Los Angeles Times: As the deadline bore down on Iraqi leaders drafting a new constitution, some participants said a deal seemed within reach. Then out of nowhere, they said, came a demand from a key Shiite politician. Abdelaziz Hakim, the leader of the main party in the powerful Shiite parliamentary bloc, spoke before a crowd of supporters Aug. 11 in Najaf and called for a Shiite autonomous region consisting of Iraq’s nine oil-rich southern provinces. Hakim, who once headed a militia trained and nurtured by Iran’s hard-line Revolutionary Guard, called the mini-state a “sacred” goal.
Sunnis See Iran’s Hand in Call for Federalism
Iran ‘supplies infra-red bombs’ that kill British troops in Iraq
Sunday Telegraph: British soldiers in Iraq are being killed by advanced “infra-red” bombs supplied by Iran that defeat jamming equipment, according to military intelligence officials. The “passive infra-red” devices, whose use in Iraq is revealed for the first time by The Sunday Telegraph, are detonated when the beam is broken, as when an intruder triggers a burglar alarm.
Iran leader makes key changes in Revolutionary Guards command
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered on Saturday a key change in the high command of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in a move that will have far-reaching consequences for the countrys military strategy. Khamenei, acting in his capacity as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, put Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali (Aziz) Jaafari in charge of forming the IRGC centre for strategy.
Iran leader makes key changes in Revolutionary Guards command
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered on Saturday a key change in the high command of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in a move that will have far-reaching consequences for the countrys military strategy. Khamenei, acting in his capacity as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, put Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali (Aziz) Jaafari in charge of forming the IRGC centre for strategy.
Iran police hunt banned satellite dishes
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans police forces have been instructed to use all means, including helicopters, to locate and confiscate privately-owned satellite dishes, which are illegal in Iran. A senior police commander in the north-eastern province of North Khorassan told local journalists in the provincial capital Mashad on Saturday that his forces have been using choppers to spot the satellite dishes and report them to ground units, which would then search the …
Iran police hunt banned satellite dishes
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans police forces have been instructed to use all means, including helicopters, to locate and confiscate privately-owned satellite dishes, which are illegal in Iran. A senior police commander in the north-eastern province of North Khorassan told local journalists in the provincial capital Mashad on Saturday that his forces have been using choppers to spot the satellite dishes and report them to ground units, which would then search the …
New roundups in Iran as hard-liners crack down
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans new police chief has ordered a new wave of arrests in the countrys capital by the para-military State Security Forces as part of a crackdown on young people harbouring anti-government sentiments.
New roundups in Iran as hard-liners crack down
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans new police chief has ordered a new wave of arrests in the countrys capital by the para-military State Security Forces as part of a crackdown on young people harbouring anti-government sentiments.
Iran: Jailed former official requests review
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 The spokesman of Irans first post-revolutionary government requested on Saturday a review hearing after spending 26 years in prison.
Abbas Amir-Entezam, who received a three-month extended prison leave for medical treatment, told a state-run news agency that he never had a chance to make his defence case in a public court since his original sentencing.
Iran: Jailed former official requests review
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 The spokesman of Irans first post-revolutionary government requested on Saturday a review hearing after spending 26 years in prison.
Abbas Amir-Entezam, who received a three-month extended prison leave for medical treatment, told a state-run news agency that he never had a chance to make his defence case in a public court since his original sentencing.
