APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from April 2007

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from April 2007

Pax Americana In Iraq Is Changing - Part 10 - The US Is Surrounding Iran.
April 2, 2007... Step by step for the past six years the US has been surrounding Iran militarily, economically and politically. A unanimous UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution on March 24 added further sanctions against Tehran and the two UNSC powers on which...

Iranian Involvement In Iraq.
April 2, 2007... Citing US officials familiar with the case, The New York Times on March 27 said on July 19, 2005, the US had secretly sent Iran a diplomatic protest charging that Tehran was supplying lethal roadside explosive devices to Shi'ite extremists in...

Khalilzad Warning.(Zalmay Khalilzad)
April 2, 2007... Outgoing US Ambassador to Baghdad Zalmay Khalilzad on March 26 said US and Iraqi officials had met envoys of "reconcilable" Sunni insurgent groups, and warned Iraqi politicians to act fast as the Americans' willingness to remain involved in...

Towards Changing De-Ba'thification Law.
April 2, 2007... PM Maliki and Kurdish President Jalal Talabani are sending to parliament a proposal to allow thousands more former members of Saddam's Ba'th Party to serve in the government. The plan would be an important step towards Shi'ite-Sunni...

Question Over Security Meet.
April 2, 2007... Tensions over prisoners held by Iran and the US and a diplomatic dispute over the venue threaten to undermine a regional security conference on Iraq planned for April. The FT on March 29 reported Iraqi officials as saying Baghdad was...

Iran & UK Seek Diplomatic Way Out.
April 2, 2007... London and Tehran on March 30 sought to calm their dispute as British officials welcomed an Iranian letter indicating that more traditional diplomatic forms of contact were being established. Commenting on the letter, which on March 29 was...

Shi'ite-Sunni Massacre.
April 2, 2007... In late March 27 Shi'ite gunmen in killed dozens of Sunnis in Tal A'far, near the Syrian border, in revenge for a series of Neo-Salafi truck bombings earlier on March 27, leaving more than 130 dead on both sides in a familiar pattern of attack...

Iran's Position.(nuclear programs, reaction to Western sanctions)
April 2, 2007... Sa'eed Leylaz, an independent analyst in Tehran, was on March 26 quoted as saying the UNSC's March 24 sanctions were prompting more belligerence from Iran, as Tehran appeared to be shifting its policy of avoiding confrontation to "following...