AFP: An influx of Iranians and Iranian weapons is hampering efforts to bring peace and democracy to violence-wracked Iraq, Washington’s ambassador to the country said Sunday. “Weapons and people coming across the border to undermine Iraq must be stopped, and we’re working with the Iraqis, including the prime minister, to make this message clear to the Iranians,” Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told CNN television.
Influx of Iranians, weapons, undermining democracy in Iraq: US ambassador
Ahmadinejad Fills Cabinet With Hard-Liners
AP: Iran’s new president named a government Sunday replete with hard-liners in key ministries, nominations seen as likely to insure more confrontation with the West over the country’s nuclear program. None of the 21 ministers in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s proposed Cabinet are known to back democratic reforms. They are seen as followers of Iran’s conservative supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters.
Irans defence chief tied to Beirut bombing of U.S. Marines
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 14 – The nomination of a veteran commander of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as the new defence minister has been greeted with calls for an investigation into his possible ties to the suicide bombing of the U.S. Marines compound in Beirut airport in October 1983, which killed 241 Americans. Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guards, was in command of the IRGC expeditionary force in Lebanon when on October 23, 1983,
at 6:22 a.m., a suicide bomber drove a large water delivery truck …
Irans new defence minister tied to bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 14 – The nomination of a veteran commander of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as the new defence minister has been greeted with calls for an investigation into his possible ties to the suicide bombing of the U.S. Marines compound in Beirut airport in October 1983, which killed 241 Americans. Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guards, was in command of the IRGC expeditionary force in Lebanon when on October 23, 1983,
at 6:22 a.m., a suicide bomber drove a large water delivery truck …
Britain keeps distance from talk of strike on Iran
Sunday Times: THE foreign secretary Jack Straw sought to distance Britain yesterday from comments by President
George W Bush that he would not rule out a military strike against Iran. It came as diplomats gave warning that British attempts to solve the crisis prompted by Tehrans resumption of its nuclear programme last week were doomed to failure.
‘Pointless’ nuclear talks allowed Iran to keep on building
Sunday Telegraph: The failure of the EU’s attempts to persuade Iran not to manufacture nuclear weapons has been even more humiliating than is generally realised. The purpose of the two-year joint mission by British, French and German diplomats was to talk the Iranians into not producing enriched uranium. According to a Reuters report in the US DefenseNews, however, based on a government document smuggled out of Iran by the National Council for the Resistance of Iran, the mullahs have used that time to assemble thousands of the necessary centrifuges, which can conveniently be hidden across the country.
By breaking the seals at Isfahan, the Iranian president has deliberately set up a showdown with the
Sunday Telegraph: They smuggle arms to kill our troops, they encourage Shi’ite Muslim clerics in Iraq to set up their own independent state, and now they want to build an atom bomb. More than 25 years after the ayatollahs first seized power in Teheran, the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to pose a
grave threat to Western security.
Inside Iran’s Secret War For Iraq
Time Magazine: The U.S. military’s new nemesis in Iraq is named Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani, and he is not a Baathist or a member of al-Qaeda. He is working for Iran.
According to a U.S. military-intelligence document obtained by Time, al-Sheibani heads a network of insurgents created by
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps with the express purpose of committing violence against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq.
18 of Irans 21 new ministers hail from Revolutionary Guards, MOIS
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 14 – The following is the final list of ministerial nominations presented by Irans new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Majlis (parliament) on Sunday. The list includes 13 ministers-designate who have been officers and officials in the Revolutionary Guards and its affiliated paramilitary agencies. At least five of the nominees have background in the notorious secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), and revolutionary prosecutors offices …
18 of Irans 21 new ministers hail from Revolutionary Guards, secret police
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 14 – The following is the final list of ministerial nominations presented by Irans new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Majlis (parliament) on Sunday. The list includes 13 ministers-designate who have been officers and officials in the Revolutionary Guards and its affiliated paramilitary agencies. At least five of the nominees have background in the notorious secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), and revolutionary prosecutors offices …
