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Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday.
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Iranian technicians have moved highly sophisticated technical equipment into a previously secret uranium enrichment site in preparation for starting it up in 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a new report Monday.
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This photo, taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, shows Iranian anti-riot police officers directing people during an anti-government protest in Tehran on Wednesday.
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Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons Wednesday on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover.
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Iran has apparently rejected a nuclear deal with the United States, Russia and France that it initially agreed to just a week ago. The deal would have Iran send most of its low-enriched uranium out of the country for processing into reactor fuel.
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The accusations put some strain on the normally close relationship between Iran and Pakistan, which have had differences over the issue of Islamic extremism in the past.
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When President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, it was because he came to symbolize for the Norwegian award committee a vision of a better world.
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AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Gambia on Sunday for a 24-hour working visit aimed at fostering relations between the Islamic republic and the West African nation. Full Article at France 24
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At least 1,000 people held a protest in Rio de Janeiro against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is visiting Brazil. Full Article at Ynetnews
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Hundreds of people were protesting on a Rio de Janeiro beach on Sunday afternoon, against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Brazil this week, Army Radio reported. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after a press conference in Istanbul. Full Article at Jerusalem Post
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Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez defended some of his friends from international opprobrium in a Friday night speech in Venezuela. They are quite a motley crew. Full Article at Israel Matsav
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TEHRAN // Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi has criticised a government plan to phase out state energy and food subsidies, saying it would further increase consumer prices in the major oil producer. Full Article at The National Newspaper
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While there is an unfair polemic in Western countries against Iran’s peaceful nuclear programme, the people of Brazil side with the Iranian people
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In public, neither the Iranians nor the watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, revealed the details of Iran's objections, which came only hours after Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, insisted that 'we are ready to cooperate' with the West.
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Cooperation with Iran in the nuclear field is in the interests of Westerners. Their opposition will make Iran more powerful and advanced
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Iran’s leadership has been fighting over whether to take that deal, with political opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad all but declaring that he is being duped.
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Cooperating with Iran is in the interest of the West
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