Reuters: A U.S. general said on Saturday Iran had increased supplies of weapons to Shi’ite militias in Iraq to attack U.S. troops and influence debate in Washington before the presentation of a crucial report on Iraq next month.
Iran trying to sway debate on Iraq: U.S. general
Cheney urging strikes on Iran
McClatchy Newspapers: President Bush charged Thursday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and he threatened action if that continues.
Iran ex-president disappointed at US talks on Iraq
AFP: Iran’s influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani expressed disappointment on Friday at the lack of progress in talks with the United States aimed at restoring security in Iraq.
Iran accuses Britain of digging tunnel to ferry spies into embassy
The Guardian: Ascribing sinister motives to Britain has long been an integral part of Iranian culture and political life. But now pro-government hardliners have accused the country they label the “old fox” of plumbing new depths of chicanery by digging a tunnel to ferry spies and prostitutes into its embassy in Tehran.
U.S. commander says Iraqi cleric Sadr in Iran
Reuters: Powerful Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is in Iran and not in complete control of the militia that owe allegiance to him, the U.S. commander in Sadr’s main stronghold in Baghdad said on Friday.
Bankrolling Iran
Washington Post: Both the U.N. Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency have found Iran in breach of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The IAEA reports that Iran ignored the Security Council’s February deadline to stop enriching uranium and has even expanded its nuclear program.
Radical Iranians eye Man Utd
The Sun: Football’s silly season has offered up a new contender for most insane rumour of the summer. Reports in Iran suggest radical Iranians Ansar Hezbollah want to buy Manchester United.
In the debate over Iran, more calls for a tougher U.S. stance
Washington Post: Fourteen months after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered to talk to Iran, the failure of carrot-and-stick diplomacy to block Tehran’s nuclear and regional ambitions is producing a new drumbeat for bolder action, including the possible use of force.
Iran arrests 20 in raid on party
AFP: Iranian police said on Thursday they have arrested 20 young people in a raid on party in the city of Karaj outside Tehran, the site of an illegal rock concert last week where 230 were detained.
Bush says Iran is destabilizing force in Iraq
Reuters: President George W. Bush insisted on Thursday that Iran is a destabilizing force in Iraq despite Tehran’s assertion to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that it is helping secure his country.
