BEIRUT (AFP) — Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed Thursday that the Lebanese opposition will not “surrender” in its mass protests to bring down the Western-backed government.
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December, 2006
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9 December
Final witnesses testify at Saddam trial
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Two final witnesses told Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial Thursday of the horrors of the anti-Kurdish Anfal campaign, before the court adjourned for a week in preparation of its next phase.
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9 December
Under fire outside wire — 36 hours in Baqouba
BAQOUBA — Specialist Robert Mathews of the US army gets down on one knee between two hulking Bradley armoured fighting vehicles and prays — his cavalry platoon is heading into war-torn downtown Baqouba.
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9 December
Bipartisan panel challenges Washington, Iraqi leaders
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan panel of Washington insiders has presented US and Iraqi political leaders a formidable challenge in dealing with the chaos in Iraq, but whether they can meet it is a major question.
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5 December
Bahraini Ambassador Seen Off by FM
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met the outgoing Bahraini Ambassador to Tehran here on Tuesday.
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5 December
N. Technology to Reach Irreversible Point Prior to Year End
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran’s nuclear progress and technology will reach a point before the end of this (Iranian) year that it could not be backtracked.
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5 December
FM Spokesman Dismisses Statements of British Officials
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Fabrication of realities may not help the British statesmen solve their problems, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in response to the recent remarks by British officials about the threatening nature of Iran’s nuclear programs.
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5 December
Israel’s New Ministry Created for Propaganda
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Chairman of Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy blasted the Israeli regime for forming a new ministry to work against Iran’s nuclear capabilities, stressing that the measure is meant to serve as a propaganda.
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5 December
Iran Accepts Holocaust if Presented with Corroborative Evidence
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi Tuesday said Iran, as an unbiased state, would accept the truthfulness of the Holocaust if substantiating evidence is presented in this regard.
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5 December
Chavez Victory a Gravestone on Bush’s Measures
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Venezuela’s Ambassador to Tehran Arturo Gallegos Ramirez viewed victory of Hugo Chavez in presidential elections as a gravestone laid on the measures of Bush administration in Latin America.
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