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German Chancellor visits China

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:16:40 +0000

[BBC]- German Chancellor Merkel has arrived in China for a two day trip. Discussions will include the European economic crisis, German-Chinese trade and sanctions against Iran.

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Angela Merkel

Attribution: Armin Linnartz

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India to pay for oil from Iran in yen?

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:43:15 +0000

[Bloomberg]- India has apparently been asked to pay for a portion of its oil imports from Iran in yen. This is due to concerns over the value of the rupee. The two Asian nations are attempting to continue their lucrative oil trade. The Indian rupee has been falling in value while the Japanese yen has been on the rise.

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Iran enriching uranium at Fordo plant near Qom

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:26:27 +0000

[BBC]- Iran is now enriching uranium in an underground site. “The International Atomic Energy Agency said medium-level enrichment had begun at the Fordo plant, in northern Iran.

Tehran has said it plans to carry out uranium enrichment there for purely peaceful purposes. The West argues Iran is building a nuclear weapons capacity,” a bbc.co.uk report explains.

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Pak-Iran gas pipeline to violate sanctions: US

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:08:25 +0000

This comes from asianewsnet.net. “The United States has said that a gas pipeline project Pakistan was negotiating with Iran could violate US restrictions on major financial deals with Tehran and Washington was already discussing this issue with Islamabad.

At a briefing at the State Department, spokesperson Victoria Nuland also said that a bill President Barack Obama signed into law on Saturday would not lead to an automatic suspension of US aid to Pakistan.

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Gunmen kidnap 5 Iranian engineers in central Syria

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:35:50 +0000

From this AP story in finance.yahoo.com, “Iran’s official news agency says gunmen in Syria have kidnapped five Iranian engineers building a power plant in a central region of the country roiled by political unrest.”

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Iran blames US for attack

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:52:31 +0000

[Photo copyright The Press Secretary Office of the President of Indonesia]– Iran claims that the United States and Britain were involved in a suicide attack on Revolutionary Guards.

News24 reports: “A suicide bomber blew himself up, killing seven commanders and 23 other people.

The headquarters of the armed forces blamed the bombing on ‘terrorists’ backed by ‘the Great Satan America and its ally Britain’.”

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The Press Secretary Office of the President of Indonesia

Source: Presiden Republik Indonesia

Military drill for Israel, US

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:04:06 +0000

[News24]– Israel and the United States will hold their biggest joint air-defence exercise next week, officials said, testing missile interceptors that would serve as a strategic bulwark in any future showdown with Iran.

The October 12-16 manoeuvres, dubbed Juniper Cobra, will be overseen by Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, chief of the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet and the most senior American officer to be involved in the biennial event, an Israeli official said on Thursday.

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Ahmadinejad to Obama: You Made Big Mistake

admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:44:13 +0000

[Fox News]– Iran’s president hit back Saturday at President Barack Obama’s accusation that his country had sought to hide its construction of a new nuclear site, arguing that Tehran reported the facility to the U.N. even earlier than required.

The Iranian president defended his government’s actions as the head of the U.N.’s nuclear monitoring agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, arrived Saturday to arrange an inspection of the uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom.

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http://www.kremlin.ru/events/chron/2009/06/217876.shtml

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Russia’s Iran Reversal – by Stephen Brown

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:07:44 +0000

[frontpagemag.com]– The Obama administration’s recent decision to scupper a planned missile shield in Eastern Europe was at least in part conceived as a diplomatic strategy aimed at Russia. By terminating a defense system that had aroused Russia’s ire, the administration had hoped to win Moscow’s backing for stiffer sanctions against Iran. But if that was indeed the administration’s thinking, it appears to have been baseless.

At first, to be sure, the new, diplomatic approach seemed to have paid off. Russian President Dimitri Medvedev sternly told Iran that it would have to prove it was not building a nuclear bomb or it would face “other measures.” Medvedev’s pronouncement seemed to signal a change in Russian policy on Iran, especially since Russia had previously vetoed strong sanctions against Iran in the United Nations Security Council.

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http://www.kremlin.ru/events/photos/2008/08/205859.shtml

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Iran launches short-range missiles: report

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:11:55 +0000

[Xinhua]– Iran successfully launched short-range missiles and a multi-missile launching system in a war game carried out by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Sunday, local English-language Press TV reported.

In a military drill dubbed The Great Prophet IV in a bid to bolster its defense capabilities by IRGC, Iran has tested a multi-missile launching system which launched a number of missiles including the home-made Fateh and Tondar missiles, Press TV said.

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