AFP: US forces have found Iranian weapons inside Iraq on more than one occasion over the past couple of months, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday. Rumsfeld, who was here for talks with Paraguayan leaders, told reporters on the flight from Washington that “no one ought to be surprised” by the arms smuggling since Iran would like to replicate its own Islamic regime in Iraq.
More than one Iranian weapons cache found in Iraq: Rumsfeld
French flag burnt outside Tehran embassy in nuclear protest
AFP: A group of some 30 Islamist protesters Tuesday burnt the French flag outside France’s embassy in Tehran in protest at its stand on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme. “England, France, two Satans, two Lucifers,” chanted the demonstrators, as security agents tried in vain to stop the flag burning. “Death to France, death to England, death to Germany,” they cried.
Iran nuclear chief vows to press on with fuel work
AFP: Iran’s new nuclear policy chief, the hardliner Ali Larijani, said Tehran will press on with ultra-sensitive fuel cyle work while continuing talks with the European Union, in comments published Tuesday. Larijani signaled in his first interview since being named Monday as Supreme National Security Council head that Iran would not roll back its August 8 resumption of uranium conversion, despite the move triggering a new crisis with the international community.
2 Iranian dissidents abducted in capital
Washington Times: U.S. officials said yesterday that two members of an Iranian dissident group living under American protection in Iraq have been kidnapped, and organization members said they fear the men will be turned over to Tehran for execution. The members of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) were grabbed while they were purchasing supplies in Baghdad’s Karrada shopping district on Aug. 4, said the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq.
Iran accuses human rights lawyer of spying
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 Tehrans Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi announced on Monday that a human rights lawyer who had been representing the family of a slain Canadian-Iranian photojournalist was a spy and that the Revolutionary Court had issued a decree stating that it was lawful for him to be imprisoned until his eventual trial.
Iran accuses human rights lawyer of spying
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 Tehrans Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi announced on Monday that a human rights lawyer who had been representing the family of a slain Canadian-Iranian photojournalist was a spy and that the Revolutionary Court had issued a decree stating that it was lawful for him to be imprisoned until his eventual trial.
Schroeder`s Iran comments criticized
UPI: Germany`s opposition criticized Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder`s warnings over the use of force against Iran,
saying he was exploiting the issue to get re-elected. “Schroeder is acting totally irresponsibly for electoral purposes,” Wolfgang Schaeuble, senior foreign policy expert of the opposition Christian Democratic Union, told the daily Die Welt. “He`s acting as though the problem lies in Washington, rather than Tehran, even though he knows it isn`t so.”
Larijani takes over Irans nuclear negotiations
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 15 On Monday, Irans new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad handed down the position
of Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council to veteran conservative Ali Larijani who will from now on take over the role of Irans chief nuclear negotiator.
Larijani takes over Irans nuclear negotiations
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 15 On Monday, Irans new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad handed down the position
of Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council to veteran conservative Ali Larijani who will from now on take over the role of Irans chief nuclear negotiator.
Iran hard-liners laud Revolutionary Guards grip on new cabinet
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 Deputies in Irans hard-line Majlis (parliament) welcomed the proposed list for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads new 21-member cabinet, which included at least 13 former commanders of the Revolutionary Guards and its affiliated agencies, as well as five former officials in Irans notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and revolutionary prosecutors office.
