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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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• US and allies reject Iran nuclear letter: reports

  - 2008-08-06

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States and its European allies have rejected Iran's latest letter on its suspect nuclear program and now plan to seek new UN Security Council sanctions, US media reported Wednesday. The United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia are to hold talks Wednesday on...

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• Six powers to hold talks Wednesday on Iran nuclear program

  - 2008-08-05

  WASHINGTON AFP — The six world powers involved in talks on Iran's nuclear program will hold a conference call Wednesday to decide their next step, after Tehran failed give a final answer to an incentives package, a US State Department spokesman said Tuesday. "If we are not going to...

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• Oil prices jump on renewed Iran jitters

  - 2008-08-01

  NEW YORK AFP — Oil prices jumped higher Friday on renewed jitters over Iran's disputed nuclear program, as Israel's deputy Prime Minister, Shaul Mofaz, said Tehran was playing for time. Oil markets were further unnerved as Washington set the weekend as a deadline for key crude producer Iran to...

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• Iran daily banned for criticising president

  - 2008-06-21

  TEHRAN AFP — A conservative daily in Iran has been banned for publishing articles and images deemed critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. Tehran Emrouz, launched a year and a half ago, is close to conservatives critical of Ahmadinejad. The agency...

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• British government defeated over Iranian resistance group

  - 2008-05-07

  LONDON AFP — The British government failed Wednesday in a bid to overturn a ruling that it must end the "perverse" listing of an Iranian opposition group as a banned terrorist group. The Court of Appeal in London ruled there were "no valid grounds" to contend that the Proscribed...

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• Foreign powers mull 'incentives' for Iran during nuclear talks

  - 2008-04-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — Talks in China on Iran's nuclear program are focusing on possible "incentives" rather than purely punitive measures against Tehran, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Wednesday. Representatives for the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, China and the European Union are -- "following up on...

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• Foreign powers mull 'incentives' for Iran during nuclear talks

  - 2008-04-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — Talks in China on Iran's nuclear program are focusing on possible "incentives" rather than purely punitive measures against Tehran, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Wednesday. Representatives for the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, China and the European Union are -- "following up on...

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• Rice discusses Tibet, Iran with Chinese FM

  - 2008-04-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Wednesday called her Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi to discuss the situation in Tibet and Iran's nuclear program, US officials said. "They spoke about Iran, the efforts of the P-5-plus-1 to work on the two pathways, the incentives and disincentives package,"...

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• EU's Solana hopeful of new nuclear talks with Iran

  - 2008-03-16

  BRUSSELS AFP — EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Sunday that he hoped to meet Iran's top nuclear negotiator within the next three months, a day after Iran ruled out further talks with major world powers. "I hope to be able to meet soon" with Iranian negotiator Saeed...

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