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  • November 2007

    • Greenback Assaulted at OPEC meeting

      Associated Press  |  Nov 18, 07 9:52 PM CST

      Greenback Assaulted at OPEC meeting

      (Newser) - Calling it a "small and worthless piece of paper,” Iran’s president today urged OPEC's members to drop the depreciating US dollar as its official currency. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed President Bush for the dollar’s decline and its adverse effects. The comments highlight mounting tension among OPEC members, the AP reports. More »

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      Iran  • oil price  • Saudi Arabia  • Venezuela  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • Hugo Chavez  • US dollar  • OPEC  • King Abdullah  • United Arab Emirates  • Kuwait  • Qatar  • foreign market

    • Iran Prez: Go Ahead Make My Day

      Reuters  |  Nov 18, 07 2:38 PM CST

      Iran Prez: Go Ahead Make My Day

      (Newser) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday warned that his nation is fully prepared to respond if attacked, but downplayed the possibility of a war with the US. "We have made all preparations, and if there is any suspicion, then we are ready," he said during a visit to Bahrain. Ahmadinejad earlier characterized the US military as "shabby." More »

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      Iran  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • war  • Washington  • nuclear proliferation

    • Iran Prepared for Large-Scale Nuclear Fuel Output: UN

      Guardian (UK)  |  Nov 15, 07 3:32 PM CST

      Iran Prepared for Large-Scale Nuclear Fuel Output: UN

      (Newser) - Iran is able to produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale, with 3,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium, a UN watchdog agency said today in a report sure to fuel diplomatic wrangling over sanctions. In praising Iran’s openness but demanding more, the International Atomic Energy Agency provided ammunition for both sides; Iran's president said the document vindicated his government's policies. More »

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      China  • Russia  • Iran  • Great Britain  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • uranium  • nuclear enrichment  • IAEA

    • Iranian Official Says Gays Merit Death Penalty

      Times (UK)  |  Nov 13, 07 5:27 PM CST

      Iranian Official Says Gays Merit Death Penalty

      (Newser) - Tehran is sanctioning the execution and perhaps torture of homosexuals, reports the London Times, and an Iranian politician confirmed the policy at a meeting with British MPs. Quizzed about the hanging of two boys accused of homosexual activity, a member of Iran's energy committee responded that gays should be killed—though he initially said "tortured." More »

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      Iran  • gay rights  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • homosexuality

    • Iran Nuke Claim Raises Fears of Israeli Strike

      Times (UK)  |  Nov 8, 07 1:48 PM CST

      Iran Nuke Claim Raises Fears of Israeli Strike

      (Newser) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced yesterday that Iran has 3,000 working centrifuges for uranium enrichment—enough, experts say, to make a nuclear bomb within a year. But what worries Washington more, the Times of London reports, is whether Israel will launch a preemptive airstrike. US military sources say Tehran's announcement might constitute a tipping point for Israel, the region's only nuclear power. More »

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      Iran  • Israel  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • nuclear program  • nuclear power  • uranium

    • Mideast War to Defeat Dems? Worked Once, Could Again

      New York Times  |  Nov 4, 07 12:24 PM CST

      Mideast War to Defeat Dems? Worked Once, Could Again

      (Newser) - Bush's rumblings about bombing Iran look like a strategic dead end: With the military stretched thin and Iraq a debacle, what does a lame-duck president stand to gain from a full-scale regional war? The answer, Frank Rich argues in his New York Times column, is a proven election-year tactic of making Dems look soft on terror. More »

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      election 2008  • George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • Iran  • Democrats  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  • October 2007

    • With New US Sanctions, Iran Looks East

      Washington Post  |  Oct 29, 07 10:07 AM CDT

      With New US Sanctions, Iran Looks East

      (Newser) - As Iran is increasingly squeezed by new US sanctions and pressure from the UN, the country looks east for new economic alliances. China is about to overtake Germany as Iran's largest trading partner, and with oil prices skyrocketing, it looks as though Iran will be able to weather the storm of American sanctions, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Iran  • United Nations  • oil price  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • economic sanctions

    • Iran's Nuclear Negotiator Quits

      Associated Press  |  Oct 20, 07 8:58 AM CDT

      Iran's Nuclear Negotiator Quits

      (Newser) - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator has resigned, the Iranian government said today, in a move seen as signaling a hardening of Tehran's nuclear stance. Ali Larijani  was said to be more committed to finding a diplomatic resolution to Iran's nuclear standoff with the West than Iranian President  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He was replaced by Saeed Jalili, a little-known foreign deputy, the AP reports. More »

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      Iran  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • nuclear enrichment  • Ali Larijani  • Saeed Jalili

    • Bush: Iran Risks 'World War III'

      New York Times  |  Oct 17, 07 10:41 PM CDT

      Bush: Iran Risks 'World War III'

      (Newser) - In a cantankerous press conference today, President Bush warned that Iran risks starting World War III if it develops nuclear weapons. His remarks came as reporters sought his reaction to Vladimir Putin's comments, after meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday, that the West should not only rule out military action against Iran, but stop talking about it, the New York Times reports. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Russia  • Iran  • France  • United Nations  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Vladimir Putin  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • nuclear weapons  • sanctions  • multilateral sanctions

