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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 08 – At least three people were injured when a car’s petrol tank exploded at a gas station in northern Iran, state media reported on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Paris, Apr. 07 - The 17th branch of the Court of Paris ruled last Thursday in favour of Iran Focus in a lawsuit brought against it for allegedly publishing libel about a French national. The libel charges were brought by Alain Chevalérias on 21 February 2008 against the “Iran Focus” website. |
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 04 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that Tehran would reject any new incentives offered to it by world powers in return for it to suspend uranium enrichment, a key demand of the United Nations Security Council. |
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 01 - An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted an island on Iran's southern shores early on Friday. |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 03 - Authorities in the Republic of Azerbaijan on Thursday extradited 17 Iranians back to Iran, local media in Baku reported. |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 03 – Britain’s Foreign Office has urged Iran to limit the number of executions it carries out. |
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 01 – Iran’s official inflation rate is rising ten times as fast as the national growth level. |
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 01 - Iran's constitutional watchdog has approved the result of the March 14 Parliamentary election for the Iranian capital Tehran and 35 other districts. |
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 01 - An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale jolted parts of Kerman Province, south-eastern Iran, on Monday. |
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Saturday, 29 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 29 – Five people were killed as a helicopter belonging to Iran's State Security Forces (SSF) crashed in north-west Iran, a senior police official said on Saturday. |
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Friday, 28 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 28 - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will visit Damascus on Friday to attend the 20th Arab League Summit from March 29-30 and hold talks with senior Syrian officials, state media reported. |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 27 - The chief of Iran's police vowed on Wednesday to institutionalise the current moral crackdown which is targeting mainly young Iranians, in yet another sign of the recent sharp increase in the repressive atmosphere in Iranian society. |
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 26 - Iran will hold a second round of polling on April 25 for approximately 30 percent of Majlis (Parliament) seats which were not decided in the original poll held on March 14, state media reported on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
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Iran Focus: London, Mar. 26 - The United Kingdom's Foreign Office has accused the Iranian authorities of committing "serious" human rights abuses. |
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 26 - Iran's ambassador to Beirut met and held talks with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 25 – Iran’s ultra-secretive Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has once again found itself under the limelight after it was accused of involvement in the murder of an Iranian intellectual in Spain. |
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 25 – A bus overturned on a highway in southern Iran leaving 27 people dead and 15 others injured, state media reported on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 24 - Iran has made an official request to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday. |
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 24 - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, on Monday and held talks with his Tajik counterpart on bilateral relations. |
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 23 – Some 70 holidaymakers have been killed in road accidents in Iran since the Persian New Year which began on March 20, a senior state security official announced. |
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 21 - An earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale jolted parts of Char-Mahal and Bakhtiari Province, southern Iran, on Friday. |
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 18 - An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale jolted parts of Ilam Province, western Iran, early on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 18 - An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted parts of Semnan Province, north-eastern Iran, Tuesday morning. |
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 17 – Iran’s Foreign Minister accused the European Union on Monday of carrying out human rights abuses. |
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 17 – A passenger bus collided with a fuel truck on a highway in south-western Iran leaving 22 people dead and seven others injured, state media reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 16 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 16 – The European Union denounced parliamentary elections held in Iran last week as unfair. |
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus – Editorial: The Iranian regime continues its mad dash towards a nuclear bomb, triggering an inferno of violence and chaos in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East along its path. Meanwhile, the majority of the Iranian population has found itself confined in an economic firestorm raging within Iran’s borders. |
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 14 – Voting stations were deserted in many parts of Iran on Friday despite calls by senior government officials for a mass turnout in the parliamentary elections, according to eye-witness accounts and reliable reports. |
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 12 – Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security announced on Wednesday that it would prosecute a member of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) for doing an interview with the U.S. broadcaster Voice of America. |
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 12 - The U.S. State Department on Tuesday accused Iranian authorities of stepping up repression throughout the country in 2007. |
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