Iran Focus, London, Feb. 10 – The following is part one of the text of a debate on Britain’s Iran policy in the United Kingdom’s House of Lords on February 9:

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 10 – On the eve of the twenty-seventh anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution, the country’s Interior Minister vowed that the Islamic Republic was stirring neighbouring Muslim countries against “Western occupation”.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 10 – A senior Iranian cleric called on Muslims on Friday to direct their fury over cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad at the United States, rather than Denmark.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 10 – Iran will buy several dozen surface-to-air missiles from Russia as part of its arsenal to protect its nuclear sites, government-run Persian language websites reported on Friday.

Washington Post: Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark said Thursday that the governments of Iran and Syria had intentionally inflamed Muslim protests against a Danish newspaper’s publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad to distract attention from their own diplomatic crises.

Los Angeles Times: There may be good reasons to oppose an air attack on Iran’s nuclear installations at this time, but one of the arguments that is advanced most often is seriously flawed.