Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 15 Echoing an accusation that has become a familiar refrain in public pronouncements by Irans officials, the Friday prayers leader in Ardebil, northwest Iran, accused the United States and its allies of being behind the June 7 London bombings to instigate a religious war.Iran cleric: London bombings part of US incitement of religious war
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 15 Echoing an accusation that has become a familiar refrain in public pronouncements by Irans officials, the Friday prayers leader in Ardebil, northwest Iran, accused the United States and its allies of being behind the June 7 London bombings to instigate a religious war.Iran cleric: London bombings part of US incitement of religious war
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 15 Echoing an accusation that has become a familiar refrain in public pronouncements by Irans officials, the Friday prayers leader in Ardebil, northwest Iran, accused the United States and its allies of being behind the June 7 London bombings to instigate a religious war.Arabs see Iran election result as bad for Middle East peace: Survey
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 15 A recent survey conducted by a research and studies website run in the United Arab Emirates found that the majority of Arabs believe that the rise of ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Irans presidency will have a negative impact on stability in the Middle East, the prominent UK-based Arabic-language website Elaph reported yesterday.
Arabs see Iran election result as bad for Middle East peace: Survey
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 15 A recent survey conducted by a research and studies website run in the United Arab Emirates found that the majority of Arabs believe that the rise of ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Irans presidency will have a negative impact on stability in the Middle East, the prominent UK-based Arabic-language website Elaph reported yesterday.
Gloomy EU to press on with Iran initiative
Reuters: European Union foreign ministers will agree on Monday to press on with a diplomatic initiative to try to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions despite gloom since the election of an Islamic hard-liner as president. EU diplomats said Britain, France, Germany and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana would brief their colleagues on a package of economic and political incentives they plan to offer Tehran next month if it gives up uranium enrichment activities that could give it the atom bomb. Iran to head agenda at foreign ministers talks
DPA: European Union foreign ministers meet in Brussels next week for a review of the bloc’s relations with Iran, Middle East nations and China. The talks on July 18 will be chaired for the first time by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw following Britain’s take-over of the rotating E.U. presidency from Luxembourg on July 1. Iran ayatollah says Blair government could have bombed London
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 15 One of Irans most powerful clerics hinted during the Friday prayers sermon in Tehrantoday that last weeks London bombings could have been the work of the United Kingdom government. Addressing worshippers at the site of Tehran University, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who heads the powerful Guardian Council, the unelected constitutional watchdog, said, At times they blame this [London bombings”> as the work of AlQaeda.
Iran ayatollah says Blair government could have bombed London
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 15 One of Irans most powerful clerics hinted during the Friday prayers sermon in Tehrantoday that last weeks London bombings could have been the work of the United Kingdom government. Addressing worshippers at the site of Tehran University, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who heads the powerful Guardian Council, the unelected constitutional watchdog, said, At times they blame this [London bombings”> as the work of AlQaeda.
Iran government jamming exile satellite TV
Iran Focus: London (UK), Jul. 13 The Iranian government has jammed the signals of a major Persian-language satellite television, a spokesman for the channel, Simaye Azadi, said. In Blatant violation of ITU [International Telecommunication Union”> regulations, the Iranian regime is sending out illegal jamming signals to censor our broadcasts from Iranians inside and outside Iran, spokesman Behruz Pirhosseini said. Iran-US dialogue even more far off: Khatami
AFP: The prospect of dialogue resuming between the United States and Iran is more distant now than for years, with the situation unlikely to change under a new government in Tehran, outgoing President Mohammad Khatami said. “We are further from it (a resumption of dialogue) today than we have been for some years,” the reformist president said in an interview with Al-Arabiya television broadcast Thursday. 