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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 - Iranian authorities on Saturday hanged 20 people west of Tehran. |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
New York Times: Iranian leaders say they have obtained confessions from top reformist officials that they plotted to bring down the government with a “velvet” revolution. |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
Reuters: Brazil's state oil company Petrobras expects exploration of an Iranian block will yield disappointing results, a company director said on Friday, adding another Iranian block has shown similarly dim prospects. |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
AFP: Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday he was "urgently seeking clarification" of Iran's announcement that local staff working at Britain's Tehran embassy will face trial. |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
Reuters: Total's negotiations with Tehran on a multi-billion dollar contract to develop a major Iranian gas field are at a standstill, the head of the French oil major said on Friday. |
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 |
AP: A top aide of Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him of committing crimes against the nation in an editorial Saturday. |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
Bloomberg: Japan’s Yukiya Amano, director- general designate of the United Nations atomic agency, appealed to Iran to follow Security Council demands to suspend its nuclear work. |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
AP: Syria's leader sent a July 4 message full of praise to President Barack Obama on Friday and invited him to visit Syria — the latest signs Damascus is hedging its bets in Mideast politics, warming up to its rival the United States at a time when its longtime ally Iran is in turmoil. |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
Reuters: European Union countries summoned Iranian ambassadors Friday to protest against the detention of Iranian staff of the British embassy in Tehran and warned of tougher steps next week if they are not freed. |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
Reuters: Britain's Foreign Office said on Friday it was "very concerned" by reports from Iran that local embassy staff may face trial in connection with demonstrations against last month's presidential election. |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
AFP: A powerful Iranian cleric said on Friday that some local British embassy staff will be put on trial for allegedly stoking post-election violence, a move set to put further strain on their frayed ties. |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
Reuters: EU countries were studying steps to protest at Iran's crackdown on dissent on Friday, including a coordinated summoning of Tehran's ambassadors in Europe and visa bans on Iranian officials, diplomats said. |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 03 - Iranian authorities on Thursday hanged six people in the holy city of Qom, central Iran. |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
AFP: The European Union is considering banning certain Iranian officials from travelling to Europe in response to the recent political unrest, the Financial Times Deutschland reported on Friday. |
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
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The Times: British calls for a mass walkout of European Union ambassadors from Tehran were shot down by more cautious nations led by Germany and Italy yesterday as the carefully constructed European consensus on responding to Iran came under intense strain. |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
UPI: Five Iranian companies have expressed interest in bidding on the construction of the Abadan-Basra pipeline to Iraq, Iranian officials say. |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
AFP: The United States imposed financial sanctions Thursday on an adviser to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Iraq-based Shiite group Kata'ib Hezbollah, branded a foreign terrorist outfit. |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
AP: President Barack Obama says he is "not reconciled" to the idea of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon within a year. |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
UPI: Major investments in Iran's South Pars gas field will exploit billions of undeveloped reserves and provide a boost to the local economy, officials say. |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
AFP: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday likened events in Iran to the oppression at the hands of the Stasi secret police in communist East Germany, where she grew up. |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
New York Times: Iran risked diplomatic isolation from the European Union, as European officials discussed whether to withdraw the ambassadors of all 27 member nations in a dispute over the detention of the British Embassy’s Iranian personnel. |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
New York Times: Think of normalized relations with the United States as the big prize. Who gets to deliver it? One thing is certain: Iran’s ruthless usurpers are determined to ensure reformists are never in a position to claim the breakthrough. |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
AFP: Responding to Iran's political crackdown and nuclear program will be "at front and center" of President Barack Obama's visit to Russia and the G8 summit in Italy next week, a US official said. |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
AP: A retired University of Tennessee professor has been sentenced to four years in prison for passing sensitive information from a U.S. Air Force contract to two research assistants from China and Iran. |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 01 - Iranian authorities hanged six people in Tehran on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
AFP: EU countries are considering a proposal from Britain to recall all their ambassadors from Iran in protest at the detention of British embassy employees, European diplomatic sources said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
Reuters: Iran's armed forces chief of staff said on Wednesday the European Union was not qualified to hold talks over the country's disputed nuclear programme after what he called its interference in the Islamic state's affairs. |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
AP: The fallout from Iran's disputed presidential vote is dimming what were already modest prospects for meaningful negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program. |
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