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Calls to use oil as weapon in Gaza fight fall flat
(AP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:20:19 GMT
 AP - The call to use oil as a weapon against Israel's friends once would have echoed in capitals across the Middle East. But even as fighting widens in Gaza, threats of an oil embargo by some in Iran and Bahrain are falling flat.
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Iran says 70,000 volunteer for Israel fight
(AP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:04:36 GMT
AP - More than 70,000 Iranian students have volunteered to carry out suicide bombings against Israel, Iran's state news agency reported Monday, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has not responded to their request for permission.
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Closure of Nobel winner's office legal issue: Iran
(Reuters)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:26:55 GMT
 Reuters - Iran said on Monday the closing of the office of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi was a legal matter and the authorities would provide security for her if she needed it.
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Maliki seeks Iran help to rebuild Iraq
(AFP)
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:58:31 GMT
 AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday that he hoped Iran would help rebuild his conflict-torn country by boosting economic ties.
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Iran security chief meets Syria's Assad over Gaza
(AFP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:50:07 GMT
 AFP - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday met Iran's Supreme National Security Council chief Saeed Jalili to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip, the official SANA news agency reported.
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Iraqi premier visits Iran to discuss US-Iraq pact
(AP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:04:19 GMT
AP - Iraq's prime minister is visiting Iran where the newly implemented security deal between the United States and Baghdad is expected to top his agenda.
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Iraq won't be used to threaten neighbors: Maliki
(Reuters)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:02:36 GMT
 Reuters - Iraq's prime minister, who started a visit to Iran on Saturday, told Iranian state television his government would not allow Iraq to be used as a base to threaten its neighbors.
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Iran hangs two drug traffickers
(AFP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:09:44 GMT
 AFP - Iran on Saturday hanged two men in prison in the southeastern city of Zahedan after they were convicted of drug trafficking, the state broadcaster reported.
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U.S. condemns harassment of Iranian Nobel laureate
(Reuters)
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:36:56 GMT
Reuters - The United States on Friday criticized the harassment in Iran of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi and said such actions were part of an "increasingly hostile campaign" that targeted activists.
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Iran FM slams world inaction on Gaza
(AFP)
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:44:38 GMT
 AFP - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki hit out at the international community for not doing more in the face of Israel's deadly blitz on Gaza on Friday and demanded an immediate halt to the assault.
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Protesters target home of Iran Nobel laureate
(AFP)
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:11:43 GMT
 AFP - Dozens of protesters demonstrated outside the home of Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Thursday, chanting slogans accusing her of supporting US and Israeli "crimes," she told AFP.
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Rockets are again at the heart of a Mideast war
(AP)
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:09:19 GMT
 AP - Most of the Hamas rockets targeted at Israel are rudimentary, cobbled together in small metal shops in densely populated Gaza.
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Iran Nobel laureate accused of Israeli bias: activist
(Reuters)
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:26:54 GMT
 Reuters - Some 150 protesters stood outside the home and office of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi on Thursday accusing her of sympathy for Israel, the Islamic state's foe, a member of her human rights group said.
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Iran students say ready to fight Israel
(AFP)
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:04:59 GMT
 AFP - Hundreds of Islamist students marched in the streets of the Iranian capital on Thursday vowing their readiness to travel to Gaza to fight Israel over its onslaught against the Palestinian territory.
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EU worried about 'threats' against Nobel laureate
(AP)
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:46:32 GMT
AP - France has summoned the Iranian ambassador for talks to protest pressure on Nobel Peace Prize winner Shahin Ebadi.
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Iran shuts down leading reformist newspaper
(AFP)
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:55:59 GMT
 AFP - The Iranian press watchdog shut down leading reformist newspaper Kargozaran on Wednesday over publication of a piece criticising Palestinian militants, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Canada seeks access to detained Iranian-Canadian blogger
(AFP)
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:42:05 GMT
 AFP - Canada has not been granted consular access to detained prominent Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan in Iran, a foreign affairs spokesman said in Ottawa.
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Iranians raid British diplomatic compound in Gaza protest
(AFP)
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:57:48 GMT
 AFP - A group of Iranian demonstrators stormed the British diplomatic compound in Tehran to protest London's stance towards the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, state news agency IRNA reported.
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Iran confirms jailing Iranian-Canadian blogger
(AP)
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:28:40 GMT
AP - Iran on Tuesday confirmed reports that it has detained a well-known Iranian-Canadian blogger who had made trips to Israel.
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Canada condemns Iran raid on Nobel laureate's office
(AFP)
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:12:15 GMT
 AFP - Canada Tuesday urged Tehran to end the "apparent targeting" of human rights advocates, including Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, whose private office was raided Monday by Iranian police.
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