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• Iran's Ahmadinejad in new verbal attack on Israel

  - 2008-08-23

  TEHRAN AFP — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed his verbal attacks on arch-foe Israel on Saturday, accusing it of dragging the world into turmoil and predicting its demise. "About 2,000 organised Zionists and 7,000 to 8,000 agents of Zionism have dragged the world into turmoil," Ahmadinejad told a rally...

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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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• Coalition holds Gulf exercises to protect oil installations

  - 2008-07-08

  MANAMA AFP — US and allied navies on Tuesday wound up exercises in the Gulf, the US Fifth Fleet said, as Iran warned it would strike American interests in response to any attack over its nuclear programme. The Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet said the five-day drill was aimed at protecting...

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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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• US says won't allow Iran to shut key Gulf oil route

  - 2008-06-30

  MANAMA AFP — The commander of the US navy's Fifth Fleet warned on Monday that the United States will not allow Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil supply route in the Gulf. "They will not close it... They will not be allowed to close it,"...

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• Iran's Khamenei names new security council representative

  - 2008-06-28

  NICOSIA AFP — Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday named top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as his representative on the national security council, of which Jalili is already secretary, state media reported. Jalili succeeds former nuclear chief and current parliament speaker Ali Larijani as Khamenei's representative. ...

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• Iran considers Israeli attack 'impossible'

  - 2008-06-21

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran on Saturday said it considered an attack by arch-enemy Israel as "impossible" after US media reported military exercises by the Jewish state were a possible practice for a strike against Iran. "Such impudence and audacity to have an aggression against our national interest and integrity...

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• Iran blames rebels for Tehran car bomb

  - 2008-06-09

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran has said saboteurs opposed to the Islamic revolution were behind a rare car bomb explosion in Tehran two weeks ago that caused no casualties, a press report said on Monday. "Those behind this blind action, in which a bomb was planted in a car located...

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• Olmert deputy says alternatives to attack on Iran running out

  - 2008-06-06

  JERUSALEM AFP — An Israeli deputy prime minister on Friday warned that Iran would face attack if it pursues what he said was its nuclear weapons programme. "If Iran continues its nuclear weapons programme, we will attack it," said Shaul Mofaz, who is also transportation minister. "Other options...

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• Iran says 16 killed in infiltration from northern Iraq: report

  - 2008-06-05

  TEHRAN AFP — Twelve militants and four police were killed during a border infiltration from northern Iraq into Iran's West Azerbaijan province, the Fars news agency reported on Thursday. "A group of 40 terrorists who had infiltrated the Haj Omran area near Piranshahr were caught in our fire, resulting...

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