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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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• British court ruling will affect Iran opposition in US: source

  - 2008-05-07

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States will be under pressure to stop banning an Iranian opposition movement as "terrorist" following a court ruling Wednesday in Britain, a former opposition spokesman said. The Court of Appeal ruled there were "no valid grounds" to contend that a British panel made legal...

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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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• Iraq militia could disband if clerics order: Sadr aide

  - 2008-04-07

  NAJAF, Iraq AFP — Iraq's Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr will dissolve his feared Mahdi Army militia as demanded by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki if ordered by top clerics, an aide said on Monday. The Sadr movement is "open for dialogue" to defuse a stand-off with the government, the...

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• Major powers begin Iran nuclear talks in Washington

  - 2008-02-25

  WASHINGTON AFP — Representatives from six major powers began talks in Washington Monday to consider new sanctions aimed at convincing Iran to halt sensitive uranium enrichment work, a State Department spokesman said. Spokesman Tom Casey said foreign ministry officials of the five UN Security Council permanent members plus Germany...

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• Six powers will meet in London to discuss Iran's nuclear programme

  - 2007-11-01

  LONDON AFP — Representatives of the six major powers involved in talks about Iran's nuclear programme will meet in London on Friday, the British government said Thursday. A Foreign Office spokesman said "political directors" from Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia and China would meet as part of...

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• Iranian FM meets Russian nuclear chief

  - 2007-09-12

  MOSCOW AFP — Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was due to meet Russia's nuclear chief, Sergei Kiriyenko, in Moscow on Wednesday as the Islamic republic tries to salvage the stalled construction of its first atomic power station. Mottaki, who arrived in Moscow late Tuesday, was due to meet with...

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• Death toll from Oman cyclone hits 49

  - 2007-06-08

  MUSCAT AFP — Cyclone Gonu, which tore through Oman this week before veering towards Iran, killed at least 49 people and left another 27 missing in the Gulf sultanate, police said on Friday. "The death toll from Cyclone Gonu has risen to 49," a police spokesman told the official...

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• Iran government backs away from brief marriage

  - 2007-06-08

  TEHRAN AFP — The Iranian government distanced itself on Friday from comments made by its interior minister championing the custom of temporary marriage as a means of reducing illicit extramarital sex. The government spokesman said that Interior Minister Mostafa Pour Mohammadi made his remarks about temporary marriage, a practice...

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