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Iran: Retaliation for any Israeli attack (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:30:01 GMT

Iran has drawn up plans to bomb Israel if the Jewish state should attack, the deputy air force commander said Wednesday, adding to tensions already heated up by an Israeli airstrike on Syria and Western calls for more U.N. sanctions against Tehran.


Carter: Iran no threat to Israel now (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:35:35 GMT

Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that it was almost inconceivable that Iran would "commit suicide" by launching missiles at Israel.


Florida divests from Iran, Sudan (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:56:06 GMT

Florida's public employee retirement fund will divest nearly $1.3 billion invested with 21 companies doing business in Iran or Sudan, an action state officials hope will be imitated across the nation.


General Says Iran Can Strike Back at Israel (New York Times)
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:32:35 GMT

A senior military official warned on Wednesday that Iran had prepared a plan to attack Israel if Israel bombed Iran, saying that Iran?s ?missiles can reach all parts of Israel.?


France?s Tough Talker on Iran Adds Nuance to ?War? Remark (New York Times)
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:17:45 GMT

Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner of France said that his remarks that the world had to prepare for a possible war with Iran had been misinterpreted and that he was a man of peace.


French official denies he warned world of possible war with Iran (International Herald Tribune)
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:51:19 GMT

Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner defended his sharp stance on Iran, saying that he was a man of peace.


India's Long-Established Ties With Iran Straining Alliance With U.S. (Washington Post)
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:41:56 GMT

NEW DELHI, Sept. 19 -- India's long-standing ties with Iran appear to be threatening the beleaguered nuclear energy deal between Washington and New Delhi and, more broadly, their growing strategic alliance.


Family and Friends Appeal to Iran for Detainee?s Release (New York Times)
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:37:18 GMT

Ali Shakeri, a founding member of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding at the University of California, has been held in solitary confinement in Iran?s infamous Evin Prison for four months.


Iran hits back in war of words about war (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:34:49 GMT

Iran, responding to Western debate about the possibility of war over its nuclear plans, said on Wednesday it would use any means to defend itself if attacked and could bomb Israel if the Jewish state launched a strike.


Iran Frees American Citizen Held Since May (Washington Post)
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:01:52 GMT

Iran released New York-based social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh from Evin Prison in Tehran late last night, according to George Soros's Open Society Institute, for which Tajbakhsh has served as a consultant.