New York Times: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Lebanese officials here on Monday to try to prop up the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and to reassure Arab allies who have become increasingly impatient with the Israeli bombardment, which has killed close to 400 people, mostly Lebanese civilians.
In surprise, Rice’s trip to Mideast begins in Beirut
Tehran likely to gain if Lebanon fighting continues
Washington Times: Iran’s suspected support for the recent Hezbollah attacks on Israel could undo the international community’s solidarity over Iran’s nuclear program, analysts said yesterday.
Iran rejects talk preconditions
BBC News: Iran has repeated its refusal to accept any preconditions for nuclear talks with the West – such as halting its nuclear enrichment activities.
Irans DM accuses U.S. of imposing war in Middle East
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 24 Irans Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar accused the United States on Monday of deliberately imposing war and violence in the Middle East.
Irans DM accuses U.S. of imposing war in Middle East
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 24 Irans Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar accused the United States on Monday of deliberately imposing war and violence in the Middle East.
Iran hangs two teenagers in public
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 24 Two teenagers were hanged in public in the town of Aq Qala, northern Iran, the official news agency reported on Monday.
Iran hangs two teenagers in public
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 24 Two teenagers were hanged in public in the town of Aq Qala, northern Iran, the official news agency reported on Monday.
UN team may go to Syria, Iran for talks on Lebanon
Reuters: The United Nations is considering dispatching envoys to Syria and Iran as part of a diplomatic push to end fighting between Israel and Hizbollah, Western diplomats said on Monday.
Tehran, Hezbollah and a ‘ceasefire’
Washington Times – Editorial: While Israel continues fighting to secure its northern border, the Iranian government barely makes an effort to hide its support for Hezbollah. Yesterday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the United States and Britain “accomplices of the Zionist regime in its crimes in Lebanon and Palestine” and declared that, by going to war against Hezbollah, Israel “pushed the button of its own destruction.”
War dead flown to Iran
New York Sun: The bodies of Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers killed by the Israeli army in Lebanon have been transported to Syria and flown to Tehran, senior Lebanese political sources said.
