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Memphis Commercial Appeal - Sun Nov 8, 8:33 pm ET
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's extended hand was whacked across the knuckles by the leaders of Iran, Syria and assorted other thuggeries last week. But the Obama administration did manage a good demonstration in Burma of how its brand of engagement can and should work. Kurt Campbell, the State Department's top Asia official, traveled to the isolated military dictatorship to talk with its ...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 8, 3:25 pm ET
Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi, whose supporters clashed with police in a rally last week, accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday of double standards in his U.S. policy.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 8, 8:36 am ET
A senior Iranian lawmaker warned Russia that its delay in delivering an anti-aircraft missile defense system to Tehran could harm relations between the two countries, state television reported Sunday.
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Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Sat Nov 7, 11:01 pm ET
A funny thing happened on the way to Iran’s annual celebration — this year was the 30th anniversary of its takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. As usual, a pro-government crowd trooped to the site of the old embassy and dutifully chanted,”Death to America” and burned a few U.S. flags. But their numbers were dwarfed by thousands of unruly anti-government demonstrators marching through the ...
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Los Angeles Times - Sun Nov 8, 4:20 pm ET
A state-owned station says officials may compromise on a U.N. bid to have uranium refined abroad. Iran may seek a 'simultaneous exchange' of enriched uranium for medical reactor uranium plates. A state-owned Iranian television station quoted unnamed diplomats Sunday as saying Iran, in a possible compromise to a U.N.-backed proposal, is willing to send about 1,800 pounds of its enriched uranium ...
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AP via Yahoo! News - 22 minutes ago
Iran still wants talks with world powers over fuel supplies to a Tehran nuclear reactor — despite the country's apparent rejection of a U.N. plan to curb Iran's enriched uranium stockpile.
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EARTHtimes.org - 57 minutes ago
Tehran - Tehran said that the delay of the nuclear fuel deal has economic and not political reasons, ISNA news agency reported Monday. The nuclear deal has some economic angles and therefore technical and economic experts' opinions should be thoroug...
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - 1 hour 50 minutes ago
A state owned Iranian television station quoted unnamed diplomats Sunday as saying Iran, in a possible compromise to a United Nations-backed proposal, is willing to send 800 kilograms, or 1,764 pounds, of its enriched uranium abroad to be exchanged for fuel for a medical reactor.
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International Herald Tribune - Sun Nov 8, 11:04 pm ET
The Obama administration has told Iran’s leaders in back-channel messages that it is willing to allow the country to send its enriched uranium to any of several nations for safekeeping.
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New York Times - Sun Nov 8, 10:33 pm ET
Instead, officials said, the Iranians have revived an old counterproposal: that international arms inspectors take custody of much of Iran’s fuel, but keep it on an island in Iran.
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Arizona Daily Star - Sun Nov 8, 2:25 am ET
TEHRAN, Iran — Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 2:10 am ET
The administration of US President Barack Obama has told Iran it is willing to allow the country to send its stockpile of enriched uranium to any of several nations, including Turkey, for safekeeping, The New York Times reported Monday.
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Free Internet Press - Sat Nov 7, 4:26 pm ET
He may be the bravest student in Iran or an unwitting stooge of the Islamic regime - or both. Either way, Mahmoud Vahidnia has gained instant fame after breaking a taboo by criticizing the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to his face.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - 1 hour 12 minutes ago
Iran's president says capitalist excesses caused the global economic meltdown and are un-Islamic. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is among heads of state in Istanbul for a one-day meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference, a 57-state bloc of Muslim countries.
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Voice of America - Sun Nov 8, 8:46 pm ET
A senior Iranian lawmaker has warned Russia that continuing to delay the delivery of a missile-defense system to Iran will harm relations between the two countries. The comments were made as Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was scheduled to visit Tehran.