AFP: Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawar accused Iran of orchestrating attacks in his country and declared hisopposition to a threatened assault on the rebel hotbed of Fallujah, in an interview published Monday.
“Iran is playing a negative role in Iraq. It is behind the assassination of more than 18 Iraqi intelligence officers. It is also playing a negative role in southern Iraq,” Yawar told Kuwait’s Al-Qabas newspaper.


New York Times: The hard-line Iranian Parliament unanimously approved a bill on Sunday supporting the resumption of uranium enrichment. The vote comes as talks with European countries over Iran’s nuclear activities have so far failed to produce an agreement.
The Independent: The Iranian parliament, which is dominated by hardliners, passed a bill yesterday obliging the government to press ahead with efforts to develop a nuclear energy programme. Amid cries of “Death to America” and “God is Greatest”, parliament did not specifically order the government to resume uranium enrichment immediately or …
AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi on Sunday welcomed the decision of his country’s parliament to back the resumption of uranium enrichment. “This is a decision that testifies to Iranian honour. Iran must not be deprived of this legal and legitimate right,” Kharazi told journalists at the end of a visit to Qatar before returning to Tehran.
AP: A military commander says Iraq’s border forces have arrested 94 infiltrators who illegally crossed into the country from Iran.
Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders today deplored the arrest of Iranian journalist Fershteh Ghazi, of the daily Etemad (“Confidence”), for working with reformist Internet news websites and expressed alarm at reports that the intelligence services were preparing to accuse her and five other imprisoned journalists of “adultery” in a bid to hide the political nature of their detention.
Reuters: To cries of “Death to America” and “God is Greatest” Iran’s hardline-dominated parliament passed a bill on Sunday obliging the government to continue efforts to develop a civilian nuclear energy program.
AFP: An Iranian woman lawmaker is backing the removal of
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 30 – Zhila Izadyar, the 13-year-old schoolgirl from the Iranian town of Marivan (north-western Iran) who is sentenced to be stoned to death is reported to be in poor health after she was lashed 55 times in prison. 