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- Iraqi troops take control of Iranian refugee camp
- BAGHDAD AFP — The Iraqi army has replaced American troops in securing a refugee camp north of Baghdad where members of Iran's main armed opposition group are grouped, Iraq's defence ministry said on Saturday. "Iraqi forces have taken over responsibility from US forces to protect Ashraf camp," ministry spokesman...
- Research articles 2008-08-30
- Iran parliament approves new reshuffle
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran's conservative-dominated parliament on Tuesday approved three new government ministers named by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, despite mounting criticism of his repeated cabinet reshuffles. New Interior Minister Ali Kordan, a former deputy oil minister with previous service in the judiciary and the elite Revolutionary Guards, was confirmed...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- The White House's plot to bomb Iran
- THE LONG BREWING White House plan to attack Iran resurfaced last week with the New Yorker's publication of Seymour Hersh's latest investigative report. Here we see Dick Cheney and George Bush coldly weaving another web of lies to engineer an attack as illegitimate as the one against Iraq. ...
- Research articles 2008-07-13
- GM's Wagoner dismisses bankrutpcy talk
- Automotive GM CEO DISMISSES BANKRUPTCY TALK: The chief executive of General Motors Corp. dismissed speculation that the largest U.S. automaker might soon seek bankruptcy protection. Comments in the past week about a potential bankruptcy are "not at all constructive or accurate," Rick Wagoner said Thursday. GM has $24...
- Research articles 2008-07-10
- Iraq emerging as key route in global drugs trade
- BAGHDAD AFP — War-torn Iraq is emerging as a key conduit in the global drugs trade as criminal gangs exploit its porous border with Iran to channel their illicit goods to the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The Iraqi authorities say that since the 2003 US-led invasion the trade...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- Rebels in Iran execute two captive policemen: report
- DUBAI AFP — An Iranian Sunni rebel group has said it has executed two more of 16 Iranian border police it says it seized two weeks ago, Al-Arabiya television reported on Friday. The Dubai-based news channel quoted a spokesman for the Jundullah Soldiers of God rebels as saying that...
- Research articles 2008-06-27
- U.S. may open outpost in Iran
- WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is considering setting up a diplomatic outpost in Iran in what would mark a dramatic official U.S. return to the country nearly 30 years after the American embassy was overrun and the two nations severed relations. Even as it threatens the Iranian regime...
- Research articles 2008-06-24
- Iran considers Israeli attack 'impossible'
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran on Saturday said it considered an attack by arch-enemy Israel as "impossible" after US media reported military exercises by the Jewish state were a possible practice for a strike against Iran. "Such impudence and audacity to have an aggression against our national interest and integrity...
- Research articles 2008-06-21
- Pakistan's Khan denies selling advanced nuke blueprint
- ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan on Tuesday denied selling blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon to Iran or North Korea, telling AFP that Western countries were to blame. Khan's comments came a day after a former arms inspector said in a report that the United States...
- Research articles 2008-06-17
- Freed Japanese tourist in Tehran after 8-month ordeal
- TEHRAN AFP — A Japanese tourist released by kidnappers in southeastern Iran arrived in Tehran on Sunday ahead of his return home after spending eight months in captivity. Satoshi Nakamura, 23, arrived at Tehran city airport on a flight from the southeastern city of Zahedan at around 3:00 pm...
- Research articles 2008-06-14
- Iran orders suspension of news agency
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran on Monday ordered the Fars news agency, one of the country's most prominent news organisations and normally considered close to the government, to close for three days for publishing "false news". "We have received a letter from the commission for surveillance of non-governmental press agencies...
- Research articles 2008-06-02
- Ahmadinejad wants unity with Iran's parliament
- TEHRAN AFP — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday urged Iran's new parliament to show unity with his government, amid expectations the chamber could be critical of his increasingly controversial economic policies. "The government and parliament should become an example of unity and harmony for the world," Ahmadinejad said in...
- Research articles 2008-05-27
- Iran confirms six Bahai faithful arrested
- TEHRAN AFP — Iran confirmed on Tuesday it has arrested members of the Bahai religious community, whose faith is banned in the Islamic republic, for acting against the national interest. "This is a group that has acted against the country's interests and has links with foreigners, especially the Zionists...
- Research articles 2008-05-20
- The Global Perspective
- With the world now divided into a paper economy and a real one, paper WTI and Brent is trading in a void which can eventually become as wide as more than $125/barrel on one extreme and less than $60/b at the other end. With prices of food and other commodities...
- Research articles 2008-05-19
- France to urge UN to decriminalise homosexuality
- PARIS AFP — France plans to ask the United Nations to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised around the globe, a government minister said Saturday, as gays and lesbians worldwide marked the International Day Against Homophobia. Human Rights Minister Rama Yade told a delegation of French gay and lesbian...
- Research articles 2008-05-17
- US Defense Secretary urges more private US contacts with Iran
- WASHINGTON AFP — US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday he thought more visits to Iran by private American citizens might help bridge differences between the two countries. But Gates, who in 2004 advocated greater diplomatic engagement with Iran, said he believed it would not be useful now to...
- Research articles 2008-05-14
- Repsol, Shell renegotiating Iran gas deal: Repsol company source
- MADRID AFP — Spain's biggest oil group, Repsol, and British-Dutch peer Royal Dutch Shell are renegotiating their participation in a multi-billion dollar natural gas project in Iran but still want to take part, a Repsol internal source said Monday. "Repsol and Shell are currently negotiating with the government a...
- Research articles 2008-05-12
- Lebanon tense after Hezbollah power grab
- BEIRUT AFP — Lebanon was steeped in tension on Saturday after Hezbollah seized control of west Beirut in what the ruling Western-backed coalition branded an armed coup orchestrated with the help of Iran and Syria. At least 18 people were killed in the fighting that pitted Sunni supporters of...
- Research articles 2008-05-09
- Iraq to probe for proof of Iranian meddling
- BAGHDAD AFP — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is to form a panel of security ministries to weed out any evidence of Iranian interference in Iraq's affairs, a top official said on Sunday. "The prime minister has ordered a special panel of representatives of security ministries to document any Iranian...
- Research articles 2008-05-04
- Radical cleric Sadr snubs Iraq peace overtures
- NAJAF, Iraq AFP — Hardline Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday refused talks with Iraqi lawmakers visiting neighbouring Iran in a bid to end clashes between his fighters and troops, an aide told AFP. "Moqtada al-Sadr did not permit his leaders to meet the Iraqi delegation," said Sheikh Salah...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
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