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.
Rice rejects link of Iran arrests and captures of guards 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.
EU’s Solana confirms Iran nuclear talks Thursday
Reuters: EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana confirmed on Tuesday that he would meet Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani this week for the latest round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran: Second meeting planned with U.S.
AP: The United States ambassador in Baghdad said he and his Iranian counterpart agreed broadly on policy toward Iraq during four-hour groundbreaking talks on Monday, but insisted that Iran end its support for militants.
