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West ignoring human rights abuses in Iran: Nobel laureate
(AFP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:05:41 GMT
 AFP - Western countries' fixation on Iran's disputed nuclear programme is blinding them to human rights abuses, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Monday.
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Iran bans leading pro-reform political party
(AP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:30:37 GMT
 AP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hard-line government said Monday it has banned Iran's largest pro-reform political party in a new strike against an opposition movement that has largely been swept from the streets since last year's postelection turmoil.
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China 'knows its duties' in Iran nuclear tussle: Saudi
(AFP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:52:24 GMT
 AFP - China fully knows what it should do as a global power in the effort to halt Iran's nuclear push, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said in an interview published Monday.
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China takes over from West as Iran's main economic partner
(AFP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:23:11 GMT
 AFP - China has emerged as Iran's top economic partner, investing heavily in the energy sector and filling the gaps left by Western firms forced out by international sanctions.
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Bin Laden's son calls on Iran to free his siblings
(AP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:59:44 GMT
 AP - One of Osama bin Laden's sons has called on Iran's supreme leader to release members of his family believed to be under house arrest there since they fled Afghanistan in 2001, according to a letter posted Monday on the Internet.
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Merkel says Iran sanctions looming
(AFP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:56:57 GMT
 AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday the time was nearing for sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, as Tehran has rejected Western efforts to find a negotiated solution.
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Iran MPs give final nod to hiked $368bln budget
(AFP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:21:03 GMT
 AFP - Iran's parliament on Monday gave its final approval to a 368-billion-dollar budget for the year to March 2011, a week after it had cut the outlay by 20 billion dollars, state media reported.
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Merkel: Iran sanctions needed
(AP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:26:38 GMT
 AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel says new sanctions are needed against Iran to pressure the country into settling the dispute over its nuclear program.
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Time coming for sanctions against Iran, says Merkel
(Reuters)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:02:02 GMT
Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday the time has come to impose new sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear activity.
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Britain looks to China to pressure Iran
(Reuters)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:22:00 GMT
Reuters - China and Britain agree on pressing Iran about its nuclear activities while seeking engagement, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Monday at the start of a visit to China that is likely to focus on the dispute.
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Miliband says Security Council on same page on Iran
(AFP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:15:49 GMT
 AFP - Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on a visit to China Monday that the veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council were on the same page on how to tackle Iran.
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'Thugs' vandalised apartment of Iran's Karroubi
(AFP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:30:26 GMT
 AFP - The wife of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi claimed on Monday that a group of "thugs" paid by "corrupt" government officials had vandalised the apartment block where the family lives in Tehran.
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Britain's Miliband visits China amid rancor
(AP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:40:31 GMT
AP - Britain's foreign secretary is in China to lobby for further nuclear sanctions on Iran and will seek to smooth rancor with Beijing over climate change talks and the execution of a British drug smuggler thought to be mentally ill.
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Bin Laden son seeks release of relatives in Iran
(AFP)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:33:31 GMT
 AFP - One of Osama bin Laden's sons has called on Tehran to release a number of his relatives said to be detained under house arrest in Iran, according to a recently released letter.
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EU ready 'to take unilateral sanctions against Iran'
(AFP)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:26:10 GMT
 AFP - The European Union is ready to unilaterally impose new sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner confirmed Sunday.
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Iranian-American scholar temporarily freed
(AFP)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:56:06 GMT
 AFP - Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, who is serving a five year jail term, has been freed temporarily to celebrate the Persian New Year after paying a hefty bail, Tehran's prosecutor said on Sunday.
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U.N. Iran sanctions may take until June: Kouchner
(Reuters)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:54:29 GMT
Reuters - A U.N. resolution on new sanctions against Iran may not be ready until June and if a vote on it fails, European states could take unilateral measures instead, French and Finnish ministers said on Sunday.
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Khamenei tells Iranians to shun fire festival
(AFP)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:24:49 GMT
 AFP - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday urged Iranians to shun next week's Persian fire festival as an un-Islamic event which causes "a lot of harm."
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Iran says US-funded cyber network group busted
(AFP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:48:46 GMT
 AFP - Iran has busted what it says was a US-funded cyber network group linked to an exiled opposition movement that collected data on its nuclear scientists, state media reported on Saturday.
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UAE to respect any UN-imposed sanction on Iran
(AFP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:44:46 GMT
 AFP - The United Arab Emirates will respect any sanctions imposed by the United Nations on key trading partner Iran, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan said on Saturday.
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