AFP: British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Iran against interfering in Iraq on Thursday, saying London suspected explosives used to kill British troops there may have come from the Islamic republic.
Blair warns Iran not to interfere with Iraq
Blair Says Bombs Used in Iraq May Be Linked to Iran
Bloomberg: U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair today said that there is evidence tying Iran to bombings in neighboring Iraq in the first
public accusation that the Shiite Muslim country is supporting militants in Iraq.
Britain blames Iran for soldiers’ deaths
Daily Telegraph: Britain blamed Iran yesterday for a spate of roadside bomb attacks that killed at least eight British soldiers in the past six months. A senior diplomat said technology used in the devices was similar to that given by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to the Hizbollah movement in Lebanon. “All of the British deaths are linked to Iranian technology,” he said, abandoning the usual Foreign Office reserve.
UK accuses Iran over killings of soldiers
The Guardian: Britain and Iran clashed openly last night after a senior British official directly accused Tehran of supplying Iraqi insurgents with sophisticated roadside bombs that have killed eight British soldiers and two security guards since May.
British troops are pawns in Iran’s vicious game
Daily Telegraph: For the past two years, the Foreign Office has done its utmost to defend Iran from American accusations that Iranian mullahs were stirring trouble in Iraq. “On the contrary,” British diplomats retorted, “Iran is being very helpful in the political process. It has an interest in stability in Iraq.”
Iran military’s nuke role worries U.S.
The Washington Times: The Bush administration yesterday expressed concern about the role of Iran’s military in the country’s nuclear programs, saying it raised fresh fears that Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons.
Britain angrily denies role in Iran unrest
AFP: Britain on Wednesday angrily denied “incorrect and irresponsible” claims in the Iranian press that it was stirring up unrest in the oil-rich southwest of the Islamic republic.
Prominent Iranian diplomat quits nuclear negotiating team
AFP: One of Iran’s most prominent diplomats, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has resigned as a member of the country’s nuclear negotiating team, the official news agency IRNA reported Wednesday.
Iraq speaker blames Iran for murders of Shiite clerics: report
AFP: Iraqi parliament speaker Hajim al-Hasani has accused Iran of being behind the assassination of two top Shiite Muslim clerics in Iraq in 2003, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported.
Iran blamed for deaths of eight Britons in south Iraq
The Times: Britain has accused Iran of helping to kill British soldiers in southern Iraq.
Six soldiers and two security guards have died in the past three months, all victims of a new explosives technique supplied via Iran, a senior British official said yesterday.
