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An Iranian diplomat detained in Baghdad in February is reported to have returned to Iran. Iraq is pressing for the release of the IRGC agents captured in Irbil. Iran is indicating it will not try the 15 captive British sailors. Iran may have a nuclear weapon by 2009. A former FBI agent has gone missing while inside Iran on private business.
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Iran: Public Mostly Supports Detention Of Britons
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About 200 “demonstrators” lit off firecrackers and threw rocks at the British embassy Tehran. Iran is due to release more “confessions” from the captured British sailors in their custody. Forty-eight percent of the British public oppose using force against Iran under any circumstances.
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A Deadly US-Iran Firefight
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Tehran’s ambassador to Moscow said the British servicemen captured in the Shatt Al Arab waterway may be tried. “”The legal phase concerning these British soldiers has started and if charges against them are proven, they will be punished.” Italy’s central bank has taken effective control over Sepah, the Iranian state bank.
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The Iranian IRGC navy capture of 15 British sailors was a premeditated act. Iran has released more letters and video of the sailors’ “confessions.” Oil is at a yearly high of $66 due to the crisis.
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Is a US-Iran War Inevitable?
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Tehran Outraged By Latest UN Resolution
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USS Nimitz aircraft carrier deploying to Persian Gulf
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Iran’s Suicide Brigades
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The Arab Press Assesses the Likelihood of a US Strike Against Iran
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The UK denied Iranian claims that British forces have surrounded the Iranian offices in the city of Basra. Iran has withdrawn the offer to release the female British officer. The UK will not negotiate for the release of their servicemen, and has taken their case to the UN. The EU is considering suspending diplomatic ties with Iran.
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Britain has released evidence its sailors and marines were 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters when the IRGC naval force intercepted and captured them. Iran claimed they were 0.5 nautical miles inside Iranian waters. The price of oil has risen to $65 a barrel over the crisis and rumors of a US strike on Iran in April.
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Blair warns Iran standoff could escalate
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US Long Worried Iran Supplied Weapons in Iraq
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Intelligence assets listen in to Teheran
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Two US, one French aircraft carrier in Gulf region
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Blair: Iran must free naval prisoners in days
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Iran wants to swap the 15 British servicemen captured in the Shatt Al Arab for members of Qods force captured in Irbil in January of 2007. “The decision to take in the British military elements was taken at an emergency meeting of the Higher Defense Council in the light of a report received by Brigadier Qasim Sulaymani, the commander of Al-Quds Brigade, and communicated on 18 March to General Hasan Fayruz Abadi, the armed forces Chief-of-staff,” according to Asharq Alawsat.
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Iranians Had Showdown With US Forces
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[UPDATE2] The UNSC unanimously passed resolution 1747 which “bans arms exports from Iran and freezes financial assets abroad of 28 Iranian individuals and entities, including its Bank Sepah, and the commanders and companies associated with the Revolutionary Guards.” A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed the 15 British servicemen will be tried for espionage.
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Russia: Why Is The Kremlin Retreating From Bushehr?
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Iranian President Cancels U.N. Trip, Blaming US
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Iran has moved the captured British sailors and marines to Tehran, and claimed they confessed to entering Iranian waters. A fisherman said the Brits were in Iraqi waters. The UN Security Council is set to vote on sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program. “The measures… targets the country’s arms exports, the state-owned Bank Sepah and the elite Revolutionary Guards.”
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Iran has captured 15 British sailors and Marines from the frigate HMS Cornwall, which is patrolling the Shatt Al Arab waterway. The British servicemen were returning from a mission of boarding a freighter, and were “surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters.”
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Launch Naval Maneuvers
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Iraq
Iran Connection Alleged in Iraq Rocket Attack on UN Chief
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Iraq
US: Use Of Deadly Roadside Bomb [EFPs] Plunges
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Iran is said to be backing over 3,000 militiamen split off from Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army. The IRGC is said to be funding, arming and training the fighters inside Iran. Te splinter Mahdi Army forces is led by Qais al-Khazaali, a former spokesman for Sadr.
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Iran In Iraq
