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• Iraqi troops take control of Iranian refugee camp

  - 2008-08-30

  BAGHDAD AFP — The Iraqi army has replaced American troops in securing a refugee camp north of Baghdad where members of Iran's main armed opposition group are grouped, Iraq's defence ministry said on Saturday. "Iraqi forces have taken over responsibility from US forces to protect Ashraf camp," ministry spokesman...

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• Israel's Barak tells US: keep all Iran options open

  - 2008-07-29

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has urged his US counterpart Robert Gates to keep all options open in dealing with Iran's nuclear programme, his ministry said on Tuesday. "A policy that consists of keeping all options on the table must be maintained," Barak told the US...

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• Syrian defence minister to hold Tehran talks

  - 2008-05-24

  TEHRAN AFP — Syrian Defence Minister Hassan Turkmani was due in Tehran on Saturday for talks on military agreements between the two close allies, Iran's defence ministry said. "This visit is taking place at the invitation of Iranian Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar," the official IRNA news agency reported....

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• Ahmadinejad sacks Iran's interior minister

  - 2008-05-14

  TEHRAN AFP — Iranian Pesident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sacked his interior minister, the ninth cabinet change in his near three-year presidency, the governmental newsapaper Iran reported on Thursday. Ahmadinejad has appointed Mehdi Hashemi as caretaker of the ministry, replacing the Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, the report said. No explanation was...

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• Iran foreign ministry backs Ahmadinejad Sept 11 doubts

  - 2008-04-20

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran's foreign ministry on Sunday backed the doubts expressed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejed about the accepted version of the September 11, 2001 attacks, saying there were "many ambiguities." Ahmadinejad last week caused controversy when he described the airborne attacks on New York and Washington by Al-Qaeda...

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• British sailors captured by Iran were in disputed waters: report

  - 2008-04-16

  LONDON AFP — Fifteen British troops who were held by Iran for two weeks last year were in disputed waters when they were captured, not in Iraqi waters as the government had publicly claimed, The Times reported Thursday. Citing documents released by the defence ministry under Freedom of Information...

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• US military chief visits Israel

  - 2007-12-10

  TEL AVIV AFP — US military chief Admiral Michael Mullen met senior Israeli defence officials on Monday in the first such visit by a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of State in a decade. Mullen met his Israeli counterpart Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi and Defence Minister Ehud Barak in...

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• Iran arrests 'more nuclear spies'

  - 2007-11-15

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran on Thursday said it has arrested more suspects in a nuclear espionage case, a day after a former nuclear official was accused of handing over atomic secrets to Britain. "In the case of nuclear espionage, other people have been identified and arrested," said Iran's prosecutor...

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• Iran denounces 'hostile' US sanctions

  - 2007-10-25

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran's foreign ministry on Thursday condemned the sanctions imposed by the United States on its military and three banks, calling them contrary to international law. "The hostile American policies towards the respectable people of Iran and the country's legal institutions are contrary to international law, without...

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• Iran says OPEC stance unchanged after minister switch

  - 2007-08-13

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran's policy towards the oil cartel OPEC, which is due to hold its next scheduled meeting in a month, will not change after the oil minister was suddenly replaced, an official told AFP on Monday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a decree late on Sunday which, in...

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