Daily Telegraph: The Quds Force is a special paramilitary unit attached to Irans Revolutionary Guards whose mission is to help organise, train and equip militia in the Middle East.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: Quds force
Iran ‘arming Taliban with roadside bombs’
Daily Telegraph: Iran is supplying the Taliban in Afghanistan with the same bomb-making equipment it provides to insurgents in Iraq, according to British military intelligence officers.
Iran-Syria sign billion dollar gas deal
AFP: Fellow US foes Iran and Syria have signed an agreement for Tehran to export a billion dollars worth of gas every year to its chief regional ally, Iranian state television reported on Thursday.
Bush says Iraq exit would bolster Iran
Los Angeles Times: Warning that a premature American departure from Iraq would create turmoil throughout the region, President Bush said Wednesday that his determination
Ahmadinejad: Iran’s “international mission” to limit Israeli power
DPA: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran had an ‘international mission’ to stop Israeli hegemony in the Middle East, state news agency IRNA reported Thursday.
Syria, seeking investors, turns cautiously to Iran
New York Times: Ahmed Ansare likes to think of himself as a pioneer. His petroleum recycling business, the Damascus Petrochemical Refinery Company, was the first private Iranian company to set foot in Syria, the first of many, it now seems.
France: Iran to run nearly 3,000 uranium centrifuges soon
AP: Iran is set to run almost 3,000 centrifuges by the end of the month, nearing the threshold for industrial-scale uranium enrichment in its contested nuclear program, French diplomatic officials said Wednesday.
France urges EU to take lead on Iran sanctions
Reuters: France’s foreign minister called on the European Union to take the lead in widening financial sanctions on Iran, saying the world could not afford to wait for U.N. action to rein in Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Iran could strike U.S. by 2015, U.S. officials say
FOX News: Iranian technology is on pace to build a long-range missile that could strike the United States within a decade, a high-level Pentagon official told FOX News.
Bush holds up North Korea as possible model for Iran
Reuters: President George W. Bush on Wednesday held up North Korea as a possible model for resolving the Iranian nuclear standoff and reaffirmed a U.S. offer of talks if Tehran suspends uranium enrichment.
