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Speculation is growing that Syria is ready to distance itself from Iran and come to the Western fold if the United States and its allies ultimately reward Damascus with political, financial and military support. Officially, Damascus insists that its third-party negotiations with Israel, which are held through Turkish mediation and expected to soon be upgraded to face-to-face talks, are not taking place at the expense of its strong strategic relationship with Tehran. But leaked information says otherwise.
By Sana Abdallah
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Posted 10/7/2008 @ 10:0:15 GMT
Iran Fires More Missiles
Iran has test-fired medium and long-range missiles in the Persian Gulf for a second day. Today's missiles were reported to have "special capabilities" and they were launched throughout the night.
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By Independent
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Posted 10/7/2008 @ 9:9:0 GMT
Iran Missiles in Shock Test
Iran test-fired nine missiles yesterday - including some capable of hitting Israel - and warned it has thousands of others ready to retaliate for any attack on its nuclear program.
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By New York Post
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Posted 10/7/2008 @ 8:55:41 GMT
Mullahs & Missiles
It's not unusual for a state to conduct military exercises, but Iran had a lot more in mind when it literally went ballistic yesterday - launching nine medium- and long-range missiles during its "Great Prophet" war games.
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By New York Post
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Posted 10/7/2008 @ 8:46:14 GMT
Hopefuls Spar Over Missile Test by Tehran
The presidential hopefuls Wednesday both voiced concern about Iran's missile test but displayed how they'd address international events differently.
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By The Washington Times
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Posted 9/7/2008 @ 23:39:13 GMT
Rice: Iran Missile Test Shows Threat Not Imaginary
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Iran's latest missile test shows the threat posed by the Islamic republic isn't imaginary, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said here Wednesday. "It's evidence that the missile threat is not an imaginary one," Rice told journalists at a news conference in the Bulgarian capital when asked about Iran's latest test of its Shahab-3 missile.
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By AFP
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Posted 9/7/2008 @ 23:29:49 GMT
Total Steps Back from Investing in Iran
Iran has lost the last major western energy group that had been considering making a significant investment to develop the country’s huge gas reserves in a victory for Washington’s efforts to isolate Tehran over its nuclear ambitions.
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By The Financial Times
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Posted 9/7/2008 @ 23:27:11 GMT
US and Iran Seem Set on Collision Course
WASHINGTON -- The United States and Iran appear on a collision course in the Middle East, firing off mixed messages that are raising world tension and roiling oil markets amid fears that an eventual confrontation may be military.
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By The Associated Press
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Posted 9/7/2008 @ 9:58:7 GMT
McCain Jokes About Killing Iranians with Cigarettes
PITTSBURGH -- Presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the country by saying it may be "a way of killing 'em."
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By Reuters
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Posted 9/7/2008 @ 9:27:7 GMT
US Condemns Iran Missile Test; Urges Program's End
TOYAKO, Japan -- The White House on Wednesday denounced Iran's test of a missile that puts Israel within reach and warned the Islamic republic to abandon its ballistic missile program "immediately."
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By AFP
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Posted 9/7/2008 @ 9:19:53 GMT
Attack Plans Spiked?
Is the United States heading into a deadly confrontation with Iran? Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the unsuccessful maverick Republican presidential candidate, warned millions of radio listeners this is now inevitable. He cited House Congressional Resolution 362, lobbied hard by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), as a "Virtual Iran War Resolution."
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By The Washington Times
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Posted 8/7/2008 @ 17:32:38 GMT
Iran: Spare Four Youths From Execution
Today 24 international and regional human rights organizations called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution and to stop imposing the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders – persons who commit crimes while under the age of 18 – and to uphold their international obligation to enforce the absolute prohibition on the death penalty.
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By Human Rights Watch
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Posted 8/7/2008 @ 14:51:12 GMT
EU's Solana to Visit Iran for Nuclear Talks
TOYAKO, Japan -- EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will travel to Iran to hold talks over its nuclear program, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Japan.
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By Reuters
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Posted 8/7/2008 @ 9:24:6 GMT
A U.S. Attack on Iran? Not Coming Soon
WASHINGTON -- A preemptive US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities may be unlikely anytime soon. But that does not mean it is off the table forever. And Israel – worried about the possibility of a hostile, nuclear-armed regional neighbor – may have its own timetable for possible military action.
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By The Christian Science Monitor
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Posted 8/7/2008 @ 8:53:2 GMT
US Exports to Iran Increase in Bush Years
WASHINGTON -- U.S. exports to Iran grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists. America sent more cigarettes to Iran - at least 158 dollars million worth under Bush - than any other products.
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By The Associated Press
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Posted 8/7/2008 @ 8:45:22 GMT
Khamenei Aide Says Iran to Hit Tel Aviv if Attacked
TEHRAN -- Iran's first targets will be Tel Aviv and U.S. shipping in the Gulf if it is attacked over its disputed nuclear programme, an aide to its Supreme Leader was quoted as saying by an Iranian news agency on Tuesday.
