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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
 RFE/RL: There once was a well-known restaurant in central Berlin called Mykonos. Its Greek fare was said to be good, but it is now remembered for an altogether different reason: on the site of the former restaurant is a plaque -- to which Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad personally objected -- that lists three Iranian-Kurdish leaders who were "murdered [here in 1992"> by the then-rulers of Iran. They died fighting for freedom and human rights." |
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
 AFP: Germany on Monday deported to Iran an alleged Iranian secret agent who was jailed for life in 1997 for murdering four Kurdish dissidents in Berlin, officials in the German capital said. |
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
 AP: Pentagon chief Robert Gates lashed out at Iran on Saturday for seeking to cause chaos "everywhere you turn" regardless of the blood spilled and said its neighbors must demand that Tehran renounce any intention of pursuing nuclear weapons. |
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
 Daily Telegraph: Under the cover of an aid project, Iran is consolidating Shia control over southern Lebanon by building a large mountain road that critics believe is a supply route for Hizbollah. |
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
 CNN: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has taken command of Iranian naval operations in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military has revealed. |
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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 |
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Reuters: Iran is talking to the Taliban but has a "very ambivalent" attitude towards al Qaeda, a third major foe of the United States, a top European security official said. |
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Saturday, 24 November 2007 |
 Sunday Express: Terrorist group Hezbollah is poised to launch bloody reprisals in Britain for any Western attack on Iran, a former intelligence chief has warned. |
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Wednesday, 21 November 2007 |
 Daily Star: Parliamentary majority leader MP Saad Hariri headed for Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after holding a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin and urging his host to help resolve the troubled country's political deadlock over the selection of its next head of state. |
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Sunday, 11 November 2007 |
 Sunday Telegraph: Iran's deputy defence minister is one of five top Teheran officials placed on Interpol's most wanted list for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina that killed 85 people, The Telegraph can reveal. |
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
 Reuters: Iran on Thursday denounced Interpol's decision to issue wanted notices for five Iranians for involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina in which 85 people were killed. |
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
 AP: Interpol put an ex-Iranian intelligence chief, a former leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, three other Iranians and a Lebanese militant on its most-wanted list Wednesday for a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish center in Argentina. |
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
 Reuters: Interpol on Wednesday issued wanted notices for six Iranians in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina in which 85 people were killed. |
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
 AP: Interpol put five Iranians and a Lebanese man on its most-wanted list Wednesday in connection with a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish community center in Argentina.
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 07 – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), whose extra-territorial wing was designated in October by the U.S. administration as a “supporter of terrorism”, issued a blunt threat to Washington on Wednesday, vowing that Tehran had the “capabilities of striking American interests”. |
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
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AP: Iran has backed away from an effort to stop an Interpol vote on putting five Iranians and a Lebanese man on the international police agency's most wanted list for a 1994 bombing in Argentina that killed 85 people, an Interpol official said Monday. |
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Sunday, 04 November 2007 |
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AP: Iran's top diplomat says the U.S. and Israel are pressuring Interpol to put five Iranians and one Lebanese on its most wanted list next week for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people. |
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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
 AFP: A cross-party group of British politicians on Thursday called for the European Union to follow the United States' lead and impose sanctions targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. |
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Tuesday, 30 October 2007 |
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AFP: A top general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday warned that his forces were ready "if necessary" to carry out suicide operations in the Gulf, amid rising tensions with the United States. |
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 25 - The following is the text of an announcement on Thursday by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson that the Bush administration had designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – Qods Force (IRGC-QF) as a “supporter of terrorism”: |
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 25 – The U.S. State Department designated on Thursday an elite Iranian military force a “supporter of terrorism”. |
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
 Washington Post: The Bush administration plans to roll out an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds Force as a supporter of terrorism, according to senior administration officials. |
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
 New York Times: The Bush administration will announce a long-debated policy of new sanctions against Iran on Thursday, accusing the elite Quds division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps of supporting terrorism, administration officials said Wednesday night. |
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Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
 AP: Iran is a major obstacle to the U.S. vision of a Middle East in which nations will "trade more, invest more, talk more and work more constructively to solve problems," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says. |
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Friday, 19 October 2007 |
 BBC: UK ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has accused Iran of backing terrorism and warned the world faces a situation akin to "rising fascism in the 1920s". |
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
 Reuters: A shipment of hi-tech roadside bombs intercepted in Afghanistan originated in Iran, the commander of NATO-led troops said on Thursday, adding it was hard to believe Tehran's military did not know about the arms. |
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
 AP: The top NATO commander in Afghanistan alleged Thursday that the Iranian military was involved in a shipment of sophisticated explosive devices intercepted by his troops in western Afghanistan last month. |
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Sunday, 14 October 2007 |
 AFP: Two Israeli soldiers captured by Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah in 2006 have been handed to Iran and could be freed in a German-brokered swap, an Arabic newspaper reported on Sunday. |
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
 AFP: The United States Friday welcomed action by an international anti-money laundering watchdog urging Iran to close loopholes in its financial system and take steps to limit terrorist financing. |
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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AFP: An Iranian jailed for life in Germany for the 1992 murder of four Kurdish dissidents which a Berlin court said was ordered by Tehran is to be released early, prosecutors said Thursday. |
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Saturday, 06 October 2007 |
 Sunday Telegraph: It was the end of a week of fierce fighting in the Upper Gereshk valley, a Taliban stronghold and the scene of much bloodshed over the past 18 months. |
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