Reuters: Venezuela and Iran strengthened their growing ties on Saturday with a stream of anti-U.S. statements, various commercial agreements and a pledge to push for a cut in world oil supplies to counter plunging prices.
Anti-US allies Venezuela and Iran seek OPEC oil cut
Full text of Coalition statement on arrest of Iranians in N. Iraq
Iran Focus: London, Jan. 14 The following is the full text of a statement issued by the United States-led forces in Iraq on the arrest of five Iranian citizens in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. In the statement, the Multi-National Force Iraq (MNF-I) charged that the arrested individuals were tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Full text of Coalition statement on arrest of Iranians in N. Iraq
Iran Focus: London, Jan. 14 The following is the full text of a statement issued by the United States-led forces in Iraq on the arrest of five Iranian citizens in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. In the statement, the Multi-National Force Iraq (MNF-I) charged that the arrested individuals were tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Arrested Iranians tied to group arming Iraqis: U.S.
Reuters: The U.S. military said on Sunday that five Iranians held by its troops in Iraq are linked to Revolutionary Guards who are arming and funding Iraqi militants but Tehran called them diplomats and demanded they be released.
Iran says nuclear enrichment work has not stopped
Reuters: Iran is pressing ahead with nuclear enrichment activities at its underground Natanz facility, foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday, dismissing some suggestions that the disputed enrichment work had stalled.
Iran’s ex-Revolutionary Guards chief wants back top brass job
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 13 The former chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who resigned his position with the hopes of establishing a political career has announced that he wants back his former military post, according to a government-run Persian-language website.
Top Iran official says U.S. at impasse in Iraq
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 13 A top Iranian official who was once the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed on Friday that the United States had reached an impasse in Iraq and that its new strategy for security there would fail as well.
Iran’s ex-Revolutionary Guards chief wants back top brass job
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 13 The former chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who resigned his position with the hopes of establishing a political career has announced that he wants back his former military post, according to a government-run Persian-language website.
Top Iran official says U.S. at impasse in Iraq
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 13 A top Iranian official who was once the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed on Friday that the United States had reached an impasse in Iraq and that its new strategy for security there would fail as well.
Rice says Bush authorized Iranians arrest in Iraq
New York Times: A recent series of American raids against Iranians in Iraq was authorized under an order that President Bush decided to issue several months ago to undertake a broad military offensive against Iranian operatives in the country, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.
