AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Tuesday that a power vacuum is imminent in Iraq and said that Iran was ready to help fill the gap.
Iran prepared to fill Iraq power vacuum
President says Iran has not slowed atomic work
Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday denied reports that Iran had slowed down its atomic work, which the West fears is aimed at making nuclear bombs.
Iran says to respond if U.S. labels Guards “terrorist”
Reuters: Iran would respond if the United States were to label the Islamic state’s Revolutionary Guards a “terrorist” force, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
Iran summons Swedish envoy
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 28 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned on Monday Sweden’s envoy in Tehran over the recent publication of a caricature of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad – deemed to be offensive – in a Swedish daily, the state broadcasting corporation reported.
Iran summons Swedish envoy
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 28 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned on Monday Sweden’s envoy in Tehran over the recent publication of a caricature of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad – deemed to be offensive – in a Swedish daily, the state broadcasting corporation reported.
Congress’s ill-timed Iran bills
Washington Post: This month, the Bush administration tightened the screws on Iran yet again. Its move to formally designate Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization is the latest in a wave of state, federal and international efforts to pressure the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into reconsidering its nuclear weapons program and increasingly aggressive sponsorship of terrorism throughout the Middle East.
Enemy of my enemy
Washington Times: This summer, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of executions in Iran. Since July, the Iranian state media have reported at least 86 executions. Twenty-one were hanged in public and 58 in prisons nationwide, including 12 hanged simultaneously in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
Nicolas Sarkozy warns of Iran’s nuclear crisis
Daily Telegraph: Nicolas Sarkozy gave warning yesterday that unless the West redoubled its efforts to curb Teheran’s nuclear ambitions it could lead to “an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran”.
Sarkozy talks of bombing if Iran gets nuclear arms
The Times: President Sarkozy called Irans nuclear ambition the worlds most dangerous problem yesterday and raised the possibility that the country could be bombed if it persisted in building an atomic weapon.
Iran agrees to reveal nuclear info
AP: Iran on Monday offered some cooperation with an International Atomic Energy Agency probe of an alleged secret uranium processing project linked by U.S. intelligence to a nuclear arms program.
