Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 04 Irans Majlis Speaker will travel to Pakistan on Wednesday for a three-day visit.
Irans Majlis Speaker to visit Pakistan on Wednesday
Text of Becketts remarks on British sailors detained in Iran
Iran Focus: London, Apr. 04 – The following is the text of a statement issued on Tuesday by British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on the continued detention of 15 British navy personnel in Iran:
Text of Becketts remarks on British sailors detained in Iran
Iran Focus: London, Apr. 04 – The following is the text of a statement issued on Tuesday by British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on the continued detention of 15 British navy personnel in Iran:
Ahmadinejad to hold press Q&A on detained Britons on Wed
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 03 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will hold a press conference on Wednesday on the status of 15 British marines and sailors being held by Iran, state television reported.
Ahmadinejad to hold press Q&A on detained Britons on Wed
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 03 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will hold a press conference on Wednesday on the status of 15 British marines and sailors being held by Iran, state television reported.
The botched US raid that led to the hostage crisis
The Independent: A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines.
Rice ready for direct Iran talks if enrichment stops
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she was open to direct talks with Iran if it froze its sensitive uranium enrichment work.
UN chief: ‘Tone down rhetoric’ in Iran-Britain crisis
AFP: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the release of 15 British naval personnel 10 days after Iran seized them in the Gulf and said “rhetoric should be toned down.”
Iran says hopeful of end to row with Britain
AFP: Iran is hopeful the standoff with Britain over the detention of 15 sailors will be resolved “soon” but London must recognise that its forces illegally entered Iranian waters, Vice President Parviz Davoudi said on Tuesday.
Iran says snatched diplomat freed in Iraq
AFP: The Iranian embassy in Baghdad said on Tuesday that its second secretary, Jalal Sharafi, who had been kidnapped in the Iraqi capital in February had been released.
