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The return of Ahmad Chalabi

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New York Times – Editorial: It might have been awkward for President Bush to have told Ahmad Chalabi, a deputy prime minister in Iraq, that he would receive no official welcome in Washington this week. Mr. Chalabi does not easily take no for an answer, and he seems to have no inhibitions about embarrassing his former friends with impolitic remarks, especially if they help him in next month’s Iraqi elections. But it is disgraceful to hand this multiply discredited schemer the prestige he will surely milk from his meetings with Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the national security adviser, Stephen Hadley.

Iran must come clean about nuclear plans – Germany

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Reuters: Iran is not being fully open with U.N. inspectors about its nuclear programme and may still be hiding something from the international community, Germany’s designated foreign minister said on Thursday.

Iran’s intelligence chief tells press to obey official line

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 10 – Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) dictated the Islamic Republic’s official stances regarding its nuclear activities to the country’s state-run press, according to a report on a government-owned Persian-language website.

Iran’s intelligence chief tells press to obey official line

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 10 – Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) dictated the Islamic Republic’s official stances regarding its nuclear activities to the country’s state-run press, according to a report on a government-owned Persian-language website.

Suicide bomber identified in Argentina blast

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AP: A Hezbollah militant has been identified as the suicide bomber who flattened a Jewish community center in 1994, killing 85 people in Argentina’s worst terrorist attack, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Iran’s intelligence chief blames UK for October bombings

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 10 – Iran has finally proven the role of the United Kingdom in a spate of deadly bombings in the south-western city of Ahwaz in October, the country’s intelligence chief told reporters in the eastern province of Khorrasan Jonoubi.

Iran’s intelligence chief blames UK for October bombings

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 10 – Iran has finally proven the role of the United Kingdom in a spate of deadly bombings in the south-western city of Ahwaz in October, the country’s intelligence chief told reporters in the eastern province of Khorrasan Jonoubi.

U.S. and Europe to give Iranians new atom offer

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New York Times: The Bush administration and three European allies have approved a new offer to be made to Iran in a last-ditch effort to head off a confrontation over its suspected nuclear weapons program.

Iran to increase crackdown on dissent – Tehran police chief

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 09 – Iranian police are planning to boost a national security plan that will effectively increase a crackdown already in effect, the chief of police in Greater Tehran announced on Wednesday.

Iran to increase crackdown on dissent – Tehran police chief

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 09 – Iranian police are planning to boost a national security plan that will effectively increase a crackdown already in effect, the chief of police in Greater Tehran announced on Wednesday.