Reuters: The U.S. State Department on Monday said it has urged the family of a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran to think twice about visiting the country, where four other U.S. citizens have been detained this year.
U.S. warns missing man’s family about visiting Iran
America accuses Iran as Baghdad talks open
Daily Telegraph: America and Iran exchanged diplomatic blows yesterday in the first substantial talks between the two countries on Iraq’s security situation.
3 to be extradited in alleged JFK plot
AP: A judge Monday ordered three men extradited to the U.S. to face charges in an alleged plot to attack New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, and a confidential U.S. document said they planned to seek help from Iran.
Iran shuts leading reformist paper
AP: Iran’s leading reformist newspaper was shut down Monday for the second time in a year after publishing an interview with a poet who called for greater gender equality, authorities said.
Bush challenges Karzai on Iran
AFP: US President George W. Bush challenged Monday his ally Afghanistan President Hamid Karzi’s contention that Iran played a positive role in his country, maintaining that Tehran was “not a force for good.”
Bush calls Iranian leadership “big disappointment”
Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday called Iran’s leadership a “big disappointment” for the Iranian people and said Tehran continues to defy the international community over its nuclear ambitions.
More ministers pull out of crumbling Iraq cabinet
Reuters: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s unity government plunged deeper into crisis on Monday when four secularist ministers withdrew from cabinet meetings, less than a week after the main Sunni Arab bloc quit.
In Brief: Irans Ahmadinejad visits Algeria
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 06 Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Algiers on Monday on a state visit to Algeria, state media reported.
In Brief: Irans Ahmadinejad visits Algeria
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 06 Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Algiers on Monday on a state visit to Algeria, state media reported.
Iran hangs three men
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 06 Iranian authorities hanged three men in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan on Monday, state media reported.
