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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
 AP: Iran has backed away from an effort to stop an Interpol vote on putting five Iranians and a Lebanese man on the international police agency's most wanted list for a 1994 bombing in Argentina that killed 85 people, an Interpol official said Monday. |
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Sunday, 04 November 2007 |
 AP: Iran's top diplomat says the U.S. and Israel are pressuring Interpol to put five Iranians and one Lebanese on its most wanted list next week for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people. |
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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
 AFP: A cross-party group of British politicians on Thursday called for the European Union to follow the United States' lead and impose sanctions targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. |
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Tuesday, 30 October 2007 |
 AFP: A top general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday warned that his forces were ready "if necessary" to carry out suicide operations in the Gulf, amid rising tensions with the United States. |
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 25 - The following is the text of an announcement on Thursday by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson that the Bush administration had designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – Qods Force (IRGC-QF) as a “supporter of terrorism”: |
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 25 – The U.S. State Department designated on Thursday an elite Iranian military force a “supporter of terrorism”. |
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
 Washington Post: The Bush administration plans to roll out an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds Force as a supporter of terrorism, according to senior administration officials. |
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
 New York Times: The Bush administration will announce a long-debated policy of new sanctions against Iran on Thursday, accusing the elite Quds division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps of supporting terrorism, administration officials said Wednesday night. |
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Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
 AP: Iran is a major obstacle to the U.S. vision of a Middle East in which nations will "trade more, invest more, talk more and work more constructively to solve problems," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says. |
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Friday, 19 October 2007 |
 BBC: UK ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has accused Iran of backing terrorism and warned the world faces a situation akin to "rising fascism in the 1920s". |
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
 Reuters: A shipment of hi-tech roadside bombs intercepted in Afghanistan originated in Iran, the commander of NATO-led troops said on Thursday, adding it was hard to believe Tehran's military did not know about the arms. |
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
 AP: The top NATO commander in Afghanistan alleged Thursday that the Iranian military was involved in a shipment of sophisticated explosive devices intercepted by his troops in western Afghanistan last month. |
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Sunday, 14 October 2007 |
 AFP: Two Israeli soldiers captured by Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah in 2006 have been handed to Iran and could be freed in a German-brokered swap, an Arabic newspaper reported on Sunday. |
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
 AFP: The United States Friday welcomed action by an international anti-money laundering watchdog urging Iran to close loopholes in its financial system and take steps to limit terrorist financing. |
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
 AFP: An Iranian jailed for life in Germany for the 1992 murder of four Kurdish dissidents which a Berlin court said was ordered by Tehran is to be released early, prosecutors said Thursday. |
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Saturday, 06 October 2007 |
 Sunday Telegraph: It was the end of a week of fierce fighting in the Upper Gereshk valley, a Taliban stronghold and the scene of much bloodshed over the past 18 months. |
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Thursday, 04 October 2007 |
 Daily Telegraph: The Quds Force is a special paramilitary unit attached to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards whose mission is to help organise, train and equip militia in the Middle East. |
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Thursday, 04 October 2007 |
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Daily Telegraph: Iran is supplying the Taliban in Afghanistan with the same bomb-making equipment it provides to insurgents in Iraq, according to British military intelligence officers. |
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Saturday, 29 September 2007 |
 AP: Iran's parliament voted Saturday to designate the CIA and the U.S. Army as "terrorist organizations," a largely symbolic response to a U.S. Senate resolution seeking a similar designation for Iran's Revolutionary Guards. |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
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FOX News: The Iranian government directly ordered an act of terrorism in the Americas after being frustrated in its secret nuclear ambitions, a former chief of Argentine intelligence tells FOX News in an exclusive interview. |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
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AFP: The US Senate has called for Iran's Revolutionary Guards to be officially designated a "foreign terrorist organization," a day after the House of Representatives passed a similar measure. |
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 |
 AFP: Iran angrily condemned on Wednesday as "worthless and invalid" a vote by the US House of Representatives branding its elite Revolutionary Guards force as a terrorist organization. |
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
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Bloomberg: Argentine President Nestor Kirchner will press Iran to cooperate in a probe of a 1994 terrorist attack in Buenos Aires when he speaks to the United Nations tomorrow, his cabinet chief said. |
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
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AFP: For the second time this month, Iran has come under scrutiny after Afghan security forces recovered a shipment of weapons destined for Taliban insurgents that came from across the border. |
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Sunday, 23 September 2007 |
 AFP: Afghan authorities said they had seized dozens of Iranian and Chinese-made weapons after a brief battle Saturday with Taliban fighters near the border with Iran. |
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Sunday, 23 September 2007 |
 Reuters: Argentine President Nestor Kirchner on Saturday asked Iran to answer petitions for arrests and information in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center, state news agency Telam reported. |
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
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AFP: Iran has warned Argentina against joining the enemy camp if Argentine President Nestor Kirchner criticizes Tehran at the UN General Assembly, the Iranian ambassador said in an interview Friday. |
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
 AP: A top American commander on Friday accused Iran of supplying powerful roadside bombs to militants in Afghanistan and said the U.S. would "act decisively" if the cross-border flow continues. |
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
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Washington Post: A top NATO commander said Thursday that a shipment of weapons intercepted by international forces in western Afghanistan this month clearly came from Iran and almost certainly was sent here with the knowledge of "at least the Iranian military." |
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Sunday, 16 September 2007 |
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Washington Post: An Iranian arms shipment destined for the Taliban was intercepted Sept. 6 by the international force in Afghanistan in what appears to be an escalating flow of weaponry between the two former enemies, according to officials from countries in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. |
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