AFP: The United States hopes to seal a deal with Iraq by July 31 on future US troop deployments despite Iranian attempts to complicate the negotiations, the US ambassador to Baghdad said here Thursday.
Iran trying to complicate US-Iraq military talks: ambassador
Iran refuses to give more details on weapons programme
AFP: Iran, under heavy fire at a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog here for failing to come clean on alleged nuclear weapons work, has told the IAEA that the matter is "over", Iranian ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said Thursday.
INTERVIEW-US still opposes Iran as Nabucco gas supplier
Reuters: The United States opposes the planned Nabucco pipeline to Europe being supplied with Iranian gas, Washingon's diplomatic envoy to the Caspian Sea region, where the route would start, told Reuters on Thursday.
Iran threatens to sue Western nations
AP: Iran is threatening to sue countries that it says have damaged its reputation and pushed to have U.N. Security Council involvement in its nuclear program.
Iran to build cross-country oil pipeline
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 05 – Iran plans to build a cross-country pipeline capable of transporting oil from the Caspian region to the Persian Gulf and world oil markets, state media reported.
Iran to build cross-country oil pipeline
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 05 – Iran plans to build a cross-country pipeline capable of transporting oil from the Caspian region to the Persian Gulf and world oil markets, state media reported.
Senate: Iranian intel concealed from CIA, DIA
AP: Pentagon officials in late 2001 and 2002 concealed from the CIA and other intelligence agencies potentially useful information gleaned from Iranian agents, said a Senate report released Thursday.
Sombre Barack Obama aims opening salvo at Iran
The Times: Barack Obama strode on to the international stage for the first time as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee-elect and vowed to use “all elements of American power” to eliminate Iran’s nuclear threat.
Pelosi calls for tightened Iran sanctions
UPI: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Wednesday called for tightening sanctions against Iran.
Iraqi lawmakers wary of US security agreement
AP: Iraqi lawmakers told Congress on Wednesday that they have serious misgivings about a long-term security agreement being negotiated this year with President Bush, putting themselves squarely in line with Democrats who say hashing out a deal before Bush leaves office is bad timing.
