New York Times: Senators Barack Obama and John McCain traded blows over foreign policy in separate speeches on Monday in which the two presidential hopefuls clashed over the proper approach to dealing with Iran.
Obama and McCain spar over Iran
McCain criticizes Obama over Iran comments
AP: Republican John McCain accused Democrat Barack Obama of inexperience and reckless judgment for saying Iran does not pose the same serious threat to the United States as the Soviet Union did in its day.
Germany tightens truck sales to Iran, Syria over rocket fears
Bloomberg: Germany tightened rules on the sale of heavy trucks to Iran and Syria over concern that the vehicles may be used to launch short- and medium-range missiles.
Bush says position on Iran unchanged
UPI: U.S. President George Bush says he's never wavered on Iran — if it verifiably suspends its uranium enrichment program, negotiations could begin.
Lebanon opposition rejects Qatari compromise at crisis talks
AFP: Lebanon's Hezbollah-led opposition on Monday rejected a proposal at Arab-mediated talks with pro-government rivals aimed at breaking a political deadlock which took the country to the brink of civil war.
Russia-Iran rail link to open in 2011
Reuters: A railway linking Russia and Iran via Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan will open in December 2011, a top Turkmen executive said on Monday.
Iran remains key concern as Bush returns
Washington Post: As he toured the Middle East over the past five days, President Bush tried to shore up support for his strategy of isolating Iran in meetings with the leaders of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian territories.
Group says six Baha’is detained in Iran
Reuters: The Iranian authorities have detained six members of the Baha'i faith, an offshoot of Islam considered heretical by Iran's Shi'ite Muslim establishment, members of the religious group said.
Senior Iran cleric says president spreads poverty
Reuters: An influential Iranian cleric has criticised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in unusually blunt terms by saying his government was pursuing policies that were leading to "public impoverishment", newspapers said on Monday.
None dare call it appeasement
Washington Times: Let me get this straight. It's perfectly fair for Barack Obama and his cohorts to repeatedly disparage President Bush's foreign policy as "cowboy diplomacy" but unspeakably horrific for Mr. Bush to analogize the Democrats' approach to foreign policy to appeasing Adolf Hitler?
