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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Iraq's visiting prime minister on Monday against signing an agreement with the United States keeping foreign troops in the country beyond 2008. |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 AP: U.S. soldiers in Baghdad captured an Iraqi arms dealer and "assassination squad" leader responsible for trafficking Shiite extremists in and out of neighboring Iran for training, the military said Sunday. |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 New York Times: In a shakeup at the top of Iraq’s Shiite power structure, former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari was expelled from the governing Dawa political party, officials said Saturday. |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday tried to reassure Iran over a planned security pact with Washington, vowing Iraq would never allow use of its territory to "harm" the Islamic republic. |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 AP: Iranian state television says Iraq's prime minister is in Tehran for talks with Iranian leaders. |
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 06 - An Iranian-trained “Special Groups” leader surrendered to Coalition forces Friday during operations in al-Hayy, near the city of al-Kut about 190 miles southeast of Baghdad, the United States military announced.
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
 AFP: The United States hopes to seal a deal with Iraq by July 31 on future US troop deployments despite Iranian attempts to complicate the negotiations, the US ambassador to Baghdad said here Thursday. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
 AP: Iraqi lawmakers told Congress on Wednesday that they have serious misgivings about a long-term security agreement being negotiated this year with President Bush, putting themselves squarely in line with Democrats who say hashing out a deal before Bush leaves office is bad timing. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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 CNN: Mullah Nadhim preached open war on U.S. troops for years. He and many other Sunni Muslims in Iraq shunned elections and fought instead with roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades. With provincial elections scheduled for autumn, however, Nadhim and other Sunnis say, they made a mistake by sitting out the elections in January 2005.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 AP: One of Iran's most powerful politicians vowed Wednesday that the Islamic world will stop a long-term security agreement that is being negotiated by the U.S. and Iraq. |
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
 AFP: US troops captured an Iranian-trained militia leader and five militiamen southeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, the American military said in a statement. |
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
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Reuters: Iraq wants to discuss evidence of Iranian intervention in Iraq and the two countries' overall relationship during a visit to Tehran this week by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a government spokesman said on Monday. |
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Saturday, 31 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's powerful parliament speaker Ali Larijani has urged Iraqis to resist a pact under discussion to extend the US troop presence there beyond 2008, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. |
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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 Washington Times: An American pitch to get more countries to invest in Iraq got a positive response yesterday - but from an unwelcome source.
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
 Reuters: The United States will prod Sunni Arab states to offer more support to the Iraqi government at a conference in Sweden this week as a way of countering the growing influence of non-Arab Iran in Iraq. |
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
 Sunday Telegraph: Iran has been the covert instigator of thousands of the attacks against British troops in southern Iraq for at least four years. It is, without doubt, responsible for the deaths and serious injuries of many British personnel, who have been attempting to contain the violence in southern Iraq. |
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
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 Sunday Telegraph: Iran has secretly paid Iraqi insurgents hundreds of thousands of American dollars to kill British soldiers, according to a leaked government document obtained by The Telegraph.
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Saturday, 24 May 2008 |
 AFP: A senior Iranian cleric on Friday slammed as treachery to Islam a security accord due to be sealed between Baghdad and Washington on the presence of American troops in Iraq. |
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's foreign minister and Syria's ambassador to Sweden are among the officials expected to attend next week's ministerial meeting of the Iraq Compact Annual Review, U.N. officials said on Friday. |
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, May 23 – Coalition troops in Rashadiyah, 15 km north of Baghdad, captured four suspected weapons smugglers on Friday, the United States military announced.
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
 Reuters: The United States should increase diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran to counter its rising influence, while retaining possible military action as a "last resort," a top U.S. military officer said on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
 AP: Army Gen. David Petraeus, who is to assume control of U.S. forces in the Middle East, says that a continued U.S. presence in Iraq is more likely to blunt, rather than inflame, Iran's growing influence in the region. |
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
 Washington Times: Iran's influence in Iraq is posing a direct threat to peace in the region, as lawmakers on Capitol Hill debate whether talks with Tehran will bear fruit or further place U.S. war strategy in jeopardy. |
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal: The U.S. military, in a shift, has postponed the release of a report detailing allegations of Iranian support for Iraqi insurgents, according to people familiar with the matter. |
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
 AP: The top uniformed U.S. military officer told Congress Tuesday that Iran is directly jeopardizing peace in Iraq, prompting fresh calls from senators that the U.S. pursue diplomatic talks with Tehran. |
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Saturday, 17 May 2008 |
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 The Times: The former Archbishop of Canterbury has broken a year-long government news blackout to appeal directly to the group holding five “forgotten” British hostages who were abducted in Baghdad last May.
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
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 Washington Post: When Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal greeted his Iraqi counterpart with a bear hug at a Persian Gulf conference last month, Bush administration officials watching from the sidelines were all smiles. After years of trying to bring their client state and the Arab giant together, it looked like things were finally starting to click.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
 Reuters: Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying three Iranian embassy staff in Baghdad on Thursday, wounding them and their Iraqi driver, a spokesman for the Iranian embassy said. |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
 Washington Post: Iran has been directing assassination operations in Iraq using trained snipers, in some cases killing Iraqi officials opposed to Iran, according to an officer who has recently served as a senior adviser to Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
 AP: When a group of Iraqi envoys headed to Iran recently, they were fully prepared for some tense moments. But they also hoped to come away with something to show for it: pledges of cooperation on weakening Shiite militias in Iraq. |
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