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Lawmakers in Iran Protest an Ally's Jailing
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January 14, 2002
The New York Times
EHRAN, Jan. 13 (Reuters) — Nearly 60 members of the Iranian Parliament briefly boycotted a session today to protest the imprisonment of a reformist lawmaker by the hard-line judiciary.
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60 MPs walk out from parliament to protest Loqmanian's detention
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January 13, 2002
The International Herald Tribune
Tehran, Jan 13, IRNA -- About 60 MPs left the parliament hall for
15 minutes on Sunday to protest continued detention of MP from Hamedan
Hossein Loqmanian.
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Iran's assurance over al-Qaeda
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January 14, 2002
Financial Times
Tony Blair has been assured by Mohammad Khatami, Iran's pro-reform president, that Tehran would support the interim government in Afghanistan and deny safe haven to any fugitives of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
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Iranians linked to bin Laden escape?
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January 14, 2002
WORLDNETDAILY
The conviction is gaining ground in some Western intelligence agencies that Osama bin Laden, his family, Ayman al-Zawahiri and thousands of al-Qaida fighters made good their escape from Afghanistan through the illicit sea route created by Lebanese-Iranian super terrorist Imad Mughniyeh for smuggling operations in the service of terrorist organizations.
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Confront Iranian terrorism
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January 14, 2002
The Jerusalem Post
(January 14) - The arsenal of terrorism found aboard the Karine A has been taken first and foremost as evidence of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's long-standing desire to escalate his offensive against Israel, and of his lack of interest in peace. But in one sense the more striking news was the revelation that Iran is stepping up its support for terrorism against Israel.
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An embarrassing Iranian connection
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January 14, 2002
HA'ARETZ
The Palestinian and Islamic worlds have long engaged in the theological debate on suicide-bomber terror attacks. Muslim law forbids suicide, and religious leaders from around the Middle East have participated
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Tehran's Quest for Ballistic Missiles
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January 14, 2002
The International Herald Tribune
MOSCOW The first time Vadim Vorobei went to Iran in 1996, he was amazed by the number of foreign missile scientists wandering openly through Tehran. For the most part, they were people like him: elderly representatives of the old Soviet technological elite impoverished by the collapse of communism and willing to sell their services to the highest bidder.
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Collapse of Soviet Union Proved Boon to Iranian Missile Program
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January 13, 2002
Washington Post Foreign Service
At the very time that Russian weapons designers found themselves adrift following the collapse of communism in the early 1990s, Iran was desperately in search of technological know-how to become a major missile power.
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Blair is assured of Iran's anti-terror stance
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January 14, 2002
The Financial Times
Tony Blair, prime minister, has been assured by Mohammad Khatami, Iran's pro-reform president, that Tehran would support the interim government in Afghanistan and deny safe haven to any fugitives of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
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Iran's leaders close ranks in face of dark clouds gathering over region
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January 14, 2002
The Daily Star
TEHRAN: Since the first day he took office back in 1997, Iranian President Mohammed Khatami was keen to nurture a good working relationship with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In fact, what Khatami really wanted was to build a "strategic partnership" with Khamenei and he hoped to do it within the first six months of his first term.
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Arms Cargo Exposes Iran's War on Israel
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January 11, 2002
The International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON The radical Islamic ayatollahs of Iran were responsible for dispatching the shipload of 62 rockets and anti-tank missiles, along with 1,400 mortar shells, to their proxy warriors in the Middle East. Included were 3,000 pounds of powerful new C-4 explosives to be used by suicide bombers against civilians.
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Postmarked Tehran - Sharon pins the Palestinian gunrunner operation on Iran, and here, say the Israelis, is the evidence
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January 14, 2002
Time
Ariel Sharon stood on the dock at Israel's Red Sea port Eilat. Arrayed around him were row upon row of rifles, rockets, missiles and ammunition. Israeli commandos had snatched the weapons from a boat Israel claims was smuggling the arms to the Palestinian Authority. Sharon accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of wanting to blow up the faint,
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Israeli intelligence reveals names of Karine A suspects
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January 13, 2002
AFP
NEW YORK, Jan 13 (AFP) - Iran's connection to the arms aboard a Palestinian-skippered ship intercepted January 3 by Israel is detailed in a report to appear Monday in the latest issue of the newsweekly, Time.
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Israel Planning Major Crackdown On Palestinian Arms Smuggling
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January 14, 2002
Wahsington Post
JERUSALEM, Jan. 13 -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today that Israel would launch a major crackdown on weapons smuggling by the Palestinians, and brushed aside criticism that Israeli soldiers acted brutally last week by bulldozing houses in the Gaza Strip allegedly used by smugglers.
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Arafat and the ayatollahs exposed
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January 14, 2002
The Age
The radical Islamic ayatollahs of Iran were responsible for dispatching the shipload of 62 rockets and anti-tank missiles, along with 1400 mortar shells, to their proxy warriors in the Middle East. Included were 1400 kilograms of powerful new C-4 explosives to be used by suicide bombers against civilians.
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Arafat denies acquiring weapons from Iran
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January 14, 2002
The Times of India
DOHA: Yasser Arafat again denied on Sunday that his Palestinian Authority was acquiring arms from Iran amid the furore over the seizure of the Karine A, and said they could be purchased illegally from Israeli dealers.
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Arafat denies Palestinian weapons came from Iran
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January 13, 2002
AFP
DOHA, Jan 13 (AFP) - Yasser Arafat again denied Sunday that his Palestinian Authority was acquiring arms from Iran amid the furore over the seizure of the Karine A, and said they could be purchased illegally from Israeli dealers.
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Iran: Israel staged weapons ship affair to damage Iran's image
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January 13, 2002
Ha'aretz
Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani denied Sunday that Iran has any security ties with Palestinians and said that Israel had staged the "Karine A" weapons ship affair to damage his country's image.
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The Missile Trail - How Politics Helped Redefine Threat
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January 14, 2002
Washington Post Foreign Service
Until 1998, it was an article of faith for the U.S. intelligence community that no potentially hostile country -- apart from Russia or China -- would pose a long-range missile threat to the United States before 2010, at the earliest.
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U.S. Bombs Afghan Hideouts, More Prisoners to Cuba
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January 14, 2002
The New York Times
KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes pounded cave complexes in eastern Afghanistan Monday in a relentless campaign to bottle up and destroy al Qaeda and Taliban forces and hunt down their fugitive leaders.
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Iraqi FM: Iraq wants full scale relations with Iran
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January 13, 2002
IRNA
Ilam, Ilam Prov, Jan 13, IRNA -- An advisor to Iranian minister of
foreign affairs General Hossein Zamaninia met and exchanged viewpoints
with Iraq's Minister of Foreign Affairs Naji Sabri Saturday, according
to Iraq TV, monitored here.
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Sept. 11 Girds Gadhafi to Buckle Down - In His Work to Get Off U.S. Terror List
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January 14, 2002
The Wall Street Journal
As Osama bin Laden continues to elude U.S. capture, one of his predecessors as the nation's most-wanted terrorist, Libya's Col. Moammar Gadhafi, is attempting a rehabilitation.
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