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Saturday, 03 December 2005 |
 The Washington Times: The United States and the international community remain highly concerned by Iran's intentions to attain nuclear capability, come what may. As Tehran pursues its aim to join the nuclear club, it is slowly but surely isolating itself from the rest of the world. |
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Sunday, 27 November 2005 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: In his February 2005 State of the Union address, President Bush demanded that Tehran "give up its uranium enrichment program and end any plutonium reprocessing and end its support for terror." Shortly after that speech, he turned responsibility for handling that issue over to the European Union, which opted in essence for a diplomacy-only approach to Iran. Ten months later, Iran's behavior has grown even more defiant and contemptuous. |
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Tuesday, 22 November 2005 |
 The Times: In four months of extravagantly bad-tempered diplomacy, Iran’s new President has pulled off one small success. He has sidestepped a fight with the rest of the world tomorrow over his country’s nuclear plans. |
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Thursday, 10 November 2005 |
 The Times: Syria and Iran: what should we now do about them? Relations with Syria took a long step backwards yesterday, after a blast of hostility from its President, Bashar Assad. Those with Iran took maybe a tiny step forward, with Russia joining the US and Europe in trying to find a way to cool its nuclear ambitions. |
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Wednesday, 09 November 2005 |
 New York Times - Editorial: It might have been awkward for President Bush to have told Ahmad Chalabi, a deputy prime minister in Iraq, that he would receive no official welcome in Washington this week. Mr. Chalabi does not easily take no for an answer, and he seems to have no inhibitions about embarrassing his former friends with impolitic remarks, especially if they help him in next month's Iraqi elections. But it is disgraceful to hand this multiply discredited schemer the prestige he will surely milk from his meetings with Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the national security adviser, Stephen Hadley. |
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Sunday, 30 October 2005 |
 Washington Post: Most Valuable Politician of the year? How about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who has surged ahead for the 2005 MVP award in the few months he has been in office? He reminds a distracted world at crucial moments of the true nature of Iran's regime, of the abiding source of conflict in the Middle East and of the deeper meaning of global terrorism. |
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Friday, 28 October 2005 |
 Boston Globe - EDITORIAL: By telling a conference in Tehran Wednesday that ''Israel must be wiped off the map," Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was not only revealing the hate-twisted face of the Islamist hard-liners who took over key government posts following his suspect election last June. He was also throwing down a challenge to the governments of the world. |
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Thursday, 27 October 2005 |
 Washington Post - Editorial: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used words Wednesday that have not been heard from a senior Iranian official in some time. "Israel," he declared, "must be wiped off the map." What's more, "anyone who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury." |
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Saturday, 22 October 2005 |
 Foreign Policy: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has decided to play hardball with Iran. Frustrated by the lack of progress in negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, the British—who used to give Iran the benefit of the doubt—are now hedging their bets on nuclear diplomacy by using Iran’s meddling in Iraq to make military options more palatable to the British public. |
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Friday, 21 October 2005 |
 The Guardian: It's suddenly like the bad old days: accusations flying between capitals, crowds chanting angry slogans outside the British embassy, ambassadors summoned to explain their governments' positions and public insults attesting to a
sudden deterioration in a long and troubled relationship. |
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Friday, 21 October 2005 |
 Daily Telegraph - Leader: Not all the arguments against invading Iraq were couched in idealistic terms. Many hard-bitten Foreign Office types argued that the intervention would "destabilise" the region. They now look vindicated. Precisely as the cynical Arabists predicted, neighbouring states have been "sucked in". America blames Syria for allowing insurgents to cross its border, while Iran stands accused of arming the Shia militia who have been harrying British forces in Basra.
