Wall Street Journal: More than 1,000 demonstrators marched in front of the White House Friday to protest President Barack Obama’s meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The Iraqi leader was meeting Mr. Obama seeking approval for new military equipment and other aid.
Loud protests as Obama hosts Iraqi leader
Iranian Kurd leader says West shouldn’t be fooled by Rouhani
Reuters: The leader of an armed Iranian Kurdish group says new President Hassan Rouhani is taking advantage of the West’s wary optimism towards him to step up pressure on citizens at home, particularly Kurds, and has markedly increased executions.
Call to help Iranian dissidents in Iraq
Church Times: Britain should take action over the applications of vulnerable Iranian residents of Camp Liberty in Iraq, who are seeking relocation in this country, an MP said this week.
Iran official says IAEA got answers it wanted in nuclear talks
UPI: The International Atomic Energy Agency got the answers it needed from Iran to allay nuclear concerns, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said. Araqchi led the Iranian delegation to Vienna for two days of talks with the IAEA.
Senators seeking more Iran sanctions resist bid for delay
Bloomberg: Two top Senate backers of added U.S. sanctions against Iran said the Obama administration failed to persuade them to put legislation on hold during efforts to negotiate curbs on the Islamic republic’s nuclear program.
Pakistan insists troubled Iran pipeline still possible
AFP: Pakistan insisted Thursday it was still keen to press ahead with a troubled pipeline to bring gas from Iran, despite comments by an Iranian minister that he had no hope for its completion.
Obama shouldn’t meet with Maliki
UPI- On Sept. 1 my brother was killed – brutally murdered by masked gunmen under the command of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. I ask you, how would you feel if you lost a loved one and only two months later the person responsible for his death arrived as a guest at the White House?
Obama meets Maliki as war still tears Iraq
AFP: President Obama’s proud political boast is that he ended the Iraq war, but on Friday, he will come face-to-face with a man who is still fighting it — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Maliki’s no partner for peace
UPI: Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister of Iraq, took a page from Vladimir Putin’s playbook and published an op-ed in The New York Times on Monday. Maliki sets out to appeal to Americans by focusing on the issue of terrorism and the struggle against al-Qaida, as well as the war in Syria.
Iraqi forces ‘behind camp attack’
MSN NZ News: A German rights group working with a Washington-based lawyer claimed their 70-page report “confirms the direct involvement of the government of Iraq in the attack” on September 1 in which 52 people were shot dead.
