Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 13 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed on Tuesday the United States-backed roadmap to peace in the Middle East and called for resistance against the state of Israel as the only path to liberation in the troubled region, state television reported.
Irans Supreme Leader urges Jihad in Middle East
Irans Supreme Leader urges Jihad in Middle East
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 13 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed on Tuesday the United States-backed roadmap to peace in the Middle East and called for resistance against the state of Israel as the only path to liberation in the troubled region, state television reported.
Rafsanjani defends Iran Presidents anti-Israel stance
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 13 Irans former president and strongman Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani joined other senior officials of the Islamic Republic on Monday in defending remarks by the countrys hard-line President against the state of Israel.
Rafsanjani defends Iran Presidents anti-Israel stance
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 13 Irans former president and strongman Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani joined other senior officials of the Islamic Republic on Monday in defending remarks by the countrys hard-line President against the state of Israel.
Iraqi group blames mortar attack on offices on Iran
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Dec. 13 An Iraqi group, whose offices in the town of Diwaniya underwent a mortar attack, in a statement blamed Iran for being behind the operation.
Iraqi group blames mortar attack on offices on Iran
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Dec. 13 An Iraqi group, whose offices in the town of Diwaniya underwent a mortar attack, in a statement blamed Iran for being behind the operation.
Iran gaining influence, power in Iraq through militia
Knight Ridder Newspapers: The Iranian-backed militia the Badr Organization has taken over many of the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s intelligence activities and infiltrated its elite commando units, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
State Dept. rules out guarantee on Iran
AP: The Bush administration is ruling out a guarantee not to attack Iran to induce it to halt development of nuclear weapons.
EU says Iran must show greater respect for human rights
Dow Jones Newswires: European Union foreign ministers called on Iran Monday to show greater respect for human rights, saying the situation in Iran was deteriorating and damaging E.U.-Iran ties. The E.U. ministers said they regretted that Iran has failed to hold talks on human rights this year, “despite the E.U.’s strong and repeated requests.”
Iran’s Ahmadinejad says world ‘on verge of change’
AFP: Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday stood by his latest controversial attack against Israel and boldly asserted the world was “on the verge of change”.