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Sunday, 16 October 2005 |
 Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mobilized support among major powers for diplomatic showdowns over the next few weeks with Syria and Iran on a trip that ended on Sunday. |
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Saturday, 15 October 2005 |
 Sunday Telegraph - Leaders: Our report today on the illegal transfer of missile technology to Iran marks a serious raising
of the stakes in the faltering effort to make Teheran come
clean about its nuclear programme. As Con Coughlin reveals, former members of the Russian armed forces are helping Iran receive assistance from North Korea. |
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Friday, 14 October 2005 |
 The Washington Times: The rise of militants to power positions in Iran is raising new worries about Iranian military forces' deploying new weapons that threaten oil supplies or future long-range nuclear or chemical missile strikes. |
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Saturday, 08 October 2005 |
 The Observer: Tony Blair confirmed last week that bombs used to kill eight British soldiers in Iraq were a type used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups that it supports in Lebanon. |
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Saturday, 08 October 2005 |
 Sunday Telegraph: It was not the outcome the Foreign Office had been planning. When it was announced early last week that a senior British diplomat in Baghdad was flying back to London to give a briefing on Iraq's constitutional referendum, the general expectation in Whitehall was that the following day's headlines would focus exclusively on whether sufficient numbers of Iraqis would turn out to validate the exercise. |
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Thursday, 06 October 2005 |
Daily Telegraph: Considering that eight British soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq this summer, the Government's reaction was bizarre. Instead of the Prime Minister or a member of his Cabinet standing up and pointing the finger of blame, it was
left initially to an unnamed senior official. |
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Tuesday, 04 October 2005 |
 Financial Times: When Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Iran's fundamentalist president, recently met other senior leaders in Tehran, he suggested they should not worry unduly about growing western pressure. |
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Monday, 03 October 2005 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: India surprised even the most vigilant observers last weekend when it sided with the United States and the European Union in supporting a resolution that recommends referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council if negotiations on its nuclear program do not make headway. India's position at the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding Iran is encouraging and significant, illustrating that concerns over Iran's program do not emanate from Washington and Europe alone. |
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Monday, 26 September 2005 |
 Washington Post - Editorial: The Bush administration and its European allies have managed to take a small step toward holding Iran accountable for its secret and illegal steps aimed at the production of nuclear weapons. |
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Saturday, 24 September 2005 |
 Washington Times - EDITORIAL: Just days after the European Union joined with the United States to insist that Iran come clean about its nuclear program, the EU appears to be caving in -- again. On Thursday, after Russia, China and India balked at referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council, the EU backed down and drafted a significantly weaker resolution.
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Wednesday, 21 September 2005 |
 Los Angeles Times: In the wake of this week's shaky international agreement on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, diplomats and armscontrol specialists agreed on one central point: Achieving similar progress with Iran will be even tougher. |
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Wednesday, 21 September 2005 |
 Washington Times: Is Iran preparing for war with the United States? It sounds inconceivable, but the U.S. invasion of Iraq has spooked Tehran's mullahs to prepare for the unthinkable. |
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Wednesday, 21 September 2005 |
 Daily Telegraph - Leaders: The public is rightly worried about the fate of British troops in southern Iraq, but we must not forget equally ominous developments across the border, in Iran. The election of the hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the rise of oil prices and, not least, the sapping of the American military in Iraq, have emboldened Teheran in its nuclear ambitions. |
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Thursday, 15 September 2005 |
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Washington Times - Editorial: During his U.N. visit yesterday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad played a dangerous double game. On the one hand, he spoke of a willingness to present unspecified "new proposals" to resolve the diplomatic stalemate over Iran's illicit nuclear-weapons program. On the other, he made a very disturbing new threat. |
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Wednesday, 14 September 2005 |
 New York Times - By PIERRE GOLDSCHMIDT: In November 2003, Iran averted a crisis when it agreed to suspend activities that could one day give it the capacity to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. The International Atomic Energy Agency had discovered an 18-year pattern of noncompliance by Iran with its obligations to report all its nuclear activities, during which time international inspectors could not verify that they were solely for peaceful purposes. |
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Sunday, 11 September 2005 |
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The Asian Age: External affairs minister Natwar Singh has drawn the India-US civilian nuclear energy agreement into the direct line of fire from the US Congress with his one visit to Iran. |
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Monday, 22 August 2005 |
 The Globe and Mail - Editorial: When Iran's new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is not firing defiant broadsides at Brussels or Washington for seeking to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions, he is busy trying to root out whatever voices of moderation and reform remain in government. It does not
augur well for future relations with Canada, the European Union, the United States and others in the global community that want Iran to start living up to its international obligations.
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Wednesday, 17 August 2005 |
Global Politician - Hamid Namvar: According to media reports indicate that the United States is considering an entry visa to Iran's new president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend a UN meeting in New York City in mid-September. This would send a very wrong signal at a very crucial juncture to the increasingly belligerent Iran. Administration must firmly deny Ahmadinejad entry to the United States. And by all indications, the American public opinion would certainly welcome such a move.
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Wednesday, 17 August 2005 |
 The Guardian: Dawn has barely broken on the fledgling presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but Iran's new leader is already showing ominous signs of realising the worst fears of his liberal-minded opponents. The ultra-Islamist former mayor of Tehran, who was elected president in an unforeseen electoral landslide in June, offered his first serious indication of intent when he announced the make-up of his cabinet on Sunday.
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