UPI: Western intelligence services have made much of Hezbollah’s military support for the embattled Damascus regime in Syria’s civil war, but there’s another, less well-known threat emerging there.
Iran builds up its ‘foreign legion’ in Syria
Iran won’t back down on right to top OPEC job: minister Zanganeh
Platts: Iran will not back down in its pursuit of the secretary generalship of oil producer group OPEC, which it jointly founded in 1960, oil minister Bijan Zanganeh said Tuesday, quoted by semi-official news agency Mehr.
Law Society: Attack on Iraqi refugee camp condemned
Iran Focus: The Law Society Human Rights Committee has condemned reports of a deadly attack on Camp Ashraf, which killed 52 residents and injured dozens. Several refugees were reportedly taken hostage by Iraqi troops.
Iran is key to Obama’s case for Syria strikes
ABC News: Iran has increasingly become one of the Obama administration’s top talking points in the case for military action against Syria. “Iran is hoping you look the other way,” Secretary of State John Kerry bluntly told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today.
Attacking refugees in Camp Ashraf a crime against humanity
Scoop: European Parliament Vice President: Attacking defenceless refugees in Camp Ashraf by Iraqi forces is a crime against humanity. Catherine Ashton must resign and Martin Kobler held responsible for his collaboration with criminal regimes.
American Friends of the MEK write to John Kerry
PR Newswire: Members of the American Friends of the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK), a group comprised of thirteen former senior government officials and military officers, have written an open letter to Secretary of State John Kerry in reaction to Sunday’s attack on Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
US inaction would embolden Iran, N.Korea: Kerry
AFP: Failure to take military action against Syria would send a dangerous signal to Iran, North Korea and other US foes, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. “Iran is hoping you look the other way,” Kerry told lawmakers.
Obama told to ‘up his game’ to persuade congress on Syria
Bloomberg: President Barack Obama and his aides are meeting resistance from multiple directions as they seek congressional backing for military action against Syria, and a prominent critic told the president to “up his game.”
Western dithering on Syria could hit credibility: observers
AFP: The West’s inaction days after threats to launch punitive action against Syria for a deadly chemical weapons attack could badly damage its credibility in tackling other global flashpoints, observers say.
UN, Iraq probe deaths of 52 Iran exiles at camp
AFP: A UN team visited a camp housing Iranian exiles north of the Iraqi capital on Monday as investigators tried to establish how 52 members of the anti-Tehran group died over the weekend.
