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Source: RIA Novosti October 19, 2010 DEAUVILLE – Russia, France and Germany plan to encourage Iran to begin full-fledged cooperation, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at talks in Deauville, France, on Tuesday. “This discussion shows that we look at many issues in the same way. This gives us an opportunity to coordinate our positions and [...]
Source: Agence France Presse (AFP) October 21, 2010 DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates has opened a naval base on its east coast as part of efforts to secure its ability to export oil in the event Iran closes the strategic Strait of Hormuz, local media said on Thursday. Almost all oil exports from OPEC’s [...]
Source: United Press International (UPI) October 21, 2010 WASHINGTON — OPEC has been called on to make sure Iran plays “a more constructive role in the region” when it takes over the presidency, the U.S. State Department said. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries during their regular meeting in Vienna last week said [...]
Source: Agence France Presse (AFP) October 21, 2010 BERLIN — German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Thursday that two Germans arrested in Iran who reportedly interviewed the son of a woman sentenced to death by stoning were “doing well under the circumstances”. Westerwelle told reporters that the Germans, who have been detained since October 10, [...]
The US drive to isolate Tehran is unrelenting but there is little evidence Iran’s leadership will change its ways By Simon Tisdall Source: Guardian October 21, 2010 The US is quietly ratcheting up economic and financial pressure on Iran amid signs that talks about Tehran’s suspect nuclear programme could resume next month. These two developments [...]
Source: Xinhua October 21, 2010 Tehran — Iran and Venezuela urged for new global order whereby changes could be brought about to the world, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. During a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that both Iran and Venezuela are “determined for [...]
Source: The Associated Press (AP)/The Washington Post October 21, 2010 LOS ANGELES — A California businessman who spent more than two years in an Iranian prison after being accused of passing money to a rebel group is returning home. Seventy-one-year-old Reza Taghavi is due at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday night where he will [...]
A top Turkish official says in the U.S. that Turkish firms are ‘free to make their own decisions’ about complying with sanctions aimed at cutting off trade with Iran over its nuclear program. By Paul Richter Source: Los Angeles Times October 21, 2010 Reporting from Washington — Turkey has rebuffed a U.S. effort to persuade [...]
Three Iranian football players are facing jail for kissing a woman fan in the Islamic state where physical contact between unrelated men and women is legally forbidden. Source: Telegraph October 20, 2010 Under Iran’s Islamic Sharia law, imposed since the 1979 Islamic revolution, violators of the law can be sentenced to lashes, fines or imprisonment. [...]
