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News: Iran

We have started to collect the most important news related to Iran in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Iran: news

Iran boosts Sri Lankan refinery

Tuesday, April 29th 2008, 8:17
related countries: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launches a project to expand Sri Lanka's oil refining capacity.
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Iran brushes off uranium worries

Monday, April 17th 2006, 11:08

Iran's top nuclear official says work to enrich uranium will not stop amid appeals for a diplomatic solution.
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Iran bus crash kills 28 pilgrims

Monday, May 4th 2009, 9:08
related countries: Iraq Iraq

At least 28 Iranian pilgrims are killed in a bus crash near the border with Iraq, state media say.
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Iran buys Russian passenger jets

Wednesday, August 22nd 2007, 15:27
related countries: Russia Russia

Iran signs a deal with Russia to buy five new Tupolev passenger planes, the largest deal for Russia in some years.
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Iran calls for US nuclear apology

Friday, November 16th 2007, 18:21
related countries: United States United States
related places: Tehran

Iran's president says the US should apologise for the way it has treated Tehran over its nuclear programme.
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Iran calls halt to petrol imports

Friday, June 23rd 2006, 11:48

Iran is to stop importing petrol from September and instead start rationing the fuel, says its oil minister.
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Iran captive tells of murder fear

Monday, April 9th 2007, 0:49

Leading Seaman Faye Turney tells a newspaper she feared her Iranian captors were going to kill her.
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Iran cautious over US talks offer

Thursday, June 1st 2006, 8:25
related countries: United States United States

Iran says it is ready to talk to the US but rejects Washington's call for it to first halt uranium enrichment.
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Iran censorship 'getting worse'

Thursday, June 14th 2007, 11:21

Iran's Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi says that censorship by the authorities in her country is getting stricter.
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Iran charged over BA bombing

Wednesday, October 25th 2006, 22:47
related countries: Argentina Argentina
related places: Buenos Aires

Argentine prosecutors charge Iran's government and Hezbollah over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre.
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Iran claims key nuclear step

Tuesday, April 11th 2006, 21:54

Iran's president says his nation has produced the enriched uranium needed to make nuclear fuel.
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Iran claims nuclear triumph

Wednesday, January 30th 2008, 11:26

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that Iran is approaching the "summit" of nuclear development.
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Iran claims UK admits incursion

Saturday, March 24th 2007, 23:38

The 15 Royal Navy personnel seized in the Gulf by Iran have admitted being in the country's waters, Iran claims.
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Iran clerics defy election ruling

Sunday, July 5th 2009, 13:02

A group of Iranian clerics calls the presidential vote's result invalid, underlining the splits in the ruling elite.
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Iran closes human rights centre

Sunday, December 21st 2008, 20:41

Iranian police raid and close the office of a human rights group led by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi.
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Iran college asks Bush to speak

Tuesday, October 2nd 2007, 17:34
related countries: United States United States
related places: Bush

An Iranian university invites George W Bush to visit, after Iran's president was jeered by US students last week.
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Iran commanders assassinated

Sunday, October 18th 2009, 16:45

Senior members of the elite Revolutionary Guards are among 31 people killed in a suicide attack in south-eastern Iran.
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Iran condemned for youth hanging

Wednesday, August 20th 2008, 13:37

Amnesty International condemns the hanging in Iran of a youth for a crime committed when he was under 18 years old.
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Iran condemns Hollywood war epic

Tuesday, March 13th 2007, 14:43

Iranian government figures condemn Hollywood historical epic 300 as "psychological warfare" against the country.
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Iran condemns Johnston's kidnap

Sunday, May 13th 2007, 10:26

Iran condemns the kidnapping of the BBC's Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston.
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Iran condemns nuclear 'bullying'

Wednesday, February 1st 2006, 10:47

President Ahmadinejad says Iran will not give in to international pressure over its nuclear activities.
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Iran condemns Rushdie title

Sunday, June 17th 2007, 10:42
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

Iran's foreign ministry criticises Britain for giving a knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie.
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Iran condemns UN draft sanctions

Friday, March 16th 2007, 14:06

Iran's leader vows to continue his country's nuclear work as the UN drafts new sanctions over the programme.
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Iran condemns US Gulf exercises

Tuesday, October 24th 2006, 11:04
related countries: United States United States
related places: Gulf

Iran criticises planned US exercises in the Gulf, while Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls for Muslim unity.
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Iran confirms bird flu outbreak

Tuesday, February 14th 2006, 14:27

The first case of bird flu is detected in Iran, officials say, but it is unclear if it is the deadly H5N1 strain.
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Iran confirms election result

Monday, June 29th 2009, 23:05

Iran's top electoral body, the Guardian Council, confirms President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election.
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Iran confirms enrichment start

Tuesday, February 14th 2006, 10:46
related places: Natanz

Iran resumed enrichment of uranium at Natanz last week, a senior Iranian nuclear negotiator says.
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Iran confirms reporter detention

Tuesday, March 3rd 2009, 17:14
related countries: United States United States

An Iranian judiciary official confirms US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi is being held in prison, but gives no reason.
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Iran confirms US trio being held

Sunday, August 9th 2009, 14:25
related countries: United States United States

Iran has confirmed that it has detained three Americans thought to have strayed into its territory, a top US official says.
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Iran continues nuclear defiance

Thursday, May 31st 2007, 22:16

Iran's nuclear envoy reiterates his country's refusal to stop its nuclear programme after talks with EU officials.
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Iran court hears reporter appeal

Sunday, May 10th 2009, 17:20
related countries: United States United States
related places: Sunday

A court in Iran has heard an appeal from jailed US-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi, two days earlier than expected.
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Iran court reopens Kazemi case

Tuesday, November 27th 2007, 19:09
related countries: Canada Canada
related places: Kazemi

Iran's top court orders a new probe into the death of the Iranian-Canadian journalist, Zahra Kazemi, in 2003.
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Iran crackdown on Afghan migrants

Tuesday, May 22nd 2007, 14:32
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan, Pakistan Pakistan

Afghans and other foreigners must leave Iranian cities on the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials say.
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Iran criticised over nuclear deal

Friday, November 20th 2009, 16:57
related places: Tehran

The six major powers say they are disappointed with Iran's apparent rejection of a deal over its nuclear programme.
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Iran criticised over prison death

Wednesday, August 2nd 2006, 15:34
related countries: United States United States

The US and Amnesty International criticise Iran after a student activist on hunger strike dies in prison.
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Iran cuts support for Iraq groups

Friday, December 12th 2008, 11:43
related countries: Iraq Iraq, United States United States

US and Iraqi officials say there are signs that Iran has reduced its support for militant Shia groups in Iraq.
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Iran cuts trade ties with Denmark

Monday, February 6th 2006, 23:01
related countries: Denmark Denmark

The Iranian government cuts all trade ties with Denmark in protest at the cartoons satirising Prophet Muhammad.
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Iran deal 'full of opportunities'

Sunday, June 15th 2008, 12:19

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana says a package offered to Iran to halt uranium enrichment is "full of opportunities".
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Iran deal 'may allow enrichment'

Wednesday, June 7th 2006, 13:15

The West's nuclear offer to Iran may allow it to enrich uranium in the future, diplomats say.
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