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Iran says French call for EU sanctions illegal (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:59:03 GMT

Iran's foreign minister said on Saturday France's call for EU sanctions against Tehran outside of the U.N. framework was illegal and the Islamic Republic would not back away from its nuclear ambitions.


Iran says oilfields 'too attractive' for France to quit (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:56:41 GMT

Iran on Saturday rejected the possibility of a French investors' pullout of its oil and gas sector amid calls by Paris for tougher sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear programme, the ISNA news agency reported.


Giuliani raps Clinton on Iraq, Iran (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:13:37 GMT

Republican Rudy Giuliani said Saturday that Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has not stated clear goals for dealing with the Iraq war and Iran's nuclear ambitions.


Iraqi-sourced cholera cases rise in Iran (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:28:10 GMT

The number of cholera cases in Iran is on the rise after the outbreak of an epidemic in neighbouring Iraq, an Iranian health official was quoted as saying on Saturday.


France can't ignore Iran energy deals-Iran minister (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:23:34 GMT

Iran's oil minister on Saturday brushed aside calls by Paris for French firms to avoid Iranian energy deals, saying the world's fourth largest oil producer was too attractive for them to ignore, a news agency reported.


Iran to re-open its border with Iraq (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:36:16 GMT

Iran will re-opens its border with Iraq on Sunday after a two-week closure to protest at the detention of an Iranian by US troops, the semi-official news agency Fars reported.


Petraeus: Iran envoy member of Quds Force (UPI)
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:56:46 GMT

Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said Saturday the Iranian ambassador to Baghdad is a member of Iran's elite Quds Force.


Dubai police chief warns against Western attack on Iran (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:45:26 GMT

Dubai's influential police chief has said Western powers should be warned that their relations with Gulf Arab states would suffer if they launch a military strike on Iran over its nuclear programme.


Attack on Iran would be 'fatal mistake': Iraqi adviser (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:30:50 GMT

A top Iraqi government adviser has admitted that Iran was meddling in his country's affairs but warned that it would be a "fatal mistake" to launch military action against Iran.


17 killed in Iran road crash (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:53:48 GMT

Seventeen people were killed and 21 injured when a truck collided with a bus in northern Iran, the state news agency IRNA reported Saturday.