AP: Ships packed with 17,000 sailors and Marines moved into the Persian Gulf on Wednesday as the U.S. Navy staged another show of force off Iran’s coast just days before U.S.-Iran talks in Baghdad.
Navy launches show of force near Iran
Major powers to insist Iran stop atomic work: U.S.
Reuters: The major world powers will insist Iran halts all nuclear enrichment and rejects a compromise put forward by the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said on Wednesday.
Iran expands atomic work, defying U.N.: IAEA report
Reuters: Iran has not only ignored a U.N. Security Council deadline to stop uranium enrichment activity but expanded it, according to a confidential International Atomic Energy Agency report obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.
In Brief: Iran to send Zarif for talks with U.S.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 23 Iran will send its ambassador to the United Nations to represent it in an upcoming meeting with U.S. officials on the security of Iraq, state television reported on Tuesday.
In Brief: Iran to send Zarif for talks with U.S.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 23 Iran will send its ambassador to the United Nations to represent it in an upcoming meeting with U.S. officials on the security of Iraq, state television reported on Tuesday.
In Brief: Iran Parliament chief visits ill al-Hakim
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 23 Irans Majlis (Parliament) Speaker has paid a visit to the head of an Iraqi Shiite group who is currently in Iran for cancer treatment.
In Brief: Iran Parliament chief visits ill al-Hakim
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 23 Irans Majlis (Parliament) Speaker has paid a visit to the head of an Iraqi Shiite group who is currently in Iran for cancer treatment.
Iran implicated in attacks on UK troops
The Scotsman: Iran has been accused of supporting increasing sophisticated attacks on British forces in Afghanistan.
Taliban ‘use Iranian missiles on UK troops’
Daily Telegraph: British troops in Afghanistan are being targeted by surface-to-air missiles supplied by Iran, a senior Army source said yesterday.
U.S. urges complaint against IAEA chief
AP: The United States wants its allies to join in a formal protest against the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency for suggesting that Iran be allowed to keep some elements of its uranium enrichment program, diplomats said Tuesday.
