved to Europe -- somewhere between Germany and
Austria. Now the European Union is taking him seriously.
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