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• Iran's Ahmadinejad arrives in Rome for food summit: agency

  - 2008-06-03

  ROME AFP — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Rome on Tuesday to attend the UN food agency summit amid protests from Jewish groups and Italian activists. Ahmadinejad's plane touched down at Rome's Ciampino airport shortly after 9:00 am, the airport news agency reported. The Iranian leader said...

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• Iran should defend Islamic world: top cleric

  - 2008-04-18

  TEHRAN AFP — A high-ranking Iranian cleric on Friday said the country should grow into a military super power to defend all Muslims, following an army parade at a time of mounting tension with the West. "In a not so distant future, we should reach a point to have...

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• Israel to connect to US missle early warning system: report

  - 2008-04-14

  JERUSALEM AFP — The United States has agreed to connect Israel to its ballistic missile early warning system to warn of any missile attack from archfoe Iran, a senior Israeli defence official said on Monday. "Israel asked the US to connect to its ballistic missile early warning system as...

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• Iran says had little time to respond to nuclear weapons allegations

  - 2008-02-24

  VIENNA AFP — Even as Iran warned of reprisals over any new UN sanctions, Tehran complained it had not been given sufficient time to respond to new intelligence purportedly showing it was involved in nuclear weapons work. Furthermore, the information was "fabricated" and the allegations "baseless", Iran insisted. ...

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• Rice warns Iran against 'provocations'

  - 2008-01-08

  JERUSALEM AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Tehran in an interview published on Tuesday that it should cease its "provocations" after Iranian vessels confronted US warships in the Gulf. "Iran should not engage in such provocations," Rice said in an interview to the Jerusalem Post and...

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• Czech-US deal 'within view' on anti-missile radar sites

  - 2007-12-14

  PRAGUE AFP — Czech and US negotiators Friday said they had made progress in talks aimed at a deal over the siting of part of a US anti-missile defence shield in the Czech Republic -- but refused to set a target for their completion. "I think we are making...

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• Iran to buy Russian passenger planes

  - 2007-11-20

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran is buying passenger planes from Russia to boost its dilapidated air fleet which is hit by US sanctions, government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham said on Tuesday. "We are completing our air fleet by buying planes from Russia," he told reporters about the purchase of Tupolev...

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• Iran's police target 'book-cafes'

  - 2007-10-27

  TEHRAN AFP — Iranian police have ordered shut and sealed several Tehran bookshops which also provide coffee and snacks to readers, because of what one officer termed "a clash of professions." "Based on the booksellers union law, owners of one type of business are not allowed to practise two...

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• Herat's silk weavers struggle to keep an ancient trade alive

  - 2007-10-15

  HERAT, Afghanistan AFP — An important stop on the ancient Silk Route, the beautiful city of Herat has for centuries lured travellers and businessmen. But today it is fighting to keep alive one of the symbols of this splendid past -- silk spun from the delicate cocoons of silk...

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• US, Russia hold talks on missile defence in Paris

  - 2007-09-10

  PARIS AFP — US and Russian officials on Monday opened talks in Paris on US plans to deploy a missile shield in central Europe that Moscow fiercely opposes. The talks are to follow up on a first meeting held in July in Washington on the US military plan that...

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