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• Iran expects 'different approach' from next US leader: Ahmadenijad

  - 2008-06-04

  ROME AFP — Iran expects a "different approach" from the next US president, whoever wins the November elections, President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad said in an interview published in Italy Wednesday. "Whoever wins the elections, I'm sure that the United States will change, it will have a different approach," the Iranian...

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• Exit rumored for Clinton as Democratic race climaxes

  - 2008-06-02

  WASHINGTON AFP — Hillary Clinton's last-gasp campaign to derail her rival Barack Obama's accelerating drive towards the Democratic White House nomination looked to be coming to an end Monday. Ahead of the final two primaries Tuesday in Montana and South Dakota, even the former first lady's husband hinted at...

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• Obama slams Bush over terrorist remarks

  - 2008-05-15

  WASHINGTON AFP — Presidential hopeful Barack Obama Thursday accused George W. Bush of an "extraordinary politicization" of foreign policy, after the US leader implied Democrats want to appease terrorists. Bush ignited a furious row with the Illinois senator, his most direct clash yet with Democrats vying to succeed him...

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• Lebanon's Jumblatt wants ban on flights from Iran

  - 2008-05-03

  BEIRUT AFP — A leading member of Lebanon's Western-backed ruling coalition called on Saturday for a ban on flights from Iran to Beirut airport, saying the militant group Hezbollah could be flying in arms from Iran. Druze leader Walid Jumblatt called for the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador, Mohammad...

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• Iran leader backs parliament in dispute with Ahmadinejad

  - 2008-01-21

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has backed parliament in a dispute with hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who had objected to several measures adopted by MPs, the ISNA news agency said on Monday. Ahmadinejad had criticised parliament, which is dominated by fellow conservatives, for overturning his...

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• Iran students still in jail: lawyer

  - 2007-12-22

  TEHRAN, Iran AFP — Three Iranian students were still in jail on Saturday after failing to raise bail after being charged with insulting the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, their lawyer said. "The revolutionary court has set an 800-million-rial (85,000 dollars) bail for each of them for the accusation...

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• Ahmadinejad leaves Iran to perform hajj

  - 2007-12-16

  TEHRAN AFP — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday left Tehran for Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj, the first Iranian leader to take part in the annual Muslim pilgrimage in the history of the Islamic republic. An AFP photographer present at the airport reported that Ahmadinejad kissed the Koran...

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• Iran, US may meet on Iraq security in 'few days': Shiite leader

  - 2007-12-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — The fourth round of US-Iranian talks on curbing violence in Iraq may take place in the next few days, powerful Iraqi Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim said Tuesday at the end of a US visit. "I suppose that Iraq should host in the coming few days...

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• Iraq Shiite leader beats lung cancer: doctor

  - 2007-11-21

  TEHRAN AFP — Leading Iraqi Shiite politician Abdel Aziz al-Hakim has fully recovered from lung cancer, the head of the team of Iranian doctors who treated him said Wednesday. "I am happy to announce that Hakim has fully recovered and went back to Baghdad with no trace of the...

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• Iran leader says open to criticism

  - 2007-10-10

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran's supreme leader said the country's political establishment should be open to criticism, following a rare protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state radio reported on Wednesday. "We should be wary of the day when our young people in universities do not have the motivation to raise...

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