    • Putin on War With Iran: Don't Even Think About It

      Guardian (UK)  |  Oct 16, 07 6:18 AM CDT

      Putin on War With Iran: Don't Even Think About It

      (Newser) - 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. More »

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      Russia  • Iran  • Vladimir Putin  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • uranium  • Ayatollah Ali Khameni

    • Hillary Does About-Face on Iran

      Associated Press  |  Oct 12, 07 11:33 AM CDT

      Hillary Does About-Face on Iran

      (Newser) - 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.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • election 2008  • Iraq war  • Iran  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    • Students Protest Ahmadinejad Speech

      BBC  |  Oct 8, 07 12:25 PM CDT

      Students Protest Ahmadinejad Speech

      (Newser) - 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. More »

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      Iran  • protests  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    • Iranian Gays: We're Here!

      New York Times  |  Oct 1, 07 4:14 AM CDT

      Iranian Gays: We're Here!

      (Newser) - Iranian gays insist they actually do exist, and in large numbers, contrary to statements made by Iran's president to derisive laughter at Columbia University last week. But life there is much more "complicated" for gays than it is in North America. “You can have a secret gay life as long you don’t start demanding rights,” one man told the New York Times. More »

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      Iran  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • homosexuality  • gay

  • September 2007

    • Iran Pledges to Help Keep Arms Out of Iraq

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 30, 07 6:37 PM CDT

      Iran Pledges to Help Keep Arms Out of Iraq

      (Newser) - Iraqi officials claim they've secured a pledge from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to curb the flow of weapons and insurgent support across the Iraq-Iran border. Although Iran has not confirmed this pledge, Gen. David Petraeus said that attacks may have fallen slightly since the agreement last month. Petraeus said it's still "wait-and-see time," reports the Los Angeles Times. More »

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      Iraq  • Iran  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    • Sanctions on Iran 'Illegal': Ahmadinejad

      Reuters  |  Sep 25, 07 9:02 PM CDT

      Sanctions on Iran 'Illegal': Ahmadinejad

      (Newser) - Today Ahmadinejad attacked "illegal" sanctions on Iran and said that its "peaceful and transparent" nuclear policy should be left to UN watchdog, Reuters reports. Speaking at the UN, he also slammed the "illegal Zionist regime" and blasted the US for occupying Iraq. "The occupiers ... do not even have the courage to declare their defeat and exit Iraq," he said. More »

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      Israel  • United Nations  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    • Columbia Prez Lays Into Ahmadinejad

      Associated Press  |  Sep 24, 07 3:10 PM CDT

      Columbia Prez Lays Into Ahmadinejad

      (Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared today at Columbia University, where the school’s president called the Iranian president “a petty and cruel dictator” and excoriated him for his human rights rap sheet, Holocaust denial—which Lee Bollinger called "simply ridiculous"—and nuclear ambitions. The visitor smiled as Bollinger spoke, then called the speech “an insult to information,” the AP reports. More »

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      Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • warrantless wiretapping  • Holocaust  • Columbia University  • Palestinian people  • Lee Bollinger

    • Iranian Prez Flies Into NY Storm

      Associated Press  |  Sep 24, 07 3:39 AM CDT

      Iranian Prez Flies Into NY Storm

      (Newser) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York yesterday amid protests and rancor over his schedule of public appearances, including his planned address at Columbia University. In the first of a series of public relations efforts, Ahmadinejad claimed in a television interview that Iran is seeking neither nuclear weapons nor war with the US, AP reports. More »

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      Iran  • New York  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • Ground Zero  • Columbia University  • 60 Minutes  • William Fallon  • UN General Assembly  • Lee Bollinger

    • VP Mulled Israeli Strike on Iran

      Reuters  |  Sep 23, 07 6:31 PM CDT

      VP Mulled Israeli Strike on Iran

      (Newser) - Dick Cheney considered encouraging Israel to launch an air strike on Iran, Reuters reports,  citing a Newsweek claim that Cheney saw the strike as drawing retailation that would, in turn, draw the US into a war. Cheney adviser David Wurmser is said to have disclosed the discussions. More »

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      Iran  • United Nations  • Dick Cheney  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • nuclear facilities

    • Iran to West: Don't Even Think About It

      Reuters  |  Sep 23, 07 11:38 AM CDT

      Iran to West: Don't Even Think About It

      (Newser) - In a parade flanked by missiles and homegrown fighter jets, Iran unequivocally responded to the West's indirect threats of force against the Islamic nation's nuclear ambitions: "Our message to the enemies is: Do not do it," said the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. "They will regret it, as they are regretting it in Iraq." More »

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      Iraq  • Iran  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • nuclear program  • nuclear power  • French foreign minister

    • Iranian Prez Banned From Ground Zero

      CNN  |  Sep 20, 07 3:46 AM CDT

      Iranian Prez Banned From Ground Zero

      (Newser) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been barred from visiting Ground Zero to "pay his respects" during a visit to New York. The city's police commissioner said the controversial president would not be allowed to leave a wreath, citing construction barring visitors from the site. "If there were a further request, we'd reject it," said a police spokesman, who also cited security concerns. More »

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      Iran  • New York City  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • Ground Zero  • ban

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