U.S. urgently needs strategy to rein in Iran

Monday, 09 January 2006

By U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson Palm Beach Post commentary Governments across Europe, Russia and even the Arab world are condemning statements by Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who recently called for Israel to be wiped off the map and declared that the genocide of European Jewry in the Holocaust was a myth.

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Iran president in new diatribe against Israel

Sunday, 01 January 2006

Agence France Presse - Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a new diatribe against archfoe Israel Sunday saying that the Jewish state was "anti-Islamic in nature" and the result of European "ethnic cleansing."

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Iraqi groups angered by Iran's meddling press for election re-run

Sunday, 25 December 2005

NCRI - At a meeting at the Baghdad headquarters of the National Iraqi Concord Movement, leaders of 25 Iraqi political fronts and parties decided to establish a joint operation headquarters and to call on the international community to put pressure on the Iraqi Electoral Commission to revoke the December 15 election results. The coalition of 25 major political parties also called for a re-election under the supervision of independent international observers. They said the new round of elections can only be kicked off when the existing electoral commission dominated by agents of the Iranian regime is dissolved and the para-military forces disarmed.

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Iran regime backed groups in control of key posts in Iraq

Saturday, 24 December 2005

NCRI - The following is a report by the Washington Times exposing Iranian regime's infiltration into Iraqi establishments to impose its domination in that country. Iraqi official Jabr relieved of duties The Washington Times, December 23 - Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, overseer of two detention centers raided by U.S. troops in the past two months, has been relieved of his duties, according to a former Iraqi special forces commander at the ministry.

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Iraqis denounce Iran regime's meddling in their elections

Friday, 23 December 2005

NCRI - Several hundred thousand people demonstrated after Friday prayers in southern Baghdad, many carrying banners decrying last week's elections. Many Iraqis outside the religious Shiite coalition say that the elections were unfair to Sunni Arab and secular Shiite groups.

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Sunni, secular groups demand new vote

Wednesday, 21 December 2005

Claims That Iraqi Ballot Was Rigged Threaten to Derail Government, Boost Insurgency Washington Post, BAGHDAD - Sunni and secular political groups angrily claimed Tuesday that last week's Iraqi national election was rigged, demanded a new vote and threatened to leave a shambles the delicate plan to bring the country's wary factions together in a new government.

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Western music is latest target of Iran's hardline president

Wednesday, 21 December 2005

- Holocaust denial followed by cultural crackdown - Bee Gees and Clapton among artists banned Robert Tait in Tehran The Guardian - Having outraged the international community by denying the holocaust and Israel's right to exist, Iran's combative president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has launched an offensive against new western targets - George Michael, Eric Clapton and the Bee Gees. In a decree that threatens to turn the clock back to 1979, when Iran was gripped by the Islamic revolution, Mr Ahmadinejad has ordered state broadcasters to stop playing "decadent" western music and to favour "fine Iranian music" instead.

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Secretary Rice: Iran cannot be trusted with nuclear technology

Sunday, 18 December 2005

NCRI – Speaking to the Fox News TV Channel on Sunday, Secretary Condaleezza Rice said that Iranian regime has shown in practice that it cannot be trusted with technology that could lead to a nuclear weapon.   On Ahmadinejad’s recent remarks on Israel and that the Holocaust was a "myth", Rice said that she expected Iran's nuclear program to be referred to the UN Security Council.

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Iran accused of aiding Islamist violence in Turkey: report

Sunday, 18 December 2005

Agence France Presse, ANKARA - A Turkish court has said that neighboring Iran trained Turkish Islamist radicals and supported "terrorist" activities aimed at undermining Turkey's strictly secular order, media reports said Sunday. The accusations came in the reasoning that an Ankara court wrote over the convictions in July of nine Islamist militants in a long-running case over the murders of four prominent pro-secular intellectuals in the 1990s.

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