Iran

June 21, 2003

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The UN nuclear watchdog's failure to condemn Iran has reinforced Russia's will to help Tehran build up its nuclear program, the Russian Foreign Minist

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A close aide to Saddam Hussein has told US interrogators that the ousted Iraqi president and his two sons survived the US-led war in Iraq and are like

June 20, 2003

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Iran has no intention of developing nuclear arms, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday when asked if Moscow would suspend its nuclear cooperat

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Senior Pentagon officials claim it is possible the United States could use force against Syria, the Israeli <i>Haaretz</i> newspaper reported Friday.

June 19, 2003

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The UN's nuclear watchdog Thursday called for Tehran to increase it cooperation regarding its nuclear facilities.

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Independent candidates close to the kingdom’s royal family won a majority of the seats in Jordan’s first legislative polls since 1997, while the leadi

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Iran will not accept tougher UN inspections of its atomic program unless other signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) agree to prov

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Bahrain-based Islamic investment bank, Gulf Finance House, is to set up a captive insurance firm. The venture, which will be the first-of-its-kind in the Middle East, follows recent moves by the Bahra

June 18, 2003

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Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said on Wednesday that the recent raid by the French police against the Mujahedin Khalq Organizatio

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Two US soldiers guarding a filling station in southern Baghdad were killed in a hand grenade attack, <i>AFP</i> reported Wednesday.

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Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has predicted that US forces will be compelled to leave the Middle East willingly or unwillingly, sta

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The United States army was pursuing a sweep of Saddam Hussein loyalists on Wednesday after rounding up over 400 people in an operation in northern Ira

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An Iranian man set himself on fire outside the French embassy in the British capital of London Tuesday in protest at a major crackdown in France on th

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Iran's judiciary has set new strict rules governing Internet content, banning the publication and spreading of material deemed to be against the Islam

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German police officials arrested fifty people Tuesday after a group of Iranian opposition supporters vandalized the interior of the Iranian consulate