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Saturday, 11 October 2008 |
 Reuters: An Iranian bulk carrier and its 29 crew was released by pirates on Friday, seven weeks after it was hijacked off the coast of Somalia in August, Iran's official IRNA news agency. |
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 - Iran said on Friday that India would in 2009 become its top Asian buyer of oil, ahead of China and Japan.
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – Radical Islamist militiamen affiliated to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are staging military exercises in the suburbs of Tehran on Friday to defend the Iranian capital against "natural disasters" and "enemy assaults".
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal: Oil prices may be softening, but the price of natural gas is climbing sharply in the Persian Gulf, thanks to the booming economies of the Arab petro-states. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
 AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his government to suspend a controversial new sales tax Thursday, a day after a rare strike by merchants worried about how the new measure would affect their business. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
 AP: Russia's Foreign Ministry suggested Thursday that Moscow would not sell advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, a possibility that has alarmed Israel. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
 Reuters: OPEC will review oil market conditions at an emergency meeting planned for mid-November in Vienna, Iran's oil minister said, the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
 AFP: The chairman of Iran's biggest car maker accused France of "inappropriate policies", which he said are hampering joint ventures in a country where French manufacturers have a 40 to 50 percent market share. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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 The Guardian: There are many ways for an MP to win over fellow parliamentarians but for Hasan Kamran, blowing the whistle on their cushy expenses was never likely to be one of them.
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's annual inflation rate jumped 1.8 percentage points in September to 29.4 percent, Iranian media said on Thursday, highlighting a growing source of discontent ahead of next year's presidential election. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
 AFP: Shopkeepers in Iran's traditional bazaars pressed on with strikes on Wednesday to protest against the government's introduction of value added tax amid mounting pressure on retail prices. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 Canadian Press: German authorities have arrested a Canadian-Iranian citizen on suspicion of breaking a trade embargo with Iran by selling them technical equipment. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 New York Times: An Iranian news agency said Tuesday that a United States warplane had been forced to land in Iran, but the United States military denied the claim, and Tehran quickly withdrew it. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
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 Daily Telegraph: For a fleeting period on Tuesday afternoon, Tehran's official news agencies claimed that Iranian jet fighters had forced an American plane to land and officials were interrogating its military crew.
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 AFP: China will continue to take part in multilateral talks on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises despite the country's objections to US plans to sell arms to Taiwan, a US state department official said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 Reuters: A senior Iranian official denied on Tuesday a local news agency report that a U.S. military plane had violated the country's airspace and was forced to land, saying both the aircraft and the people on board were Hungarian. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
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 BBC: A US plane has been forced to land in Iran after violating Iranian territory, the Iranian semi-official Fars news agency has reported.
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
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 The Guardian: Iran's biggest motor manufacturer is to take the country's gender sensitivity to new levels by producing a car specially for women.
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 Reuters: The United States will not permit Israel to attack Iran's nuclear programme as long as American troops are stationed in Iraq, an Israeli television report quoting unnamed diplomatic sources said on Monday. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's nuclear negotiator Said Jalili has written to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to protest over the West's attitude to the Islamic republic's atomic programme, a senior Iranian official said on Monday. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has banned imports of Chinese milk products over a contamination scandal which has left thousands of babies ill in China, local media reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
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Reuters: Iran has not received Russia's advanced S-300 anti-aircraft system yet though the countries are still discussing a purchase, Israeli defense sources said on Sunday, revising earlier statements that a deal was imminent. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 AP: Iran says it has not received any request from the United States to establish a diplomatic outpost in Tehran. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, in an interview published Monday, said his country did not believed Israel or the United States would launch a military strike against Iran over its nuclear program. |
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Sunday, 05 October 2008 |
 Reuters: The Bush administration is still considering setting up a diplomatic outpost in Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 05 October 2008 |
 AFP: The Bush administration is still considering setting up a diplomatic mission in Iran to improve contacts between the Iranian and American peoples, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. |
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Sunday, 05 October 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Iran's gas is an unavoidable source for the Nabucco pipeline project, that will supply fuel from the Caspian Sea region to Europe, Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said. |
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossiein Nozari said on Saturday that a price of under 100 dollars for a barrel of crude oil is "unsuitable." |
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
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AP: The Bush administration has shelved plans to set up a diplomatic outpost in Iran, in part over fears it could affect the U.S. presidential race or be interpreted as political meddling, The Associated Press has learned. |
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iran rejected the Bahrain foreign minister's call for a new regional grouping which would include Israel as well as Arab states, Iran and Turkey, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. |
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