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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Tehran stories: 87 news summaries

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Bush, Sarkozy Warn Iran Over Spurned Nuke Offer

Tehran turns down 6-nation deal to stop enriching uranium

Jun 14, 08 8:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran said no to an incentive offer today to stop making uranium, sparking a warning from President Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy not to build nuclear weapons, the AP reports. "Our allies understand that a nuclear-armed Iran is incredibly destabilizing," Bush said. Even before an EU official delivered the... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Nicolas Sarkozy • nuclear weapons • nuclear enrichment • George W. Bush

OPINION

Preconditions or Not, Iran Doesn't Want to Talk to Us

US misunderstanding of split personality hinders any progress

May 28, 08 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama can berate President Bush for refusing to "sit down with" Iran, and John McCain can beat up Obama for proposing to do just that, but the fact is that every administration in the past 30 years has tried talking to Iran—without preconditions—and been rejected. Including... More »

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Iran • Israel • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • nuclear • negotiation • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • George W. Bush

UN Nuke Watchdog Accuses Iran of Hiding Data

Tehran says it has 'left no question unanswered'

May 26, 08 8:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - The UN's nuclear watchdog blasted Tehran today for hiding data on its nuclear weapons program, BBC reports. The UN said Iran had blocked access to documents and experts while running 3,500 centrifuges, which can enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. Iran quickly vowed to keep enriching uranium and said it... More »

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Iran • United Nations • Tehran • nuclear weapons • nuclear enrichment • nuclear facilities

Tehran's Top Cop Nabbed
in Brothel

Man charged with 'moralizing' Iran capital caught with prostitutes

Mar 12, 08 4:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The man in charge of "moralizing" Iran's capital city is out of a job after being arrested during a raid on a Tehran brothel, Ynetnews reports. Police chief Reza Zarei, who had led crackdowns on women who disobeyed strict Islamic dress codes, was caught naked with six prostitutes in... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Islamic Sharia law • irony • Muslim women • brothel • Reza Zarei • Farda News

Syria Remains Key for
Foreign Fighters in Iraq: US

90% of Iraq's foreign fighters come across neighbor's borders, new report contends

Mar 12, 08 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Syria is a key jumping-off point for foreign militants in Iraq, with 90% entering through the Syrian border, the Pentagon reported yesterday. “It is not clear that Syria has made a strategic decision to deal with foreign terrorists using Syria as a transit point,” the report notes. Meanwhile,... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Syria • Tehran • terrorist • Shiite militia • Damascus • Sunni leaders • quarterly reports • militant • Iraq war

US Admiral
in Charge of Mideast Quits

Move comes after
article depicts him defying Bush on Iran

Mar 11, 08 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The top US military commander for the Middle East resigned today after the publication of a magazine profile that portrayed him as a vocal opponent of the Bush administration's Iran strategy, the AP reports. Adm. William Fallon, head of US Central Command, denied any rift and said he stepped down... More »

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Iran • Bush administration • Tehran • military strategy • Robert Gates • resignation • William Fallon • George W. Bush • Central Command

Ahmadinejad
to Visit Iraq

First-ever trip by an Iranian prez upsets Sunnis, poses security risk to hosts

Mar 1, 08 7:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will fly to Baghdad Sunday to meet with Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, the first state visit ever by an Iranian president, the BBC reports. Sunni Iraqi leaders expressed outrage over the visit, which also comes a day after the US claimed further evidence of Iranian meddling in the... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Taliban • Tehran • Baghdad • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Green Zone • US military • Jalal Talabani • Shiite insurgents • Sunni leaders • explosively formed penetrators • al-Qaeda in Iraq

Iran Gender Wars Hit High Gear

Female duo driving home inequalities of Islamic republic

Jan 17, 08 5:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Iranian women can't travel without a man's permission, but two female racecar drivers are taking matters into their own hands and fighting for equal opportunity on the track. Nervous officials have repeatedly banned Zoreh Vatankhah and her mentor, Laleh Seddigh, from races—and their successes don't often make the front... More »

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UPDATED

US Files Formal Protest
to Iran Over Ship Incident

Tehran releases own video, rejects American version of events

Jan 10, 08 4:28 PM CST
(Newser) - The US sent a formal diplomatic complaint to Iran today over what it calls the "provocative" harassment of American ships by Iranian speedboats, the AP reports. Iran, meanwhile, released its own video of the encounter in the Persian Gulf, which it says backs up its contention that the US... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Persian Gulf • US Navy • Strait of Hormuz • Iranian speedboats

Iran Cracks Down on the 'Un-Islamic'

Fear of regime change drives new policing of women's dress, media

Dec 20, 07 1:09 PM CST
(Newser) - Iran is engaged in its most serious crackdown on "un-Islamic" behavior in years, the Christian Science Monitor reports, with masked police rounding up and humiliating everyone from drug dealers to immodestly dressed women. But the impulse for the crackdown isn't Islamic conservatism, the paper concludes; it's a fear of... More »

