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Outside View An ill wind from Tehran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . While Iranian newspapers promote Rafsanjani as a reformist, the West shouldn't get its hopes up. Despite Rafsanjani's opposition to the 2009 presidential election results and confrontation with Khamenei, indications are the two have made nice. Rafsanjani wouldn't have registered without knowing he would make the cut by obtaining Khamenei's prior ...
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Iran election overseers add further caveats
TEHRAN: Iran’s election overseers said Monday they would bar candidates who are physically weak from running in next month’s presidential election, a reference to a former leader seen as a threat to hard-liners. Former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s entry in the race scrambled the equations because of his popularity, reputation and potential to draw voters away from ...
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VIDEO Will Israel bomb Iran
Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen explores what might happen if Iran continues with its nuclear programme. Iran insists it does not want nuclear weapons but Israel and the United States - both of which have nuclear armouries - refuse to believe its denials. Our correspondent visits Israel and finds a widespread fear and distrust of Iran. Could it be that Israel and the US will launch a ...
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Iran Will Let Argentina Question Suspects in Anti-Semitic Attack
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has approved a deal with Argentina that clears the way for an investigation of an attack that killed 85 people at a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires in 1994, an Iranian diplomat said Monday. Ali Pakdaman, charge d'affaires at the Iranian Embassy in Argentina, told Argentine radio station Del Plata that the deal will not go through the ...
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Iran nuclear talks fail again
Nuclear talks between Iran and the UN atomic agency have failed again, as the top US diplomat in separate six-party negotiations warned Washington's patience was wearing thin.International discussions on Iran's nuclear ambitions were held in Istanbul and Vienna on Wednesday but the Western reactions afterwards ranged from tepid to disappointed.While the EU's foreign policy chief ...
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Iranian refugee from Melbourne arrested over allegations of people smuggling
Police in the Indonesian capital Jakarta have arrested an Iranian refugee who lives in Melbourne on allegations of people smuggling.Mohammad Abdi, 36, was arrested along with two other Iranian refugees by anti-smuggling police who raided an apartment in West Jakarta early yesterday morning.Indonesian police say the man, who holds Australian travel documents but is yet to become a citizen, was ...
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Iran Hangs Spies Accused Of Providing Information To CIA Israel
Iran is a dangerous place for anyone who might even be remotely in contact with foreign countries. That danger was clearly demonstrated over the ...
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Will Iran’s Former President Rafsanjani Be Allowed To Run
A senior figure in the Iranian regime appears to have hinted that presidential hopeful Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (pictured) might be considered too old to ...
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Irans Zahra Tells Alternate Tale Of Presidential Campaign
Iranian men register their candidacy for the June presidential election at the Interior Ministry in Tehran on May 9. Some 700 candidates have registered, but most will be disqualified. Some Iranians inside and outside the country have turned to an online graphic novel which features a woman running for the ...
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Arab League Condemns Iranian Belligerent Statements
Manama-May-20(BNA)The Arab League has today strongly condemned the belligerent statements made by the Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs. The Arab League slammed the Iranian threats and irresponsible and reprehensible statements which represent a flagrant interference in Bahrain's internal affairs and a blatant violation of international conventions ...
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Assessment of presidential candidates by Iranian opposition leaders claimed false
Radio Zamaneh The families of Iranian opposition leaders under house arrest announced today that statements attributed to their parents in the media is false and that MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have not made any assessments of the coming ...
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The Dark Side of Irans Drug Policy
How Iran Won the War on Drugs ," Amir Afkhami argues that the Iranian government has been successful in addressing the country’s drug problem by treating dependency and reducing the harm drugs cause, rather than by cracking down on supply. Afkhami further suggests that Iran is a model for the region, and that nearby countries such as Afghanistan have much to learn from its ...
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Iran Russia Hezbollah Top Backers in Syrian Regimes Success
The protracted fighting in Syria is not happening within a bubble, amid reports of clandestine support for the Bashar al Assad regime from Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, and an ongoing effort to establish an international peace ...
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Iranians Develop Paste For Bone Repair
Iranian experts have developed an injection paste for the treatment of bone diseases, said the head of Iran's Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Department, Materials and Energy Research Center. Saeed Hesaraki noted that the paste, made up of polymeric liquid, will revolutionize medical domains, especially in the treatment of bone diseases, ISNA reported. "Treating reversible ...
