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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 |
 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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Sunday, 16 July 2006 |
 Bloomberg: U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair joined President George W. Bush in blaming Iran and Syria for violence in the Middle East, raising pressure on the two nations during a fifth day of Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
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Sunday, 16 July 2006 |
 Sunday Telegraph: Iran was thrust to the forefront of widening conflict in the Middle East last night when Israel and America blamed it for supplying the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah with sophisticated weapons to fight a proxy war against the Jewish state. |
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Saturday, 15 July 2006 |
 Reuters: Hizbollah's spectacular rocket attack on an Israeli warship is proof of what Hizbollah has claimed for several years -- it has an array of weapons that could trouble the Middle East's mightiest army. |
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Friday, 14 July 2006 |
 AFP: Iran may be behind the escalating violence between Israel and Lebanon, as it seeks to deflect world pressure on its nuclear program, the US ambassador to Iraq said Thursday. |
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Thursday, 13 July 2006 |
 Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday an Israeli strike on Syria would be considered an attack on the whole Islamic world that would bring a "fierce response", state television reported. |
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Thursday, 13 July 2006 |
 Daily Telegraph: High in the mountains that delineate Israel's northern border with Lebanon, Israeli troops have spent the past year engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse with Iranian-backed fighters from the radical Islamic Hizbollah militia.
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
 AFP: The White House on Wednesday denounced the abduction of two Israeli soldiers by Lebanese militia Hezbollah and said it held Syria and Iran responsible for the attack.
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Tuesday, 11 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 11 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded on Tuesday that the West ends its support for Israel before it was too late, warning that otherwise it would face the wrath of nations in the Middle East. His comments were aired on state television. |
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Monday, 10 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 – A top official of the armed Palestinian group Hamas may have set up camp in Iran, a semi-official daily reported on Sunday.
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Saturday, 08 July 2006 |
 AP: An Iranian diplomat walked into Iran's embassy in Stockholm on Saturday and threatened his colleagues with a gun, but no shots were fired in the incident, police said. |
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Tuesday, 04 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 – Iran rejected on Tuesday a recent report by a British parliamentary committee over its role in international terrorism. |
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Monday, 03 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jul. 03 – Three Iranian agents were arrested in Baku while filming the French embassy, according to an Azerbaijani daily. |
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Thursday, 29 June 2006 |
 Reuters: MPs said on Thursday that Iranian state-sponsored terrorism may target British interests if diplomatic efforts to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions fail. |
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Tuesday, 27 June 2006 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush linked Iran to the deadly June 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and vowed to hunt down those responsible as he marked 10 years since that attack. |
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