Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 18 Tehrans oil refinery caught fire in the early hours of Saturday, state radio reported.
Fire rages at refinery in Iran capital
Fire rages at refinery in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 18 Tehrans oil refinery caught fire in the early hours of Saturday, state radio reported.
Delays in action on Iran could hurt – Bolton
Reuters: Delaying action against Iran’s suspected nuclear capabilities allows Tehran to increase its uranium enrichment knowledge and step up threats of withholding oil, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Friday.
Iran was on edge; now it’s on top
Los Angeles Times: The Islamic government in neighboring Iran watched with trepidation in March 2003 when U.S.-led troops stormed Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime and start remaking the political map of the Mideast.
U.S. urges wary Arabs to threaten to isolate Iran
Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged reluctant Arab nations on Friday to threaten to isolate Iran unless it bows to international pressure to curb its suspected nuclear weapons programs.
Appeasement markers
Washington Times: It is easy to damn the 1930s appeasers of Adolf Hitler — such as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain in England and Edouard Daladier in France — given what the Nazis ultimately did when unleashed.
Iran’s hard-liners eye China for support
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran. Feb. 17 Chinese economic cooperation with Iran has de-fanged the threat of possible international economic sanctions against Tehran over its suspected nuclear weapons development, a semi-official daily which represents the views of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in its Saturday editorial.
Iran’s hard-liners eye China for support
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran. Feb. 17 Chinese economic cooperation with Iran has de-fanged the threat of possible international economic sanctions against Tehran over its suspected nuclear weapons development, a semi-official daily which represents the views of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in its Saturday editorial.
Poland will not let Iran “research” Holocaust
Reuters: Poland’s Foreign Minister Stefan Meller on Friday ruled out allowing any Iranian researchers to examine the scale of the Holocaust committed by the German Nazis on Polish soil during World War Two.
Germany suspects Iran trying to build atom bomb
DPA: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Friday the German government suspected Iran was seeking to build nuclear weapons.
