Reuters: Ali Larijani, who quit as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, and his replacement will go to talks with the European Union’s Javier Solana to try to defuse a row with the West, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
Iran says ex-negotiator to go to Rome atomic talks
No, its not really World War III
New York Times: If what they say has unforeseen or unintended consequences, public figures often complain that their words were taken out of context. President Bush did not complain about the news coverage when he suggested that an Iran with nuclear weapons could set off World War III, but his remark cries out for context nonetheless.
SAS raiders enter Iran to kill gunrunners
Sunday Times: British special forces have crossed into Iran several times in recent months as part of a secret border war against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Al-Quds special forces, defence sources have disclosed.
Lessons of history: pt 1
Sunday Times: Tony Blair has warned us that Iran is a hotbed of Islamic extremism and the world would do well to remember it.
Iran to fire 11,000 rockets in minute if attacked
AFP: Iran warned on Saturday it would fire off 11,000 rockets at enemy bases within the space of a minute if the United States launched military action against the Islamic republic.
Bio box of Ali Larijani
AP: NAME – Ali Larijani. BIRTH DATE – Born 1958 in the Iraqi city of Najaf; naturalized Iranian citizen. QUOTE – Iran’s deal with the Europeans to suspend uranium enrichment was “swapping a pearl for a candy bar.”
Oil cheap when adjusted for inflation, low dlr – Iran
Reuters: Iran’s caretaker oil minister said oil was “still cheap” because, when adjusted for inflation and the weak U.S. dollar, the “real value” was almost half the record of $90 a barrel hit in the past week, a newspaper reported.
U.S. in no position to attack Iran-Iran minister
Reuters: The United States is in no position to attack Iran because it is bogged down in the conflict in Iraq, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.
Iran atomic stance may harden as Larijani resigns
Reuters: Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator has resigned and the man named to replace Ali Larijani could present the West with a harder line in a long-running dispute over Tehran’s atomic ambitions.
FACTBOX: Iran’s new atomic negotiator Saeed Jalili
Reuters: Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, has resigned, the government said on Saturday, and the man named to replace him, Saeed Jalili, could present the West with a harder line in its row over Tehran’s atomic ambitions.
