Travel restrictions on Ahmadinejad to be considered by Germany

Thursday, 15 December 2005

NCRI - Following remarks by mullahs' president Ahmadinejad denying Holocaust, German officials are considering some form of travel restrictions on him. In an interview with German TV WDR, Gernot Erler, a state secretary at the foreign ministry, said: "We are considering whether some kind of travel restrictions could possibly be applied here." The Iranian president told a crowd in the southeastern city of Zahedan on Wednesday that the killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis was a "myth," reiterating comments which drew international condemnation last week.

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Politics & Policies: Ahmadinejad's antics

Thursday, 15 December 2005

By CLAUDE SALHANI, UPI International Editor WASHINGTON - Should the world take Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seriously? No, I mean seriously! Consider his recent antics: First, Ahmadinejad declared to a group of students in Tehran in October that "Israel should be wiped off the map." Israel certainly takes him seriously. If that first statement were not bad enough, and even before the dust from that storm he created had time to settle, the Iranian president suggested Israel be moved to Europe -- somewhere between Germany and Austria. Now the European Union is taking him seriously.

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Bush calls Iran regime a "real threat"

Thursday, 15 December 2005

NCRI - President George Bush on Wednesday called mullahs’ regime "a real threat" and urged Tehran to prove it does not seek nuclear weapons. He said: "I called it (Iran) part of the 'axis of evil' for a reason," Bush said in an interview with Fox News. "It's a real threat." In the meantime Khaled Meshaal, political chief of a Palestinian group, Hamas, said in Tehran on Thursday that it would step up attacks against Israel if that country took military action against Iran.

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Iran: Exclude mullahs' soccer team from World Cup - German MEP

Thursday, 15 December 2005

NCRI - Following Ahamadinejad's revolting remarks yesterday, EU leaders and foreign ministers were expected to formally denounce the statements at a two-day EU summit that begins today. Jonathan Allen, a spokesman for Britain, which holds the current EU presidency, said EU foreign ministers may discuss Ahmadinejad's comments over dinner Thursday. "We are outraged. We condemn it, we think its absolutely unacceptable," EU spokeswoman Cristina Gallach said.

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EU chief: Iran deserves a better president

Thursday, 15 December 2005

Associated Press, STRASBOURG, France _ Iran does not have the leadership it deserves, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Wednesday, hours after Iran's president called the Holocaust a "myth" engineered by Europe to create a land for the Jews. "This shows the nature of the regime. With the great respect I have for that country, that people, the great history of that country, I say they do not have the president, or the regime, they deserve," Barroso, in unusually strong comments, told reporters. "Those statements are completely unacceptable, and it is really shocking that a head of state that has a seat in the United Nations can say such a thing," Barroso added on the sidelines of a European Parliament meeting. "It calls our attention to the real danger of that regime having an atomic bomb."

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Iran-U.S.: Iran is a problem that must be dealt with: Rice

Wednesday, 14 December 2005

Agence France Presse, WASHINGTON - Iran has become a problem for Middle East stability on several fronts that the international community will have to address, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said. Taking questions after a speech on Iraq to the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday, Rice again took Tehran to task on a range of issues, from its suspected nuclear arms program to its anti-democratic clerical regime.

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Iran-Iraq: Blank Iraqi ballots seized on truck from Iran

Wednesday, 14 December 2005

Agence France Presse, BAGHDAD - Hundreds of thousands of blank ballots like those to be used in this week's Iraqi elections have been found on a tanker truck which entered the country from neighbouring Iran, security officials said Tuesday. "A truck with Iranian number plates was intercepted Tuesday night in the locality of Badra, Wasset province, southeast of Baghdad," an official said.

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Iran-MidEast: Germany warning over Iran remarks

Wednesday, 14 December 2005

Associated Press, BERLIN - Germany's foreign minister described as "shocking and unacceptable" Wednesday the Iranian president's description of the Holocaust as a "myth," warning that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments weighed on relations and talks over Iran's nuclear program.

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Iran-MidEast: Ahmadinejad Escalates Holocaust Rhetoric

Wednesday, 14 December 2005

European Commission found Ahmadinejad's comments "completely unacceptable." NCRI - Iranian regime's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escalated his anti-Israeli rhetoric Wednesday, calling the Holocaust a "myth" used by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world.

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