Bloomberg: President George W. Bush and his closest ally, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, will meet in Washington next week to discuss the crisis in the Middle East, the Iraq war and Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the White House announced.
Blair to visit White House to discuss Middle East, Iran, Iraq
Merkel strongly rejects Iranian leader’s letter
Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday forcefully rejected a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeking cooperation with Germany, saying it did not even deserve an answer.
Iran: Giving up uranium enrichment is tantamount to defeat
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 Iran said on Friday that accepting the Wests demand that it freeze uranium enrichment was tantamount to accepting surrender.
Iran: Giving up uranium enrichment is tantamount to defeat
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 Iran said on Friday that accepting the Wests demand that it freeze uranium enrichment was tantamount to accepting surrender.
Behind Hizballah’s war machine
TIME: Last Friday there was no real reason to believe that an Israeli warship plying the Mediterranean to enforce the Israeli Defense Force’s naval blockade of Lebanon was in danger. Hizballah may have been busy shooting rockets primarily 122mm Kaytushas with an estimated range of 12 to 17 miles at towns in northern Israel, but Israel’s intelligence agencies had no indication that the militant Shi’ite group had anything in its arsenal that could hit a ship at sea. That all changed when an Iranian-supplied C802 missile slammed into the deck and killed four soldiers.
China and Russia may be reneging on Iran, U.K. says
Bloomberg: China and Russia may be reneging on commitments to demand that Iran stop enriching uranium, a British diplomat said after giving the United Nations Security Council a resolution threatening the Islamic nation with economic penalties for refusing to comply.
Britain sees chance to contain Iran’s regional ambitions
The Times: Britain blames Iran for the eruption of fighting in Lebanon and wants to use crisis talks to build an alliance for its long-term containment.
Meanwhile, Iran gets on with its bomb
Daily Telegraph: The UN Security Council should this week be discussing how to punish Iran for refusing to halt its uranium-enrichment programme. Instead, the world’s leading powers are trying to bring a halt to the escalating violence in Israel and Lebanon, and Iran’s nuclear programme has fallen off the international agenda.
Two men in their 20s hanged in public in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 20 Iranian authorities hanged two young men in public in the western city of Boroujerd, a semi-official daily wrote on Thursday.
Two men in their 20s hanged in public in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 20 Iranian authorities hanged two young men in public in the western city of Boroujerd, a semi-official daily wrote on Thursday.
