AKI: Iran’s hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday his country’s objective was to destroy what he called corrupt western powers.
Iran: President wants to ‘annihilate corrupt powers’
Iran’s Ahmadinejad targets ‘corrupt world leadership’
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday set Iran the target of wiping out the “corrupt world leadership,” in his latest verbal attack on Western powers locked in a nuclear crisis with Tehran.
U.S. sceptical about Iranian nuclear advances
Reuters: Washington is sceptical that Iran is installing 6,000 new centrifuges to enrich uranium and testing an advanced centrifuge with greater capacity, a top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday.
Iran calls U.S. commander’s Iraq report justification of “false strategies and failure”
Xinhua: Iran said on Wednesday that the latest report of the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq to the Congress is a justification of Washington’s “false strategies and the failures” in Iraq.
Berlin expresses concern at Iran’s new nuclear activities
Xinhua: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed “deep concern” on Wednesday at Iran’s announcement that it had started work to install 6,000 new centrifuges to enrich uranium.
Clerics advise Sadr to keep Mahdi Army
UPI: The influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said his clerical advisers, including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, rejected calls to disband the Mahdi Army.
Iran to open uranium processing plant
AP: Iran will inaugurate a new uranium ore processing plant in less than a year in Ardakan, central Iran, a top nuclear official said Wednesday.
Rice to travel to Arab Gulf for talks on Iraq, Mideast peace: official
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Gulf Arab states this month for meetings aimed at stabilizing Iraq and bolstering the Arab-Israeli peace talks, her spokesman said Wednesday.
Iran warns West of “bloody nose” over nuclear issue
Reuters: Iran’s president on Wednesday warned the West to expect a “bloody nose” over mounting pressure on Iran to halt its sensitive uranium enrichment activities, state television reported.
Iran envoy offers nuclear technology to all Muslim states
AFP: Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi told leaders of the Gulf Arab state of Qatar on Wednesday that his country was willing to put its controversial nuclear expertise at the service of all Muslim states.
