Sunday Times: British intelligence has identified a group of Iranian warlords as the main source of funding and training for the Shiite insurgency in southern Iraq.
A joint operation in Iraq between army intelligence field agents and MI6 has revealed that a cell within the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard is intent on bringing bloodshed to Iraq.
Iranian warlords arm anti-British forces
Iran Is Helping Insurgents in Iraq, U.S. Officials Say
New York Times: Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have raised sharp complaints in recent days that Iran is providing support for the insurgency in Iraq, expressing concerns over what they say are Iran’s attempt to shape Iraq’s future.
The Choice on Iran
Washington Post: High on the list of issues so far absent from this year’s presidential campaign debate is Iran, home to a militant Islamic regime that openly sponsors terrorism, foments anti-American resistance in Iraq and has confessed
to a secret campaign to acquire the technology needed to produce nuclear weapons.
War-games find Iran strike unfavorable
United Press International: CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency war-games have predicted unfavorable consequences of a U.S. pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Newsweek quoted an Air Force source as saying, “The war-games were unsuccessful at preventing the conflict from escalating.”
Iran threatens to halt access for UN nuclear inspectors
The Guardian: Iran rejected UN demands that it freeze all aspects of its uranium enrichment programme yesterday, threatening to cancel access for nuclear inspectors and abandon its international nuclear commitments if the issue is taken to the security council.
Iran Rejects U.N. Call to Freeze Nuclear Enrichment
New York Times: Iran rejected today an order by the United
Nations nuclear watchdog to freeze all its nuclear enrichment programs and warned that it would drop out of the nonproliferation treaty if its case is sent to the Security Council.
The International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution on Saturday calling on Iran to suspend all its activities related to uranium enrichment before its next meeting in November.
Eighteen people die in road accident in south Iran
Reuters: A bus, a lorry and a car collided in southern Iran on Sunday, killing 18 people, police said.
At least 22 people were injured in the accident between the cities of Shiraz and Fasa in southern central Iran, state television quoted a police officer as saying.
Iran Moves to Roll Back Rights Won by Women
New York Times: The hard-liners who won Iran’s parliamentary elections last February have focused on women’s rights in their efforts to reverse some of the reforms carried out under the moderate president, Mohammad Khatami.
Iran’s parliament refuses to approve tough nuclear inspections
AFP: Iran’s conservative-controlled parliament said it would not ratify a treaty allowing tougher UN nuclear inspections after the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a tough resolution against the Islamic republic.
“The continued defiance of principles by the IAEA’s board of governors leaves no room for us to ratify the additional protocol, and will lead us to question what is the point for the nation to leave its doors open for IAEA inspectors,” said the statement read out in parliament.
Iran Rejects UN Call for Uranium Enrichment Freeze
Reuters: Iran rejected on Sunday a resolution from the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it should freeze uranium enrichment, and threatened to end snap checks of atomic facilities if its case were sent to the U.N. Security Council.
