<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps: News &amp; Videos about Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Iranian_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:37:51 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps: News &amp; Videos about Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/WORLD/meast/10/19/iran.suicide.attack/tztop.larijani.file.afp.gi.jpg</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Iranian_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Iran mourns dozens killed in militant attack</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/19/iran.suicide.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/19/iran.suicide.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Three days of mourning began in the Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan on Monday, after dozens of people were killed in a militant attack a day earlier, state media reported.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombing kills at least 29, Iranian media report</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/18/iran.suicide.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/18/iran.suicide.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A man carrying explosives blew himself up as participants headed to a conference between Shia and Sunni groups in southeastern Iran on Sunday, killing at least 29 people, Iranian media reported.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran tests missiles amid nuclear tension</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/27/iran.missile.test/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/27/iran.missile.test/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran tested a missile-launching system and several types of short- and medium-range missiles Sunday, the state-run Press TV said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran reformist Web site names post-election victims</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/iran.election.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/iran.election.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An Iranian reformist Web site on Friday released the identities of 72 people it says were killed by government forces in the aftermath of Iran's disputed presidential elections.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran appoints first woman minister and a terrorist suspect</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/03/iran.terrorist.woman.nomination/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/03/iran.terrorist.woman.nomination/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran's parliament on Thursday approved the Cabinet nominations of a suspected terrorist and the first woman minister in the Islamic republic's 30-year history.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran summons top Argentine diplomat after protest of nominee</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/25/iran.argentina/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/25/iran.argentina/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran summoned Argentina's top diplomat in Tehran on Monday after the country complained about the nomination of a man who has been linked to a 1994 terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires, Iranian media have reported.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Argentina protests Ahmadinejad cabinet choice</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/21/argentina.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/21/argentina.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Jewish groups and the Argentine government condemned Friday the nomination of a man accused in the 1994 terrorist bombing of a Jewish center to serve as Iran's defense minister.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Top Iranian general: Let's prosecute opposition leaders</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/10/iran.election.prosecution/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/10/iran.election.prosecution/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A senior official with Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard is calling for the prosecution of two key opposition leaders and a former president, accusing them of fanning the protests that have gripped the nation since its disputed presidential election two months ago.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Revolutionary Guard leader: We can hit Israel's nuclear facilities</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/25/iran.israel.nuclear/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/25/iran.israel.nuclear/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that Iran will strike Israel's nuclear facilities if the Jewish state attacks Iran, a semi-official news agency reported.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranians held in Iraq since 2007 released</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/09/iraq.iranians.released/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/09/iraq.iranians.released/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iraq released five Iranian diplomats late Thursday, more than two years after U.S. troops captured them in northern Iraq, state television announced.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Opposition movement in Iran not over, experts say</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/01/analysis.iran.whats.next/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/01/analysis.iran.whats.next/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The chants, the clashes, the outrage, the blood -- for more than two weeks, the world watched as the fallout from Iran's presidential elections unraveled from peaceful demonstrations to government-led crackdowns on city streets.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amanpour: Dented Khamenei faces battle of wills</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/25/iran.election.amanpour/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/25/iran.election.amanpour/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Despite his threats of "consequences" and the subsequent beatings and shooting deaths by government agents, the open protests on Iran's streets by hundreds of thousands of people have dented the shield of invincibility of Iran's Supreme religious Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, say sources in Iran.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Is Iran's ruthless crackdown working?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/coughlin.khamenei/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/coughlin.khamenei/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The effectiveness with which Iran's security forces have dealt with the worst outbreak of political violence since the 1979 Islamic revolution illustrates the scale of the challenge faced by the Green Revolution's supporters in changing the way the country is governed.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Beyond fear ... more like terror,' says witness from Iran</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/23/iran.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/23/iran.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>They've entered the United States, yet they are still afraid.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Feared Basij militia has deep history in Iranian conflict</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.basij.militia.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.basij.militia.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>They may wear a uniform, or ordinary street clothes. Their numbers are unclear. They rush the streets with brute strength.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Riot police confront protesters in Tehran, witnesses say</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A defiant and chaotic protest sprouted in and around a public square Monday despite a warning by Iran's Revolutionary Guard against the kind of street demonstrations that have roiled Iran for more than a week, witnesses said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's supreme leader once a student revolutionary himself</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/18/iran.khamenei.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/18/iran.khamenei.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was once a student revolutionary himself, perhaps not much different from the thousands of protesters who this week have taken to the streets in Iran.