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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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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 06 - Russia said on Wednesday that it was “concerned” over Iran's nuclear intentions following an announcement by Tehran earlier this week that it had carried out a test launch of a rocket into space, Russian state media reported. |
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 05 – Iran’s new ambassador to Japan arrived in Tokyo on Monday to take up his post, state media reported. |
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 05 – Russia called on Iran on Tuesday to freeze uranium enrichment until the UN nuclear watchdog gets to the bottom of key issues over its controversial nuclear program, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported. |
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 04 – Iran claimed on Monday that it had begun to produce a new generation of fighter jets equipped with radar-evading systems. |
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 04 - Iran's crude oil revenue during the period from March 21, 2007 to November 21 stood at $43.492 billion, state media reported. |
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Sunday, 03 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 03 - A new resolution by the United Nations Security Council on Iran will send serious signals to Tehran that it must freeze its uranium enrichment activities as has been demanded of it by the UN's nuclear watchdog, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak said on Sunday.
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 03 - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived on Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, state media reported. |
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 02 - An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale jolted parts of the island of Hendurabi in the Persian Gulf early on Saturday. |
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 01 – The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday adopted a strongly-worded resolution denouncing human rights violations in Iran.
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 01 - Iran’s new ambassador to Afghanistan submitted his credentials to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, state media reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
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Iran Focus: London, Jan. 31 - A prominent press freedoms organisation condemned on Wednesday a decision by Iranian authorities to suspend a feminist monthly for "publishing information detrimental to society's psychological tranquillity." |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 31 – Five men were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 30 – Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) Speaker is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials state media reported. |
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jan. 29 – United States President George W. Bush on Monday (02:00 GMT Tuesday) touched on the threats posed by Iran in his final State of the Union address before leaving office in January 2009. The following are some of the points he raised: |
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 28 – Iranian authorities hanged two men in public in the central province of Markazi on Monday, state media reported. |
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Sunday, 27 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 27 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned on Sunday Norway’s top envoy to Tehran over Oslo’s recent “meddling stance” regarding the violations of human rights in Iran, state media reported. |
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 25 - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner in Davos, Switzerland, state media reported on Friday. |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 24 – The Mayor of Tehran travelled to Switzerland on Thursday to attend the annual session of the World Economic Forum. |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jan. 24 – The United States said on Wednesday that it was “deeply concerned” at the death in prison of a Kurdish Iranian student who had been arrested by the country’s secret police in Sanandaj, western Iran. |
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jan. 22 – Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband welcomed an agreement Tuesday by the Permanent Five members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany on the contents of a new Security Council resolution on Iran regarding its suspected nuclear weapons program. |
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 22 – Iranian authorities in the province of Lorestan, western Iran, hanged a man in public on Tuesday, state media reported. |
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 21 - An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale jolted parts of Do-Gonbadan and Gachsaran, in Iran’s south-western province of Kohgilouyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, on Monday. |
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