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• Iran president aide resists pressure to quit over Israel

  - 2008-08-20

  TEHRAN AFP — A close aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Wednesday to remain at his post despite pressure to quit over his remark that Iranians are "friends with Israelis", a report said. "A servant of the people never resigns," the Fars news agency quoted Vice President Esfandiar...

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• Iranian president arrives in Turkey for nuclear talks

  - 2008-08-14

  ISTANBUL AFP — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flew into Turkey on Thursday for two days of talks on bilateral ties and Tehran's controversial nuclear programme. Ahmadinejad is scheduled to hold talks with President Abdullah Gul later Thursday and with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday on his first ever...

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• Oil prices calm as markets mull Iran missile test

  - 2008-07-09

  NEW YORK AFP — Oil prices held steady Wednesday after two days of sharp declines, as news that Iran tested a long-range missile capable of hitting Israel pushed up prices temporarily. The market shook off news of another slump in US oil inventories and also digested a pledge by...

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• US shrugs off Iranian threat to strike Israel, US navy

  - 2008-07-08

  WASHINGTON AFP — Washington shrugged off Tuesday Iran's threat to "set fire" to Israel and the US navy in the Gulf as its first response to any American attack over the Islamic republic's nuclear program. "Comments like that are not out of the norm and not unusual," State Department...

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• Iran to release first film on Khomeini's life

  - 2008-07-02

  TEHRAN AFP — For the past four years, veteran director Behrouz Afkhami has been working on one of the most imposing projects that could be imagined in modern Iran. He has been directing the first feature film about the life of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the charismatic cleric who led...

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• Bush in Rome for talks with Berlusconi on Iran, Afghanistan

  - 2008-06-11

  ROME AFP — US President George W. Bush arrived in Rome Wednesday hoping Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will help tighten the squeeze on Iran and step up help for war-battered Afghanistan, aides said. Bush, here on the third stop of what he calls his final Europe trip before...

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• Bush begins last Europe tour hoping to keep pressure on Iran

  - 2008-06-10

  BRDO PRI KRANJU, Slovenia AFP — US President George W. Bush heads into an EU summit Tuesday seeking to tighten the squeeze on Iran's nuclear programme, a central message of his farewell European tour. Ahead of the summit the US leader, already dismissed by some officials in Brussels as...

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• Nuclear-armed Iran would be 'incredibly dangerous': Bush

  - 2008-06-10

  BRDO PRI KRANJU, Slovenia AFP — US President George W. Bush warned Tuesday that Iran, if armed with a nuclear weapon, would be "incredibly dangerous for world peace." "Iran with a nuclear weapon would be incredibly dangerous for world peace," the US president said as he attended his final...

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• EU's Solana 'probably' going to Iran Sunday for nuclear talks

  - 2008-06-09

  LJUBLJANA AFP — EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will probably travel to Tehran on Sunday for talks aimed at convincing Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, he told AFP Monday. "The date fixed will probably be the 15th," of June, he said after arriving in the Slovenian...

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• Bush pushes Europe to toughen on Iran

  - 2008-06-09

  LJUBLJANA AFP — US President George W. Bush on Tuesday looked to persuade European leaders to tighten the squeeze on Iran's finances, a central message of what was likely his farewell tour of the continent. Bush, whose term ends in January, will hold talks with Slovenia's president and prime...

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