Bloomberg: Argentine President Nestor Kirchner will press Iran to cooperate in a probe of a 1994 terrorist attack in Buenos Aires when he speaks to the United Nations tomorrow, his cabinet chief said.
Kirchner to press Iran at UN for aid on Argentine bombing probe
Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust
AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance Monday at Columbia University, whose president accused the hard-line leader of behaving like “a petty and cruel dictator.”
Obama: Would meet Iranian as president
AP: Democrat Barack Obama says he probably wouldn’t have invited Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia University but would be willing as president to meet with the Iranian leader as a way to protect U.S. interests.
Rice sees no U.S.-Iran talks on Iraq soon
Reuters: The United States does not plan fresh U.S.-Iranian talks on how to stabilize Iraq any time soon but will leave open the possibility for such discussions, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday.
Iran allows family to search for missing former F.B.I. agent
New York Times: The Iranian government said Sunday that it would allow family members of a former F.B.I. agent they believe is missing in Iran to travel there to try to find him.
Ahmadinejad in America
Washington Times – Editorial: Not since the days of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich has a head of state spoken as openly about the destruction of Jewish people and his contempt for the Western democracies and international law as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
India absent as Iran, Pakistan resume gas talks
AFP: Iran and Pakistan started a new round of talks over finalising a long-delayed multi-billion dollar gas pipeline project with India, but in the absence of Indian officials.
Iran starts talks with IAEA on nuclear program
Reuters: Iranian nuclear officials and a visiting team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog held talks on Monday to clarify outstanding questions about Iran’s atomic work, which the West fears is a cover to build a nuclear bomb.
Iranian president spars with academics in NY
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with a U.S. academic who called him a “petty and cruel dictator” at a forum in New York on Monday where Ahmadinejad said Iran was a peaceful nation and a victim of terrorism.
U.S. says arrests Iran-backed kidnapper in Iraq capital
Iran Focus: London, Sep. 24 Coalition forces conducted an operation to arrest a kidnapper and detained four other criminals supported by Iran in East Baghdad early Monday, the U.S. military announced.
