Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 23 Irans Majlis (Parliament) Speaker has paid a visit to the head of an Iraqi Shiite group who is currently in Iran for cancer treatment.
In Brief: Iran Parliament chief visits ill al-Hakim
Iran implicated in attacks on UK troops
The Scotsman: Iran has been accused of supporting increasing sophisticated attacks on British forces in Afghanistan.
Taliban ‘use Iranian missiles on UK troops’
Daily Telegraph: British troops in Afghanistan are being targeted by surface-to-air missiles supplied by Iran, a senior Army source said yesterday.
U.S. urges complaint against IAEA chief
AP: The United States wants its allies to join in a formal protest against the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency for suggesting that Iran be allowed to keep some elements of its uranium enrichment program, diplomats said Tuesday.
U.S., allies to complain to ElBaradei on Iran
Reuters: The United States and some European allies plan to complain to the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog about his proposal for Iran to retain some nuclear enrichment activities, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
U.S. denies Iranian accusations against scholar
Reuters: The United States said on Tuesday it was “utter nonsense” for Iran to accuse a U.S.-based scholar imprisoned in Tehran of trying to undermine the Islamic state and her employer denied she was a spy.
Iran bans foreigners from border province
AFP: Iran has banned all Afghan and other foreign nationals from a sensitive southeastern border province as part of a drive to deport tens of thousands of illegal migrants, a senior police chief said Tuesday.
Iran arrests prominent Sufi leader: report
AFP: Iran has arrested the leader of one of its largest Sufi sects as well as other members of his order in the northeast of the country, the reformist Etemad daily reported on Tuesday.
Iran ex-nuclear negotiator ‘gave secrets to embassy’
AFP: A former Iranian nuclear negotiator detained last month on security-related charges is accused of leaking sensitive information to an embassy in Tehran, officials said on Tuesday.
Iran, Belarus to stand together against critics
Reuters: The leaders of Belarus and Iran, both accused of violating international norms by the United States, pledged on Tuesday to act jointly to counter attempts to exert pressure on individual nations.
