Reuters: China’s Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing will attend a foreign ministers’ meeting in New York on Monday to discuss strategy on Iran, amid debate at the United Nations over how to curb Tehran’s nuclear programmes.
China to attend foreign ministers’ meeting on Iran
Moderate earthquake shakes southern Iran
AP: A moderate earthquake shook southeastern Iran Sunday morning, slightly injuring more than 70 people, state radio reported.
Ahmadinejad sees nuclear Iran as unrivalled power
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 07 Irans radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic could fast become an unrivalled world power by obtaining nuclear capabilities.
Ahmadinejad sees nuclear Iran as unrivalled power
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 07 Irans radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic could fast become an unrivalled world power by obtaining nuclear capabilities.
Iran rejects Annan’s call for direct talks with U.S.
Bloomberg: Iran, which has the world’s second- largest oil and natural gas reserves, rejected a call by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the U.S. to hold direct talks with the Islamic Republic about its nuclear program.
Iran’s Jews face growing climate of fear
Scotland on Sunday: For the dwindling Jewish community in Iran, a sacred ritual is observed at 6.30 every evening as shortwave radios are switched on to listen to the daily Farsi broadcast from Israel.
Iran’s sinister aims
Washington Times: Iran’s vast oil and gas resources undermine the Iranian regime’s claim it needs a nuclear program for domestic energy needs. Iran has the world’s third-largest known oil reserves and second-largest natural gas reserves. However, support for terrorism and economic mismanagement have damaged oil and gas development in Iran.
World Cup ban threat on Iranian president
Sunday Times: Pressure is growing on Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, to bar Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, if he tries to attend the World Cup.
Russian official, Rice discuss Iran nukes
AP: Russia’s foreign minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talked about Iran’s nuclear program on Saturday after Russia and China opposed the latest draft of a U.N. Security Council resolution that could eventually lead to sanctions of the Islamic republic.
Group claims has killed Iran Revolutionary Guards commander
Iran Focus: London, May 06 A group opposed to the government of Iran announced on Saturday that its members had executed a local commander of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan.
