Iran

According to sources from the occupied Chechnya, conflicts grow between the groups of Chechen murtads (apostates, AKA national traitors). Moscow puppet leader Kadyrov with his high-and-mighty manners and sadism creates more and more number of enemies in his own environment.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei here on Wednesday said that all people from every religion and ethnic group and with any political disposition have the right to enjoy security without any discrimination. “All ranks of people with any religion and ethnicity and also with any political disposition are equal in …

Israel should seriously consider opening negotiations with Syria, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in closed discussions recently. Barak, Army Radio reported Thursday, said that Syria’s participation in the upcoming Annapolis peace summit could lead to direct talks between the countries.

President George W. Bush will welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel to his Texas ranch on Friday where they will seek to show unity on Iran even as Tehran defies the West over its nuclear programme.   

US defense officials have signaled that up-to-date attack plans are available if needed in the escalating crisis over Iran’s nuclear aims, although no strike appears imminent, The Associated Press (AP) reported.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in Malawi that Tehran has the political will to boost its ties with African countries, IRNA reported. 

China urged Iran to heed rising international worry about its nuclear ambitions, saying Beijing would seek to work with Europe and the United Nations to defuse the crisis but holding its tongue on any new sanctions, Reuters reported. 

The World Bank has suspended 5,4 mln dollars’ worth of aid scheduled for projects in Iran because of US financial sanctions against the Islamic republic, a senior bank official said, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. 

Interpol rejected a request by Iran to drop arrest warrants against five leading Iranians, wanted by Argentina for their alleged role in a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s announcement Wednesday that Iran had 3,000 working centrifuges raised fears in Washington that Israel would respond to the statement with a preemptive military strike, the Times reported Thursday.