Iran

BAGHDAD — The second bombing at the Samarra shrine will test Moqtada Sadr’s political skills and clarify what control he has over his feared Mehdi Army militia.

VIENNA (AFP) — Iran threatened Thursday to further reduce cooperation with the UN atomic agency if new sanctions are ordered and insisted its uranium enrichment programme had gone too far to turn back.

TEHRAN (AP) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday shrugged off the West’s criticism of Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme and said that eventual new UN sanctions would not harm Iran.

PARIS (Reuters) – Iran is arming the Taliban in Afghanistan, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said on Tuesday, accusing Tehran of fuelling insurrection around the Middle East and misjudging the international mood.

NCRI – In an article on Thursday, June 7th, Iraqi newspaper Al-Iraq-el-Yom stated:  Experience has proved that behind Iranian regime’s propaganda, there always hides some serious and vicious weakness and no one should be tricked by it.

NCRI – On Friday, June 8th, in an interview with the Iraqi television Al-Mostagheleh, politician Ghasem Barisom said: Iraqis are being killed every day with Iranian bullets. Iranian regime does not observe any political principle and is only after its own gains in Iraq.

An alarming series of arrests by the FBI alerted everyone wondering how far the arms of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its subordinate Quds Force can extend.

TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran will make the United States “regret” its detention of five Iranians in Iraq since early this year, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday.

An alarming series of arrests by the FBI alerted everyone wondering how far the arms of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its subordinate Quds Force can extend.

NCRI – A large number of Iranians gathered on Thursday outside the British Parliament calling on the government of Tony Blair to respect the democratic rights of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI).