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Iran plans national fleet expansion
Iran's National Development Fund has announced the allocation of 5% of its assets to buy new aircraft, Mehr news has reported. A number of aircraft will be added to the national fleet in the current year, while 25 planes with over 30 years of service are to be removed from the fleet, most of which are Boeing 707 and Boeing 727 models, said head of the country's Civil Aviation ...
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Obama Putin express cautious optimism over Iran
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed "cautious" optimism on Monday that the election of a moderate cleric in Iran's presidential poll would open up dialogue with Tehran over its disputed nuclear program.In a private meeting following the press conference, however, the presidents said they would sign an agreement ...
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Iran’s president-elect is an odd ‘moderate’
Mainstream Western media praising Hassan Rowhani, Iran's president-elect, as a "voice of moderation" and a "reformist" no doubt please the radical clerics who actually rule in Tehran. The more he's seen as something other than what he is -- one of the mullahs' own -- the more easily they can continue developing nuclear weapons by stringing along an America ...
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BP classes Iran as top gas reserves holder in world
BP classes Iran as top gas reserves holder in world BP classes Iran as ...
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Op-Ed Contributors How to End the Stalemate With Iran
THE stunning election of a pragmatic former Iranian nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, has offered the Obama administration a once-in-a-lifetime chance to end the atomic stalemate with Iran. In the West, Mr Rowhani is widely seen as a turbaned politico from inside the establishment. One of us has worked for him directly, as his deputy in nuclear talks. The other has conducted research ...
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Australia Iran and South Korea head for Brazil
Mehrdad Oladi, Masoud Shojaei, Mohammad Noori and Gholam Raza Rezaei of Iran celebrate qualifying for the 2014 Fifa World Cup following the World Cup Qualifier against South Korea at Munsu World Cup Stadium on June 18, 2013 in Ulsan, South Korea. ...
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Iran and U.S. New hope on nukes
>Editor's note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com. He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Follow him on Twitter.(CNN) -- It would be easy to dismiss Friday's election of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran as little more than a sham -- a rigged election that ...
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India snubs US backs Iran
Iran took over the presidency on May 27. Declaring it "an honour to speak during the presidency of Iran", foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai said in a statement in Geneva, "Questioning the relevance and authority of established multilateral disarmament frameworks is misplaced when in fact the current impasse is more due to the obstacles placed in its path rather than any inherent ...
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Austria May Delay Troop Withdrawal From Golan Heights
Turkish police detained dozens of people at their homes and raided two media offices on Tuesday in a coordinated operation across the country to clamp down on nearly three weeks of mass anti-government unrest, lawyers and local reports said. Officers raided the homes of around 90 members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), a small leftist group that has been active in Istanbul's ...
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Russia urges West to soften Iran sanctions
Russia Tuesday urged the West to consider relaxing sanctions against Iran, saying there was unprecedented hope of a breakthrough in the nuclear standoff ...
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Iran president escapes attack
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escaped an assassination attempt on Wednesday when a blast hit one of the vehicles of his cavalcade, a media report said. Iran's Press TV, however, denied the report. Al Arabiya TV reported the blast took place in the western city of Hamadan as the president was about to address a crowd. The attacker was arrested on the spot. The bomb hit a car carrying ...
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Iran Hassan Rohani the pragmatic president
Lawyer, cleric, academic. Iran’s new president Hassan Rohani was playing the role of the diplomat as he met his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Tuesday. The pair discussed the economic and political problems the country faces, especially after years of sanctions imposed by the West over Iran’s nuclear stance. ';The next government aims to make use of experiences ...
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Iranians Observers Wonder How Rowhani Was Allowed to Win
W hen tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to celebrate Hassan Rowhani's presidential victory last weekend, one chant stood out: "Dictator! Thank you!" In the back of their minds, the protesters must have been asking themselves the same thing surprised Iran observers are wondering: Why would Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the "dictator" who has ...
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Israeli premier pressure on Iran nuclear program must not ease despite election of reformist
JERUSALEM - Israel's prime minister says the international community must not ease pressure on Iran because of the election of a reformist president. Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he believed Iran's president-elect Hasan Rowhani spoke moderately but backs enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. The comments came after Russia's foreign minister was quoted as saying Iran was ...
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Iran ready to suspend 20 per cent uranium enrichment
Iran is ready to suspend production of the most sensitive part of its nuclear programme, according to Russia, which called on the world to respond to any breakthrough by cutting ...
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Don’t prolong Iran talks Netanyahu
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned world powers on Tuesday against holding ';drawn out'; negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme following the election of a more moderate president in ...
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Brazil here we come Iran fans sing
Iran .Footage aired on state television showed similar outpourings of joy around the country.In Tehran, residents waved the green-white-red national flag while motorists honked their horns and bikers sped through the capital to join the ...
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Irans new leader offers softer tone same key policies
TEHRAN--Newly elected president Hassan Rowhani struck a diplomatic chord in his first news conference but offered little real change in key policy areas, especially on the long-running dispute over Iran's nuclear ...
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Soccer-Australia Iran and S.Korea head for Brazil
* Iran beat South Korea 1-0 away to qualify * Substitute Kennedy to the rescue for Australia * Uzbekistan and Jordan into playoff By Patrick Johnston June 18 (Reuters) - Australia and Iran booked their fourth World Cup finals appearances with nervous 1-0 victories in a dramatic finale to Asian qualifying on Tuesday. South Korea joined them and Japan in qualifying for the finals after ...
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Tehran correspondent answers questions about Iran’s election
Tomorrow Iran will elect its new president. As the candidates make their last minute bids, NBC's Ali Arouzi gauges the mood on the streets of Tehran. Campaigning in Iran's presidential election ended on Thursday, a day before Iranians head to the polls.The field of candidates has been whittled down to five hardliners – and one moderate.The next president is not expected to ...
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Moderate Iranian president Rouhani promises to enhance mutual trust with West
Rouhani has also promised to show more transparency on its nuclear front and bring moderation back to the forefront of Iranian politics.According to the Guardian, Rouhani has presented himself as a moderate politician willing to enhance mutual trust between Tehran and the international community, including Britain and the US.He has also promised to be the saviour of the Iranian economy by ...
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S Koreans angry over Iran victory
Ulsan, South Korea - Hundreds of fans hurled bottles and debris on to the pitch Tuesday as Iran beat hosts South Korea 1-0 to reach the World Cup after an angry build-up involving taunts from both ...
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Iranians express cautious optimism after Hassan Rouhanis victory
Hassan Rouhani stood a good chance of emerging victorious from the previous day's presidential ballot, Masoud says he travelled the 105km (65 miles) from Garmsar to celebrate with people in Tehran. Across the country, there were raucous celebrations in dozens of cities through the night.Masoud cites the release of Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi from house ...
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Hollande New Iran president welcome at Syria peace talks
French President Francois Hollande speaks during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G8 summit near Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on June 18, 2013. Hollande said Tuesday that Iranian president-elect Hassan Rowhani would be welcome at Syria peace talks "if he can be ...
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Frances Hollande open to Iranian presence at Syria talks
Paris had previously ruled out Iran taking part in the proposed conference, saying Tehran had no desire for peace and would use the Syria talks to detract from negotiations later in the year with major powers over ...
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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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