Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 02 – Iran is set to purchase 100 Russian Topolov-204 and Topolov-214 planes over the next 10 years, state media reported.
Iran to buy 100 Russian Topolov-204 and 214 planes
Iran’s Ahmadinejad arrives in Baghdad
AFP: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday at the start of a two-day visit to Iraq that the trip opened a “new page” in relations between the Muslim neighbours and in the region.
Ahmadinejad heads to Iraq as Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs visits
New York Times: Army and police checkpoints dotted the Iraqi capital on Saturday in preparation for a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, which will coincide with a visit by the chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Iran faces IAEA pressure over nuclear intelligence
Reuters: Iran faces pressure at a U.N. nuclear watchdog governors meeting starting on Monday to address Western intelligence alleging it conducted covert studies into how to make nuclear weapons.
Khomeini’s grandson quits Iran race after slurs: report
AFP: A grandson of Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has withdrawn from next week’s parliamentary polls amid a smear campaign, the press reported on Sunday.
West seeks pretexts to use against Iran: Ahmadinejad
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in remarks published on Sunday that some Western countries were using Iran’s nuclear activity as a pretext to pressure his country.
U.N. says Iran may not have come clean on nuclear past
Washington Post: Iranian documents obtained by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog strongly suggest that Iran was working on a nuclear weapons design as recently as four years ago, U.N. officials disclosed last week in a private briefing.
‘Stop exporting terror,’ Bush tells Ahmadinejad
AFP: US President George W. Bush on Saturday told his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he must “stop exporting terror” on the eve of the Iranian leader’s first visit to Iraq.
Iran: Talks with US help Iraq security
AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that U.S.-Iran talks have helped improve security in Iraq but he rejected claims that the Islamic republic is fueling violence there, the state news agency reported.
US: Iraqi women bomber trainer caught
AP: The U.S. military announced the capture Saturday of an insurgent leader who was recruiting and training women, including his wife, to wrap themselves in explosives and blow themselves up the latest sign that al-Qaida in Iraq plans to keep using women to carry out suicide attacks.
