The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued an official statement expressing concern over Mr Straw's remarks, which appeared in the Iranian press.
Apart from praise for the dead leader in the Arabic and Iranian press, concern is expressed over the transition of power and the role of more radical organisations like Hamas in the process.
It is not known whether Gen Shateri was killed on the Lebanese or Syrian side of the border, although an Iranian official in Damascus told the Associated Press news agency that he had been killed within Syria.
In an article written for the controlled Iranian press on the occasion of his visit, Mr. Straw tried to establish a rapport with his hosts by informing them that he has over 25, 000 people of the Muslim faith in his constituency, ("and 23 mosques").
The United States is ready to join the EU-3 to press these and other issues with the Iranian government in addition to our work to resolve the nuclear danger.
When Mr. Zelaya was still in power, the Honduran press reported that his foreign minister Patricia Rodas met with high-ranking Iranian officials in Mexico City.
"We are studying it, " he told Iranian state television in quotes carried by the British Press Association.
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From the loose alliance of European communist and Palestinian terrorist groups in the 1970s, to the holocaust denials of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reprehensible comments last week by then-White House press corps dean Helen Thomas, the information war has been pervasive.
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In Washington, earlier this year, I awarded the UNESCO Press Freedom Prize to an imprisoned Iranian journalist, Ahmad Zeidabadi.
Yemen's state-controlled press claims Houthi rebels have been trained in an Iranian-run camp across the Red Sea in Eritrea.
"The Iranian regime kept some of these elements under house arrest, " he said in an email to The Associated Press.
Press TV, the Iranian government propaganda station, has just been booted off the Sky platform in the UK. Nothing to do with News International you understand, this is Ofcom, the regulatory body, which has banned it.
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