Eurasia Press & News

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.

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.

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.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met the outgoing Bahraini Ambassador to Tehran here on Tuesday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed Iran’s resolve to continue with the production of nuclear fuel to satiate all the consumption needs of the country’s power plants.