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Thursday, 06 October 2005 |
 AFP: British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Iran against interfering in Iraq on Thursday, saying London suspected explosives used to kill British troops there may have come from the Islamic republic. |
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Thursday, 06 October 2005 |
 Bloomberg: U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair today said that there is evidence tying Iran to bombings in neighboring Iraq in the first
public accusation that the Shiite Muslim country is supporting militants in Iraq. |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005 |
 Daily Telegraph: Britain blamed Iran yesterday for a spate of roadside bomb attacks that killed at least eight British soldiers in the past six months. A senior diplomat said technology used in the devices was similar to that given by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to the Hizbollah movement in Lebanon. "All of the British deaths are linked to Iranian technology," he said, abandoning the usual Foreign Office reserve. |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005 |
 The Guardian: Britain and Iran clashed openly last night after a senior British official directly accused Tehran of supplying Iraqi insurgents with sophisticated roadside bombs that have killed eight British soldiers and two security guards since May. |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005 |
 Daily Telegraph: For the past two years, the Foreign Office has done its utmost to defend Iran from American accusations that Iranian mullahs were stirring trouble in Iraq. "On the contrary," British diplomats retorted, "Iran is being very helpful in the political process. It has an interest in stability in Iraq." |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005 |
 AFP: Iraqi parliament speaker Hajim al-Hasani has accused Iran of being behind the assassination of two top Shiite Muslim clerics in Iraq in 2003, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported. |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005 |
 The Times: Britain has accused Iran of helping to kill British soldiers in southern Iraq.
Six soldiers and two security guards have died in the past three months, all victims of a new explosives technique supplied via Iran, a senior British official said yesterday. |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005 |
 Reuters: Britain accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday of supplying weapons to Shi'ite militia in Iraq
used to attack British troops. |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005 |
 AP: Britain believes Iran's Revolutionary Guard is supplying explosive technology that is killing British soldiers in Iraq, including eight who died in separate bombings over the summer, a senior British government official said Wednesday. Tehran rejected the allegation. |
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Tuesday, 04 October 2005 |
 AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on put off a planned visit to Saudi Arabia Wednesday after the two countries publicly rowed over the situation in Iraq. |
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Monday, 03 October 2005 |
 The Sunday Times: THE radical Shi’ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr has authorised his militia to kidnap two Britons in Iraq in the hope of swapping them for two of his senior officials who are held in Basra by British forces. |
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Sunday, 02 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 02 – The top United States army general in Iraq said on Sunday that Iran was being unhelpful in trying to exert influence in its western neighbour. |
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Saturday, 01 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 02 – Iran has set up a torture
chamber in the Iraqi capital Baghdad where agents of its notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have “brutally tortured Iraqi youths”, according to a London-based Arab daily. |
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Tuesday, 27 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 28 – Former Iraqi Prime Minister
Ayad Allawi warned that continuing meddling in Iraq’s internal affairs by neighbouring Iran will “damage” both the Islamic Republic and the region, an Iraqi daily reported. |
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Saturday, 24 September 2005 |
The Sunday Times: British troops are famed for winning hearts and minds but last week Basra erupted. Ali Rifat, Michael
Smith and Richard Woods on an SAS mission that went horribly wrong. |
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Saturday, 24 September 2005 |
 The Sunday Times - Iraq’s former defence chief tells Robert Winnett he warned of the Iranian threat: As the US special forces Hercules flew low over the desert in March 2003 before landing behind enemy lines, Hazim al-Shalan prepared to step onto Iraqi soil for the first time in almost 20 years. |
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Saturday, 24 September 2005 |
 The Sunday Times: Two SAS soldiers rescued last week after being arrested by Iraqi police and handed over to a militia were engaged in a “secret war” against insurgents bringing sophisticated bombs into the country from Iran. |
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Saturday, 24 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 24 – Iran reacted harshly to comments by Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister who had criticised the United States of employing an incorrect strategy
in Iraq which led to Iranian domination over the neighbouring country. |
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Thursday, 22 September 2005 |
 The Times: Through a combination of arms, money and political influence, Iran has established itself as one of the most powerful forces in postwar Iraq, where its Shia allies dominate local governments, the security services and parts of the economy. |
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Tuesday, 20 September 2005 |
 The Guardian: Basra has not been beset by the levels of violence seen in Baghdad and the Sunni triangle but the relative calm that has held since the fall of Saddam Hussein is now under threat, say residents and diplomats. |
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Tuesday, 20 September 2005 |
 Voice of America: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has warned Iran not to try to increase its influence in southern Iraq beyond what local people will tolerate. The warning came one day after tension in the main southern Iraqi city, Basra, caused a riot and a clash between British and Iraqi forces. |
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Monday, 19 September 2005 |
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The Times - Tehran's involvement may be linked to Britain's hardening position on its nuclear programme: The violence that erupted on the streets of Basra yesterday was the result of a simmering struggle between British forces and the increasingly powerful Shia Muslim militias active in southern Iraq. |
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Friday, 16 September 2005 |
 AFP: A top Iranian Shiite Muslim cleric on Friday blamed the United States for the latest wave of killings in Iraq where Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents have declared war on the majority Shiites. |
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Tuesday, 13 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 – The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that the United States had been unable to control unrest in neighbouring Iraq, while the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the IRGC said that Islamic spirituality was aiding individuals who stood against American aggression, during a ceremony attended by top Revolutionary Guards commanders. |
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Monday, 12 September 2005 |
 AP: An exiled Iranian opposition group on Tuesday accused Tehran of interfering with the drafting of Iraq's constitution in order to put pressure on Iranian dissidents living in Iraq. |
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Saturday, 10 September 2005 |
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Iran Focus: London, Sep. 11 – Iran is examining ways to step up attacks against British forces based in southern Iraq, an Arabic television channel quoted a former officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as saying on Saturday. |
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Friday, 09 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 09 – A top military commander in Iran accused the United States and Israel on Friday of being behind terrorist attacks in Iraq, which he said were being carried out to justify the continuing military occupation of the oil-rich Arab country. |
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Sunday, 04 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 05 – Iran is using an ‘army of merchants’ to infiltrate Iraqi towns and cities to carry out political agitation and intelligence gathering work for the
Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), the Dubai-based daily al-Ettehad reported. |
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Sunday, 04 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 04 – Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has infiltrated key levers of power in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, southern Iraq, according to an independent Iraqi daily. |
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Friday, 02 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 02 – A senior cleric on Friday accused the United States of being responsible for Wednesday’s attack in the Iraqi holy town of Kazimiya which was followed by a stampede leaving near to 1,000 worshippers dead. |
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