Iran says won’t renegotiate 1975 Iraq border pact

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Reuters: Iran said on Sunday it would not renegotiate a 1975 border treaty with Iraq after the Iraqi president caused a political stir in December by saying the treaty was void, a statement he later retracted.

Iran leader’s Iraq visit eclipses US, Arab ties

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Reuters: Pomp and ceremony greeted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his arrival in Iraq on Sunday, the fanfare a stark contrast to the rushed and secretive visits of his bitter rival U.S. President George W. Bush.

Iran to buy 100 Russian Topolov-204 and 214 planes

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 02 – Iran is set to purchase 100 Russian Topolov-204 and Topolov-214 planes over the next 10 years, state media reported.

Iran’s Ahmadinejad arrives in Baghdad

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AFP: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday at the start of a two-day visit to Iraq that the trip opened a “new page” in relations between the Muslim neighbours and in the region.

Ahmadinejad heads to Iraq as Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs visits

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New York Times: Army and police checkpoints dotted the Iraqi capital on Saturday in preparation for a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, which will coincide with a visit by the chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Iran faces IAEA pressure over nuclear intelligence

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Reuters: Iran faces pressure at a U.N. nuclear watchdog governors meeting starting on Monday to address Western intelligence alleging it conducted covert studies into how to make nuclear weapons.

Khomeini’s grandson quits Iran race after slurs: report

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AFP: A grandson of Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has withdrawn from next week’s parliamentary polls amid a smear campaign, the press reported on Sunday.

West seeks pretexts to use against Iran: Ahmadinejad

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Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in remarks published on Sunday that some Western countries were using Iran’s nuclear activity as a pretext to pressure his country.

U.N. says Iran may not have come clean on nuclear past

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Washington Post: Iranian documents obtained by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog strongly suggest that Iran was working on a nuclear weapons design as recently as four years ago, U.N. officials disclosed last week in a private briefing.

‘Stop exporting terror,’ Bush tells Ahmadinejad

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AFP: US President George W. Bush on Saturday told his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he must “stop exporting terror” on the eve of the Iranian leader’s first visit to Iraq.