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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
 AP: Iran has temporarily released an Iranian-American scholar serving prison time on an espionage conviction so he can spend the Iranian New Year holiday with his family, officials said Sunday. |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
 Sunday Express: Iran's lurch towards becoming a nuclear power took another stride last night after reports of a new missile-launching facility. |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
 Reuters: There is consensus within the European Union for unilateral sanctions on Iran if a U.N. Security Council resolution fails, Finland's foreign minister said Saturday.
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
 AFP: The United Arab Emirates will respect any sanctions imposed by the United Nations on key trading partner Iran, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan said on Saturday. |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
 AFP: The European Union will unilaterally impose new sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme if there is no consensus at the UN, Finland's foreign minister said on Saturday. |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
 Reuters: The United States voiced growing concern on Friday about Iran's "ongoing persecution" of religious minorities, including Baha'is, and called on Tehran to protect human rights at home. |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
 Reuters: A number of companies have halted business with Iran under the threat of future U.S. sanctions. |
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
 AFP: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas lashed out at Iran on Friday, blaming Tehran for being behind the latest failure to reconcile his secular Fatah movement with its Isalamist rival Hamas. |
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Britain's ambassador to China said on Friday that Beijing risks isolation if it fails to join international efforts to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme. |
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
 AFP: The point-man for European Parliament relations with Iraq accused on Thursday top Iraqi electoral commission figures of rigging the election at Iran's behest. |
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
 New York Times: Defense secretary Robert M. Gates met here on Thursday with the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates as part of an intensifying American effort to build up defenses with Arab allies and contain Iran’s military might in the Persian Gulf. |
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
 AFP: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have signalled a willingness to press China to support tough new sanctions on Iran, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
 AP: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that Persian Gulf allies understand sanctions are the inevitable next step in dealing with the threat of a nuclear Iran. |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
 Reuters: China and Iran have stepped up their abuses of human rights, targeting both anti-government activists and the free flow of information over the Internet, the State Department said on Thursday.
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
 AFP: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates flew to Abu Dhabi on Thursday seeking support from oil-rich Gulf allies for tough sanctions on Tehran, drawing an angry response from Iran's hardline president.
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
 New York Times: Royal Dutch Shell and Ingersoll-Rand this week became the latest major corporations to announce they would cease or cut back business operations in Iran. |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
 AP: An Iranian appeals court sentenced a university professor to six years in prison for suspected involvement in the country's postelection turmoil, local media reported Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 AP: Royal Dutch Shell Plc said Wednesday it has stopped selling gasoline to Iran, the latest company to cease business with a country that is increasingly targeted by U.S.-encouraged sanctions. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 AFP: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates flew into the Saudi capital on Wednesday for talks expected to focus on Iran's nuclear programme and Washington's push for tough sanctions against Tehran. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 Reuters: The Conservatives, favourites to win an election due in weeks, said on Wednesday they would back a U.N. arms embargo on Iran and a ban on oil and gas investment if Tehran remains defiant over its nuclear plans. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says it's the United States that is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists that it helped to create. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran's parliament on Tuesday blocked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's plan to phase out subsidies on food and energy by approving only half of the savings requested by the government, news agencies reported. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 AFP: The US State Department on Tuesday reiterated its call for Iran to help locate Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing on an island in the Gulf three years ago. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the United States is concerned that Iran is becoming more of a military dictatorship and insisted that Tehran will not be permitted to acquire a nuclear weapon. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 AP: A traditional Islamic concept about protecting the faith and its followers has become a judicial weapon for Iran's rulers: charging opponents as so-called enemies of God with the threat of possible death sentences. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 Reuters: A third of the world's jailed journalists are imprisoned in Iran, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday after the number of reporters held in the Islamic Republic rose to at least 52 in February. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 AFP: Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar warned Tuesday that Tehran has "great means of deterrence" to face any possible attack over its nuclear programme.
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 AP: Iran's official news agency says its navy has successfully test fired a sea missile from a newly commissioned destroyer in its southern waters. |
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DPA: European Union member states are ready to impose unilateral sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear programme if the United Nations fails to agree on the issue, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner confirmed Sunday. 
