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		<title>Ingersoll Bars Units From Sales to Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Move Follows Similar Curbs Put in Place by Other Large Firms Amid Pressure From U.S. Goverment
By Kris Maher and Jay Solomon
Source: The Wall Street Journal
March 10, 2010
Ingersoll-Rand PLC said it has prohibited its subsidiaries from selling products to customers in Iran.
The move by the industrial-parts maker is part of an accelerating trend among major Western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Iranian-built destroyer, Jamaran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 10, 2010
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(Reuters) First Iranian-built destroyer launched in Gulf. Iranian state television said the first Iranian-built destroyer was launched on Friday in a ceremony attended by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.



(AOL News) Feb. 19 &#8212; Some Doubts Iran&#8217;s Boasts Over New Destroyer. In the midst of a diplomatic standoff over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/11954</link>
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		<title>Poetess Simin Behbahani Stopped at the Airport</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
March 9, 2010
Simin Behbahani was prevented from leaving for France for International Women’s Day ceremonies.
RAHANA – “Paris municipality had invited me for March 8 and I had prepared a text about feminism and a poem about women which I was going to read at the ceremony and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/11945</link>
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		<title>Iranians get lessons in love and marriage from the government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iranians seeking to marry their love of their lives will soon have to earn official qualifications from the government before they are allowed to pop the question.
Source: Telegraph
10 March 2010
Men and women who want to enter into matrimony will have to undergo a    three-month course of prenuptial training, for which they will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/11943</link>
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		<title>Google Welcomes U.S. Easing Of Internet Export Rules For Iran, Others</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
March 9, 2010
Internet giant Google has welcomed a U.S. decision to relax restrictions that have prevented U.S. companies from exporting Internet services and software to Iran, Cuba, and Sudan.
The U.S. Treasury Department eased the sanctions on March 8, allowing U.S. companies to export services to those countries that are related [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/11937</link>
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		<title>Turkish PM against Iran sanctions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Al Jazeera
March 9, 2010
Recep Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, has cautioned against further UN Security Council sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme during a visit to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that any further sanctions will yield results,&#8221; Erdogan told journalists, adding that earlier rounds of sanctions &#8221;have never yielded results.&#8221;
Turkey, which has good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/11934</link>
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		<title>Iranian Activists To Be Awarded Human Rights Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
March 9, 2010
It&#8217;s rare to have Iran-related news coming out of Prague, but here&#8217;s an encouraging one for all those fighting for more rights and democracy inside the country.
Two activists and representatives of Iran&#8217;s student movement, Abdollah Momeni and Majid Tavakoli, are this year&#8217;s recipients of the Homo Homini Award, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/11930</link>
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		<title>&#8230;When Ahmadinejad looks into our eyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Masih Alinejad for Planet Iran
March 9, 2010
In his recent press conference, Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once again looked straight into the eyes of journalists and denied reality. As Mir-Hossein Mousavi would put it, “Ahmadinejad can look right into the cameras and tell big lies without batting an eyelash.”
During a press conference with the international [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/11921</link>
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		<title>Stand Up for Iran’s Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui
Source: Khaleej Times
8 March 2010
Today is International Women’s Day: a day to celebrate the achievements in the promotion of women’s rights globally and to commit to advance them further. This is a day when at Amnesty International we seek to reinforce our work with local and international partners to end violence against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/11917</link>
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		<title>Iran Parliament Approves Ahmadinejad Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Reuters and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
March 8, 2010

TEHRAN &#8212; Iran&#8217;s parliament approved President Mahmud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s 2010/11 budget today, state radio reported, but some lawmakers attacked the plan, saying planned cuts in subsidies could spark runaway inflation.
&#8220;It was approved,&#8221; speaker Ali Larijani said. The Mehr news agency said 151 deputies out of 290 approved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/11912</link>
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