HadassahSukkot
20th November 2006, 04:48 PM
Iran Urges Summit With Iraq and Syria
Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread through the region, four key lawmakers told The Associated Press on Monday.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has accepted the invitation and will fly to the Iranian capital Saturday, a close parliamentary associate said.
The Iranian diplomatic gambit appeared designed to upstage expected moves from Washington to include Syria and Iran in a wider regional effort to clamp off violence in Iraq, where more civilians have been killed in the first 20 days of November than in any other month since the AP began tallying the figures in April 2005.
[more at link]http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/20/D8LGTA600.html
Countering this one is an article in Jerusalem Post:
Report: Israeli spies active in Iran
The report also stated that in the past six months, Israel and the United States had been working together to support a Kurdish resistance group known as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan.
The group had been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran, as "part of an effort to explore alternative means of applying pressure on Iran," Hersh said he was told by a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon civilian leadership. The government consultant reportedly said Israel was supplying the Kurdish group with "equipment and training." The group had also been given "a list of targets inside Iran of interest to the US." An Israeli government spokesman denied that Israel was involved.
[more at link] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378437589&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread through the region, four key lawmakers told The Associated Press on Monday.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has accepted the invitation and will fly to the Iranian capital Saturday, a close parliamentary associate said.
The Iranian diplomatic gambit appeared designed to upstage expected moves from Washington to include Syria and Iran in a wider regional effort to clamp off violence in Iraq, where more civilians have been killed in the first 20 days of November than in any other month since the AP began tallying the figures in April 2005.
[more at link]http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/20/D8LGTA600.html
Countering this one is an article in Jerusalem Post:
Report: Israeli spies active in Iran
The report also stated that in the past six months, Israel and the United States had been working together to support a Kurdish resistance group known as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan.
The group had been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran, as "part of an effort to explore alternative means of applying pressure on Iran," Hersh said he was told by a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon civilian leadership. The government consultant reportedly said Israel was supplying the Kurdish group with "equipment and training." The group had also been given "a list of targets inside Iran of interest to the US." An Israeli government spokesman denied that Israel was involved.
[more at link] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378437589&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull