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UN racism conference adopts final declaration

All but 10 of the 192 UN member states adopted by consensus Tuesday a declaration at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva calling for protecting vulnerable people and fighting against racism, discrimination and intolerance. The second day of the conference … Continue reading

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Iranian president to speak to US

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Iran will talk to United States officials after three decades of severed ties. He told a mass rally at Tehran’s Freedom Square that the Iranian nation would welcome dialogue “in a climate of equality … Continue reading

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Former Iranian president hopes Obama to be fair, rational

(IANS) Iran expects new US President Barack Obama to adopt a fair and rational approach toward the Islamic state, former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said here at a Friday prayer ceremony. ‘Repeating the policies by [former US president George W.] … Continue reading

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Israel's collapse achievable: Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the collapse of Israel and its government was no longer an unachievable aim."Today's situation is that neither the return of Palestinians nor formation of a government and even the collapse of the … Continue reading

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Mukherjee in Tehran, to seek support of IAEA, NSG

Days before the IAEA board meets in Vienna, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived here on a two-day visit Monday to seek support of Non Aligned Movement (NAM) countries that are also members of the UN atomic watchdog and the … Continue reading

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British PM warns Iran in landmark Israel speech

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday warned Iran that it must freeze sensitive nuclear work or face more sanctions, in the first address by a British premier to the Israeli parliament.He also railed against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ''abhorrent'' … Continue reading

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Bush’s era is over: Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday said in a speech that US President George W Bush’s era was over and he could no longer harm Iran.”Your era is over, and thank God you will no longer be able to even … Continue reading

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Iran president sacks interior minister

Tehran, May 17 (RIA Novosti) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday sacked the country’s Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi, according to a news report. State-run IRNA news agency reported that a caretaker interior minister has been appointed.‘The president has appointed Mahdi Hashemi … Continue reading

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Iranian president to visit India amid US concern

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will start his India tour on Tuesday. He is likely to discuss the longstanding plans for a pipeline to supply Iranian gas to India and Pakistan. The three countries have been talking about the pipeline for … Continue reading

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Iran bashing : Bush drumming up support for Ahmadinejad

Only one man can rescue the embattled Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, from his growing domestic unpopularity. That man is George Bush.Ahmadinejad faces elections in March and an increasingly disaffected clergy,but he feeds on Bush’s antagonism.This week Bush has duly obliged. … Continue reading

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