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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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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
 Ya Libnan: Free Shiite movement leader Sheikh Mohammad Al-Haj Hassan urged the Lebanonization of the decisions of the Iranian and Syrian backed opposition. |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
 New York Times: In a boost to the American-backed effort to isolate Iran, a leading international organization responsible for combating financial crimes called on Thursday for all countries to be wary of Iran’s banking system because of concerns over money laundering and aid to terrorism. |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
 AFP: A US official said on Thursday that the oil-rich Gulf Arab states are scrutinising Iran's financial dealings to avoid serving as a conduit for its nuclear activities and alleged terrorism funding. |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
 Reuters: An international anti-money laundering body will alert members on Thursday to deficiences in Iran's system of combating money laundering and terrorism financing, a U.S. Treasury official said. |
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
 New York Sun: An American judge has ruled for the first time that Iran was responsible for the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina. Judge Ellen Huvelle, who sits in Washington, ruled Monday that Tehran must pay about $63 million to the family of an Israeli diplomat who was one of 29 killed in the Buenos Aires attack. She said the bombing was carried out by Hezbollah and could not have taken place without assistance from Iran. |
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
 TIME: "We haven't chosen these neighbors," joked Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S., Said Tayeb Jawad, as he shined the red dot of a laser around the edges of a map of his homeland. He was addressing a room full of government analysts, scholars and journalists Wednesday, and when asked about Iran's current influence in Afghanistan, the joking stopped. "Iran has become a more and more hostile power," he said. |
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
 AFP: The assassination of a top commander of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah has hastened the "certain death" of Israel, the top military adviser to Iran's supreme leader said on Thursday.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
 New York Sun: Acting on American court judgments meant to compensate victims of terrorism, a French court has frozen $85 million belonging to the Central Bank of Iran. |
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
 Reuters: The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday Israel would soon be destroyed by the "hands of Hezbollah", the Lebanese group which is backed by the Islamic Republic, Fars News Agency reported. |
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday predicted Hezbollah would destroy Israel, in a new verbal onslaught against the Jewish state after the murder of a top commander of Lebanon's Shiite militant group. |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
 AP: Imad Mughniyeh, the militant accused of attacks that left hundreds of Americans and Israelis dead, including a U.S. Navy diver during the infamous 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner, has been killed, Hezbollah said Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush expressed concern on Tuesday at what he said were efforts by Iran and Syria to undermine crisis-hit Lebanon's institutions through "violence and intimidation." |
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
 AFP: Majority leader Saad Hariri blasted Syria and Iran on Thursday for interfering in Lebanese politics and urged a massive turnout for a rally on the third anniversary of his father's assassination. |
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
 Reuters: The leader of Lebanon's pro-Western majority in parliament said on Thursday the country was in direct confrontation with Syria and Iran, which back the Hezbollah opposition group in its conflict with the Beirut government. |
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
 AFP: The US ambassador questioned Wednesday Iranian policy towards Afghanistan, also saying there was no doubt insurgents here had received weapons from Iran. |
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
 AKI: Hossein Shariatmadari, managing editor of 'Kayhan' (Universe) one of Iran's most influential newspapers, has issued a strongly worded editorial inviting Muslims to topple moderate Islamic governments and attack US, European and Israeli interests. |
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
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AFP: Iran was accused of supplying weapons to the Taliban after security forces found dozens of Iranian-made mines in a rebel cache in western Afghanistan. |
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
 RFE/RL: Weapons made in Iran -- or that have passed through Iran -- continue to turn up in the hands of Taliban fighters in western Afghanistan. Afghan authorities say they have discovered a weapons cache in western Afghanistan containing 130 land mines of different types that appear to have been imported from Iran. |
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
 AFP: A top US military commander said Wednesday he fears a "disastrous" linkup between drug traffickers and radical Islamists in Latin America, where he said Iran wields growing influence. |
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
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Wall Street Journal: As tensions between the U.S. and Iran persist, Washington and its allies are using an investigation into a 1994 terrorist attack in Argentina to maintain pressure on the Iranian regime. |
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