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Guardian (UK)
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Oct 16, 07 6:18 AM CDT
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran continued yesterday with a regional summit and a not-so-veiled warning against American action in Iran. A day after dismissing reports of an assassination plot against him during the trip, Putin met with leaders from Iran and other nations on the Caspian Sea. "We should not even think of making use of force in this region," Putin cautioned.
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Reuters
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Oct 15, 07 5:27 AM CDT
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Iran this week, despite news reports of an assassination plot against him there. Russian security services received warnings that suicide bombers and kidnappers were training to kill or capture the president, according to the Russian news service Interfax. Putin dismissively waved off reporters seeking to question him about the reports yesterday as he headed into meetings in Germany.
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New York Times
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Oct 13, 07 6:21 PM CDT
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Israel's air strike on Syria last month was aimed at a nuclear reactor, US and Israeli intelligence analysts say. The partly-built facility was based on a North Korean model—a link that could harm Pyonyang's new denuclearization deal if Israel can prove that Kim Jong Il helped mount the reactor. US and world officials were mum about the origins of Syria's technology, the New York Times reports.
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Associated Press
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Oct 12, 07 11:33 AM CDT
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Hillary Clinton told a voter in an apple orchard yesterday that she would negotiate with Iran “with no conditions”—the very statement for which she took Barack Obama to the woodshed in July, calling him "naive." The difference? Her campaign tells the AP she doesn't agree with Obama that the US "should precommit to meeting directly with Ahmadinejad.”
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Los Angeles Times
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Oct 11, 07 5:26 PM CDT
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The Justice Department announced today that it will create special task forces charged with blocking the efforts of hostile nations to illegally export US-made parts and technology for the enrichment of their weapons systems, the Los Angeles Times reports. The National Counterproliferation Initiative will target the middlemen and front companies clandestine buyers use to get around trade restrictions.
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Election Central
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Oct 11, 07 10:00 AM CDT
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Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney couldn't seem to get out of the ring yesterday, even though their tussle at Tuesday's debate was over. The campaigns kept it going with press-release jabs, each rehashing his opponent's debate language on Iran and each comparing the other to John Kerry, notes Election Central’s Greg Sargent. Team Rudy hit first, blasting Romney for saying he’d check with lawyers about approval for air strikes: “Another Massachusetts politician also wanted a national security test.”
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BBC
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Oct 8, 07 12:25 PM CDT
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Iranian students mounted a rare protest today as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Tehran University. Opponents shouted “Death to the dictator!” and tried to enter the hall where the president was speaking, prompting police to fire tear gas into the crowd. Protesters also tried to prevent Ahmadinejad from leaving, but they eventually dispersed, the BBC reports.
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CNN
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Oct 7, 07 9:17 AM CDT
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Iran's continued activity helping to supply battling factions in Iraq could be the biggest long-term challenge to peace in the war-torn nation, General David Petraeus tells CNN. The head of allied forces in Iraq emphasized that al-Qaeda is the No. 1 enemy to beat. "Al-Qaeda remains the wolf closest to the sled," he said. But "there's absolutely no question that Iran is providing" advanced rocket-propelled grenades to militias, he added.
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Weekly Standard
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Oct 6, 07 8:55 AM CDT
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A nation’s military strength may be rooted in its average family size, says a popular German professor, putting Islamic countries in a good position, America on neutral ground, and Europe in dire straits. Bigger families mean “more superfluous sons to burn on the battlefield,” argues Gunnar Heinsohn. Shrinking Europe is in “demographic capitulation” and the US is “demographically neutral.”
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New York Times
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Oct 5, 07 2:37 PM CDT
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American troops killed 25 Iraqis north of Baghdad today, the New York Times reports, but accounts differ over why the Iraqis were armed. The US military said soldiers were fired upon by "criminals " involved in transporting arms from Iran; civilians in the mainly Shiite district of Khalis said those killed were part of a local militia that had been defending the area from al-Qaeda.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Oct 4, 07 11:50 AM CDT
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NATO and the British military claim Iran is supplying Afghanistan's Taliban with the same equipment for explosive devices that it provides to Iraqi insurgents, the Telegraph writes. US Gen. Dan McNeill, the NATO commander in Afghanistan, said his forces discovered 50 roadside bombs and timers crossing the Iran-Afghanistan border in trucks last month; Iran denied the charges.
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New Yorker
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Oct 2, 07 7:53 PM CDT
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Having failed to convince Americans of an imminent nuclear threat from Iran, the White House “has reconceived” its campaign, writes the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, targeting Tehran instead as an exporter of terrorism, especially of weapons and insurgents to Iraq. By recasting Iran as an aggressor in Iraq, he writes, the administration is able to cast its obsession with Iran as an effort to save US lives.
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New York Times
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Oct 1, 07 4:14 AM CDT