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3 Contestants Quit Presidential Race
Three presidential hopefuls dropped out of the upcoming presidential election. Deputy Majlis Speaker Mohammad-Hassan Abutorabifard, who represented the so-called Coalition of Five, a bloc from the conservative camp, said on Monday that he has made up his mind to withdraw from the race, ISNA reported. Former Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast issued a statement on Sunday saying he is ...
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Daei Back as Persepolis Boss
Sports Desk Ali Daei reached an agreement with Persepolis to take the hot seat next season. Rah Ahan coach has negotiated with Persepolis officials and will take charge of the Iranian popular club within the next few days, Mehr News Agency wrote. Mohammad Mayelikohan and Mansour Ebrahimzadeh were supposed to be Persepolis coach but the board of management has decided to appoint Daei as the ...
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Quake Jolts Hormuzgan Again
An Iranian rescue and relief ship late on Sunday saved six sailors from a damaged commercial boat in waters off southern Hormuzgan province, who would have otherwise drowned in stormy Persian Gulf waters. Control Tower of the Ports and Sailing Officer of the naval patrol boat Esmaeil Malkizadeh told IRNA, "A large commercial boat carrying 450 tons of foodstuff bound for Iran's Lengeh ...
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Tehran Kabul Sign MoU On Judicial Ties
Iran and Afghanistan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote cooperation in legal and judicial fields. The MoU was signed on the third day of a visit by Afghanistan's Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi and his delegation to Tehran, during which he had meetings with high-ranking Iranian officials to discuss ways of broadening ties between the two countries' judiciaries, ...
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11 Foreign Nationals Sentenced
Three presidential hopefuls dropped out of the upcoming presidential election. Deputy Majlis Speaker Mohammad-Hassan Abutorabifard, who represented the so-called Coalition of Five, a bloc from the conservative camp, said on Monday that he has made up his mind to withdraw from the race, ISNA reported. Former Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast issued a statement on Sunday saying he is ...
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Syria Confab Pointless Without Iran
Three presidential hopefuls dropped out of the upcoming presidential election. Deputy Majlis Speaker Mohammad-Hassan Abutorabifard, who represented the so-called Coalition of Five, a bloc from the conservative camp, said on Monday that he has made up his mind to withdraw from the race, ISNA reported. Former Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast issued a statement on Sunday saying he is ...
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$16b in SP Investments Expected
Domestic Economy Desk Iran is expected to increase Euro 4 gasoline production by 60 percent, said a member of the Majlis Energy Commission. "Currently, Euro 2 gasoline and diesel are supplied to domestic consumers, the sulfur amount of which is 13,000-15,000 parts per million (ppm)," Abbas Soltani added. He put the amount of sulfur in Euro 4 fuel at less than 10 ppm, which is far ...
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Overseas Electricity Sales Will Rise
Domestic Economy Desk More than 12 billion kilowatt hour of electricity will be exported during the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the deputy oil minister for energy and electricity. Mohammad Behzad also put the share of private sector in electricity generation of the country at 40 percent, Mehr News Agency reported. He also said Iran's electricity generation capacity ...
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1st Virtual Museum Of Cultural Heritage Launched
Translated by Leila Imani The first Virtual Museum of Iran's Intellectual Heritage was inaugurated in Tehran's Sa'dabad Cultural Complex on the occasion of the International Museum Day on May 18. According to the report released by ISNA, the initiative has been launched by the association of Javedan Cultural Complex in the year to March 2011. The website of the virtual museum ...
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Climate Change Disaster Threatening Caribbean
The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. It is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent scientist. Conrad Douglas, a Jamaican scientist who has published over 350 reports on environmental management and related matters, has warned that "urgent action at all levels (is) required now", cautioning the region ...
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Islam Growing in UK
A new analysis of the 2011 census shows that a decade of mass immigration has helped mask the scale of decline in Christian affiliation among the British-born population alongside a dramatic spread of Islam, particularly among the young. It suggests that only a minority of people will describe themselves as Christians within the next decade, for first time, MuslimVillage reported. Almost one ...
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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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