Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is unlikely to get to New York early Saturday as originally planned for an address to the U.N. Security Council, Tehran’s U.N. Ambassador said Friday.
Iranian president visit may be delayed on Saturday
U.S. says Iran president’s visa approved
Reuters: Visas for Iran’s president and other diplomats to visit the United States had been approved, the White House said on Friday, disputing Iran’s claim that the entry documents had not been approved.
Why Iran seized the British marines
TIME: The most ominous detail about Iran’s seizure of 15 British Royal Marines in the Shatt-al-Arab waterway on Friday morning is that the servicemen were reportedly taken into custody by the navy of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Full text of statement by Britain’s Beckett on Iran incident
Iran Focus: London, Mar. 23 – Britain’s Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett issued a statement on the detention of 15 Royal Navy and Marine personnel by Iran’s security forces on the Iran-Iraq waterway. The following is the full text of her statement:
Full text of statement by Britain’s Beckett on Iran incident
Iran Focus: London, Mar. 23 – Britain’s Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett issued a statement on the detention of 15 Royal Navy and Marine personnel by Iran’s security forces on the Iran-Iraq waterway. The following is the full text of her statement:
U.S. backs Britain over Iran seizure of navy personnel
Reuters: The United States backed Britain’s demand for the immediate release of 15 British Royal Navy personnel seized by Iranian forces on Friday.
France begins formal inquiry on oil executive
New York Times: Problems increased for the French oil company Total on Thursday when Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive, was put under formal investigation by French authorities, who are looking into allegations that the company paid kickbacks to win a gas contract in Iran during the late 1990s.
Oil rises above $62 after Iran seizes British naval personnel
Bloomberg: Crude oil in New York jumped above $62 a barrel after Iran seized 15 British naval personnel, heightening the prospect of conflict involving OPEC’s second- biggest producer.
‘Iran link’ to violence in Basra
BBC: Most of the violence against UK forces in Basra is being engineered by Iranian elements, a British Army colonel based in the southern Iraqi city says.
Britain: Iran seized 15 of our troops
Iran Focus: London, Mar. 23 Britains Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on Friday that 15 of its sailors and marines had been seized by Iranian military forces in the Persian Gulf.
