Reuters: British Prime Minister Tony Blair held out the prospect on Tuesday that Iran, under international pressure over its nuclear programme, could follow Libya’s example and transform its relations with the West.
Libya’s new ties with West set example for Iran – Blair
G8 to tackle Iran, Darfur and other world conflicts
Reuters: Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations gather in Germany on Wednesday to discuss the nuclear standoff with Iran, the unresolved conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region and other pressing international issues.
Rice rejects link of Iran arrests and captures of guards in Iraq
New York Times: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday rejected linking Irans charges against three Iranian-Americans in Tehran to the Bush administrations capture of members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iraq.
Authorities hang five people in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 29 Iranian authorities hanged five people in the eastern and south-eastern provinces of Khorrasan Jonoubi and Sistan-va-Baluchistan respectively, state media reported on Tuesday.
Turkey probes weapons cache from Iran to Syria
AFP: Turkish authorities have launched an investigation into what they describe as an undeclared train shipment of weapons from Iran to Syria, local security sources said Tuesday.
EU, Asian nations urge Iran to stop enrichment
AFP: More than 40 European and Asian countries on Tuesday urged Iran to stop uranium enrichment and negotiate a peaceful end to the international standoff over its nuclear programme.
Two US-Iranians jailed in Iran on spying charges
AFP: Iran on Tuesday announced it was holding a second US-Iranian scholar on charges of spying for foreigners alongside the US-Iranian Middle East expert Haleh Esfandiari.
Authorities hang five people in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 29 Iranian authorities hanged five people in the eastern and south-eastern provinces of Khorrasan Jonoubi and Sistan-va-Baluchistan respectively, state media reported on Tuesday.
Tehran’s secret ‘Department 9000’
Newsweek: President Bush said last week he expects a “bloody” summer in Iraq. What he didn’t say is that a growing covert war between the United States and Iran may be one reason the conflict is escalating. U.S. intelligence has identified the principal unit behind Tehran’s efforts to supply Shia insurgent cells in Iraq.
Next step on Iran
Washington Post – Editorial: As the U.N. Security Council’s latest deadline for Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment passed last week, U.N. inspectors reported that 2,100 centrifuges were operating or under construction at the Natanz plant, more than triple the number of three months ago.
