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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
 Sunday Times: Esha Momeni, an American student visiting Iran, has been arrested and held in solitary confinement in the notorious section 209 of Tehran’s Evin prison for daring to campaign for women’s rights. |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Russia is interested in gas swaps with Iran, Iran's Oil Ministry news website reported on Saturday, in a fresh sign of efforts to deepen ties between two states who together account for 40 percent of world reserves. |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's oil minister said on Saturday France's Total, which buys Iranian crude, had been informed it would receive less oil in line with an OPEC decision to cut output starting November 1, a news agency reported. |
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Saturday, 01 November 2008 |
 AFP: The US military said on Friday it had arrested 39 Iranian-sponsored "criminals" in Iraq this month and had seized some 500,000 dollars meant to fund militancy in the war-wracked country. |
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Saturday, 01 November 2008 |
 AFP: A former speaker of parliament has denounced reports that Iranian MPs are being offered government cash to vote against impeaching the interior minister, who lied about his education, the Mehr news agency said Friday. |
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Saturday, 01 November 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal: As Western powers talk of targeting Iranian gasoline imports in fresh economic sanctions, the Islamic republic is scrambling to boost its refining capacity and tamp down domestic demand. |
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Saturday, 01 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday slammed a deadly US raid on a Syrian village as a "savage act", state news agency IRNA said. |
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Friday, 31 October 2008 |
 AFP: Crowned with success in Iraq, General David Petraeus, who takes command Friday of US military forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, inherits the next big challenge: devising a winning strategy in Afghanistan. |
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Friday, 31 October 2008 |
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 BBC: An Army interpreter in Afghanistan was "caught red-handed" passing secrets to Iran, a court has been told.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008 |
 AP: Three weeks ago, a hard-line cleric close to Iran's president gloated publicly that the world financial crisis was God's punishment on the United States. The laughter, however, was short-lived. |
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Thursday, 30 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has begun building a line of naval bases along its southern coast and up to the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the strategic Gulf oil waterway, the Tehran Times quoted an Iranian commander as saying. |
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Thursday, 30 October 2008 |
 New York Times: The Iraqi government demanded changes on Wednesday to the long-delayed security pact with the United States. |
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Thursday, 30 October 2008 |
 AP: Iran has recently tested ways of recovering highly enriched uranium from waste reactor fuel in a covert bid to expand its nuclear program, according to an intelligence assessment made available to The Associated Press. |
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Thursday, 30 October 2008 |
 AP: Iranian news media say a lawmaker has physically assaulted a confidant of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, alleging the official was trying to pay legislators not to vote for the impeachment of the interior minister. |
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday Iranian hatred of the United States ran deep, remarks analysts said signaled an end to any debate about closer links between them days before the U.S. presidential election. |
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's main shipping firm has told its vessels to install barbed wire on their decks and put crew on watch against pirates in the Gulf of Aden, it said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 |
 New York Times: Iran announced Tuesday that it had opened a naval base in the Gulf of Oman to counter any hostile forces, in what was clearly an allusion to American Navy vessels patrolling nearby. |
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 |
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 The Guardian: Iran yesterday signalled its intention to extend its military presence in the world's most important oil conduit, opening a new naval base at the mouth of the Persian Gulf and adding weight to its threats to choke off oil supplies, if the Islamic Republic came under attack.
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 |
 AP: Illegal exports of weapons, military equipment and national security-related technology to potentially adversarial nations are on the rise, the Justice Department reported Tuesday. |
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 |
 New York Times - By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: I’ve always been dubious about Barack Obama’s offer to negotiate with Iran — not because I didn’t believe that it was the right strategy, but because I didn’t believe we had enough leverage to succeed. |
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
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 BBC: Iran has opened new naval facilities east of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow entrance to the Gulf which is key to oil supplies, state media say.
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 28 – Iranian authorities have hanged two men in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-east Iran, state media reported.
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has opened a new naval base east of the Strait of Hormuz in a bid to boost its military control over the strategic Gulf waters, the country's navy chief was quoted as saying on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
 Washington Post: A deal to authorize the presence of American forces in Iraq beyond 2008 is forcing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to choose between two influential powers in this country: the United States and Iran. |
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
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The Times: A British Army interpreter told police he was the victim of a conspiracy by the CIA which made up an espionage plot against him, the Old Bailey heard yesterday. |
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
 AP: The U.N. nuclear chief said Monday that Iran is blocking his watchdog agency from verifying whether the nation has any ambitions for nuclear weaponry. |
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
 AFP: UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said here Monday that his agency was still unable to determine whether or not there were undeclared nuclear activities in Iran. |
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
 AFP: Local banks in the United Arab Emirates have stepped up pressure on Iranian firms by freezing their assets and refusing to deal with merchants doing business with Iran, a newspaper reported on Monday. |
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AP: Iran's appeals court has upheld an 11-year jail sentence against a prominent Kurdish human rights activist, his lawyer said Saturday. 
