Iraqi Interior Minister: Armed Iranian fighters arrested in Samarra

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Iran Focus: Baghdad, Oct. 4 – The Interim Iraqi Interior Minister stated that armed Iranian agents have been arrested among rebels fighting in the city of Samarra. The Al-Hurriya TV aired footage of Falah Naqib who accused Iran of backing insurgents in this presently volatile region of Iraq.
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Iraqi Interior Minister: Armed Iranian fighters arrested in Samarra

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Iran Focus: Baghdad, Oct. 4 – The Interim Iraqi Interior Minister stated that armed Iranian agents have been arrested among rebels fighting in the city of Samarra. The Al-Hurriya TV aired footage of Falah Naqib who accused Iran of backing insurgents in this presently volatile region of Iraq.
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Iran may halt snap nuclear inspection if parliament approves: official

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Xinhuanet: Iran said on Sunday that it might halt snap UN inspections on its nuclear sites if its parliament approved it,
the official IRNA news agency reported. “If the Majlis (parliament) passes the bill like that and it is approved by the Guardian Council, the government will naturally follow it,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi was quoted
as saying.
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Iran, Pakistan and nukes

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Washington Times: The International AtomicEnergy Agency (IAEA) is currently investigating Iran’s nuclear program, especially the possibility that Pakistan helped it with substantial transfers of technology and materials in the past. There has been no conclusive evidence so far, except for a piece of evidence that Pakistan had supplied designs for an advanced centrifuge called P-2 to Iran in 1995.
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Iran’s hardline parliament supports resuming uranium enrichment

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AFP: A huge majority of MPs in Iran’s conservative-controlled parliament wants the country to resume uranium enrichment and will soon begin discussing a bill that would force the reformist government to do so, a senior deputy said Sunday.
“The plan to oblige the government to resume enrichment has the support of 238 deputies” out of a total 290 …
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Iran’s Parliament Impeaches Transport Minister

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VOA News: Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament has impeached the country’s transport minister, accusing him of corruption and mismanagement.
Ahmad Khorram was stripped of his post in President Mohammed Khatami’s reformist government Sunday by a
vote of 188 to 58.
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Twenty killed as bus crashes in Iran

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AFP: Twenty people were killed and 21 others injured when a bus packed with Iraqi nationals on a pilgrimage to Iran collided with a truck in the northeast of the Islamic republic, press reports said on Sunday. According to the Iran newspaper, all or most of the dead and injured were Iraqis.
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Iran Rejects Kerry Nuclear Proposal

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Reuters: Iran on Sunday rejected a proposal by U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry who has suggested supplying the Islamic state with nuclear fuel for power reactors if Tehran agrees to give up its own fuel-making capability.
Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said it would be “irrational” for Iran to put its nuclear program in jeopardy by relying on supplies from abroad.
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Two Iranian smugglers sentenced to death

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AP: Two Iranians have been sentenced to death for smuggling thousands of antiques to the United States, Europe and Asia, State-run Tehran radio reported Saturday.
Hossein Marashi, Iran’s head of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization, said the men smuggled unique antiques found in Jiroft, the site of an ancient civilization dating back about 5,000 years in southern Iran’s Kerman province, out of the country.
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Top US official slams Germany over trade with Iran

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AFP: The top US official for arms control, John Bolton, sharply criticized Germany for trading with Iran, which Washington suspects of covertly developing nuclear weapons, in remarks published this weekend.
“I can only speak from the American perspective. We do not trade with countries that seek to breach international nuclear agreements …”
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