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Debate Iranian policy is radicalizing the Gulf’s Shi’ites
There can be no doubt that Iran's expansionist regional ambitions are responsible for radicalizing the region's Shi'ites. These ambitions--which strengthened Tehran following the collapse of the Shah's regime--have led to a preponderance of radicalism among the Gulf's Shi'ites. In fact, this has most often served as the major catalyst for Shi'ite ...
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Iran Has No Plan to Sell Crude Oil to Russia
Iranian Oil Ministry spokesman Alireza Nikzad-Rahbar has said Iran has not been in talks with Russia for the sale of crude oil to its northern neighbour, ISNA reported. Referring to some news which has been published by some media outlets, Nikzad-Rahbar said that there is basically no infrastructure for transferring crude oil from southern Iran to the Caspian Sea. On Tuesday, the Mehr ...
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FIFA World Cup Qualifying Wrap Australia Iran South Korea qualify
Australia, Iran and South Korea secured their places at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in the last round of AFC qualifying on Tuesday. Iran secured their fourth finals appearance thanks to a 1-0 win over South Korea in Ulsan. Ahead of the game, each team knew a win would secure their place in Brazil, with Uzbekistan hoping to overtake the losers. With the Koreans going into the game a point clear, ...
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Iran’s president-elect may shift country’s policies toward Persian Gulf Israel
TEHRAN, Iran - To understand the changes likely to occur under Iran’s new president, Hasan Rowhani, consider this summation of the outgoing regime by a veteran foreign policy analyst. Iran’s approach to the world was ideological and focused attention on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Lebanon – issues far from the country’s vital interests, said Davood Hermidas Bavand, a ...
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The new Iranian presidents restrained power Bremmer
Hassan Rohani won the Iranian presidential election by a landslide. Rohani beat the two perceived front-runners who were hand-selected conservative loyalists to supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and he did it with an outright majority, bypassing an expected run-off. According to the interior ministry, turnout topped 72 percent, a level that the United States hasn't attained in a century. ...
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Irans Presidential Election Sparks Mixed Reactions
. Voting was extended by five hours, a decision some argue simply met the demand, while others suggest it was a political move to showcase participation. On one side there was nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, and on the opposite side a former nuclear envoy, Hasan Rowhani. Officials say there's no clear front-runner in the fight to succeed controversial President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but ...
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Iran says appeals for jihad in Syria fuel radicalism
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the Syrian government and its Shi'ite allies are fuelling radicalism in the region, a senior Iranian official said on ...
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UPDATE 2-UK top court ruling threatens Western sanctions against Iran
Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:30pm EDT * Echoes EU General Court ruling on Bank Mellat in January * Fifty similar court cases pending at EU court * Washington fears for key EU support in isolating Iran * Iran hard hit by sanctions but finds ways to elude them * Sanctions impact helped moderate win Iran presidential vote (Adds U.S. Treasury comment in paragraphs 6,7) By Clare Hutchison LONDON, June 19 ...
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Who Is Irans New First Lady
Iranians elected a new president last week but have yet to learn anything about his wife. President-elect Hassan Rohani has never mentioned her name in public, and Iranian media have failed to uncover her identity. Who is Iran's new first lady? The answer is, we don't know. She made no reported campaign appearances alongside her husband and doesn't appear to have been known in ...
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Hamas Syria conflict impacting Iranian financial aid
Hamas's deteriorating relations with Iran and Syria have impacted financial aid to the Islamist movement, Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, was quoted Wednesday as saying.Noting that Syria had supported Hamas financially and politically, Hamad said that his movement's support for the Syrian "revolution" has resulted in the loss of financial aid from both ...
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Why Iran Cant Reform - By Christian Caryl
Obama to outline big nuke cuts today; DOD civilian owes $500k - to DOD; Petraeus to Team Rubicon; Hastings, dead; Say goodbye, Rambo; Tara Sonenshine on "bottom line diplomacy;" and a bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Pastor Saeed Abedini Medical Condition Improving but New Iranian President Can Offer Little Help
Reports in Western media about the victory of a moderate cleric in Iran's At the same time, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which represents Abedini's wife and two children in the U.S., offered The Christian Post a perspective on Iranian president-elect Hassan Rouhani, explaining that his election victory last week is unlikely to change much for the U.S. pastor and ...
