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NewerFox News reported that US Commanding General David Petraeus accused Iran of supporting operations in Iraq that kill US soldiers and using a former Quds force member as their Baghdad envoy
“… Petraeus added that Iran has been aiding Iraqi rebels with training and gifts of high-powered weaponry. ‘They are responsible for providing the weapons, the training, the funding and in some cases the direction for operations that have indeed killed U.S. soldiers,’ Petraeus told reporters in Diyala Province. Without citing any specific intelligence, Petraeus labeled Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, Iran's envoy to Baghdad, as a former member of the Revolutionary Guards Quds force.” read the article
AFP reported UN Security Council’s 14-1 passage of British, French, and German sponsored resolution placing third set of economic and trade sanctions against Iran for refusing to halt nuclear work
“The Security Council tightened UN sanctions on Iran Monday for refusing to halt nuclear fuel work as six major powers offered to resume talks with the Islamic Republic to end the standoff. Fourteen of the council's 15 members voted in favor of Resolution 1803, sponsored by Britain, France and Germany, which slapped a third set of economic and trade sanctions on Iran in 15 months.” read the article
Gen. Petraeus told BBC Iran was behind the attack against Baghdad’s Green Zone
“The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday's bombardment of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Gen David Petraeus told the BBC he thought Tehran had trained, equipped and funded insurgents who fired the barrage of mortars and rockets. …. ‘The rockets that were launched at the Green Zone yesterday, for example ... were Iranian-provided, Iranian-made rockets,’ he said, adding that the groups that fired them were funded and trained by the Quds Force.” read the article
New York Times reported official Iranian announcement that it “would not comply with Security Council resolutions requiring it to stop enriching uranium
“Iran’s nuclear policy has not changed, an Iranian government spokesman said Saturday in Tehran, confirming that Iran would not comply with Security Council resolutions requiring it to stop enriching uranium. ‘Iran’s stand regarding its peaceful nuclear program has not changed,’ the spokesman, Gholam Hossein Elham, said in his weekly meeting with reporters.” read the article
BBC covered President Ahmadinejad’s announcement that Iran had 6,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium
"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Iran now possesses 6,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium - nearly twice the number of only a few months ago.”
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