And one Western official said Tehran was, for now, being "very careful" in its nuclear programme.
Such talk certainly will not attract the foreign investment Hungary badly needs, notes a Western official.
According to a Western official with knowledge of the investigation, Salehi telephoned Karzai from his jail cell.
According to a knowledgeable western official, there is no evidence of Iranian collusion with suspected al-Qaeda members.
"It will be difficult to make much progress in the days to come, " the Western official said.
That view was bolstered by one Western official who discussed the attack with military officials in Kabul on Sunday.
"The Turks have serious concerns about the number of refugees, " another Western official said of recent meetings with Turkish officials.
Security Council resolutions, according to a Western official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions.
"They want us out, that is for sure, " a Western official said.
"He is a complex character, and he can react very emotionally, especially if he believes that he is being humiliated, " said one senior Western official who frequently dealt with Mr. Karzai.
Earlier Wednesday, four American private security contractors were killed when their vehicle, part of a U.S. diplomatic convoy, struck a roadside bomb in southern Basra, a western official in Baghdad told CNN.
Russian diplomats have made scant efforts to meet with Syrian opposition figures and Moscow seems to accept Damascus' portrayal of the opposition as a group of armed criminal gangs, according to a Western official familiar with the Russian thinking.
Moscow faces stiff competition from Western manufacturers, leading a top Russian official to warn of "consequences" should India choose a Western manufacturer.
The European official said no Western country had any interest in military action in Syria, however.
"It will galvanise international attention, " said a senior official from a western charity, speaking on condition of anonymity about the embargoed announcement.
Meanwhile, officials in Kenya were taking extra precautions after at least two patients showed symptoms of the virus, according to Jackstone Omoto, a medical official in Siaya, western Kenya.
Omar Farouq al-Ani, an Iraqi Islamic Party member running for a council seat in the capital, was gunned down near his Amriya home in western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.
For starters, the Indian government never embarked on an official program to mandate Western clothes in the workplace as the Japanese Emperor Meiji did in the early 1900s, triggering a decline in traditional outfits.
Joseph Dunford has since put U.S.-led forces on heightened alert, warning in an advisory that Mr. Karzai's "inflammatory" words could prompt some Afghans to "lash out" at Western forces, according to an official familiar with the document.
"For the last couple of weeks and months (Lebanese authorities) have been hot on the trail of individual suspects responsible for attacks on Western franchises, " the U.S. official added.
Western scholars may chafe at rules that control access to official government documents, but they are nothing compared to the restrictions on information that exist in the Middle East.
Already Pollack had recorded the official statistics and written separate game stories sent by Western Union to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Associated Press and United Press.
But the very fact that Mr Gomaa and similar worthies from other Muslim countries were asked to London (formally by Cambridge University, but with keen official encouragement) reflects a long-term dilemma for all Western states with growing Muslim communities.
Western Sahara has been fighting for independence from Morocco for decades, despite an official ceasefire since 1991.
If a legal Russian business uses a criminally owned company to bribe an official in order to land its revenues legally (by Russian standards) in a western bank, how guilty is the banker under, say, English law, for taking the deposit?
He said the official results show that Ahmadinejad more than doubled the 2005 showing for all conservative candidates in the western provinces of Luristan and Khuzestan, two majority-Arab districts that have heavily favored reformist candidates in previous races.
She had little tolerance for the Western ex-pats who stuck together and never met any locals other than their domestic staff or an occasional government official.
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Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- A gold mine in the western Sudanese state of Darfur collapsed this week, killing scores of people and leaving many still unaccounted for, an official says.
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