Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 05 – Iran plans to build a cross-country pipeline capable of transporting oil from the Caspian region to the Persian Gulf and world oil markets, state media reported.
Iran to build cross-country oil pipeline
Senate: Iranian intel concealed from CIA, DIA
AP: Pentagon officials in late 2001 and 2002 concealed from the CIA and other intelligence agencies potentially useful information gleaned from Iranian agents, said a Senate report released Thursday.
Sombre Barack Obama aims opening salvo at Iran
The Times: Barack Obama strode on to the international stage for the first time as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee-elect and vowed to use “all elements of American power” to eliminate Iran’s nuclear threat.
Pelosi calls for tightened Iran sanctions
UPI: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Wednesday called for tightening sanctions against Iran.
Iraqi lawmakers wary of US security agreement
AP: Iraqi lawmakers told Congress on Wednesday that they have serious misgivings about a long-term security agreement being negotiated this year with President Bush, putting themselves squarely in line with Democrats who say hashing out a deal before Bush leaves office is bad timing.
Iraqi Sunnis eager to move fight to ballot box
CNN: Mullah Nadhim preached open war on U.S. troops for years. He and many other Sunni Muslims in Iraq shunned elections and fought instead with roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades. With provincial elections scheduled for autumn, however, Nadhim and other Sunnis say, they made a mistake by sitting out the elections in January 2005.
Iran: Bahai arrests confirmed
New York Times: A government spokesman confirmed that a group of Bahai religious leaders had been arrested, but said that the charges against them related to security and not religion.
Bush: world must take Iranian threat seriously
Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush told visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday that Iran was an "existential threat to peace" and said the world must take that danger seriously.
EU “deeply concern” at planned executions in Iran
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 04 – The European Union on Wednesday expressed its "deep concern" at the impending execution of an alleged juvenile offender in Iran.
EU “deeply concern” at planned executions in Iran
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 04 – The European Union on Wednesday expressed its "deep concern" at the impending execution of an alleged juvenile offender in Iran.
