Daily Telegraph: America should seize every opportunity to force regime change in Syria and Iran, a former senior adviser to the White House has urged.
US ‘must break Iran and Syria regimes’
Ahmadinejad defiant as EU worries over sanctions call
AFP: Iran offered a defiant response Thursday to French calls for EU sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear programme, while other European nations blew hot and cold on how best to press the Islamic republic.
Parallel purposes
The Economist: Iran carries on enriching uranium regardless at its nuclear plant at Natanz. Diplomats from the five veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council (America, Britain, France, Russia and China) plus Germany, unable to agree on tougher sanctions in the face of such defiance, are left sucking their pencils.
Iran oil spill may have killed dolphins
UPI: A recent wave of whale and dolphin deaths off the coast of Iran is being blamed on high pollution levels and a July oil spill.
Britain backs France on Iran sanctions call
AFP: Britain said Thursday it “wholeheartedly” backs French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner’s call for the European Union to consider new economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear regime.
Irans Majlis Speaker cancels trip to Europe in protest
Iran Focus: Tehran/Paris, Oct. 04 Irans Majlis Speaker cancelled at the last minute a trip to the Council of Europe (COE) in the French city of Strasbourg in protest to a visit there earlier this week by the clerical theocracys main foe, state media reported on Thursday. Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel was scheduled to address the Council at 3 p.m. Parisian time.
Irans Majlis Speaker cancels trip to Europe in protest
Iran Focus: Tehran/Paris, Oct. 04 Irans Majlis Speaker cancelled at the last minute a trip to the Council of Europe (COE) in the French city of Strasbourg in protest to a visit there earlier this week by the clerical theocracys main foe, state media reported on Thursday. Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel was scheduled to address the Council at 3 p.m. Parisian time.
Iran says will go ahead with disputed atomic work
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the world could not stop the Islamic state’s nuclear program, which the West fears is a cover to build a nuclear bomb, the official IRNA news agency said on Thursday.
Security forces detain extremist tied to Iran in southern Iraq
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 04 – Iraqi security forces detained a suspected “Special Groups” operative in southern Iraq with links to an Iranian explosively formed penetrator ring, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
Security forces detain extremist tied to Iran in southern Iraq
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 04 – Iraqi security forces detained a suspected “Special Groups” operative in southern Iraq with links to an Iranian explosively formed penetrator ring, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
