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• Iran proposes guarantees to attract German firms

  - 2008-08-18

  BERLIN AFP — Iran is ready to offer investment guarantees to German companies, an official said Monday, as authorities in Berlin try to curb their plans to work in the controversial Middle Eastern country. "We will give them guarantees for their investments," Iranian deputy foreign minister Mehdi Safari told...

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• Israeli, US defense chiefs to meet

  - 2008-07-28

  WASHINGTON AFP — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak meets with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates Monday for talks that an Israeli adviser said would focus on the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman confirmed that Gates and Barak would meet but would say only that...

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• Israeli, US defense chiefs meet

  - 2008-07-28

  WASHINGTON AFP — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met Monday with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates for talks that an Israeli adviser said would focus on the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman confirmed that Gates and Barak met at the Pentagon but would provide...

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• Olmert extends term of office of Mossad chief

  - 2008-06-22

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday he had extended by a year the term of office of the head of the Mossad spy agency, whose top task has been thwarting Iran's nuclear drive. "Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced at the start of the cabinet...

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• US security adviser and Israeli FM discuss Iran

  - 2008-04-16

  JERUSALEM, April 16, 2008 AFP — US national security adviser Stephen Hadley and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Wednesday held talks about the Middle East peace process and sanctions against Iran, officials said. The two "discussed the necessity of continued international action to increase sanctions" against Iran, a...

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• White House warns Iran over naval incident

  - 2008-01-09

  JERUSALEM AFP — The White House warned Iran on Wednesday over a weekend confrontation between Iranian speedboats and US warships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. "I think the point that that shows is this was a very provocative act by the Iranians, and it could have -- and...

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• Iran's Larijani urges Egypt not to rush renewal of ties: report

  - 2007-12-26

  CAIRO AFP — Iran's former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, an adviser to his country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged Egypt on Wednesday not to rush renewing relations between Cairo and Tehran, the official MENA news agency said. "Talks and meetings are continuing between the two countries, but we...

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• Iran eyes border deal with Kuwait before year's end: Mottaki

  - 2007-11-25

  KUWAIT CITY AFP — Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday that Tehran hopes to resolve a decades-old dispute with neighbouring Kuwait over their maritime border before the end of the year. "We hope to see an end to the issue before the end of the year," Mottaki...

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• Iran dismisses talk FM next to quit

  - 2007-10-24

  TEHRAN AFP — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday denied speculation Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was to become the latest casualty of growing changes to his conservative administration. Two prominent members of the Iranian parliament said earlier that Mottaki had tendered his resignation to Ahmadinejad, less than a week after...

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• Lukoil to continue in Iran despite sanctions problems

  - 2007-10-23

  MOSCOW AFP — Lukoil, the biggest Russian oil company, said Tuesday it will continue to work in Iran despite the problems caused by US-inspired sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear development programme. The Anaran oil project "will continue, development is under way," Lukoil spokesman Vladimir Simakov told AFP in...

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