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Irans electoral watchdog approves presidential election result moderate Rowhanis victory
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state TV is reporting the country's election overseer, the Guardian Council, has approved Friday's presidential election result, affirming a first-round victory by a relative moderate. The report Wednesday said Hasan Rowhani won the election by taking nearly 51 per cent of votes. Since he won more than half, that eliminated the need for a runoff. Rowhani ...
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Presidential election in Iran started at 8 a.m. Friday…
Presidential election in Iran started at 8 a.m. Friday ANKARA - Voting in the presidential election started in Iran at 8 a.m. on Friday and polling stations will close at 6 p.m..Around 51 million Iranians are expected to vote at the presidential election as well as local elections.Voters will choose among 6 reformist and conservative candidates for a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ...
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Review Fighting and losing in Iran then and now
"Children of the Jacaranda Tree" (Atria Books), by Sahar DelijaniLet's get one thing out of the way: I admire Sahar Delijani for taking on post-revolutionary Iran as the subject of her debut novel, "Children of the Jacaranda Tree." It is a tough topic to tackle, especially for a novelist trying, as Delijani does, to explore the emotions involved in what is simply not a ...
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Watchdog approves Iran poll result
Tehran, Iran - Iran's state TV is reporting the country's election overseer, the Guardian Council, has approved Friday's presidential election result, affirming a first-round victory by a relative ...
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei uses Twitter to tell young Iranians to take a hike
Presumably taking his cue from the US First Lady Michelle Obama and her physical education campaign, Iran's Supreme Leader has published a Twitter paean to the benefits of ...
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Rohani A survivor in the snakepit of Tehran
Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani at a during a news conference in Tehran June 17, 2013. REUTERS/Fars News/Majid Hagdos Irans new president-elect Hassan Rohani is being praised as a moderate who might bring change to Iran and transform Tehrans international relationships. What does he want? is the question most analysts now ask, and, critically, What can he achieve? The answer may be: a ...
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British supreme court overturns sanctions on Iran bank
Britain's Supreme Court has eliminated sanctions against an Iranian bank, which was penalized over its alleged links to the nation's nuclear weapons ...
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UK rules in favour of Irans Bank Mellat over sanctions
Bank Mellat appealed against measures imposed by the UK Treasury in 2009, banning any company operating in Britain from dealing with the Tehran-based lender. Jo Yong-Hak / ...
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Secret courts are offensive warn senior judges
Secret courts are "offensive" to the fundamental principals of justice and judges should treat them with "distaste and concern", the country’s highest judge said ...
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Editorial Moderates win raises hopes of new dawn in Iran
By any yardstick, the resounding victory by moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani in the Iranian presidential election was a welcome surprise. It had been widely believed the poll would be won by a hard-line candidate who would be even more difficult to deal with than the outgoing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Yet again, however, the Iranian people seized the opportunity to express their disapproval of their ...
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Iran Begins Diplomatic Offensive in Persian Gulfs Arab States
Tehran, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Iran started today a diplomatic offensive in three of its Persian Gulf neighbouring nations, led by Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. According to a announcement released by IRNA news agency today, the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister is scheduled to meet with his counterparts from the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Oman. ...
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Moscow Against Arab Involvement In P5+1 Talks
Call for Softening Sanctions Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected the idea of participation of Persian Gulf littoral states in the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers. "This framework of negotiations is enough," Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) quoted Lavrov as saying on Tuesday. Iran and the P5+1 group--Russia, China, France, ...
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India Supportive of Iran’s Disarmament Conference Presidency
Call for Softening Sanctions Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected the idea of participation of Persian Gulf littoral states in the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers. "This framework of negotiations is enough," Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) quoted Lavrov as saying on Tuesday. Iran and the P5+1 group--Russia, China, France, ...
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Iran will have men in space within ten years
Iran will have astronauts in space within the next ten years, according to government officials who recently revealed to Iran news media the Iranian Space Agency’s long-term space objectives.
Iran has pursued an ambitious space program in recent years, entering the so-called ‘Asian Space Race’ and launching the country’s first rocket in 2004, followed in 2009 by the launch of an entirely domestically-built satellite, thereby becoming the 9th country in the world to have achieved orbital-launch capability. Read more
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