Iran Focus: London, Mar. 16 The United States warned Iran through a secret channel that it would launch military attacks on a number of nuclear sites in Iran if there was no diplomatic progress a month after the Islamic Republics referral to the United Nations Security Council, according to a Persian-language website run by associates of the former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami. U.S. threatens to bomb Iran sites after a month report
Iran Focus: London, Mar. 16 The United States warned Iran through a secret channel that it would launch military attacks on a number of nuclear sites in Iran if there was no diplomatic progress a month after the Islamic Republics referral to the United Nations Security Council, according to a Persian-language website run by associates of the former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami. Iran says it’s ready for talks with the U.S. on Iraq
Bloomberg: Iran is ready to hold talks with the U.S. on Iraq, the country’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said, signaling a shift in Iran’s policy toward the U.S. for the first time in more than two decades. Iran flexible on inspectors, not core nuclear issue
Reuters: Iran on Thursday offered more access to U.N. inspectors if their watchdog agency, not the U.N. Security Council, dealt with its nuclear dispute with the West. Aznar: Khamenei said in 2001 Iran aimed to ‘set Israel alight’
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. Bush sees Iran as possibly greatest threat
AP: President Bush said Thursday Iran may pose the greatest challenge to the United States and diplomacy to thwart the Islamic nation’s nuclear program must prevail to avoid confrontation. Report backs Iraq strike and cites Iran peril
New York Times: An updated version of the Bush administration’s national security strategy, the first in more than three years, gives no ground on the decision to order a pre-emptive attack on Iraq in 2003, and identifies Iran as the country likely to present the single greatest future challenge to the United States. House committee advances Iran sanctions bill
Reuters: The U.S. House of Representatives pushed forward with a bill to impose sanctions on foreign firms doing business in Iran on Wednesday despite White House concerns it would hinder efforts to rein in Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Bolton compares Iran threat to Sept. 11 attacks
Reuters: The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, on Wednesday compared the threat from Iran’s nuclear programs to the September 11 terror attacks on the United States.Powerful voices within Tehran criticize Iran’s nuclear policy
New York Times: Just weeks ago, the Iranian government’s combative approach toward building a nuclear program produced rare public displays of unity here. Now, while the top leaders remain resolute in their course, cracks are opening both inside and outside the circles of power over the issue. Irans Ahmadinejad: West opposes our nukes to let Israel live on
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 15 Irans radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the circumstances were ripe for the collapse of the Zionist regime and that the West was highlighting the Islamic Republics nuclear program in the world arena in order to divert attention away from the issue of Palestine. 