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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 05 – Iran’s Islamic Revolution is at a sensitive crossroad, the commandant of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 05 – Iran’s hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic would only negotiate with the United Nations nuclear watchdog over its controversial nuclear activities. |
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 04 - Switzerland's Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey is planning to visit Iran in late March, the government-run news agency Mehr reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 03 – The United Nations Security Council voted on Monday to impose a third set of sanctions on Iran over its refusal to halt its suspected nuclear weapons activity. |
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 02 - The Iranian football federation on Sunday announced that the former Iranian striker Ali Daei will become the national team’s new coach, state media reported. |
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 02 - Iran is set to purchase 100 Russian Topolov-204 and Topolov-214 planes over the next 10 years, state media reported.
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 29 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki wrote to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemning efforts by the international community to impose further sanctions over the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program, the official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28 - Tunisia’s Energy Minister Afif Chelbi met Iran's Minister of Industries and Mines Ali Akbar Mehrabian in Tehran to discuss the expansion of industrial ties between the two countries, the state-run news agency Fars reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 28 – A prominent international human rights organisation accused Iran on Thursday of “detaining” and “harassing” activists “working to defend women’s rights”. |
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27 – Authorities hanged a young man on Tuesday in a prison in central Iran for a crime allegedly committed when he was 16 years old, state media and human rights activists said on Wednesday. |
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25 - Twenty students have been arrested at the Industrial University of Shahrood, northern Iran, in the course of a protest which has entered its sixth day, Iran Focus has learnt. |
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25 - Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday that Tehran will not halt its uranium enrichment activities, the official news agency IRNA reported. |
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 24 – Iran has attained “significant success” in its standoff with the West over its controversial nuclear program, a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Sunday. |
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 22 – Iran’s armed forces have added 74 new gunboats to their naval apparatus, state media reported on Friday. |
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 21 – Iran’s former Majlis (Parliament) Speaker will visit Kuwait in mid-March, the government-owned news agency Mehr reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 21 – Iraq on Thursday opened a new consulate in the south-western Iranian province of Khuzestan, Iranian state media reported. |
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 21 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed a cleric as his new personal representative to the province of Kermanshah, western Iran, on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 20 – Iranian authorities hanged ten people on Wednesday, state media reported.
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Turkmenistan’s envoy in Tehran on Monday, state media reported. |
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 18 – Authorities in Khorassan Razavi Province, north-eastern Iran, hanged two men, state media reported on Sunday. |
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 15 – Iran’s Supreme Energy Council (SEC) has been integrated into a government sub-committee, state media reported on Friday. |
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 15 – Iran on Friday urged India to reconsider its ties with Israel. |
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 14 At least 10 people were injured on Thursday when an earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted a village in central Iran, state media reported. |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 13 – The international press freedoms watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday that Iran continues to be the “Middle East’s biggest prison for journalists”. |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13 – At least 17 people were killed or injured on Tuesday when a bus slipped off a stretch of road in central Iran, state media reported. |
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 12 – Iran suggested on Tuesday that a new Parliament be formed to group much of the Middle East and Southern Asia, operating much like the 27-nation European Parliament does today. |
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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 11 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will travel to Damascus on Wednesday to hold talks with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on recent political troubles in Lebanon, a prominent Arab-language website reported on Monday. |
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 08 – The international human rights group Amnesty International warned on Thursday that two sisters, Zohreh and Azar Kabiri-niat, were facing execution by stoning in Iran for adultery. |
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 07 – The European Union criticised Iran on Thursday for the rise in the number of executions carried out by the state. |
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 07 – Amnesty International issued an urgent appeal on Wednesday to save the life of a young Iranian man who is facing imminent execution for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 15 years old. |
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