Iran feels under attack. Its efforts to reach out to the US are slapped down, the time between reach and slap a measure only of the degree of duplicity, says Peter Van Buren.

The US has condemned the rocket and mortar attack that killed six people and wounded dozens of others at a refugee camp near Baghdad’s international airport.

Rockets and mortar rounds struck a refugee camp for Iranian exiles next to Baghdad’s international airport today, killing six people and wounding about 40, police and UN officials said.

UN human rights officials are condemning Iran’s use of stoning as a form of capital punishment among a number of “deeply troubling” rights violations, many of which are “systemic in nature,” according to a report.