China’s FM to visit Iran, discuss nuclear issue

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Reuters: Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, deeply involved in efforts to end the North Korean nuclear standoff, will visit Iran later this week and discuss the Islamic republic’s own nuclear crisis.
The United States accuses Iran of seeking to build nuclear bombs. It wants the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report it at a Nov. 25 meeting to the U.N. Security Council for defying the watchdog’s demands to halt uranium enrichment.

Iranian press says Bush win a victory for violence

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AFP: The Iranian press on Thursday derided US President George W. Bush’s re-election as a victory for violence on the 25th anniversary of the storming of the former American embassy in Tehran.

Iran and EU hold last-chance meeting on Tehran’s nuclear program

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AFP: Iran and the EU continue last-chance talks in Paris Friday with both sides seeking compromise over Europe’s call for the Islamic Republic to suspend uranium enrichment in order to allay US-led concerns it is secretly developing nuclear weapons. The European Union is no longer explicitly calling
for an indefinite suspension of Iran’s uranium enrichment …

US attack on Iran is ‘inconceivable’: Britain’s Straw

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AFP: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday it was “inconceivable” that the United States would attack Iran over its nuclear programme and that the world would back such action. “I don’t see any circumstances in which military action would be justified against Iran full stop,” Straw told BBC radio.

Iranians Express Ire at Bush

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Washington Post: George Bush may have triumphed at home, but he was burned in effigy again and again in Iran Wednesday. Officially, the angry street demonstration marked the 25th anniversary of the student takeover of the old U.S. Embassy, when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days. But
unlike past commemorations, this one focused just as much on the future — and the potential for another showdown with
the United States during Bush’s second term.

Protests, Flag Burning Mark 1979 Embassy Seizure In Iran

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Associated Press: Students burned American flags and
effigies of President George W. Bush on Wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, while a top Iranian official accused Washington of undermining his country’s goodwill gestures.

Iran can make the bomb, but doesn’t want to: Iranian official

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AFP: Iran has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons but does not intend doing so, a senior Iranian official said here Wednesday. “We do not intend making nuclear weapons,”
said Ali Akbar Soltan, deputy director-general of Iran’s foreign ministry political department.

Indian Oil signs preliminary pact on proposal to develop Iran gasfield

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AFP: Leading state-run refiner Indian Oil Corp (IOC) said Wednesday it has signed an agreement to put forward a joint proposal to develop a gasfield in Iran, a project estimated to cost three billion dollars. The memorandum of understanding was signed Monday with Petropars, a unit of the National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC), said an IOC spokesman. The two firms will draw up a joint proposal for exploiting the gasfield and setting up liquefied natural gas liquefaction facilities.

Iran: children and nukes

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The Jerusalem Post: While the world is busy contemplating
the appropriate response to the looming Iranian nuclear threat – be it a European grand bargain, a covert operation, or a sophisticated military assault – life in Teheran appears to be running its normal course: celebrating uranium enrichment, developing a longer-range Shihab-3 missile and, of course, promoting the rule of law.

In major compromise EU softens demand on Iran for uranium enrichment suspension

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AFP: The European Union is no longer explicitly calling for an indefinite suspension of Iran’s uranium enrichment, diplomats said here Tuesday, outlining a compromise proposal ahead
of a crucial meeting with the Iranians on their nuclear programme. The diplomats said ambassadors from Britain, France and Germany were Tuesday to hand over in Tehran the EU’s written offer, ahead of a scheduled meeting with Iran in Paris on Friday on Europe’s request for Iran to halt uranium enrichment, which can be used to make nuclear weapons.