Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 28 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned on Monday Sweden’s envoy in Tehran over the recent publication of a caricature of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad – deemed to be offensive – in a Swedish daily, the state broadcasting corporation reported.
Iran summons Swedish envoy
Congress’s ill-timed Iran bills
Washington Post: This month, the Bush administration tightened the screws on Iran yet again. Its move to formally designate Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization is the latest in a wave of state, federal and international efforts to pressure the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into reconsidering its nuclear weapons program and increasingly aggressive sponsorship of terrorism throughout the Middle East.
Enemy of my enemy
Washington Times: This summer, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of executions in Iran. Since July, the Iranian state media have reported at least 86 executions. Twenty-one were hanged in public and 58 in prisons nationwide, including 12 hanged simultaneously in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
Nicolas Sarkozy warns of Iran’s nuclear crisis
Daily Telegraph: Nicolas Sarkozy gave warning yesterday that unless the West redoubled its efforts to curb Teheran’s nuclear ambitions it could lead to “an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran”.
Sarkozy talks of bombing if Iran gets nuclear arms
The Times: President Sarkozy called Irans nuclear ambition the worlds most dangerous problem yesterday and raised the possibility that the country could be bombed if it persisted in building an atomic weapon.
Iran agrees to reveal nuclear info
AP: Iran on Monday offered some cooperation with an International Atomic Energy Agency probe of an alleged secret uranium processing project linked by U.S. intelligence to a nuclear arms program.
U.S. forces arrest 8 terrorists tied to Iran in Baghdad
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 27 U.S.-led troops arrested eight operatives tied to Iran during a pre-dawn raid in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, the Coalition said.
Iranian general replaces Ahmadinejad aide in key post
AFP: An Iranian army general with a background in the Revolutionary Guards on Sunday replaced a top aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a key interior ministry post in charge of organising elections.
Iran warns students against ‘US contacts’
AFP: Iran warned on Sunday that the authorities would clamp down on university students who it said were in contact with the US administration and seeking to topple the country’s rulers.
France’s Kouchner: Maliki must go
AFP: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to be replaced and said the US government had utterly failed to understand the country’s ancient rivalries.
