Iran eyes improved missile capability

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Reuters: Iran said on Wednesday it would keep improving its missile capability after announcing that the latest version of its medium-range Shahab-3 could now hit targets up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles) away.
The Islamic Republic’s growing missile range, which now stretches to parts of southeastern Europe, comes at a time …
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Young men flogged in public in Isfahan

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 6 – Three young men were flogged in public yesterday afternoon in Farah-Abad Square in the city of Isfahan.
No reason was given as to why the three men were flogged.
Security forces have recently launched a new clampdown on youth and women in Isfahan …
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Iran rejects IAEA nuclear demands, says ready for confrontation or talks

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AFP: Iran will not cede to international demands that it suspend all activities related to the enrichment of uranium and the country is prepared for both confrontation or negotiations, the Islamic republic’s top national security official said. “We have said clearly that we will not apply the second part of the resolution concerning the total suspension of enrichment,” …
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Iran Converts Uranium Into Gas

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AP: Iran has converted a few tons of raw uranium into hexafluoride gas needed for enrichment, a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons, a top nuclear official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Uranium hexafluoride gas is the material that, in the next
stage, is fed into centrifuges used to enrich uranium.
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UN Atomic Experts Back in Iran to Test Bomb Claims

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Reuters: U.N. atomic inspectors returned to Iran Tuesday and will be free to visit a disputed military site in their investigation of U.S. allegations that Iran is seeking nuclear warheads, state television reported.
U.S. officials have accused Tehran of concealing parts of a clandestine atomic bomb program at Parchin military base southeast of Tehran …
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U.S. says no chance of Iran nuke bargain

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Reuters: The United States sees no reason to offer Iran incentives to ensure its nuclear programme remains peaceful, a U.S. government official said on Tuesday.
European states want the United States to make such proposals to Tehran after the November 2 U.S. presidential election …
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Iran’s Missiles Can Now Hit Europe, Rafsanjani Says

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Washington Post: Iran has increased the range of its missiles to
1,250 miles, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Tuesday, putting parts of Europe within reach for the first time.
Military analysts had estimated Iran’s missile range at 810 miles, which would allow it to strike anywhere in Israel. But Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Ali Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani, the country’s influential former president and the
head of a government oversight body, as saying: …
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Iran missiles pose grave threat: US

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AFP: The US said today that Iran’s missile program is a serious threat to the Middle East and US interests which is compounded significantly by its alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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Iran parliament begins push for resumption of uranium enrichment

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AFP: A committee of Iran’s hardline-dominated parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill that would force the reformist government to resume uranium enrichment in defiance of the UN nuclear watchdog.
State news agency IRNA said the bill was was approved by the foreign affairs and national security committee.
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Iran says its missiles have a range of 2,000 kilometers

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AP: Iran said Tuesday its missiles now have a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), a substantial extension of their previously declared range.
“Today we have the power to fire missiles to a range of 2,000 kilometers,” former President Hashemi Rafsanjani said, according to a report by the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
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