Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 13 The former chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who resigned his position with the hopes of establishing a political career has announced that he wants back his former military post, according to a government-run Persian-language website.
Iran’s ex-Revolutionary Guards chief wants back top brass job
Top Iran official says U.S. at impasse in Iraq
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 13 A top Iranian official who was once the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed on Friday that the United States had reached an impasse in Iraq and that its new strategy for security there would fail as well.
Iran’s ex-Revolutionary Guards chief wants back top brass job
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 13 The former chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who resigned his position with the hopes of establishing a political career has announced that he wants back his former military post, according to a government-run Persian-language website.
Top Iran official says U.S. at impasse in Iraq
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 13 A top Iranian official who was once the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed on Friday that the United States had reached an impasse in Iraq and that its new strategy for security there would fail as well.
Rice says Bush authorized Iranians arrest in Iraq
New York Times: A recent series of American raids against Iranians in Iraq was authorized under an order that President Bush decided to issue several months ago to undertake a broad military offensive against Iranian operatives in the country, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.
Iranian embarks on Latin American tour to forge anti-US ties
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is locked in a tense standoff with the United States, embarks on a Latin American tour here Saturday as he arrives for talks with his ideological “brother,” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
WHouse sees more action against Iran in Iraq
AFP: The White House on Thursday unapologetically defended a US raid in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil that has sparked a diplomatic feud between Washington and Tehran.
Pentagon denies raid targeted Iranian consulate
AFP: A Pentagon spokesman denied Thursday that a building raided by US forces in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil was an Iranian consulate.
Mubarak tells Iran not to touch Iraq
AFP: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak delivered a stern warning to Tehran to stay out of Iraq, in an interview published Thursday.
Terrorism key to Iran’s security strategy: US spy chief
AFP: US intelligence supremo John Negroponte Thursday warned that Iran was using “terrorist” operations abroad as a key element of its national security strategy.