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's supreme leader to speak at site of crackdown</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/18/iran.university/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/18/iran.university/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran's supreme leader will deliver a sermon Friday at Tehran University, just days after a bloody crackdown at the school, according to a statement from the pro-government Basij militia.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran 101: Understanding the unrest</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/18/iran.101.explainer.qa/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/18/iran.101.explainer.qa/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For almost a week, tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in daily protests -- handkerchiefs shielding their faces from the pungency of tear gas, fists punching the air, and chants of "Down with the dictator" echoing against buildings.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranians get word out despite official obstacles</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/18/iran.communications/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/18/iran.communications/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iranians have had to tailor their usual ways of communicating in the post-election tumult that has swept through the country.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran: Foreign media supporting 'hooligans'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/17/iran.journalists/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/17/iran.journalists/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran on Wednesday accused international journalists in the country of being the "mouthpiece" of "hooligans" who have created unrest at post-election rallies in Tehran.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ahmadinejad hails election as protests grow</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/13/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/13/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>As street protests and voter skepticism rose over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory, the incumbent leader hailed the vote, saying it was a "great ordeal" but one that pointed "the way to the future."</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian candidate Rezaie has strong military ties</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/11/iran.rezaie.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/11/iran.rezaie.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Mohsen Rezaie may have little chance of winning Friday's presidential election in Iran, observers say, but they believe he's running with a purpose: getting rid of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran election race tightens</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/11/amanpour.iran.poll/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/11/amanpour.iran.poll/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The day before polls open in Iran's presidential election, the streets are suddenly quiet again as official campaigning comes to an end, and voters prepare for what is expected to be a record turnout.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranians toss shoes at Bush posters</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/26/shoe.thrower.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/26/shoe.thrower.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A few dozen Iranians threw shoes at posters of U.S. President George W. Bush in Tehran Friday morning, a demonstration of support for an Iraqi journalist jailed for throwing his shoes at President Bush two weeks ago in Baghdad.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. official has new evidence of Iranian meddling in Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/14/us.iran.iraq/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/14/us.iran.iraq/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The United States has new intelligence indicating Iran is reorganizing in an effort to assert its influence inside Iraq and may be behind several recent attacks, according to a senior U.S. official who spoke with CNN Monday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran confirms missile tests</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/12/missile.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/12/missile.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iranian officials confirmed Saturday the nation test-fired missiles earlier in the week, although some experts have said their technological capability is not as great as Tehran claimed.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain, Obama slam Iran's missile test</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/09/candidates.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/09/candidates.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that Iran's missile test shows the need for an effective missile defense system, while rival Sen. Barack Obama said it shows aggressive diplomacy, combined with sanctions, is necessary.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran Tests Missiles in Persian Gulf</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1821160,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1821160,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles Wednesday in war games officials say are in response to U.S. and Israeli threats</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran defiant on right to nuclear power</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.nuclear/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.nuclear/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran's government spokesman on Saturday reiterated its right to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes, a state-run news agency reported.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil climbs to new record above $144</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/02/markets/oil/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/02/markets/oil/index.htm</guid><description>Oil prices rose to a new record Wednesday as traders mostly looked past a mixed inventory report to focus on continued geopolitical instability, currency issues and a looming jobs report.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Militant detained as al-Maliki heads to Iran</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/06/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/06/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Coalition forces in Iraq said Friday they detained an "Iranian-trained" militant leader as Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gets ready to visit Iran on Saturday to discuss security concerns and other issues.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. cargo ship fires warning shots in Persian Gulf, Navy says</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/25/iran.shots/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/25/iran.shots/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A U.S.-contracted cargo ship fired warning shots in the Persian Gulf at two small patrol boats believed to be from Iran, U.S. Navy officials said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: Iran threatening world peace</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/09/iran.boats/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/09/iran.boats/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran has denounced video and audio recordings released by the United States of the two nations' confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz as "fabricated," according to statements carried by state-run television station.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Behind the US-Iran Gulf Confrontation</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1701316,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1701316,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Analysis: Why did Iranian boats threaten three US ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz? To remind the world that Iran still has a hand on the world's oil spigot</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian boats 'harass' U.S. Navy, officials say</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/07/iran.us.navy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/07/iran.us.navy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats "harassed and provoked" three U.S. Navy ships early Sunday in international waters, the U.S. military said Monday, calling the encounter a "significant" confrontation.