Reuters: Western nations will have to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions without Russia's help if they refuse to cooperate with Moscow, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
Russia links its help on Iran to Georgia row
McCain steps up attacks on his opponent’s foreign policy credentials
Washington Post: Borrowing a familiar theme from past GOP presidential campaigns, Sen. John McCain is sharpening his efforts to portray Sen. Barack Obama as naive and inexperienced on foreign policy, rolling out an ad that accuses the Democrat of not taking Iran seriously and ridiculing his explanation for the end of the Cold War.
McCain: Obama ‘dangerously unprepared’ to be President
New York Post: John McCain is charging that Barack Obama is "dangerously unprepared" to be president for suggesting that terror-sponsor Iran is not a serious threat to America.
NBC approves Pickens’ “Iran” ad after complaint
Reuters: NBC Universal approved an advertisement by T. Boone Pickens entitled "Iran" which questions U.S. dependence on foreign oil, after the oil tycoon complained that the network had rejected it.
McCain hammers Obama on Iran
AFP: Republican John McCain scorched his rival Barack Obama in a new ad Wednesday, accusing him of seeing Iran as only a "tiny" threat and arguing he is dangerously unprepared to be president.
Iran general says Israel too vulnerable to attack
AFP: The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said on Wednesday that Israel is too vulnerable to Iran's longer-range missiles to dare launch an attack.
Georgia conflict imperils big-power action on Iran
Reuters: The acrimony between Russia and the West stirred by the Georgia conflict complicates any effort to tighten U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
Iraqi adviser says he quit to speak against Iran
AP: A former security adviser to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in comments published Tuesday that he had quit his job so he can freely speak about what he called the danger Iran poses in the Middle East.
Iran hangs second teenager
BBC: Human rights organisations have condemned the execution of another juvenile offender in Iran on Tuesday.
Hezbollah presence in Venezuela feared
Los Angeles Times: The Lebanese Shiite militia, linked to deadly attacks in Argentina in the 1990s, may be taking advantage of Chavez's ties with its ally Iran, terrorism experts say.
