January 23, 2025

Signs of Iran’s Hand in Iraq

Time
Mark Kukis
Baghdad
Posted: March 18, 2008

One of the armor-piercing roadside bombs in Iraq has a nickname among the militants who place the device. They call it the Najadia, a short variation on the long name of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “My group and I believe honestly in fighting the Americans — and getting financial benefit out […]

America’s misguided blacklist

By David Waddington, Peter Archer and Robin Corbett
If there is one issue that has dominated discussions among policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic, it is the devilish question of how to deal with an Iranian regime that has continued to frustrate the democratic ambitions of its people while meddling in the affairs of other […]

Exile group claims Iran is developing nuclear warheads

By MARC CHAMPION
The Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran’s controversial nuclear-fuel program has given the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog details of what the group says is a working nuclear-warhead-development facility.
The facility at Khojir, a defense-ministry missile-research site on the southeast edge of Tehran, is developing a nuclear warhead for use on Iranian medium-range missiles, […]

Inside Iran’s secretive Qods Force

Claude Salhani
Since 2003 Iran has spent billions of dollars in Iraq, mobilized vast government resources and unleashed the Qods Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, all in an effort to spread its hegemony and the Islamic revolution, according to sources in the Iranian resistance. In a speech U.S. President George W. Bush delivered on […]

The only Iran war is within Iran

UN concern over repression in Iran is a signal that the regime’s worst enemy isn’t the US but itself.
December 20, 2007
The world put Iran’s Islamic rulers on notice this week, and not for violating nuclear norms. The 192-member United Nations General Assembly voted its “deep concern” over escalating atrocities in Iran, such as stoning, repression […]

Shiites in S. Iraq Rebuke Tehran

Petition Calls for U.N. Probe Into Iran’s Influence, Sheiks Say
By Amit R. Paley and Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 22, 2007; A25
BAGHDAD, Nov. 21 — More than 300,000 Shiite Muslims from southern Iraq have signed a petition condemning Iran for fomenting violence in Iraq, according to a group of sheiks leading the campaign. “The […]

Iranians named over Buenos Aires bombing

Iran Focus
Tim Shipman & Phillip Sherwell
The Sunday Telegraph
Posted: November 11, 2007

Iran’s deputy defence minister is one of five top Teheran officials placed on Interpol’s most wanted list for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina that killed 85 people, The Telegraph can reveal.
Ahmad Vahidi, a brigadier-general in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards, […]

US ‘must break Iran and Syria regimes’

The Daily Telegraph
Toby Harnden
Posted: October 5, 2007
America should seize every opportunity to force regime change in Syria and Iran, a former senior adviser to the White House has urged.
“We need to do everything possible to destabilise the Syrian regime and exploit every single moment they strategically overstep,” said David Wurmser, who recently resigned after […]

Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007; H.R. 1400

110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1400
AN ACT
To enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran by imposing additional economic sanctions against Iran, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title- This Act […]

Iraqi opposition doubts U.S. reports on surge

By David R. Sands – Leading Iraqi opposition lawmakers yesterday cast doubts of the results of the U.S. military surge and said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has to make fundamental security and political shifts if his embattled government is to survive.
The lawmakers, who included leading Sunni politicians and secular Shi’ites, challenged the congressional testimony this […]