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian Boats Harass Navy Ships</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1700826,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1700826,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, officials said Monday</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's Revolutionary Guards patrol Persian Gulf, U.S. says</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/29/iran.navy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/29/iran.navy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has taken command of Iranian naval operations in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military has revealed.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. releases nine Iranians in Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.S. military released nine Iranian detainees to the Iraqi government Friday who "no longer pose a security risk" and have no "intelligence value," a military statement said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. frees nine Iranians in Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.iraqn/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.iraqn/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.S. military released nine Iranian detainees to the Iraqi government Friday who "no longer pose a security risk" and have no "intelligence value," a military statement said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran navy in suicide attack pledge</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/29/iran.suicide/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/29/iran.suicide/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An Iranian naval commander Monday said his forces are willing to carry out suicide missions when facing enemy forces in the Persian Gulf, according to Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian Guard 'ready to defend revolution'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/26/iran.sanctions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/26/iran.sanctions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard vowed Friday that the military group was ready to defend the Iranian revolution after the U.S. imposed sanctions against it amid simmering tensions over Tehran's refusal to halt its nuclear program.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil continues record run - tops $92</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/26/markets/oil_record/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/26/markets/oil_record/index.htm</guid><description>Oil prices hit fresh record highs Friday as traders fretted over global supplies and violence flared in the Middle East.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. details Quds Force's 'lethal support' to Taliban </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/25/quds.force/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/25/quds.force/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Quds Force, the elite unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, provides "lethal support" to the Sunni-dominated Taliban for use against U.S. and NATO forces, according to information in the new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran becoming new Iraq on campaign trail</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/25/iran.campaign/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/25/iran.campaign/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>When it comes to presidential politics, Iran appears to the next Iraq.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. slaps new sanctions on Iran</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/25/iran.sanctions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/25/iran.sanctions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The United States imposed stiff sanctions against Iran on Thursday, targeting two Iranian military groups and a number of Iranian banks and people it accuses of backing nuclear proliferation and terror-related activities.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran Closes Border With Northern Iraq</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1664732,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1664732,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>(SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq) -- Iran closed major border crossings with northern Iraq on Monday to protest the U.S. detention of an Iranian official the military accused of weapons smuggling, a Kurdish official said.At least four border gates have been closed and one remains open, the governor of the Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah, Dana Ahmed Majeed, told The Associated Press. The move threatens the economy of Iraq's northern region -- one of the country's few success stories.In Tehran, the public relations department in Iran's Interior Ministry said no decision had been taken to shut the border.But Kurdish authorities said the Iranians began shutting down the crossing points late Sunday near the border towns of Banjiwin, Haj Omran, Halabja and Khanaqin.The closings came four days after U.S. troops arrested an Iranian official during a raid on a hotel in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad.U.S. officials said he was a member of the elite Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards that smuggles wea</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. military says it nabbed Iranian commando in Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/20/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/20/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Coalition forces on Thursday arrested a suspected member of an elite Iranian unit that has been accused of training and equipping insurgents in Iraq, the U.S. military said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's Rich Revolutionary Guard</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1659039,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1659039,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Washington may want to label it a global terrorist organization. But in Iran the concern is over the military group's growing economic clout</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. seizes 'Iran agent' in Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/05/iraq.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/05/iraq.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.S.-led coalition forces say they have captured a "highly sought" individual in Iraq with alleged ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force. </description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard gets new commander</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/01/iran.islamicguards/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/01/iran.islamicguards/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran's supreme leader announced a new chief for the country's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Saturday, as the Bush administration considered giving terror status to the state military agency.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Prelude to an Attack on Iran</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1654188,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1654188,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Putting the country's Revolutionary Guard on the terror list is more than just bluster. It's likely the clearest sign yet that this Administration will not leave office without starting another war in the Middle East</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian Guards vow to 'punch' U.S.</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/18/iran.guard/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/18/iran.guard/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said they would not bow to pressure and threatened to "punch" the U.S., in their first response to Washington's plan to list them as a terrorist organization, newspapers reported Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran arming Taliban, U.S. claims</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/13/iran.taliban/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/13/iran.taliban/index.html</guid><description>The United States has "irrefutable evidence" that Tehran is transferring arms to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, a top U.S. diplomat told CNN Wednesday, noting that NATO forces have intercepted some of the arms shipments.