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submitted by rodeox 47 months ago, from news.bbc.co.uk
Iran's top legislative body has begun a partial recount of last month's disputed presidential elections. The Guardian Council has offered to recount a random 10% of the votes from the 12 June election. More
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submitted by trippie48 48 months ago, from bloomberg.com
Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Tehran to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election, as the nation’s supreme leader said opposition allegations of vote-rigging should be investigated. More
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submitted by riverdrops 50 months ago, from timesonline.co.uk
President Barack Obama issued an unprecedented video appeal to Iran today offering a 'new beginning' of diplomatic engagement to reverse decades of distrust and animosity between the two nations. In an extraordinary videotape, which will be aired today on selected networks in the Middle East... More
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submitted by rodeox 55 months ago, from iht.com
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama spoke of sitting down for talks with Iran, an idea that Hillary Rodham Clinton publicly criticized. So the idea that Obama might choose Clinton as secretary of state might seem incongruous. But foreign policy advisers to both Clinton and Obama said... More
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submitted by riverdrops 58 months ago, from ap.google.com
Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran's elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, according to intelligence gleaned... More
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submitted by bafficio 58 months ago, from iht.com
Russia's military offensive into Georgia has jolted the Bush administration's relationship with Moscow, senior officials said Thursday, forcing a wholesale reassessment of American dealings with Russia and jeopardizing talks on everything from halting Iran's nuclear ambitions to reducing strategic.. More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 58 months ago
A U.S. official tells The Associated Press that the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany have agreed to begin considering new sanctions on Iran after it failed to respond positively to an incentives package aimed at defusing the dispute over its... More
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by Anne Gearan from hosted.ap.org, 58 months ago
President Bush is rushing the clock and running out of time as he tries to stare down nuclear threats on three fronts. Bush has seen Iran ignore a weekend deadline to say whether it will haggle with the U.S. and others worried that Iran is racing toward the bomb. More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 58 months ago
Six major world powers agreed Monday to seek new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program after the country failed to meet a weekend deadline to respond to an offer intended to defuse the dispute... More
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submitted by eooties 58 months ago, from ap.google.com
Democrat Barack Obama said Friday that Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some nations see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear weapons, and not wait for the next U.S. president. More
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submitted by agabriel 58 months ago, from newsweek.com
Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy — the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it. The administration's turnabout on a timeline... More
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submitted by grandie4 58 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama defended his proposal to negotiate with Iran Wednesday and said he would use "big sticks and big carrots" to persuade the country's leaders not to develop nuclear weapons. "My whole goal in terms of having tough, serious direct diplomacy... More
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submitted by grandie4 58 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran on Monday of not being serious at weekend talks about its disputed nuclear program despite the presence of a senior U.S. diplomat, and warned it may soon face new sanctions. In her first public comments since Saturday's meeting in Switzerland, Rice... More
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submitted by grandie4 59 months ago, from washingtonpost.com
High-level international talks on Iran's nuclear program ended inconclusively today in Geneva, with European envoy Javier Solana telling reporters that Iran needed to give a more definitive answer within two weeks. The meeting was significant because for the first time a U.S. diplomat... More
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submitted by chiasma 59 months ago, from ap.google.com
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States still has conditions for negotiating with Iran even though the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to weekend talks with an Iranian nuclear envoy. She said the shift in policy is a signal the administration... More
