Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 08 An Iranian Vice-President has been nominated to take over as the Islamic Republics new ambassador to Syria, it was announced on Monday.
Iran to appoint new envoy to regional ally Syria
Iran to appoint new envoy to regional ally Syria
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 08 An Iranian Vice-President has been nominated to take over as the Islamic Republics new ambassador to Syria, it was announced on Monday.
Arrests made in abduction of Britons employed by Montreal company in Iraq
Canadian Press: Three suspected Shiite militiamen believed responsible for the abduction of four employees of a Canadian-based security company have been captured in a pre-dawn raid in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Sunday.
Venezuela’s state airline launches weekly flights to Iran via Syria
Canadian Press: Venezuela’s state airline Conviasa launched flights to Iran via Syria on Sunday with the aim of strengthening commercial relations among the three anti-American states.
Charges: 2 tried to export F-14 parts
AP: Two Utah men are accused of trying to illegally export surplus pieces of F-14 fighter jets, a plane that is flown only in Iran.
Brown says does not rule out any option on Iran
Reuters: Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday that he would not rule out any option in tackling Iran over its nuclear ambitions, but said he hoped to resolve the dispute through diplomacy.
Official: Iran opens border crossings
AP: Iran opened on Monday five border crossing points with Kurdish-run northern Iraq, closed last month by Tehran to protest the U.S. detention of an Iranian here, an Iraqi Kurdish official said.
Iran students protest over Ahmadinejad
AFP: A group of about 100 Iranian students at the country’s top university in Tehran staged a noisy protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday shortly before he gave a speech there.
Iran rejects nuclear program talks
Reuters: Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear enrichment activities would be meaningless because the country has a legal right to pursue the technology, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Iran envoy is denounced for terrorist links
The Times: The US military commander in Iraq has claimed Tehran’s ambassador to Baghdad is part of al-Quds force, an elite wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards which Washington wants to designate as “terrorist”.
