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Saturday, 10 May 2008 |
 Reuters: The White House said on Friday it was "very troubled" by Hezbollah's actions in Beirut and urged Iran and Syria to halt support for the militant group after its fighters in the Lebanese capital routed forces loyal to the government. |
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Saturday, 10 May 2008 |
 Press Association: The Bush administration has accused Iran and Syria of fuelling violence in Lebanon by inciting members of the radical Shiite Hezbollah movement to take up arms against the country's western-backed government. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
 AFP: Hezbollah fighters, their guns blazing, seized control of west Beirut on Friday after three days of deadly street battles with pro-government foes pushed Lebanon dangerously close to all-out civil war. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
 Reuters: The takeover of the Muslim half of Beirut by Hezbollah triggered alarm in the Arab world and the West on Friday, and the embattled Lebanese government called it an armed coup by the Iranian and Syrian-backed group. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
 AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Hezbollah, backed by Syria and Iran, is killing and injuring innocent civilians in Lebanon. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iran on Friday accused the United States and Israel of fueling the deadly sectarian fighting in Lebanon between its Shiite militant Hezbollah ally and the Western-backed ruling majority. |
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
 RFE/RL: Two Iranian men have been detained in Afghanistan in separate incidents on suspicion of spying near NATO and Afghan military installations. |
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iran is seeking to keep Afghanistan weak and unstable, delivering arms to the Taliban whilst ostensibly supporting Kabul's government, a senior US state department official said in Paris Tuesday. |
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
 AFP: Former Iranian president Mohamad Khatami was under fire from hardliners on Monday after comments interpreted as accusing the country's clerical leaders of supporting insurgents in the Middle East. |
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Sunday, 04 May 2008 |
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 Los Angeles Times: Almost two years after its war with Israel, Hezbollah has rearmed and is stronger than before the conflict, according to Israeli and Western officials and the Lebanon-based Shiite Muslim group itself.
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Sunday, 04 May 2008 |
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AP: A pro-government Lebanese politician called Saturday for the expulsion of Iran's ambassador and the ending of Iranian flights to Beirut because they might be carrying weapons and money to the militant Hezbollah group. |
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Sunday, 04 May 2008 |
 AFP: A leading member of Lebanon's Western-backed ruling coalition called on Saturday for a ban on flights from Iran to Beirut airport, saying the militant group Hezbollah could be flying in arms from Iran. |
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's "irresponsible influence" in the Middle East including pursuit of nuclear weapons and support of terrorism creates a "perfect nightmare" threatening the entire region, the top US military official warned. |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
 AFP: Iran remained the world's "most active" state sponsor of terrorism as it tries to build regional influence and drive the United States from the Middle East, a US government report said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
 AFP: Palestinian Hamas militants are serving as the "proxy warriors" for an Iran bent on destroying Israel and destabilizing the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said here. |
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
 Los Angeles Times: The explosion shook the earth. And it wouldn't be the last one. Twenty-five years ago Friday, a suicide bomber drove a pickup truck full of explosives into the U.S. Embassy in downtown Beirut, killing 63 people. It heralded the rise in the Middle East of a soon-to-be common tool in the arsenal of radicals: the suicide bomb. |
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
 AFP: A high-ranking Iranian cleric on Friday said the country should grow into a military super power to defend all Muslims, following an army parade at a time of mounting tension with the West. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
 The Independent: The Shia "martyrs" of this hill village are normally killed in the dangerous, stony landscape of southern Lebanon, in Israeli air raids or invasions or attacks from the sea. The Hizbollah duly honours them. But the body of the latest Shia fighter to be buried here – from the local Hashem family – was flown back to Lebanon last month from Iran. |
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
 AP: Iran has set up sophisticated listening stations in Syria in recent months to intercept Israeli military communications, according to Israeli security officials. |
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
 FOX: A senior Treasury Department official called Iran "the central banker of terrorism" in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee, but said the United States is succeeding in chasing money tied to the Al Qaeda terror group. |
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
 Bloomberg: When David Welch, the U.S. State Department's top Middle East envoy, wakes each morning, he asks himself, "Is everything OK over there?"
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 25 – Iran’s ultra-secretive Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has once again found itself under the limelight after it was accused of involvement in the murder of an Iranian intellectual in Spain. |
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
 The Guardian: The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, yesterday accused Syria and Iran of using the Islamist movement Hamas to "torpedo" peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel. |
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
 AFP: US Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday hit out at Iran and Syria as he wrapped up a Middle East peace push, saying they were undermining the renewed but faltering Israeli-Palestinian talks. |
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
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AP: Iran issued a stamp Monday in commemoration of a top Hezbollah commander wanted by the U.S. who was killed in a car bombing in Syria last month, the official news agency IRNA reported. |
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 |
 Sunday Times: The Palestinian group Hamas, blamed for last week’s massacre of eight students at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem, has revealed that hundreds of its fighters have been trained in Iran. |
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 |
 Sunday Times: The Hamas commander was in a hurry. Hunched forward in a navy-blue parka, with the wind-chapped skin and drawn eyes of someone who had been outdoors all night, he had just returned from the front line with Israel. The whine of drones overhead signalled that his enemy was hunting for blood.
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 |
 The Times: March 8, 1989: Tehran breaks with UK over Rushdie controversy: Iran formally broke diplomatic relations with Britain yesterday, so shattering any chance of a compromise over Salman Rushdie's controversial novel, The Satanic Verses, and setting back hopes of progress for Britons held in Iran and Lebanon.
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 |
 New York Times: Several Arab leaders say they may boycott the annual Arab summit meeting scheduled for this month in Damascus, the Syrian capital, because of anger at Syria over its role in Lebanon and its continuing links to Iran. |
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
 AFP: The Israeli army on Monday said that all the long-range rockets fired by Gaza militants against southern Israel during the latest round of violence were manufactured in arch-foe Iran. |
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