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Monday, 23 January 2006 |
Mohammad Hossein Akhtari has been reappointed as Iran’s ambassador to Syria.
Akhtari, who was previously ambassador to Syria from 1990 to 1998,
presented his credentials to Bashar Assad, Syria’s president on
December 28.
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Friday, 20 January 2006 |
By Michael A. Ledeen
National Review Online
Of all the confusions surrounding the war in Iraq, perhaps none has
clouded so many minds as the phony question, "are we fighting domestic
insurgents or foreign terrorists?" The people who purport to answer
this question with "data," should look again at the demographics of
Iraq, Syria, and Iran, and they can start by asking themselves, "who's
an Iraqi"?
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Monday, 09 January 2006 |
 By Sharon Behn
THE WASHINGTON TIMES- Shi'ite clerics are recruiting young
Iraqis to go to neighboring Iran for political indoctrination and
militia training, said the uncle of one young man who recently returned
from a one-month session.
Upon the return of the young man -- whose name has been withheld from
this article to protect his family -- he was recruited into the armed
wing of the pro-Iranian Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq
(SCIRI) political party, the uncle said.
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Thursday, 05 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told
a crowd of theological students in the holy city of Qom on Thursday
that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon “has joined his ancestors and
others will soon follow suit”, according to the state-run Mehr news
agency.
“The Butcher of Sabra and Shatila has joined his ancestors and others
will soon follow suit”, Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. The same
report appeared on the website Khedmat, which is run by members of the
Iranian president’s entourage.
Ahmadinejad’s announcement of the death of the Israeli Prime Minister
comes at a time when Sharon was reportedly fighting for his life on
Thursday after a massive brain stroke.
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Monday, 02 January 2006 |
 Associated Press - Iran warned on Sunday of a "crushing" response if its nuclear and military facilities were attacked by the U.S. or Israel.
Top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said, however, that talk of such an attack most likely was "psychological warfare."
"Iran has prepared itself ... they will get a crushing response if they
make such a mistake," Larijani said on state-run television late
Sunday.
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Monday, 02 January 2006 |
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
issued a new diatribe against archfoe Israel, saying that the Jewish
state was "anti-Islamic in nature" and the result of European "ethnic
cleansing."
"In fact the Europeans have practiced ethnic cleansing against the Jews
in Europe by expelling the Jews from all the European states," the
official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.
"They have shot two targets with a single bullet -- they have built a
Jewish camp among the Islamic nations and got rid of the Jews from the
whole of Europe.
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Saturday, 31 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus – A senior Iranian cleric declared
during his Friday prayers sermon in Tehran that neighbouring Iraq would
end up under Islamic rule.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who heads the powerful Guardian Council, told
Friday prayers worshippers that the world was witnessing “the emergence
of Islam and the establishment of Islamic rule all over the world”,
bringing about the “disgrace” of the United States in places such as
Iraq.
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Wednesday, 28 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus – Thousands of Iraqis turned out to demonstrate in
Baghdad Tuesday morning against Iranian meddling in December 15
parliamentary elections and called for an international committee to be
set up to investigate charges of widespread voter fraud.
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Tuesday, 27 December 2005 |
 Iraqi Interior Minister standing in the middle
By Paul Martin
Washington Times - Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, whose
ministry is accused of operating clandestine prisons where some
detainees were tortured, will vacate his job shortly, security and
political sources in Baghdad said yesterday.
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Sunday, 25 December 2005 |
 Associated Press Writer - Large demonstrations broke out across
the country Friday to denounce parliamentary elections that protesters
called rigged in favor of the main religious Shiite coalition.
Several thousand people demonstrated after noon prayers in southern
Baghdad Friday, many carrying banners decrying last week's elections.
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Friday, 23 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus – United States troops in Iraq have arrested a senior
official of the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution
in Iraq (SCIRI) in connection with the entry of forged ballots from
neighbouring Iran prior to last week’s parliamentary elections in Iraq,
according to Baghdad dailies.
Fazil Jassem, also known as Abu-Tayyeb, was arrested in the city of
al-Kut after evidence surfaced proving his involvement in the smuggling
of fake ballots through the Iran-Iraq border.
With SCIRI officials in virtual control of the border province, Jassem sat on the provincial council in al-Wassit.
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Tuesday, 20 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus – More than a dozen Iraqi officers involved
in the illegal torture of detainees at secret prisons in Baghdad and
other cities recently fled to neighbouring Iran and do not intend to
return, according to a report in an Iraqi daily.
The daily al-Siadah Iraq wrote on Monday that seven of the officers
were accused of torturing detainees in the secret jails which belonged
to the Interior Ministry.
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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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By ROBERT H. REID
