Iran Focus: London, Sep. 18 Coalition forces in the Iraqi capital Baghdad arrested some 12 suspected terrorists, one of whom is believed to have ties to Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Qods Force (IRGC-QF), the United States-led military announced.
U.S. arrests Iraqi terrorist tied to Irans Qods Force
Egypt, Iran hold rare talks on relations
Reuters: Egypt and Iran held rare talks at senior official level in Cairo on Tuesday and Egypt said dialogue would continue on restoring full diplomatic relations, broken off after the Iranian revolution in 1979.
Iranian-backed group holds Britains Iraq hostages in proxy war
Sunday Times: A British computer expert and his four British bodyguards, who were kidnapped from the finance ministry in Baghdad more than three months ago, are being held by the Iranian commander of an elite unit of the Revolutionary Guards as part of a proxy war being waged by Iran, according to Iraqi intelligence.
After talk of war, cooler words in France on Iran
New York Times: Frances foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, sought Monday to tone down remarks he made in a radio and television interview the day before that the world had to prepare for possible war against Iran.
Military intervention in Iran would be “catastrophic”: Moscow
AFP: Any US military intervention in Iran would be a “political error” that would have “catastrophic” consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said in an interview published Tuesday.
Abizaid: World could abide nuclear Iran
AP: Every effort should be made to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but failing that, the world could live with a nuclear-armed regime in Tehran, a recently retired commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Monday.
Iran threatens missile attacks on US targets
Daily Telegraph: Iran threatened to fire long-range missiles at American targets in the Middle East yesterday as the war of words between Teheran and the West continued to escalate.
Ban Iran’s President from UN: ‘O8 Republican Romney
AFP: US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Monday called for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be banned from the UN General Assembly next week and indicted for genocide.
Why Iran’s economy is struggling
Daily Telegraph: The leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, once declared that “economics was for donkeys”. These words could sum up the regime’s management of the economy.
IAEA director warns against hyping Iran nuclear crisis
DPA: IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday urged countries to refrain from talking about an escalation of the Iran nuclear crisis.
