February, 2007

• 1 February

  Iran Sets a Record in Cooperation with IAEA

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki stressed the point that the Islamic Republic of Iran has so far maintained maximum and best cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency among all other member states of the IAEA.

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• 1 February

  MP Calls for Immediate Measures by Iraq to Release Iran’s Diplomats

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian MP here on Wednesday called on Baghdad to take serious its responsibility for releasing the Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the US forces in Iraq, reminding that continued incarceration of the five Iranian diplomats impairs the credit and authority of the Iraqi government.

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• 1 February

  Mottaki to Attend Ministerial Summit of Iraq’s Neighbors

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari extended an invitation to his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday to attend a ministerial summit of Iraq’s neighboring states in Baghdad.

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• 1 February

  Olmert approves rerouting of barrier

  RAMALLAH — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved a rerouting of Israel’s separation barrier to take in two more illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Israeli media reported yesterday.

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• 1 February

  US stops F-14 parts sales, hints Iran behind Karbala attack

  WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States took new steps to isolate Iran by freezing the sale of all F-14 fighter parts, as officials told US news media they suspect Iranians masquerading as Americans were involved in a deadly attack on a US compound in Iraq.

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• 1 February

  Bombs strike Shiite areas in Baghdad, Sunnis face mortar attacks, kidnappings

  BAGHDAD (AP) — Car bombs struck mostly Shiite targets in Baghdad on Wednesday, and the bodies of three Sunni professors and a student were found days after they were seized while leaving their campus in a Shiite part of the city. At least 47 people were reported killed across the …

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• 1 February

  German court orders arrest of Masri kidnappers

  BERLIN (Reuters) — A court in Germany has ordered the arrest of 13 people suspected of being involved in the abduction of a German national who says he was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA, state prosecutors said on Wednesday.

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• 1 February

  Iran 2-3 years from atom bomb — think tank

  LONDON (Reuters) — Iran is at least two to three years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon, a leading global think tank said on Wednesday.

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• 1 February

  Bulgaria targets Libyan police over nurses’ torture

  SOFIA (AFP) — A Bulgarian prosecutor launched a judicial enquiry Wednesday against 11 Libyan police officers who allegedly tortured five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a high-profile AIDS epidemic case.

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• 1 February

  Ex-warlord elected speaker in Somalia

  MOGADISHU (AP) — Somali officials were imposing martial law on areas the transitional government controls, moving to strengthen a tenuous grip on power and smother rising violence. An AU official said Wednesday that help was on the way in the form of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria.

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