Iran Focus: London, May 09 – The new British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday that Iran must comply with the demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Comments on Iran by new British Foreign Secretary
Comments on Iran by new British Foreign Secretary
Iran Focus: London, May 09 – The new British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday that Iran must comply with the demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Death in Basra
The Times – Leading Article: Iran is exploiting the struggle for power among Iraq’s Shia militias
British troops and Iraqi police have managed to quell the rioting in Basra after violent clashes between troops and youths demonstrating around the remains of the British helicopter brought down at the weekend.
Iran president says awaits reaction to US letter
Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said on Tuesday he was awaiting a reaction to a letter he sent President Bush, although U.S. officials have called it a diversion in a dispute over Tehran’s nuclear plans.
Major powers fail to agree on Iran strategy
Reuters: Foreign ministers of major powers failed to come up with a joint strategy for dealing with Iran after Tehran sought to influence the negotiations with a stunning last-minute diplomatic maneuver, officials said.
Beckett: no-one intends to attack Iran
Daily Telegraph: Margaret Beckett has echoed her Foreign Office predecessor Jack Straw’s firm stance on Iran, insisting that no-one intends to take military action against the state.
China urges Iran to cooperate with IAEA: Xinhua
Reuters: China’s foreign minister urged Iran to cooperate with the global nuclear watchdog and also said the deepening dispute over Iran’s atomic activities should be defused by negotiations, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.
Missile may have come from Iran
Daily Telegraph: The Army now believes that the Lynx helicopter shot down over central Basra at the weekend was most probably hit by a surface-to-air missile, obtained possibly from neighbouring Iran, after missile casings were discovered on the third floor of a nearby building, security sources in the city said yesterday.
Tehran’s ‘peace offensive’
Washington Times – Editorial: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and its allies would periodically launch “peace offensives” in an effort to rehabilitate their image and win concessions from the West. In essence, they would talk about peaceful coexistence and make conciliatory-sounding gestures, without substantively changing their policies.
Straw move ‘not linked to stance on Iran’
The Guardian: Britain has no intention of joining a nuclear attack on or invasion of Iran and it is absurd for the media to claim Jack Straw was sacked as foreign secretary because he ruled out military action, the prime minister said yesterday.
