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Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Khalida Khalid and her driver released
Azerbaijani citizens arrested in Iran have been released. The employee of the National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan, researcher and publicist Khalida Khalid and her driver Shamkhal Huseynov have been released. The statement came from Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsun Pak Ayin. He said both citizens of Azerbaijan were released on 19 May ...
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Abdullah bin Zayed strongly denounces Irans statement on Bahrain
WAM Abu Dhabi, 19th May 2013 (WAM) -- The UAE Foreign Minister, H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, today strongly criticised a statement issued yesterday by Iran's foreign ministry on sisterly Bahrain. ''Our Iranian neighbours have a real problem in understanding and identifying the way in which they deal with their neighbours,'' Sheikh Abdullah told a press ...
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Lawmaker Fires Back In Car Wars Ahead Of Iranian Presidential Vote
Iran's car saga continues. Conservative lawmaker Ali Motahari has criticized recent comments by hard-line cleric Ahmad Jannati suggesting what kind of car Iran's next president should -- or shouldn't -- drive. Motahari described the remarks by Jannati, who chairs the powerful Guardians Council that's charged with vetting candidate applications -- as illogical, adding ...
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Lavrov Discussed Iranian Role in Syria Peace Talks
MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed on Sunday that he had discussed Iran's possible involvement in a conference to resolve the war in Syria, when he met his US counterpart John Kerry early in May.The Russians and Americans agreed during Kerry's visit to Moscow to set up a conference of international players to end the war in Syria. ...
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Iran Well Prepared To Move Ahead
Sports Desk The deputy of Iran's Football Federation said that the country's women football team is in good mood. Speaking to ISNA, Farideh Shojaei said, "The team went to Bangladesh for the AFC Women's Asian Cup with high hopes. We are determined to take the berth for the World Cup but we should know that we are in a tough group. In our group we have Thailand, which is ...
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Stopping Illegal Afghan Entries Can Avert Border Incidents
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said unauthorized border crossings into the country by Afghan nationals should be stopped in order to prevent incidents along the border between the two countries. If Afghans travel to Iran legally, border incidents can be prevented, Salehi said during a meeting in Tehran with Abdul Salam Azimi, the chief justice of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, IRIB ...
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Attaran Shooting At Cannes
Imran Khan's Aide Assassinated in Karachi Pakistan held a repeat election on Sunday in an upscale area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging, despite the shooting death of a senior member of former cricket star Imran Khan's party. Khan blamed Zahra Shahid's killing late Saturday night in Karachi on the Muttahida Quami Movement, the ...
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40 Hopefuls May Be Approved for June Vote
License Holder: (IRNA) www.irna.ir ? Number 4511 ? Monday May 20, 2013 ? Ordibehesht 30, 1392 ? Rajab 9, 1434 ? Price 2,000 Rials ? 12 Pages ? ...
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Report Says Iran Hangs 2 Spies Working for Israel US
DUBAI, UAE -- Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, accused of gathering information for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, were hanged at ...
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Syrian Forces Enter Qusayr
From Page 1 The Qusayr area is considered of strategic importance because it lies between the capital and the Mediterranean coast, and is close to the Lebanese border. The United States and Russia are working to organize a peace conference next month, in a bid to find a political solution to the conflict. Washington has backed the unrest in Syria, while Moscow is one of his staunchest ...
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President World Admits Iran’s Astounding Scientific Progress
40 Hopefuls May Be Approved for June Vote Guardian Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei said the supervisory body might approve as many as 40 presidential hopefuls for the June 14 election. Rejecting certain media speculations about the number of presidential hopefuls vetted by the Guardian Council, Kadkhodaei said on Saturday that the supervisory body 'does not work based on ...
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IAEA’s Parchin Visit Acceptable Under Protocol
IAEA's Parchin Visit Acceptable Under Protocol Tehran is ready to explain every 'suspicious' point of the country's nuclear program as well as allow experts to Parchin military facility if the IAEA agrees to sign a protocol detailing all its questions, the Iranian ambassador to Russia said. The protocol should contain all IAEA's concerns about Parchin and all other ...
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Turkey Egypt Agree to Form Petchem Club
Turkey, Egypt Agree to Form Petchem Club National Iranian Petrochemical Organization (NIPO) says Turkey and Egypt have agreed to Iran's proposal to form an international petrochemical association similar to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). "On the sideline of the petrochemical conference of the D8 group of countries, Turkey and Egypt, as the two biggest ...
