Fighters Receive Support, Khalilzad Says

By Jonathan Finer and Ellen Knickmeyer

The Washington Post - Iran is publicly professing its support for Iraq's stalemated political process while its military and intelligence services back outlawed militias and insurgent groups, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Thursday.

NCRI - Iraqi intelligence director Mohammad Al-Shahwani unveiled new details on Iranian regime's meddling in Iraq.

In an interview yesterday with Iraq-Alghad, (Iraq tomarrow) he said: "Names and addresses belonging to Badr organization, closely affiliated to the Iranian regime, were discovered during a raid by the Iraqi intelligence agents against a center last month. Two Iranians were arrested during the raid, one was in charge of a television station with no authorization.

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The New York Times — Sunni Arab political leaders on Friday denounced an agreement between the United States and Iran to hold face-to-face talks about solutions to the unrest in Iraq, saying the conversations would amount to meddling by foreign nations in Iraq's domestic affairs.

Reuters - U.S. officials in Iraq on Friday again accused Iran of meddling in its neighbour's internal affairs, saying the Islamic Republic was carrying out "unhelpful activities" there.

A U.S. embassy statement said Washington was "concerned about unhelpful Iranian activities in Iraq. These concerns are well known and we have talked about them."

NCRI - US President George Bush said on Monday that Iranian regime has been involved in roadside bombings against coalition forces and civilians in Iraq. He said: "Tehran has been responsible for at least some of the increasing lethality of anti-coalition attacks by providing Shia militia with the capability to build improvised explosive devices in Iraq."

NCRI - Richard Perle, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense and a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute said in a radio interview in Washington that the stable Iraq is an essential threat to the Iranian mullahs, because they cannot remain in power if a democratic and progressive government was to emerge in their neighborhood.

NCRI - In a gathering of Sunni and Shiite Muslims on Monday in Auvers-sur-Oise, residence of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the Samarra bombing in Iraq was condemned and the Iranian religious dictatorship was blamed for this barbaric act.

Participants in this gathering included Sid Ahmad Ghozali, former prime minister of Algeria, Muslim leaders in northern Paris, two Iraqi women university professors, Ayatollah Jalal Ganjei, Chair of the NCRI committee for religious freedom and Dr. Saleh Rajavi, NCRI representative in France and Switzerland. Several other Muslim figures were also present in this event.

Reuters - The American ambassador to Iraq accused Iran on Monday of training and providing weapons to militias operating in Iraq.

"Iran has another policy as well: to work with militias, provide training and provide weapons to extremist groups, direct and indirectly," Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters after a news conference.

NCRI - According to the Lebanese Daily Star, Walid Jumblatt, member of the Lebanese parliament revealed a joint plot by the Iranian regime and Syria to alter the Lebanese map in order to take advantage of the situation. Jumbalat spoke to visitors to his mountain refuge of Mukhtara on Sunday.

Jumbalat stressed that the Shebaa Farms is not Lebanese but in fact Syrian and that Syria had altered the maps pushing the borderline to show that Shebaa Farms is Lebanese and this way the resistance against the Israeli occupation of a supposedly Lebanese territory would be justified.