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Iran • Islam • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Russia Gives Iran Nuclear Fuel

Says Tehran has promised not to develop weaponry

Dec 17, 07 7:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Russia delivered nuclear material to Iran yesterday, the BBC reports, ignoring Washington’s protests. Russia says it has assurances that the plutonium will only be used for the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, which is being built by a Russian company, but the US says that spent uranium could be... More »

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Iran • Russia • United Nations • Tehran • nuclear program • uranium • nuclear enrichment • Bushehr reactor • plutonium • US intelligence estimate

Iran Praises
Nuke Report; Israel Skeptical

Barak says Tehran hasn't stopped, urges more US pressure

Dec 4, 07 8:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Iran trumpeted a US intelligence report released yesterday that said it suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003, but Israel expressed skepticism, Reuters reports. "The condition of Iran's peaceful nuclear activities is becoming clear to the world," an Iranian official said of the report. Not so fast, said... More »

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Iran • Israel • Tehran • United States • National Intelligence Estimate • Britain

Iran Halted Nuke Weapons Work in 2003: US Report

In reversal, NIE says Tehran hasn't been building weapons for 4 years

Dec 3, 07 12:28 PM CST
(Newser) - Iran stopped work on its nuclear weapons program in 2003, a US National Intelligence Estimate revealed today. The report, which represents the consensus of America’s 16 spy agencies, contradicts a 2005 report that concluded Tehran was working toward building a bomb, the New York Times reports. The new assessment... More »

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Cheney Amps Up Rhetoric Against Iran

Threatens 'serious consequences' over nuke program

Oct 21, 07 7:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cheney threatened "serious consequences" today if Iran doesn't drop its nuclear program, Reuters reports. "Our country and the entire international community cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its most aggressive ambitions," he told the audience at a think-tank forum. One analyst called Cheney's threat "... More »

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Iran • Dick Cheney • Lebanon • Syria • diplomacy • Tehran • nuclear weapons • peace • George W. Bush

Iran Sanctions Delayed Until November

World powers put off taking action against nuclear program

Sep 28, 07 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Foreign ministers from the US, China, UK, Russia, Germany, and France agreed today to postpone a vote on sanctioning Iran for its nuclear program until at least the end of November. The date depends on reports from the UN nuclear watchdog and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solano, whom the... More »

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Iran • United Nations • Tehran • economic sanctions • uranium enrichment • uranium

Iran Guards Hidden Art Trove

Top modern art collection kept in the basement of Iranian museum

Sep 20, 07 1:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - A basement chock full of Picassos, Monets, and almost every important Western Modernist painter—surely the Louvre? Au contraire, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. That’s where the LA Times’ Kim Murphy found a treasure trove of painstakingly cared-for paintings that have seen the light of day but once... More »

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Iran • art museum • Tehran • art • Andy Warhol • painting • Picasso • Jackson Pollock • Monet • Kandinsky • Islamic Revolution

Iranian Official Hits US for Scapegoating

Ambassador to Iraq
says US is trying 'to cover up failed plans'

Sep 16, 07 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US is hyping an Iranian threat to Iraq to deflect attention away from its mistakes, Iran’s ambassador to Iraq told CNN, again denying allegations Tehran is attacking American troops trying to stabilize the country. “US security plans for Iraq have not succeeded,” Hassan Kazemi-Qomi said. The... More »

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Iraq • Iran • insurgents • Tehran • David Petraeus • US troops • Hassan Kazemi Qomi • Baath Party • Iraq war

'People's Army' Dominates Iran's Economy

Doing business in the country means dealing with the Revolutionary Guard

Aug 26, 07 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which the White House is on the cusp of labeling a terrorist organization, is an economic and political behemoth. The well-connected force has ties to more than 100 companies, dominates the construction industry, is in charge of developing Teheran's subway system, and even runs hospitals. The LA ... More »

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Iran • Tehran • corruption • Revolutionary Guards • terrorist • People's Army • Iranian military

Iran Executes 30 in Past Month

Aug 19, 07 1:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran executed up to 30 people in the past month, mostly in public hangings, in a nationwide crackdown on murderers, sex offenders, drug traffickers, and other threats to "social security," reports the Observer. Human rights advocates say the sweep, also advertised as countering an alleged surge in US-backed... More »

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Iran • Tehran • human rights • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • execution • capital punishment • hanging • public executions • political activism

Tehran to Air 'Confessions' of US Scholars

Prisoner pair
caged for months

Jul 17, 07 5:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two Iranian-American scholars arrested for espionage in Iran appear to have made videotaped confessions after months of interrogation, the Los Angeles Times reports. Iran's state-run television is airing excerpts of the statements  to promote the confessions to be broadcast tomorrow. On tape, Haleh Esfandiari 67, of  the Woodrow Wilson Center,... More »

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