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By Reuters
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Posted 8/7/2008 @ 8:34:43 GMT
Iran Begins War Game With Warning to U.S., Israel
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have begun a military exercise with a warning that Israel and the U.S. naval force in the Persian Gulf would be prime targets if Iran is attacked.
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By Fox News
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Posted 7/7/2008 @ 9:6:9 GMT
EU's Solana Eyes Iran Talks Later This Month
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Monday he hoped to meet later this month with Iran's top nuclear negotiator after Tehran gave its response to the latest offer to halt uranium enrichment.
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By EUbusiness
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Posted 7/7/2008 @ 8:50:16 GMT
Iran Must Grasp the World's Offer
Iran’s dispute with the international community over its nuclear programme remains deadlocked. For the last two years, the world’s major powers have offered Iran a package of economic and political incentives to suspend its uranium enrichment programme, a programme which some western powers believe is ultimately aimed at producing a nuclear bomb. But Iran’s position – that it wants to go on with uranium enrichment and is interested only in producing civil nuclear energy – remains unchanged.
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By The Financial Times
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Posted 7/7/2008 @ 8:39:5 GMT
'Iran Leaks Reflect Internal US Debate'
The recent spate of leaks and reports from Washington about whether Israel will, or should, take military action against Iran, and what that would mean for the US, is a reflection of deep divisions on the matter inside the Bush administration, Israeli diplomatic and defense officials said Sunday.
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By The Jerusalem Post
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Posted 6/7/2008 @ 23:48:53 GMT
Israel Is 'Canceled' in Berlin
Iranian calls for the destruction of Israel are almost routine these days. But for a former official of the Islamic Republic to call for the destruction of the Jewish state in the city where the Holocaust was planned adds a repugnant twist – especially as the German government sponsored the event that gave the man from Tehran a Western stage.
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By The Wall Street Journal
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Posted 5/7/2008 @ 9:15:12 GMT
Talk to Iran
Markets have been watching every move of President Bush and the Israeli government to decipher whether war with Iran is in the making. Few expected, however, that the equivalent of a green light for war would come from our Democratic-controlled Congress. That is what Congress is preparing to do through a resolution calling for a de facto naval blockade in the Persian Gulf to prohibit Iran from importing refined petroleum products.
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By The Washington Times
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Posted 5/7/2008 @ 0:16:48 GMT
Tehran Returns to Hard Line on Nuclear Activity
Iran yesterday sought to quell speculation that it was about to bow to inter-national demands for a -suspension of its nuclear programme, insisting that the more conciliatory tone adopted in remarks in recent weeks did not amount to a surrender. Two days after Ali-Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said Tehran should consider -taking up aspects of an offer made by world powers last month, he appeared on television to clarify the interview he had given to a local newspaper.
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By The Financial Times
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Posted 4/7/2008 @ 13:18:53 GMT
Iran Responds to World Powers' Nuclear Offer
TEHRAN -- Iran on Friday handed world powers its 'constructive and creative' response to their letter outlining proposals to end the five-year standoff over its contested nuclear programme. 'The Islamic republic has prepared and presented a response to the letter of the six countries with a constructive and creative view and a focus on common ground,' top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was quoted by state television as saying.
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By Thomson Financial News
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Posted 4/7/2008 @ 8:41:11 GMT
Peace Laureate Urges Iran, U.S.: Work it Out
TEHRAN, Iran -- Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi urged Iran and the United States yesterday to find a peaceful resolution to the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program, warning that military action would harm both countries’ people.
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By The Associated Press
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Posted 4/7/2008 @ 8:37:23 GMT
Will the U.S. Open an Office in Iran?
WASHINGTON -- With President Bush trying to burnish his diplomatic credentials on a series of fronts, the State Department is pushing the envelope by suggesting it may be time to open a permanent American presence in – of all places – Tehran.
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By The Christian Science Monitor
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 21:51:21 GMT
America Softens Stance on Iran's Nuclear Programme
America and its allies have quietly watered down their stance on Iran's nuclear programme, pledging no more economic sanctions if Tehran keeps its enrichment of uranium at present levels.
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By Telegraph
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 21:21:44 GMT
Iran's Great Game
In the famous fairy tale, the Persian Queen Scheherazade strings out stories for a thousand and one nights until her matricidal husband, the king, finally accepts her in his household. On Tuesday, as I sat listening to Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran's genial foreign minister, come up with yet another enticing response to the latest Western proposal for halting the country's alleged nuclear weapons program, I wondered again whether Tehran was taking a tactical cue from its ancient forebear.
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By Newsweek
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Posted 3/7/2008 @ 16:51:9 GMT
No Proxy War with Iran
Israel and the United States are starting to look like two anxious children trying to decide how to deal with a schoolyard bully, Iran. Each appears to be whispering encouragement to the other to go kick the bully in the shins, but each is so terrified of the consequences that neither wants to go first.
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By Los Angeles Times
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