Gulf of mistrust

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ImageThe Times: The principal foreign policy challenge of 2010 will be to deal with an Iranian regime that destabilises its neighbours and suppresses its dissidents

Briton Moore spent part of captivity in Iran: U.S.

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ImageReuters: British computer programer Peter Moore, freed this week 2-1/2 years after his kidnapping in Iraq, spent at least part of his captivity in Iran, according to U.S. intelligence assessments.

Gordon Brown to ask Iran to stop Taliban support

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ImageDaily Telegraph: Gordon Brown will make a personal appeal to Iran over Afghanistan, asking the Iranian regime to cut off military support to the Taliban.

The world must neutralise Tehran’s toxic threat

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ImageThe Times: Iran’s aggression, whether through its pursuit of the bomb or its sponsoring of terror, has to be met with sanctions that bite

Iran’s Mousavi calls for end to crackdown

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ImageAFP: Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi urged the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to halt its crackdown on his supporters to enable a way out of the "crisis," his website reported on Friday.

Calls for end of trade with Iran

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ImagePA: Peers and MPs from across the political spectrum have declared their solidarity with "the brave millions of Iranians" demanding regime change.

General Petraeus ‘absolutely certain’ that Peter Moore was held in Iran

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ImageThe Times: The former US commander in Iraq is “absolutely certain” that Peter Moore was held secretly in Iran for part of his 31-month kidnap ordeal.

Iran Government stages rallies as Mousavi’s nephew is quietly buried

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ImageThe Times: Iran’s beleaguered regime sought to bolster its support with stage-managed rallies in several cities yesterday and said last night that the leaders of the opposition had fled Tehran because they were scared of the people’s anger. The claim was swiftly denied.

U.N. rights chief urges Iran to curb police excesses

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ImageReuters: United Nations Human Rights chief Navi Pillay on Wednesday called on the Tehran government to curb excess use of force by its security services and expressed shock over violence in Iran over the past few days.

Iran police still holding 300 over Sunday protests

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ImageAFP: Iranian police said on Wednesday that they are still holding 300 of the 500 "rioters" they arrested at the weekend when opposition supporters staged protests during a Shiite religious commemoration.