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Saturday, 29 July 2006 |
 AP: Somalia's prime minister on Saturday accused Egypt, Libya and Iran of providing weapons for Islamic militants who have seized control of much of this country's south. |
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Saturday, 29 July 2006 |
 The Sun: Iranian hatemonger Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked fury yesterday by flying Hezbollah’s flag in his parliament building. |
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Saturday, 29 July 2006 |
 The Guardian: Tony Blair and George Bush delivered yesterday their sharpest warning yet to Iran over its involvement in Lebanon and its suspected nuclear weapons programme. |
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Friday, 28 July 2006 |
 Washington Times: Intelligence reports indicate the leader of Hezbollah is hiding in a foreign mission in Beirut, possibly the Iranian Embassy, according to U.S. and Israeli officials. |
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
 AP: A top Iranian envoy was in Syria on Thursday for talks on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, in a gathering of the Lebanese guerrilla's two key sponsors, according to Iranian news reports. |
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
 AP: President Bush declined Thursday to criticize Israel's tactics in its continuing offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon, and gave a sharp condemnation of Iran's role in the bloody fighting. |
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
 Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cautioned Syria and Iran on Wednesday that they faced further isolation if they tried to scupper U.S.-led attempts to get a cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel. |
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
 New York Sun: Tehran is using Hezbollah's confrontation with the Jewish state to test its weapons capabilities and to observe Israeli military tactics, Lebanon's Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, said yesterday. |
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
 Reuters: Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, flew to Syria on Wednesday for talks with senior Syrian officials as the crisis in the Middle East deepened, diplomats told Reuters. |
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 |
 Reuters: United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday that it was important to include both Iran and Syria to reach an agreement to end fighting in Lebanon. |
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 |
 AFP: Around 50 young Iranian Islamists gathered at Tehran's main cemetery on Wednesday with the avowed aim of leaving for Lebanon to fight against Israel. |
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 |
 AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Syria and Iran on Wednesday that it was time for those countries to "make a choice" about their role in Middle East peace, following international crisis talks on Lebanon. |
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 |
 AFP: French President Jacques Chirac backed an international peacekeeping force for Lebanon on Wednesday and took a swipe at Iran and Syria, which he accused of stirring unrest in the Middle East. |
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 |
 The Sun: Iran's involvement in the Middle East crisis emerged last night after four of its soldiers were killed fighting Israel in Lebanon. |
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 |
 AFP: British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett called Tuesday for Syria and Iran to stop supporting the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon as a key part of efforts to end the current conflict.
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Monday, 24 July 2006 |
 New York Sun: The bodies of Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers killed by the Israeli army in Lebanon have been transported to Syria and flown to Tehran, senior Lebanese political sources said. |
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Monday, 24 July 2006 |
 The Sun: Teams of Iranian suicide bombers were heading for Lebanon’s war zone last night in a terrifying bid to spark meltdown in the Middle East. |
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Sunday, 23 July 2006 |
 BBC News: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Israel that it has "pushed the button of its own destruction" because of its actions in Lebanon. |
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
 TIME: Last Friday there was no real reason to believe that an Israeli warship plying the Mediterranean to enforce the Israeli Defense Force's naval blockade of Lebanon was in danger. Hizballah may have been busy shooting rockets — primarily 122mm Kaytushas with an estimated range of 12 to 17 miles — at towns in northern Israel, but Israel's intelligence agencies had no indication that the militant Shi'ite group had anything in its arsenal that could hit a ship at sea. That all changed when an Iranian-supplied C802 missile slammed into the deck and killed four soldiers. |
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006 |
 Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday accused Iran and Syria of "inspiring" Hizbollah's attacks on Israel and said Damascus was trying to use the crisis to regain its hold over Lebanon. |
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006 |
 Reuters: The FBI is trying to ferret out possible Hizbollah agents in the United States amid concerns that rising U.S.-Iranian tensions could trigger attacks on American soil, FBI officials said.
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006 |
 Daily Telegraph: Tony Blair laid the blame for the crisis in the Middle East at the door of Syria and Iran yesterday, saying they were responsible for supporting militants ranging from Lebanon's Hizbollah movement to insurgents who have killed British soldiers in Iraq.
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006 |
 New York Times: Iran’s support for Hezbollah’s actions against Israel seems to have a twofold purpose: to deflect attention from Tehran’s impasse with the United States and five other nations over its nuclear program, and to further position itself as a powerful regional player. |
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006 |
 New York Sun: Hundreds of Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel are on the ground in Lebanon fighting Israel, security sources say. |
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Tuesday, 18 July 2006 |
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AFP: Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has voiced "very real anxiety" that Iran or Syria might be behind Hezbollah's attacks on Israel from Lebanon. |
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Tuesday, 18 July 2006 |
 AP: Iran's parliament speaker tossed aside his government's claims of detachment Tuesday and warned Israelis that no part of their country is safe from Hezbollah attack. |
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Tuesday, 18 July 2006 |
 Reuters: Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide. |
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Tuesday, 18 July 2006 |
 AFP: As thousands of Canadians prepared to flee violence in Lebanon, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay on Monday took aim at Syria and Iran for fueling the crisis while calling on Hezbollah to cease aggression against Israel. |
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Monday, 17 July 2006 |
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New York Times: With the battle between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah raging, key Arab governments have taken the rare step of blaming Hezbollah, underscoring in part their growing fear of influence by the group’s main sponsor, Iran. |
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Sunday, 16 July 2006 |
 Reuters: Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi telephoned Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani on Sunday to urge Tehran to take an "active role" in diplomatic moves to solve the crisis in the Middle East. |
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