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Internet in 'coma' as Iran election looms

Internet in 'coma' as Iran election looms

AFP: Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say.

Iran's Guard warns against post-election turmoil

Iran's Guard warns against post-election turmoil

AP: Several Iranian newspapers are citing a senior Revolutionary Guard commander as warning his forces will be on watch for possible unrest after the June 14 presidential election.

US claims broad support on Iran

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AFP: The United States has "broad agreement" from both developed and developing countries that international pressure must be brought to bear on Iran to stop nuclear fuel work that could be weapons-related, a US spokesman said Friday.

Iran's nuclear ambitions, terrorism top UN discussion issues

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AFP: Leaders from around the world hold a final day of meetings
at the UN summit Friday, with Iran's nuclear ambitions and condemnations of terrorism as top issues.

U.S. report says Iran seeks to acquire nuclear weapons

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Washington Times: Iran is concealing many of its nuclear facilities from international controls and the activities show it is seeking nuclear weapons, according to a U.S. government report.

Europeans plead with Iran to reconsider proposals

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Reuters: European nations pleaded with Iran on Thursday to reconsider their proposals for nuclear cooperation as international support for referring Tehran to the U.N. Security Council next week ebbed.

India and Iran's threat

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Washington Times - Editorial: During his U.N. visit yesterday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad played a dangerous double game. On the one hand, he spoke of a willingness to present unspecified "new proposals" to resolve the diplomatic stalemate over Iran's illicit nuclear-weapons program. On the other, he made a very disturbing new threat.

Campaign to curb Iran's nuclear plans on the verge of collapse

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Daily Telegraph: The West's diplomatic campaign to curb Iran's nuclear programme was in danger of collapsing last night as America and Europe struggled to find allies at the United Nations Security Council.

Britain leads threat to impose nuclear sanctions on Iran

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The Guardian: Britain will lead a drive to have Iran referred to
the UN security council, with the possibility of sanctions being imposed if the newly elected hardline president does not stop uranium enrichment or restart negotiations with Europe and America.

Putin meets Iranian counterpart amid tension over Tehran's nuclear program

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AFP: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met on the sidelines of the world summit here Thursday and stressed their common interests amid tension over Tehran's nuclear program.

Iran to 'share nuclear technology with Islamic countries'

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Daily Telegraph: Iran's president says he will share his country's nuclear technology with other Islamic countries, the nation's state media says.

Iran hangs man in central city prison

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 15 – An Iranian man was
hanged in a prison in the city of Yazd, central Iran, a semi-official daily wrote on Thursday.

Europe to press Iran leader on nuclear issue

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Reuters: Leaders of the three major European powers are expected to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday in what could be a last-ditch effort to avert a showdown over Tehran's nuclear activities.

U.S. Ready to Delay Showdown on Iran

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AP: Apparently lacking the votes to win, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicated Wednesday the Bush administration was prepared to delay again a showdown with Iran over its nuclear weapons program.

Iran links UN cooperation to atomic fuel rights

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Reuters: Iran has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog it will
continue to cooperate with it provided Tehran can enrich uranium, a process that can make fuel for nuclear weapons, a statement obtained by Reuters on Wednesday said.

Iran leader warns U.N. not to follow U.S.

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AP: Iran's new hard-line president skirted the nuclear dispute with Europe and the United States on Wednesday in his General Assembly debut.

Decision time on Iran

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New York Times - By PIERRE GOLDSCHMIDT: In November 2003, Iran averted a crisis when it agreed to suspend activities that could one day give it the capacity to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. The International Atomic Energy Agency had discovered an 18-year pattern of noncompliance by Iran with its obligations to report all its nuclear activities, during which time international inspectors could not verify that they were solely for peaceful purposes.

Iranian exiles protest "terrorist" Ahmadinejad at UN

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AFP: Several thousand Iranian exiles protested in front of the UN headquarters, denouncing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a "terrorist" as he attended the UN summit of world leaders.

France threatens Iran with UN Security Council action

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AFP: French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin "strongly" called Wednesday for Iran to keep its nuclear non-proliferation promises or face action before the UN Security Council.

Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: U.S. losing in Iraq, Middle East

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 – The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that the United States had been unable to control unrest in neighbouring Iraq, while the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the IRGC said that Islamic spirituality was aiding individuals who stood against American aggression, during a ceremony attended by top Revolutionary Guards commanders.

172 “trouble-makers” prosecuted in Iran capital – daily

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 – Some 172 individuals in the Iranian capital were being prosecuted for disrupting national security, the man in charge of organising a new crackdown on “trouble-makers” said in an interview with Iran’s state-run television.

U.S. Presses to Corral Iran at U.N.

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Los Angeles Times: The United States has launched a major push to isolate Iran diplomatically and force Tehran to face U.N. Security Council sanctions if it refuses to give up its efforts to develop its own nuclear technology, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Bush puts Iraq, China and Iran on agenda

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New York Times: For the first time since the Hurricane Katrina crisis, President Bush returned yesterday to dealing with festering global problems, trying to bolster Iraq's president at the White House and then flying to New York to urge President Hu Jintao of China to join him in trying to stop nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.

Iran police round up hundreds in Tehran crackdown

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 – Some 205 people have been arrested in Tehran since a new wave of crackdown on “trouble-makers” was launched by Iran’s State Security Forces and Judiciary, the country’s Minister of Justice announced on Tuesday.

Special Photo Report – Crackdown in Iran capital

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 - A new crackdown on “trouble-makers” was launched last week. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi to hand down “harsher, decisive” sentences to those arrested. The following are scenes of some of the arrests in Tehran:

UN-bound Bush vows action on Iran

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AFP: US President George W. Bush, bound for the United Nations, said Tuesday that he would try to rally China and Russia this week behind possible UN action to ensure Iran does not get nuclear weapons.