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran to decide on detained Americans</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/12/iran.detained/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/12/iran.detained/index.html</guid><description>As Tehran presses for the release of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq, Iran's top judiciary spokesman announced Tuesday that three detained Iranian-Americans will be formally indicted or freed by the end of the week, according to Iranian media reports.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Iran a Terror Threat in the U.S.?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1630450,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1630450,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Evidence of ties to the JFK terror plot is thin. But it's not hard to believe, says Robert Baer, that Iran is eyeing American targets</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>16 'directly related' to U.S. troops' capture held</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/26/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/26/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>U.S. and Iraqi troops have detained 16 people they say are "directly related to the attack" on May 12 in which three U.S. soldiers were apparently captured, a U.S. military official said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 08:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. military: Architect of U.S. troop abductions killed</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/21/karbala.dead/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/21/karbala.dead/index.html</guid><description>U.S. forces have killed a man identified as the ringleader of the January 20 attack on U.S. troops in Karbala, Iraq, that left five Americans dead, military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 10:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK sailors 'blindfolded, isolated'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/06/iran.sailors/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/06/iran.sailors/index.html</guid><description>The 15 British military personnel captured by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf were subjected to "psychological pressure" and kept in isolation during their detention, the group's officers said on Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK media fury over detained 15</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/29/iran.pressnew/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/29/iran.pressnew/index.html</guid><description>The British media reacted with outrage Thursday after Arab television broadcast video footage of British marines and sailors who were captured by Iranian Revolutionary Guards last week.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ahmadinejad rejects U.N. sanctions</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/25/iran.nuclear/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/25/iran.nuclear/index.html</guid><description>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is rejecting new United Nations sanctions as illegal, according to IRNA, the state-run Iranian news agency.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Order restored after blast at girls school in Iran</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/17/iran.bombing/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/17/iran.bombing/index.html</guid><description>Militants detonated a percussion bomb at a girls school in southeastern Iran and opened fire on an electricity plant before fleeing and hiding in a nearby house in Zahedan, according to a Iranian news agency's report.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>2nd blast in 3 days hits Iranian city</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/16/iran.bombing/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/16/iran.bombing/index.html</guid><description>A bomb went off Friday night at a girls school in the southeastern Iranian border city of Zahedan, according to the semi-official FARS News Agency.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Extent of Iraq-Iran link 'unknown'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/15/iran.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/15/iran.iraq/index.html</guid><description>It is not known whether senior Iranian political leaders are aware of the military Quds force's involvement in providing armor-piercing explosives to militants in Iraq, two top U.S. defense officials have said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bomb kills 11 on military bus in Iran</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/14/iran.bombing/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/14/iran.bombing/index.html</guid><description>A car bomb ripped through an Iranian military bus in the southeastern Iranian border town of Zahedan Wednesday morning, leaving at least 11 dead and 31 wounded, state-run Iranian news agency IRNA reported.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran involvement suspected in Karbala compound attack</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>The Pentagon is investigating whether  a recent attack on a military compound in Karbala was carried out by Iranians or Iranian-trained operatives, two officials from separate U.S. government agencies said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran plane crash kills dozens</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/27/iran.planecrash/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/27/iran.planecrash/index.html</guid><description>An Iranian military plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Tehran Monday morning, state-run IRINN television reported, killing 36 servicemen.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rumsfeld: Situation in Iraq 'exaggerated' by media</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/07/rumsfeld.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/07/rumsfeld.iraq/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged Tuesday the potential for civil war in Iraq but slammed the media for "exaggerated" reports about the security situation following recent violence between religious factions.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Military plane crashes in Iran</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/09/iran.crash/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/09/iran.crash/index.html</guid><description>A military plane with 11 passengers on board has crashed in northwestern Iran, killing a number of high-ranking officials in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran plane crash toll rises to 116</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/07/tehran.crash/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/07/tehran.crash/index.html</guid><description>The death toll from the crash of an Iranian military transport plane near Tehran has risen to at least 116, according to Iranian officials and state-run media.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>110 killed in Iran plane crash</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/06/tehran.crash/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/06/tehran.crash/index.html</guid><description>An Iranian military transport plane has crashed near Tehran after hitting a 10-story apartment building, killing at least 110 people -- most of them aboard the plane -- Iranian officials and state-run media reported.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Campaigns end in tight Iran vote</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/16/iran.election/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/16/iran.election/index.html</guid><description>Candidates in Iran's presidential election have ended their campaigning ahead of Friday's closely contested vote, with moderate cleric and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani appearing to lead the race.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Worldwide terrorist attacks down in 2003</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/04/29/terror.report/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/04/29/terror.report/index.html</guid><description>International acts of terror in 2003 were the fewest in more than 30 years, according to the U.S. State Department's annual terrorism report released Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>