November 5, 2024

Syria crisis: Tremseh ‘massacre’ and more – an update as of Friday 13 July 2012

Syria crisis: Tremseh ‘massacre’ – Friday 13 July 2012
• Assad forces kill more than 200 near Hama, say activists
• State media blames “terrorists” for the killings
• Annan critical of regime using heavy weapons in Tremseh
• UN security council stuck in gridlock over Syria

Tehran’s Strategic Defeat in Iraq

Huffington Post
Alireza Jafarzadeh
Author, The Iran Threat
Posted: April 6, 2010
The March 7 parliamentary elections have heralded a new era for Iraq, pushing aside the incumbent Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki and officials with ties to Iran while opening way for a new slate of politicians hoping to mend serious sectarian divides. But, as a U.S. military official […]

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, […]