Washington Times: More than four decades ago, while I was a Naval Academy Midshipman visiting this delightful seaport city, one of my “summer reading” texts was “Sufferings in Africa.”
Suffering in Iran
US tightens financial squeeze on Iran
AFP: The US government is escalating financial sanctions against Iran and ratcheting up pressure on Iranian companies suspected of supporting Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Iran rejects OPEC output hike
AFP: Iran said on Sunday it was firmly opposed to a hike in OPEC’s crude oil output, amid market speculation the cartel could raise production to stem surging prices, state television reported on its website.
US pressures German banks to halt business in Iran: report
DPA: The US Treasury has successfully put German financial institutions under severe pressure to cease all dealings with Iran, according to a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel released on Saturday.
Iran’s Khamenei says U.S. and Israel are main foes
Reuters: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday the United States and Israel were his country’s main enemies, just days after U.S.-Iranian talks about Iraq’s security.
EU flouts its own highest court to appease Teheran
Sunday Telegraph: Why is the British Government so desirous to appease the regime that is supplying arms and men to kill our troops in Iraq and Afghanistant? Why, at British instigation, is our EU government, flagrantly in breach of EU law, ignoring a judgment of its own supreme court, the European Court of Justice, in a way which has no precedent?
Iran says U.S. is too stretched to attack it
Reuters: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has told a German magazine that the United States has too many problems in Iraq to become involved in armed conflict with Iran.
Local insurgent chief with ties to Iran arrested in Baghdad
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 28 The Iraqi army arrested a cell leader of the rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi militia near the southwest Baghdad neighbourhood of Bayaa on July 26, the Coalition said on Friday.
Local insurgent chief with ties to Iran arrested in Baghdad
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 28 The Iraqi army arrested a cell leader of the rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi militia near the southwest Baghdad neighbourhood of Bayaa on July 26, the Coalition said on Friday.
U.S. plans new arms sales to Gulf allies
Washington Post: The Bush administration will announce next week a series of arms deals worth at least $20 billion to Saudi Arabia and five other oil-rich Persian Gulf states as well as new 10-year military aid packages to Israel and Egypt, a move to shore up allies in the Middle East and counter Iran’s rising influence, U.S. officials said yesterday.
