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IRAN: Khamenei delivers fiery message, without hint of compromise, to Obama administration
Babylon & BeyondIran's supreme leader delivered a fiery speech Wednesday in a meeting with supporters in the city of Tabriz, offering not a single hint that the country was ready to make a deal with the United States over its nuclear program,...... -
IRAN: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says nuclear program aimed at 'awakening the spirit' of Muslim world
Babylon & BeyondIran's top leader said his nation's nuclear program was not aimed at making weapons but at bolstering the spirit of the Islamic world. "We only seek to awaken the spirit of dignity in the whole of the Muslim community," Ayatollah...... -
IRAN: Police chief's expanded brief includes fighting in trenches of ideological war
Babylon & BeyondMost police officials around the world prefer to stay aloof of politics, concentrating their attention on mundane matters of law enforcement and insisting on their integrity, in the face of pressures from City Hall or partisan interests. Not so in...... -
IRAN: Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi challenges hard-line authorities to a duel of rallies
Babylon & BeyondIn his first major comments since the opposition failed to gather large numbers of supporters for protests coinciding with the Feb. 11 anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi on Monday issued a bold challenge... -
IRAN: Rafsanjani condemns 'spiraling wave of sedition' against supreme leader
Babylon & BeyondOver the last few days, Babylon & Beyond has chronicled the political journey of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful cleric and erstwhile supporter of the nation's opposition movement who appeared to be shifting his political... -
IRAN: Opposition leader Mousavi calls upcoming year one of 'patience and endurance'
Babylon & BeyondIranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi declared the upcoming Persian calendar year one of "patience and endurance" for the opposition movement in an attempt to lift the sagging spirits of his supporters and prepare them for a long-term contest... -
IRAN: Ahmadinejad, fighting parliament, proposes referendum to control billions of dollars
Babylon & BeyondIranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is locked in a dispute with parliament over his economic plan, which would drastically cut subsidies in an effort to save $40 billion and make Iranians' economic life harder in the face of tough sanctions proposed....... -
IRAN: Tehran's unveiling of new air defense system seen as a warning to the West
Babylon & BeyondIran unveiled a new "homemade" missile defense system on Sunday that its defense minister claims is capable of destroying "advanced airplanes flying at low and medium altitudes" in a show of force that can easily be read as a warning...... -
Why Iran 'meddles' in Iraq
ADAM SHATZ is literary editor of the Nation.THIS TIME AROUND, when the Bush administration presented "intelligence" from unidentified sources about a dangerous foe in the Middle East, the American media was noticeably more skeptical. Eager to redeem themselves for the generally obsequious reporting...Tags: National Government, Religious Conflicts, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Heads of State, Defense Equipment
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If Obama gambit works, Tehran's hard-liners would suffer, Iranian says
The U.S. government is pursuing a high-stakes gambit to improve relations with Iran, with President Obama delivering a conciliatory speech last month and later dispatching deputies to two international conferences in an attempt to find common ground...Tags: Government, Nuclear Policy, Tehran (Iran), National Government, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Police detain 49 for "satanic" clothes
Police have arrested 49 people this week in a northern Iranian city during a crackdown on "satanic" clothes, IRNA news agency reported Thursday. The measures are the latest in a country-wide campaign against Western cultural influence in the Islamic...Tags: Iran, Eyewear, Culture, Arts and Culture
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Nuclear ambitions pose predicament
Despite President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's congratulations to Obama last week—the first such gesture from an Iranian leader since the 1979 Islamic Revolution—Iran's nuclear ambitions promise to be as big a predicament for the incoming...Tags: Government, Barack Obama, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Petroleum Industry
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