New York Times: President Bush said Thursday that the senior United States commander in Iraq could have all the time he needs before reducing American forces there any further, but he promised shorter tours for troops and longer breaks for them at home.
Bush signals no further reduction of troops in Iraq
Iran: Top Shia cleric says unveiled women turn men into beasts
AKI: A top Shia cleric in Iran has said that unveiled women are a serious danger to Iranian society as they cause men to be “transformed into beasts”.
Bush: Iran and al-Qaeda are among greatest threats to U.S.
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Apr. 10 United States President George W. Bush warned Iran on Thursday that it had a choice of either living in peace with Iraq or witnessing American action to defend its interests in the war-torn country.
Bush: Iran and al-Qaeda are among greatest threats to U.S.
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Apr. 10 United States President George W. Bush warned Iran on Thursday that it had a choice of either living in peace with Iraq or witnessing American action to defend its interests in the war-torn country.
Iran: President wants to ‘annihilate corrupt powers’
AKI: Iran’s hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday his country’s objective was to destroy what he called corrupt western powers.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad targets ‘corrupt world leadership’
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday set Iran the target of wiping out the “corrupt world leadership,” in his latest verbal attack on Western powers locked in a nuclear crisis with Tehran.
U.S. sceptical about Iranian nuclear advances
Reuters: Washington is sceptical that Iran is installing 6,000 new centrifuges to enrich uranium and testing an advanced centrifuge with greater capacity, a top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday.
Iran calls U.S. commander’s Iraq report justification of “false strategies and failure”
Xinhua: Iran said on Wednesday that the latest report of the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq to the Congress is a justification of Washington’s “false strategies and the failures” in Iraq.
Berlin expresses concern at Iran’s new nuclear activities
Xinhua: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed “deep concern” on Wednesday at Iran’s announcement that it had started work to install 6,000 new centrifuges to enrich uranium.
Clerics advise Sadr to keep Mahdi Army
UPI: The influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said his clerical advisers, including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, rejected calls to disband the Mahdi Army.
