Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 17 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met and held talks with Syrian Prime Minster Mohammad Naji Otri, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported on Saturday.
Ahmadinejad holds talks with top Syrian official
Iran is playing a growing role in Iraq economy
New York Times: While the Bush administration works to stop Iran from meddling in Iraq, Iranian air-conditioners fill Iraqi appliance stores, Iranian tomatoes ripen on the windowsills of kitchens here and legions of white Iranian-made Peugeots sit in Iraqi driveways.
OPEC to hold meeting if prices fall – Iran oilmin
Reuters: OPEC would hold an “emergency meeting” if oil prices were to fall, Iran’s oil minister was quoted as saying in comments published on Saturday, speaking after the oil cartel’s March 15 meeting in Vienna.
Iran’s army warns U.S. against any “stupid move”
Reuters: A senior Iranian army commander warned the United States and other Western powers not to make any “stupid move” over Tehran’s nuclear programme and said they would be surprised by the military response to any such action.
Iranian president: Sanctions won’t work
AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted Friday that new sanctions won’t force Iran to give up its right to enrich uranium, and he blasted the U.N. Security Council as an instrument used by “bullying” Western nations against Tehran.
Iran crushes teachers’ pay protest
The Guardian: The authorities in Iran have arrested up to 1,000 teachers in a brutal crackdown that signals their determination to break a pay revolt.
U.S. vows quick action on visa for Iran’s president
Reuters: The United States said on Friday it will handle a visa request from Iran’s president to appear at the United Nations quickly and hoped he would use any trip to open talks with the West on Iran’s nuclear program.
U.N. has no objections to Iran speech
AP: Security Council members have raised no objections to a request from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak right before they vote on a resolution that would impose new sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, the council president said Friday.
Senior Iranian official threatens Security Council with reprisals
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 16 A top aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened the United Nations Security Council, saying that any resolution adopted against Iran over its nuclear activities would have reprisals.
Senior Iranian official threatens Security Council with reprisals
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 16 A top aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened the United Nations Security Council, saying that any resolution adopted against Iran over its nuclear activities would have reprisals.
