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As the Tehran leadership prepares to go to the wire in its confrontation with the international community over the nuclear issue, one thing is clear: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is emerging with his position in the Khomeinist establishment strengthened.
By Amir Taheri
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Posted 28/2/2007 @ 14:24:2 GMTIran Forces May Pursue Kurdish Rebels Into Iraq, Commander SaysIran's forces may cross into Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels if the government in Baghdad can't expel the militants from border areas, an Iranian military commander said. more By Bloomberg

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 14:16:12 GMTDon't Worry! The Religious Left is Making "Peace" with Iran On Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran will not backtrack on its nuclear program. And on Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that Iran had ignored a United Nations Security Council ultimatum about potential nukes. more By FrontPageMagazine.com

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 13:59:59 GMTIran Weighs Invitation to Baghdad SummitTEHRAN, Iran -- While Syria said Wednesday it would send an aide to a Baghdad-organized conference of Iraq's neighbors that the United States plans to attend, Iran said it was considering whether to take part. Ali Larijani, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari contacted Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to discuss the conference. more By The Associated Press

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 11:29:50 GMTIran Plans To Nuke Europe, US - Sanctions UrgedJerusalem -- An Israel security official told the Israel News Agency that the recent launch of a missile from Iran into space illustrated a direct threat to both Europe's and US national security. more By Israel News Agency

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 11:9:34 GMTU.S. Sanctions With TeethEverybody knows that economic sanctions don't work. Just look at the decades of fruitless pressure on Cuba. But guess what? In the recent cases of North Korea and Iran, a new variety of U.S. Treasury sanctions is having a potent effect, suggesting that the conventional wisdom may be wrong. more By The Washington Post

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 11:0:58 GMTTwo Iranian Police Killed, Four Abducted Near Pakistan Border TEHRAN -- A group of Iranian police were ambushed late Tuesday in Sistan-Baluchestan province bordering Pakistan, leaving two police killed and four others kidnapped, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday. more By Xinhua

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 10:44:40 GMTOlive Branch to 'Axis'The Bush administration abruptly dropped its ban on talking to Iran and Syria yesterday, saying it would attend upcoming summits - along with representatives from the two nations it charges with fomenting violence in Iraq. U.S. officials stressed that it was Baghdad's idea to hold a "neighbors meeting" next month and another a month later in the hopes of bringing stability to Iraq. more By New York Post

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 2:22:26 GMTIran: Détente, Not Regime ChangeA RISING STAR, Over five years after the Bush administration vowed to transform the Middle East, the region is indeed profoundly different. Washington's misadventures in Iraq, the humbling of Israeli power in Lebanon, the rise of the once-marginalized Shiites, and the ascendance of Islamist parties have pushed the Middle East to the brink of chaos. more By Foreign Affairs

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 2:16:39 GMTAppeasing Our Enemies Won't Bring PeaceA few days ago, The New York Times published a truly frightening article on insurgent battlefield tactics in Iraq. The article reported that "Insurgents are likely to continue combining car bombs with chlorine gas and other chemicals to launch attacks similar to three in recent weeks that spewed chlorine and sickened scores of Iraqi, the military warned Thursday." more By RealClearPolitics.com

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 2:12:27 GMTMaintaining Perspective'It's too soon to tell," The late Chinese leader Zhou Enlai is reported to have answered when asked for an evaluation of the significance of the French Revolution of 1789. This was nearly two centuries after the great upheaval of France. Revolutions are full of cunning, and the Iranian Revolution, now almost three decades old, has been no exception-cunning and ferocity side by side, the talk of a revolutionary millennium often concealing the skills of a leadership steeped in the ways of the bazaar. more By U.S. News & World Report

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 2:5:23 GMTIran Worries US officials Beyond its Nuclear PlansWASHINGTON -- New intelligence czar Michael McConnell checked off homeland-security threats in a Senate briefing Tuesday. The consensus view of US intelligence agencies is that Iran is a power on the rise in the Middle East, eager to expand its military might and committed to the development of nuclear weapons. more By The Christian Science Monitor

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 1:7:40 GMTTop Spy: Iran Training Iraqis to Use ExplosivesWASHINGTON -- Iran is training anti-American Iraqi Shi'ites at sites inside Iran and Lebanon in the use of armor-piercing munitions blamed for the deaths of 170 U.S. troops in Iraq, the top U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday. more By Reuters

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 0:57:11 GMTA Necessary Retreat When the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group reported before Christmas, its most controversial proposal was that both Iran and Syria (part of President George W Bush's "axis of evil") should be constructively engaged in the stabilisation of Iraq. more By Telegraph

Posted 28/2/2007 @ 0:23:42 GMTUS Invites Iran and Syria to Talks on Iraq in Reversal of Bush PolicyThe Bush administration gave up one of the central tenets of its Middle East strategy yesterday, reversing its much criticised effort to isolate Iran and Syria by inviting both states to negotiations on stabilising Iraq. more By The Guardian

Posted 27/2/2007 @ 9:42:59 GMTU.S. Says Raid in Iraq Supports Claim on Iran A raid on a Shiite weapons cache in the southern city of Hilla one week ago is providing what American officials call the best evidence yet that the deadliest roadside bombs in Iraq are manufactured in Iran, but critics contend that the forensic case remains circumstantial and inferential. more By The New York Times

Posted 27/2/2007 @ 9:38:56 GMTU.S. Agrees to Meeting with Iran and Syria The Bush administration has agreed to sit around a negotiating table with official representatives of Iran and Syria next month -- as part of a planned regional conference in Baghdad to discuss ways to stabilize Iraq. more By The Washington Post

Posted 27/2/2007 @ 9:34:13 GMTIran Hangs Rapist in PublicTEHERAN -- A young man convicted of child rape has been publicly hanged in Iran’s central clerical capital of Qom, the Jomhouri Eslami newspaper reported Tuesday. more By AFP

Posted 27/2/2007 @ 9:31:27 GMTFM: Iran Will Never Suspend Atomic WorkTEHRAN -- Iran will never suspend uranium enrichment as demanded by the West, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday after world powers agreed to work on a new UN resolution over Tehran's atomic plans. more By Reuters