Iran Focus: The editor of the influential state-owned daily, Kayhan, made a clear link between the current turmoil in Iraq and the developments on the internal political scene in Iran, noting that mounting problems facing the U.S. in Iraq have silenced those who were hoping for regime change in Iran.
Daily links Iraq clashes to Irans internal scene
Revolutionary Guards General Set to Become Irans Censor in Chief
Iran Focus: A new budget amendment adopted by the dominant ultra-conservative faction in the Iranian parliament is set to concentrate enormous powers over the mass media in the hand of a former general of the Revolutionary Guards who now heads the Voice and Vision of the Islamic Republic, the state-owned broadcasting monopoly in Iran.
Revolutionary Guards commander: U.S. is massacring Shiite children
Iran Focus: The commander of Revolutionary Guards in the southern province of Kerman told thousands of his troops and members of the para-military Bassij that U.S. forces were not capable of defeating Moqtada Sadrs forces in Iraq and were massacring Shiite children in the south.
Iranian agents arrested in Iraq
Iran Focus: Some 100 Iranians holding fake Afghan identity cards were arrested on August 8 in Diyala Province, bordering Iran, according to sources in the area. They crossed the border illegally and entered Iraqi territory and initial investigations showed they had ties with the Iranian regimes security services.
Iranian agents arrested in Iraq
Iran Focus: Some 100 Iranians holding fake Afghan identity cards were arrested on August 8 in Diyala Province, bordering Iran, according to sources in the area. They crossed the border illegally and entered Iraqi territory and initial investigations showed they had ties with the Iranian regimes security services.
Tehran snubs London over gunboats
Iran Focus: Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri, the spokesman for the Revolutionary Guards, rejected British demands for the return of military boats and equipment seized by Iran, saying that Tehran is awaiting for further answers from London before making any decision.
Tehran paper calls U.S. in Iraq hostage of Islamic Republic of Iran
Iran Focus: A state-owned Iranian daily, Kayhan, described the United States in Iraq hostage of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It is now becoming increasingly clear that the U.S. in Iraq is the hostage of the Islamic Republic of Iran the daily wrote in its lead article.
Executions on the rise in Iran
Iran Focus: A religious court in Tehran sentenced two men to execution, bringing to more than 110 the number of people hanged since January 2004. Thet two were identified only by their first names as Mohammad and Fereidoon.
Dozens have been hanged in recent days in Iran, as the country goes through another spate of politically-motivated executions.
Turning the heat on Tehran
BBC: With Iraq’s government overthrown, Washington now sounds increasingly bellicose about Iran.
It is lobbying hard for Tehran to be referred to the UN Security Council for breaking agreements to stop nuclear development.
It wants fellow board members from the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, to take action against Iran when it meets on 13 September.
Iran’s hardliners roll back Khatami’s reforms, but how far?
AFP: Iran’s dominant conservatives have been rolling back the tentative liberalisation of reformist President Mohammad Khatami since winning control of parliament in disputed polls earlier this year, but it remains unclear how far to the right they will take the Islamic republic.
