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Iran Threatens Use of Force TEHRAN -- IRAN has threatened to use force against its "enemies" to defend its nuclear drive. "For them, subjects like the nuclear issue are pretexts. The key reason for the hostility of the enemies in the past 30 years against Iran is that they want us to pull back so that they can say we have given in," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on state television on Friday. more By The Sun-Herald

Iran Tests Naval Weapon with 300km Range Iran's Revolutionary Guards are claiming they have tested a naval weapon that would destroy any vessel in range of 300 kilometres, Fars News Agency reported. more By Reuters Two Nations that Hold the Key to Middle East Peace Not so long ago, a top-level meeting between Syria and Iran, two members of America's "axis of evil", would have caused alarm in western capitals. It is a testament to how dramatically the political situation has changed in the Middle East in recent months that some in the West regarded the weekend's visit of the Syrian President, Basher al-Assad, to Tehran as a potentially positive development. more By Independent At least 14 million Iranians live below the poverty line, according to a central bank report quoted by the media. The central bank figures, published in the reformist newspaper Sarmayeh, represent one in five of Iran's 70 million population. By ninemsn.com >Read the Article