Security Council Condemns
| The UN Security Council Saturday condemned recent comments by Iran's president that Israel should be "wiped off the map" but did not say if the world body planned any action against Iran. In a written statement, the council pointed out that all members of the UN "have undertaken to refrain from the threat or use of force against...any state." (CNN) |
Iran FM: Remarks reflect our strategy
| Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki strongly defended on Saturday President Ahmadinejad's blistering attack on Israel and the West, saying that the president's speech "was nothing but the strategy and policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the past 27 years." (Iran Focus) |
Iran: Bounty for rocket Attacks on Israel
| Iran has promised a reward of $10,000 to Islamic Jihad if the militant group launches rockets from the West Bank towards Tel Aviv, a senior Palestinian intelligence official said last week. Speaking in his Ramallah office, the official produced a fat wad of $100 notes which he said had been confiscated from a pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad activist. The money was said to have gone from Iran to Damascus, from where Ibrahim Shehadeh, Islamic Jihad's head of overseas operations, transferred it to the West Bank. The official said the PA has located workshops where Al-Quds rockets are being made and has given their coordinates to the Israelis. "We understand they destroyed some of them," he said. The Israeli media claimed last week that rocket attacks from the West Bank were widely expected: Ben-Gurion airport's eastern runway is just five miles away and the outskirts of Tel Aviv are within 10 miles. (Times-UK) |
Iran threatens the Vatican
| Iranians Threaten the Vatican - Menachem Gantz ( Maariv-Hebrew, 30Oct05) Iranian government officials threatened the Holy See not to join in the wave of international criticism against Iranian President Ahmadinejad for calling for Israel to be wiped off the map. During discussions between the sides, Tehran threatened Vatican policy-makers that such action would endanger freedom of worship for Catholics in Iran if the pope's diplomatic service identified with Israel |
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