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• Iran may press charges against US, Britain over blast

  - 2008-05-12

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran's judiciary said on Monday it may take legal action against the United States and Britain over a mosque explosion last month that killed 13 people in the southern tourist city of Shiraz. "Fortunately the investigation into this case is complete and different governments, especially the...

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• Britain's Brown backs US stance on Iran

  - 2007-11-11

  LONDON AFP — Prime Minister Gordon Brown described the United States as Britain's "most important ally" and praised closer ties between France, Germany and the US in an interview broadcast Sunday. Brown, who has stepped back from the shoulder-to-shoulder relations between US President George W. Bush and former premier...

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• Shiite cleric assassinated in Iran

  - 2007-06-26

  TEHRAN AFP — An Iranian Shiite cleric known for his anti-Wahhabi activities has been assassinated in the restive city of Ahvas, in an area that is home to a substantial Arab community, a press report said Tuesday. "Hojjatoleslam Hesham Seimori, the combatant cleric and Shiite scholar, was shot dead...

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• Iranian forces crossed Iraqi border: report

  - 2007-06-25

  LONDON AFP — Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have been spotted by British troops crossing the border into southern Iraq, The Sun tabloid reported on Tuesday. Britain's defence ministry would not confirm or deny the report, with a spokesman declining to comment on "intelligence matters". An unidentified intelligence source...

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• Rushdie protests rage as fatwa looms again

  - 2007-06-22

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Angry Islamists held the biggest protests yet against Britain's knighthood for Salman Rushdie Friday, as an Iranian cleric said the death sentence on the novelist 18 years ago was still valid. Pakistan's Prime Minister joined the condemnation as his countrymen torched effigies of the 60-year-old writer...

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• Rushdie knighthood triggers diplomatic furore

  - 2007-06-19

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Controversy over a knighthood for author Salman Rushdie escalated into a full-blown diplomatic row as Iran and Pakistan summoned Britain's ambassadors to protest, drawing a retort from London. Iran summoned the British envoy to Tehran, Geoffrey Adams, who was told by the foreign ministry's director for...

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• Pakistan condemns British knighthood for Rushdie

  - 2007-06-18

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistan's parliament on Monday unanimously condemned Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie and asked for the title to be withdrawn to avoid offending Muslims. Indian-born Rushdie, 59, was forced to go into hiding for a decade after Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989...

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• Pakistan says Rushdie knighthood may spark terrorism

  - 2007-06-18

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistan demanded on Monday that Britain withdraw a knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie, as a government minister said the honour gave a justification for suicide attacks by Muslims. Angry protesters in several cities torched British flags and beat them with their shoes in protest at...

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• Salman Rushdie: from fatwa recluse to knighted socialite

  - 2007-06-16

  LONDON AFP — Knighted some 18 years after a fatwa sentencing him to death, author Salman Rushdie is still best known for his controversial novel "The Satanic Verses." Claiming that the book insulted Islam, Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the fatwa in 1989, triggering violent protests from...

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• Britain's defence chief faces grilling over sailors selling stories

  - 2007-04-16

  LONDON AFP — Britain's Defence Secretary Des Browne on Monday faces a grilling in parliament -- and calls to resign -- for allowing some of the 15 mariners captured by Iran to sell their stories to the media. As parliament returns after the Easter break, Browne, who has taken...

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