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Iran Only Asian State With AFM
Researchers at Pardis Technology Park have commercialized their new invention--the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). Dr. Abbas Shahmoradi, project manager, told Mehr News Agency that research for the design and production of AFM had begun in 1999, which has now reached the commercialization stage. "Pharmaceutical and biotechnology research centers can now view nanoparticles, viruses and ...
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African Oil Gas Outlook
Turkey's economy has been given a boost with an upgrade by the Moody's ratings agency. Shares rose in Istanbul and the country's cost of borrowing fell. Fitch had lifted Turkey to investment-grade in November, while Standard & Poor's is expected to follow suit, EuroNews wrote. Ankara sees this a seal of approval from international markets for a decade of economic ...
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IAEA’s Parchin Visit Acceptable...
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said unauthorized border crossings into the country by Afghan nationals should be stopped in order to prevent incidents along the border between the two countries. If Afghans travel to Iran legally, border incidents can be prevented, Salehi said during a meeting in Tehran with Abdul Salam Azimi, the chief justice of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, IRIB ...
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Proposal for Moral Internet Welcomed
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Minister Mohammad Hassan Nami said Tehran's proposal to launch an internet with globally-accepted codes of ethics was welcomed in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Conference. "The Iranian delegation put forward three proposals, one of which was developing a clean internet and omitting immoral dimensions from the ...
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West Cannot Make Iran Surrender
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said unauthorized border crossings into the country by Afghan nationals should be stopped in order to prevent incidents along the border between the two countries. If Afghans travel to Iran legally, border incidents can be prevented, Salehi said during a meeting in Tehran with Abdul Salam Azimi, the chief justice of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, IRIB ...
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2 Azeri Nationals Set Free
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said unauthorized border crossings into the country by Afghan nationals should be stopped in order to prevent incidents along the border between the two countries. If Afghans travel to Iran legally, border incidents can be prevented, Salehi said during a meeting in Tehran with Abdul Salam Azimi, the chief justice of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, IRIB ...
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VP Hezbollah Chief Confer on Regional Developments
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said unauthorized border crossings into the country by Afghan nationals should be stopped in order to prevent incidents along the border between the two countries. If Afghans travel to Iran legally, border incidents can be prevented, Salehi said during a meeting in Tehran with Abdul Salam Azimi, the chief justice of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, IRIB ...
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CIA Mossad Spies Executed
Iran has executed two spies who worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad. The two men, who were sentenced to death by Tehran's Revolutionary Court, were hanged at dawn on Sunday, Press TV reported. The Mossad agent, identified as Mohammad Heidari, was found guilty of gathering Iranian classified information and providing the intelligence ...
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Tehran for Azerbaijan’s Progress Welfare
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hailed Tehran-Baku ties as friendly and excellent, saying the Islamic Republic of Iran wants dignity, progress and welfare for Azerbaijan. "Iran and Azerbaijan are two brotherly nations and governments and the Islamic Republic of Iran is pleased to see Azerbaijan's independence, progress and dignity," said Ahmadinejad in a Saturday meeting with ...
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Hosting MKO Endangers Albania’s Security
The relocation of the members of the terrorist Mujahidin Khalq Organization (MKO) to Albania will threaten the country's national security, a legislator warned on Sunday. On Thursday, US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the 14 members of the MKO left their camp in Iraq on Wednesday 'for permanent relocation in Albania'. Tirana recently offered asylum to 210 MKO ...
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Over 66000 Polling Stations Ready For Election
Iranian voters will go to over 66,000 polling stations inside and outside the country on June 14 to elect the next president, Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar announced on Sunday. Speaking at the end of a session of the central executive committee of the elections in Tehran, Mohammad Najjar said that his ministry is fully prepared to hold the election and has set up 1,040 executive ...
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Raid on Bahraini Cleric’s Home Condemned
Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi has condemned a raid by Bahraini forces on the house of prominent Shiite cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Ahmed Qassim. "We strongly condemn this inappropriate act and stress that the element of violence and intimidation and an organized break into people's houses are not compatible with logic and run counter to all ethical, religious and human ...
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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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