Headlines for 01-13-08

Confront Iran danger early - Bush Mr Bush said Iran threatened the security of all nations and should be confronted "before it's too late".


Iran nuclear answers 'in a month' Iran has agreed to clarify all outstanding questions over its past nuclear activities within a month, the UN nuclear watchdog has announced.


Iran says US 'lost face' over ship incident Iran on Sunday said the United States had "lost face" and should apologise over its portrayal of an incident between Iranian and US naval forces in the Strait of Hormuz.


Bush insists Iran biggest terror sponsor President Bush gently nudged authoritarian Arab allies Sunday to satisfy frustrated desires for democracy in the Mideast and saved his harshest criticism for Iran, branding it "the world's leading state-sponsor of terror."


Bush visits US 5th Fleet amid Iran tensions


George Bush to push $20bn Saudi arms deal Yet even that gesture will not be enough to convince moderate Arab states to shun Iran, in a sign of its growing status as a Muslim world superpower.


Bush warns against Syria, Iran's fuelling violence in Iraq U.S. President George W. Bush warned Saturday against Syria and Iran's fuelling violence in Iraq.


Iran brands Bush tour 'a failure'


Iran?s Revolutionary Guard in secret Iraq talks with US


Iran to answer questions over nuclear activity: IAEA The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says Iran has agreed to answer remaining questions about Tehran's past nuclear activity within the next month.




'Islamic Jesus' hits Iranian movie screens Talebzadeh insists it aims to bridge differences between Christianity and Islam, despite the stark divergence from Christian doctrine about Christ's final hours on earth. "It is fascinating for Christians to know that Islam gives such devotion to and has so much knowledge about Jesus," Talebzadeh told AFP



Bush Disowns U.S. Intel, Tells Israelis Iran NIE ?Doesn?t Reflect My Own Views? In private meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this week, Newsweek reports that President Bush disowned the U.S. intelligence community?s judgments:


Confront Iran danger early - Bush Mr Bush said Iran threatened the security of all nations and should be confronted "before it's too late".


US, Israel on 'same page' on Iran While the Israeli-Palestinian track dominated the public aspect of Bush's visit here, the Iranian issue played a dominant role in the private conversations between Olmert and the US president.




Bush urges Iran regime to heed people's will "To the Palestinian people, the dignity and sovereignty that is your right is within your reach," said Bush, who after a first visit to the Holy Land as president last week, said he is "very hopeful" a final peace deal can be reached before he leaves office in January.


Odds are growing for economic recession The unemployment rate leaps to a two-year high, record numbers of people are forced from their homes and Wall Street nose-dives again. Such is the fallout from a housing meltdown that threatens to slingshot the country into a recession.


Israel to get "smarter" U.S.-made bombs than Saudis


Nasrallah: Israel to give crumbs to Palestinians


Anti-Israel Palestinian groups to hold Syria conference Participants are to discuss the right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes they fled when the state of Israel was founded in 1948, and resistance against Israel, said Raja.