News On Iran & Its Neighbours

USA TODAY: Iran's increasing support for insurgent Shiites in Iraq is giving the fighting in Najaf the appearance of a proxy war between Iran...

AFP: Large quantities of powdered milk donated by international aid agencies to Iraq are being stolen and smuggled across the border to Iran for...

Xinhuanet: An Iraqi journalist working for Iran's state Arabic-language Al-Alam TV channel was arrested Sunday in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf for violating...

The Sunday Times: THE mayor of Najaf, scene of some of the most bitter fighting in Iraq since the official end of the war...

Los Angeles Times: Pouring money into political parties, charities and armed organizations in a semi-covert campaign for influence and control, Iran has emerged as...

Associated Press: With fighting raging for a fifth day in Najaf, Iraq's interim defense minister on Monday accused neighboring Iran of sending weapons to...

Boston Globe: Before the US military marched to Baghdad to take out Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi and Iranian exiles warned the US government of...

Reuters: Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Muslim cleric, gave his conditional approval to the interim government on Thursday but said it had "mammoth...