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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 11:57 am ET
Iran worked on testing a key component of a nuclear bomb as recently as 2007, a British newspaper said on Monday, a finding which if proven would be at odds with Iran's assertion its nuclear work is for civilian use.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 10:30 am ET
The United States and Brazil on Monday talked over foreign policy differences on Iran, Honduras and US use of Colombian military bases during a visit by a senior US diplomat.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 7:41 am ET
On Dec. 7, tens of thousands of students marched at universities across Iran, in the most significant anti-government protests in the country for months.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 7:27 am ET
Iran's main opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed more anti-government protests as the authorities announced several arrests Monday over a reported insult to Islamic revolution founder Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 7:05 am ET
Iran has arrested several people over the tearing up of a picture of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, during anti-government demonstrations last week, a senior official said on Monday.
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CNN - Sun Dec 13, 7:54 pm ET
Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 5:56 am ET
Three U.S. citizens detained in Iran and charged with espionage will stand trial, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday, in a case that could further strain relations between Tehran and Washington.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 6:34 pm ET
A politically divided Iran enters 2010 after a year marked by deadly street protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- some of the worst demonstrations since the fall of the shah -- and tensions with the West over its nuclear programme.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 14, 5:03 am ET
Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed to press on with anti-government protests and urged hardliners to stop "violent" crackdown on protesters, an opposition website reported Monday.
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UPI - Mon Dec 14, 1:50 pm ET
TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Iranian lawmakers clamped down on the opposition following uproar over the vandalism of pictures of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during street protests.
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UPI - Mon Dec 14, 11:30 am ET
GAZA, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A massive celebration in Gaza marking the 22nd anniversary of the Palestinian group Hamas Monday shows it still has broad support, observers say.
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Payvand Iran News - Mon Dec 14, 1:08 pm ET
A directive from the deputy news director of Iran's official news agency IRNA reportedly calls on the agency's news sections to refer to Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an ayatollah and a rival of Iran's current president, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, as hojatoleslam, which is a lower religious title.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Dec 13, 11:46 am ET
Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday promised the Palestinian militant group Hamas continued support in their fight against Israel, state television reported. In a meeting with visiting Hamas politburo head Khaled Meshaal, Ahmadin...
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Payvand Iran News - Mon Dec 14, 10:53 am ET
Majid Tavakoli, an Iranian student leader who had been imprisoned twice for his defense of human rights, was violently arrested on December 7 after he gave a speech at a gathering of students at Amir Kabir University (Tehran) to commemorate Students' Day. Three years earlier in December 2006, he had been among students who protested Ahmadinejad's speech at Amir Kabir University and called him ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 10:17 am ET
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed Iran's support for the Palestinian "resistance" in a meeting on Sunday with the exiled leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Meshaal.