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Sunday, 02 April 2006 |
 Washington Post: As tensions increase between the United States and Iran, U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes on its nuclear sites by deploying its intelligence operatives and Hezbollah teams to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide. |
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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 29 – Radical Islamists in Iran’s western province of Lorestan were invited during a ceremony on Wednesday to enlist in garrisons to carry out suicide attacks against the United States. |
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Saturday, 25 March 2006 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: The Treasury Department struck a blow against one branch of Iran's propaganda network on Thursday, designating Hezbollah's al Manar satellite television operation as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization. The designation prohibits transactions between Americans and U.S. entities and al Manar, and freezes any assets al Manar may have under American jurisdiction. |
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 |
 Los Angeles Times: U.S. intelligence officials, already focused on Iran's potential for building nuclear weapons, are struggling to solve a more immediate mystery: the murky relationship between the new Tehran leadership and the contingent of Al Qaeda leaders residing in the country.
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Thursday, 16 March 2006 |
 Haaretz: Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar said Tuesday that Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told him five years ago that "setting Israel on fire" was the first order of business on the Iranian agenda. |
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Monday, 13 March 2006 |
 New York Times: Nearly a year ago, not long after the assassination of Rafik Hariri, who was twice prime minister of Lebanon, Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon, unleashing a wave of patriotism here that prompted many to say that the Lebanese might finally be able to take control of their destiny. |
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Wednesday, 01 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 01 – A state-organised group which avowedly trains suicide bombers against “Western infidels and Zionists” has launched a new website to recruit volunteers, Iran Focus has learnt. |
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Tuesday, 28 February 2006 |
 Reuters: Iran has agreed to provide a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority with enough money to make up for any cuts in foreign aid, a senior Hamas official said on Tuesday.
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Monday, 27 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 27 – Iran Focus has obtained a list of 20 terrorist camps and centres run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). |
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Friday, 24 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 24 – The Supreme Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps accused the United States, Britain, and Israel of carrying out Wednesday’s bomb attack which devastated a revered Shiite shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra and said that God and Muslims alike would strike at them in retaliation. |
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Wednesday, 22 February 2006 |
 BBC: Iran has offered to help finance the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority governed by the Hamas militant group. |
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Wednesday, 22 February 2006 |
 Reuters: Iran pledged on Wednesday to provide financial assistance to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority following threats by Western nations to halt aid to a Hamas-controlled government. |
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Monday, 20 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 20 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told senior officials from the radical Palestinian group Hamas in Tehran on Monday that the group’s victory in the recent Palestinian elections was due to their “jihad” against the “Zionist regime”. |
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Sunday, 19 February 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 – A group affiliated to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps launched a new recruitment drive for suicide bombers in Tehran to fight against “Global Blasphemy”, state-run news agencies reported. |
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Thursday, 16 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 16 – A European Parliamentary group accused Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) of being active in the European Union, hours after the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons activities its defiance of the international community. |
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Tuesday, 14 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 14 – A religious edict issued by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini against the life of British author Salman Rushdie still stands, Iran’s official state news agency reported on the anniversary of the decree. |
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Monday, 13 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13 – A senior commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) vowed that following the printing of insulting cartoons of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in European dailies, the Islamic Republic’s suicide volunteers abroad were being placed on readiness alert to attack Unites States and Israeli interests. |
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Saturday, 04 February 2006 |
 AP: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld urged America's allies to increase their military spending to prevent the rise of a "global extremist Islamic empire." |
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Wednesday, 01 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 01 – A senior Iranian official threatened that Iran would create “disturbances” for the United States and European Union if they went through with their plan to refer the Islamic Republic to the United Nations Security Council. |
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Monday, 23 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jan. 23 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair accused Iran and Syrian on Monday of supporting terrorism. |
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Saturday, 21 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 21 – Iran defended Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Friday in the United Nations probe into the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minster Rafiq Hariri.
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Friday, 20 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jan. 20 – United States Vice President Dick Cheney described Iran on Thursday as a “staunch” supporter of terrorism and said that Tehran was attempting to develop nuclear weapons. |
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Friday, 20 January 2006 |
 Reuters: Israel's defence minister accused Iran and Syria of being directly responsible for Thursday's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv which wounded 30 people, newspaper reports said on Friday. |
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Wednesday, 21 December 2005 |
 AP: The families of three Americans killed in Palestinian suicide bombings have accused the Italian government of siding with Iran in a legal battle to collect damages from the Islamic regime's assets in Italy.
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Sunday, 18 December 2005 |
 AFP: A Turkish court has said that neighboring Iran trained Turkish Islamist radicals and supported "terrorist" activities aimed at undermining Turkey's strictly secular order, media reports said Sunday. |
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Wednesday, 14 December 2005 |
 Reuters: Palestinian militant group Hamas will step up its attacks on Israeli targets if the Jewish state attacks its key ally in the region, Iran, Hamas chief-in-exile Khaled Meshaal said on Thursday.
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 13 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed on Tuesday the United States-backed roadmap to peace in the Middle East and called for “resistance” against the state of Israel as the only path to “liberation” in the troubled region, state television reported.
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Monday, 12 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Rome, Dec. 12 – Italy has frozen the bank accounts of Iran’s embassy in Rome on terror-related charges, Iran Focus has learnt. |
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Sunday, 04 December 2005 |
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AFP: Iran has extradited all foreign members of the Al-Qaeda network arrested inside its borders and is not holding any of the group's leaders, the Islamic republic's top national security official told AFP. |
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Tuesday, 29 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Nov. 29 – In an unprecedented move in British legal history, 1,300 lawyers called Tuesday on Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government to de-list Iran’s main opposition group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK), from the list
of terrorist organisations. |
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