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Iran expects Obama to make real change: Larijani

Tehran Times - IranTEHRAN - Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Saturday that Iran expects US President-elect Barack Obama to make a “strategic revision” of US policy. ...

Will Iran acquire a nuclear bomb with Barack Obama as US president?

Telegraph.co.uk - United KingdomIf America ever goes to war with Iran, Mustapha Attaee will find himself uncomfortably close to the frontline. Just a few miles from the 42-year-old ...

Iran speaker criticizes Obama's nuclear remarks

Reuters Canada - Toronto,Ontario,CanadaTEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's head of parliament on Saturday criticized US President-elect Barack Obama for saying its development of a nuclear weapon would be ...

President: Iran tourism industry must develop

Mathaba.Net - London,UKAddressing 2nd International Conference on Investment Opportunities in Iran's tourism industry, he said the Islamic Republic of Iran warmly welcomes ...

Solana: Iran`s questions regarding 5+1 countries` proposals ...

Mathaba.Net - London,UKJalili had in the letter meanwhile referred to the constructive policies pursued by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the course of the negotiations with the ...

Iranian Expediency Council Deprived from Supervision Power over ...

Trend News Agency - Baku,Azerbaijan... Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election in Iran in 2005. According to Rafsanjani, control at request of Khamenei over this document was conducted unseriously. ...

Obama's first step: a stimulus package

Seattle Times - United StatesAddressing issues as varied as Iran and his family's search for a suitable dog for the White House, he took care to thank Bush for his warm remarks upon his ...

Iran blasts Obama's nuclear criticism

CNN - USA... but "you should know that you cannot prevent the Islamic Republic (from reaching its goals in the nuclear field)," according to the news agency. ...

Ex-spy talks of Iran role in South America

Tehran Times - Iran@H= Iran has successfully established a strategic foothold in Latin America at the expense of the United States, claims a former CIA official. ...

Iran slams Obama's tough language on nuclear arms

The Associated PressTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran criticized President-elect Barack Obama for the first time Saturday, saying the world needs more than cosmetic changes in American ...

Iran’s arms open to tourism investment: president

Tehran Times - Iran“The Islamic Republic of Iran has a deep culture and rich civilization and this magnificent culture belongs to all humanity.”

Mideast Quartet gathers in EgyptThe Quartet of Middle East mediators meets in Egypt despite no sign of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal being reachable soon.

Iranian Economists Slam Ahmadinejad's `Tension-Creating' PolicyBloomberg - USA9 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's foreign and domestic policies are exacerbating the country's economic troubles in a time of ...
ANALYSIS-Iraqi leaders welcome Obama but assert themselvesReuters - USAThe prospect of a new US relationship with the wider Middle East, especially Iran, could also smooth out the remaining months of a six-year-old military ...
Iranian economists criticize AhmadinejadJerusalem Post - IsraelThe economists also criticized Ahmadinejad for Iran's 30 percent inflation rate. The letter was the third one from economists to Ahmadinejad. ...

Iran tightens rules for presidential candidatesAfricasia - London,UKOnly seven men were allowed to compete for the post in 2005, when Ahmadinejad beat former president and influential cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. ...

Iranian economists criticize AhmadinejadThe Associated PressTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian newspapers are reporting that 60 economists criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his economic policies. ...

Iran tightens rules for presidential candidatesAFP... did not set age limits or the need for a diploma. Applicants must be Iranian citizens, loyal to the Islamic republic and be Shiite Muslims, the law says.

Iran bans weekly critical of President AhmadinejadReuters India - Mumbai,IndiaTEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has closed down a prominent reformist weekly which has often criticised the policies of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ...

Obama will bring changes in Iran policies, hopes LarijaniNDTV.com - New Delhi,IndiaSenior Iranian leader and parliament speaker Ali Larijani has said he believes US president-elect Barack Obama would bring "strategic change" in ...
ELECTION 2008: The Challenge of ChangeAtlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USAWITH IRAN suspected of seeking nuclear weapons, how will the United States engage with Tehran? You don’t negotiate with people because you like them or you ...

Britain should talk to Iran - CleggThe Press AssociationBritain must be ready to talk to Iran and the Taliban to find lasting resolutions to conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg ...

A gaffe and laugh at Obama's first presserTimes of India - IndiaObviously, how we approach and deal with a country like Iran is not something that we should, you know, simply do in a knee- jerk fashion," he added, ...
Tehran, Madrid trying to improve level of bilateral tiesMathaba.Net - London,UKAccording to IRNA correspondent in Madrid, Islamic Republic of Iran's Ambassador to Spain, Seyyed Davoud Salehi, in a meeting with Spain's Consultant ...

Show Me the MoneyNew York Times - United StatesFor now, though, his biography, demeanor and willingness to at least test a regime like Iran’s with diplomacy makes him more difficult to demonize than ...

IRAN & US, "A NEW BEGINNING?"Persian Journal - IranFor the first time in history of Iran after the so-called Islamic Revolution in 1979, a president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent congratulations ...

Hellenes of the Middle EastSpero News - USAIn the 1930s, Iran's moderniszng king, Reza Shah - impressed by Kemal Ataturk's forced secularisation policy in Turkey - was pushing through a number of ...

Bush should forget about attacking IranArizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USABush shouldn't take military action against Iran. It was widely speculated that the Bush administration might act in this transition period to try to ...

Latest in Iran Sanctions: No U-TurnCounterterrorism Blog - Medford,NJ,USABy Matthew Levitt In the first letter of its kind from an Iranian leader to an American president elect since the Iranian revolution, Iranian President ...

Gideon Levy / Let's hope Obama won't be a 'friend of Israel'Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,IsraelThe black man, who had associated with Palestinian expats, who speaks of human rights, who favors diplomacy over war, who even wants to engage Iran in ...

US, EU officials meet with Arab representatives on IranJerusalem Post - IsraelBy AP US and European representatives on Sunday met with representatives from Arab countries worried about Iran's influence in the Mideast, ...
FEATURE: With Obama at helm, Iranian threat looms larIsrael Today - Jerusalem,IsraelWith President-elect Barack Obama ready to assume power in the most powerful nation on earth, Israel faces the grave prospect of a nuclear Iran. ...
Latest News : Iran may replace Hinduja-led consortium with Chinese ...Tehran Times - IranIran has threatened to call off talks with Ashok Leyland Project Services Ltd and sign a contract with a Chinese firm to build a rail link in that country ...

Iran Challenges Obama by Hiking Tensions on Israel’s BordersDEBKA file - Jerusalem,Israel7, that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons was “unacceptable” and its support for terrorist organizations “must cease.” He ducked a reporter’s question about ...
Challenge of our lifetime!Gulf Daily News - Manama,BahrainSeparately, Obama said Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons was "unacceptable" and the Islamic Republic must stop supporting "terrorist organisations". ...