Reuters: The United States will consider both fresh incentives or sanctions to persuade Iran to rein in its nuclear program but major changes are unlikely now, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday.
New Iran incentives, sanctions unlikely now – Rice
Gates: Iran boosts support for militias
AP: Iranian support for militias in Iraq has grown, top U.S. defense leaders said Friday, asserting that recent battles in Basra gave the Iraqis an eye-opening view of Iran’s increased negative role there.
Iran triggering Shiite “backlash” in Iraq, US ambassador claims
AFP: Iran can never conquer Iraq and is even stirring a Shiite “backlash” there by backing militias fighting the Iraqi government and US-led troops, the US ambassador to Baghdad said here Friday.
US ambassador in Iraq invites Iran talks
AP: The U.S. ambassador in Iraq says the Bush administration wants to test whether Iran is really interested in talking to the United States about a country of mutual interest Iraq.
Iran boasts hundreds of new centrifuges: report
AFP: Iran has started operating hundreds of new uranium-enriching centrifuges at its main nuclear plant, the official IRNA news agency said on Friday, confirming Tehran is expanding its contested atomic drive.
Iran hangs two members of armed group
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 11 Iranian authorities have hanged two men in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported on Thursday.
Iran hangs two members of armed group
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 11 Iranian authorities have hanged two men in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported on Thursday.
All the talk is about Iraq, but concern about Iran is mounting
McClatchy Newspapers: The hours of congressional testimony, the speeches and the press conferences this week were all, nominally, about Iraq. But another, equally explosive question what to do about Iran loomed over the presentations by Army Gen. David Petraeus, the American military commander in Iraq, over U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and over U.S. strategy for the Middle East.
The Petraeus-Crocker report
Washington Times – Editorial: In their congressional testimony on Iraq this week, Army Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker did a superb job of outlining the progress made in Iraq thus far and the dire consequences of prematurely withdrawing troops from there.
Bush calls Iran one of two greatest threats to America
The Times: President Bush warned Iran yesterday that if it did not stop arming and training Shia militia in Iraq then America will act to protect our interests and our troops.
