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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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As seen in Iran Iranians celebrate the election of Hassan Rouhani
Iranians poured onto the streets to celebrate the election of Hassan Rouhani on 15 June. Some of them filmed the celebrations and sent their images to euronews. Here are their videos. A road in ...
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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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Nanobiosensor Blocks Organ Transplant Rejection
Iranian researchers at Tabriz University have developed a nanobiosensor to measure cyclosporine, a material used to block transplant rejection of body organs. Abdolreza Mir-Mohseni, the lead author of the project, said the research aims at developing sensors with QCN and using polymeric reformers to measure the level of lead and cyclosporine in blood samples, ISNA reported. Cyclosporine is ...
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HIV Prevention Programs Underway
Society Desk Iran's Health Ministry has expressed concerns over the return of HIV infection among Iranian drug addicts using shared syringes. Dr. Abbas Sedaqat, the head of HIV Department in Health Ministry, said that to reduce the risk of HIV, more preventive programs should be implemented. "The supervision and evaluation of HIV transmission have been underway in Iran since past ...
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Women in Global Economy
From Page 1 "The revolution the book began isn't over," she said, with a large portion of this activity still left out of GDP calculations and policy decisions. Youngest Woman "When you don't have all of that in front of you, you just make really bad policy, she said. "You make very bad policy about the next generation, about the environment." Elected ...
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UN 45.2m RefugeesDisplaced People
Military helicopters dropped emergency supplies on Wednesday to thousands of tourists and pilgrims stranded by flash floods that tore through towns and temples in northern India, killing at least 138 people, officials said. Thousands of people have already been evacuated after floods and landslides caused by early monsoon rains wrought devastation through the region in the Himalayan foothills, ...
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World Refugee Day and Human Cost of War
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a message congratulated the election of Hassan Rohani as Iran's new president, describing him as a very experienced man. "The trend of future talks with Tehran officials depends on the current Iranian leaders, including the country's president-elect who is a highly experienced person and a former negotiating party to the talks on Iran's ...
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Putin Praises Rohani as ‘Very Experienced Man’
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a message congratulated the election of Hassan Rohani as Iran's new president, describing him as a very experienced man. "The trend of future talks with Tehran officials depends on the current Iranian leaders, including the country's president-elect who is a highly experienced person and a former negotiating party to the talks on Iran's ...
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France Changes Tone on Iran Over Syria
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has stressed the Islamic Republic's key role in the region, saying regional crises cannot be settled without Iran's cooperation. Salehi made the remarks in an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV in reference to the ongoing crisis in Syria. The unrest in Syria began over two years ago and many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security ...
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Austrian Award for ‘Facing Mirrors’
Iranian filmmaker Negar Azarbaijani's acclaimed movie 'Facing Mirrors' has been awarded at the 2013 Identities Queer Film Festival in Austria. 'Facing Mirrors' picked up the audience award of this year's festival held in the Austrian capital, Vienna. Produced by Fereshteh Taerpour, the movie weaves together the lives of two women with different social and cultural ...
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Iran Willing to Expand Ties With Italy
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a message congratulated the election of Hassan Rohani as Iran's new president, describing him as a very experienced man. "The trend of future talks with Tehran officials depends on the current Iranian leaders, including the country's president-elect who is a highly experienced person and a former negotiating party to the talks on Iran's ...
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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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