AFP: EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana arrived in Tehran on Friday to present defiant Iranian leaders with a new offer from world powers aimed at ending the crisis over Iran's nuclear programme.
EU’s Solana in Tehran with nuclear offer
Iran executes juvenile offender
BBC: Reports from Iran say a boy aged 17 has been hanged, in violation of UN charters signed by Tehran and official pledges not to execute minors.
Iran losing influence in Iraq: Bush
AFP: Iran is losing influence in Iraq, US President George W. Bush said in a French television interview broadcast Thursday a day before he arrives in Paris on the penultimate leg of a farewell European tour.
Bush enlists Berlusconi aid on Iran, Afghanistan
Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush won reassurances from his old ally Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday that Italy will help pressure Iran over its nuclear program and take more of a frontline military role in Afghanistan.
Iran says global oil market saturated
AFP: Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Thursday that the world market was saturated and that OPEC was meeting demand, official Iranian news agency IRNA reported.
Bush in Rome for talks with Berlusconi on Iran, Afghanistan
AFP: US President George W. Bush was due to hold talks Thursday in Rome with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the hope the Italian leader would help tighten the squeeze on Iran and step up help for war-battered Afghanistan, aides said.
President Bush seeks German support on sanctions against Iran
The Times: President Bush issued a swift reminder yesterday that he was still willing, if necessary, to use America's military might against Iran, as he sought to prod a reluctant German Chancellor into supporting tougher sanctions and severing economic ties with the Islamic Republic.
Iran official arrested for criticizing clerics
Washington Post: A mid-level government official supportive of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's political faction was arrested Wednesday for making public accusations of corruption against several top clerics, the Iranian Fars News Agency reported.
Iran unmoved by threats on its atomic program
New York Times: Increasingly tough warnings from President Bush and his European allies have done nothing to temper Iran’s stance on its nuclear program, worsening the confrontation over what American officials and others suspect is a covert Iranian plan to build an atomic bomb.
Iranian leader calls Bush a ‘wicked man’
AP: Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called President Bush a "wicked man" Wednesday. Addressing thousands of people in this central city, he said Bush had set out to damage Iran but failed to halt its nuclear program and would not succeed in his goal of attacking the Islamic republic.
