Russia’s top military commander says the US could strike Iran after completing its campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. General Nikolai Makarov, revealed the plans while addressing journalists in Moscow.
Ali G talks to James Baker about Iran and Iraq…and when we invaded Iran
The Bush administration introduced Ahmad Chalabi , the former U.S. ally and perennially controversial Iraqi politician, as a secular, pro-Western Mr. Fix-It who could slide right into Saddam Hussein’s old seat.
The National Iranian oil company on Friday categorically denied a report claiming that Iranian troops have occupied an oil well in southern Iraq, a senior Iraqi military officer said Friday.
Iranian and Iraqi commanders expressed hope after a meeting on Monday the two neighbors would resolve “misunderstandings” over their joint border, Iranian media reported.
Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on Tuesday said that the Fakka oilfield is 100 percent Iraqi property, adding that Iran has no right to the ownership of the disputed field.
Crude futures are up 2.2% following reports that Iranian troops crossed the Iraqi border and took control of an oil field in southeastern Iraq. An official of the state-owned South Oil Company in told Agence France Presse that Iranian forces took control of Well 4 in the Fauqa Field, part of a cluster of fields [...]
Amnesty International on Friday warned that Iraq’s plans to move an Iranian opposition group to a former desert detention camp in the country’s remote south would put them at risk of arbitrary arrest and torture.
Iraq’s Shiite-led government has taken an increasingly hard line toward the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, not wanting to risk its [...]
The number two US commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby, charged on Thursday that neighbouring Iran was still providing weapons and funds to militia groups undermining stability.
“Iran still smuggles equipment and aid to terrorists across the border,” the general said.
Iraq announced plans Thursday to move members of an Iranian opposition group to a former desert detention camp in a sharp escalation of pressure on a faction that poses complications for both Baghdad and Washington.
The group, the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, strongly denounced the plans as “unlawful and disgraceful” and said they were part [...]
CONTAINING IRAN
Americans have urgent concerns about Iran’s military and financial support for Shiite militants in Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in the Palestinian territories. And we have urgent concerns about Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, especially since more is at stake than just Iran’s progress: faced with a nuclear Shiite [...]
The United States, as the world’s only superpower, is less vulnerable to military defeat. But it is more vulnerable to the animosity of other countries. Much like a top high school student, if it is modest about its abilities and achievements, if it is generous in helping others, it is loved. But if it attempts [...]
Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on Tuesday that the foreign troops should withdraw from Iraq and let the Iraqi people handle their own affairs, the official IRNA news agency reported.
BASRA – Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Saturday from Basra province that Iran should prove its friendship to Iraq by allowing more water to enter Iraqi territories through the two rivers of Karun and Karkheh.
Iran played a key role in a deal struck by Iraqi Shi’ite factions to end fighting in the Baghdad stronghold of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a senior Shi’ite Iraqi legislator said on Monday. While the deal is already under threat because of renewed clashes, the involvement of Iran in the talks underscored Tehran’s growing influence in [...]
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