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Barbie dolls confinscated by Iranian authorities

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:46:36 +0000

Iranian forces have set their sights on bringing down a beloved American figure: Barbie.

Bomb kills Iranian nuclear expert (AP)

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:01:53 +0000

AP – Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and his driver Wednesday, reports said. The slayings suggest a widening covert effort to set back Iran’s atomic program.

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US condemns Iranian death sentence for American (AP)

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:36:26 +0000

AP – The Obama administration denied on Monday that an American man sentenced to death in Iran was a CIA spy, and sharply criticized the Islamic republic in Tehran for what it called a pattern of arresting innocent people for political reasons.

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Iranian diplomats expelled from London arrive home (AP)

admin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:12:07 +0000

AP – Iranian diplomats expelled from London in retaliation for attacks on British compounds in Tehran arrived home Saturday, the official IRNA news agency reported, sealing Iran’s most serious diplomatic rift with the West in decades.

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Iranian protesters storm British Embassy in Tehran (AP)

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:36:38 +0000

AP – Hard-line Iranian protesters stormed British diplomatic compounds Tuesday, hauling down the Union Jack, torching an embassy vehicle and pelting buildings with petrol bombs in what began as an apparent state-approved show of anger over the latest Western sanctions to punish Tehran for defiance over its nuclear program.

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Blast rocks Iranian ammunition depot killing at least 15

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:32:46 +0000

At least 15 people have been killed and scores more injured in two massive explosions at a Revolutionary Guard ammunition depot west of the capital Tehran, state TV reported Saturday.

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Iranian influence seeping into Iraq (AP)

admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:38:29 +0000

AP – Iran’s presence is already visible in Iraq, from the droves of pilgrims at Shiite holy sites to the brands of yoghurt and jams on grocery shelves. But now Iraqis are bracing for a potential escalation of Persian influence as the U.S. military leaves at the end of the year.

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Iranian actress avoids lashing sentence imposed by Islamic republic

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:22:06 +0000

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Amnesty International says an Iranian appeals court has overturned the lashing sentence against an actress who appeared in a film critical of the Islamic republic’s hard-line policies.

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Hundreds rally in support of Iranian opposition (AP)

admin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:51:29 +0000

AP – Hundreds of people rallied outside the White House on Saturday, calling on President Barack Obama to remove an Iranian opposition group once allied with Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.

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Serious but amateurish: US describes Iranian plot (AP)

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:12:53 +0000

AP – The alleged Iranian plot against the Saudi ambassador to Washington was “amateur hour,” an unusually clumsy operation for Iran’s elite foreign action unit, the Quds Force, U.S. officials said Wednesday as further stranger-than-fiction details emerged of the assassination gone wrong.

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