Iran ‘sponsors terror’, has ‘no shame’: Saudi

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Iran ‘sponsors terror’, has ‘no shame’: Saudi

Riyadh (AFP) – Saudi Arabia accused Iran of sponsoring terror and undermining regional stability, as a diplomatic spat between both countries escalated Saturday over the kingdom’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.

“The Iranian regime is the last regime in the world that could accuse others of supporting terrorism, considering that (Iran) is a state that sponsors terror, and is condemned by the United Nations and many countries,” said a foreign ministry spokesman in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

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White House: more time needed for new Iran missile sanctions

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White House: more time needed for new Iran missile sanctions

BY JEFF MASON

HONOLULU (Reuters) – The White House expects Iran to finish work needed to trigger implementation of an international nuclear deal in the coming weeks, but Washington needs more time to prepare sanctions over its ballistic missile program, a U.S. official said on Saturday.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fire rockets near US warships – US

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fire rockets near US warships – US

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London, 30 Dec – Iranian Revolutionary Guards ships launched rockets near the US aircraft-carrier Harry s. Truman and other coalition warships on 26 December, according to a US official who called that action “unsafe”. It said Iran gave very short notice before the tests.

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Swine flu kills 112 in Iran since November

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Swine flu kills 112 in Iran since November

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London, 29 Dec – Deaths from a swine flu outbreak in Iran have more than tripled in the past three weeks to at least 112, Agence France-Presse said Monday, quoting Iranian state media.

Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, head of the Health Ministry’s communicable diseases department, was quoted as saying the outbreak, which began in November, was under control and likely to diminish in coming days.

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Maryam Rajavi: United Muslims and Christians can defeat extremists

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Maryam Rajavi: United Muslims and Christians can defeat extremists

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Paris, 24 Dec – Muslims and Christians can rely on their “common values” to stand up to extremists who “pervert their religions”, Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi said in a Christmas message on Thursday.

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Iran: Big Oil Partners with Theocratic Regime

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Iran: Big Oil Partners with Theocratic Regime

By Hamid Yazdan Panah

Iran’s status an energy superpower has been a blessing and curse. From the days of the Anglo Iranian oil company to the coup against Mossadegh in 1953, it is impossible to remove oil from the political equation in Iran. It should come as no surprise that Iranian oil has factored in extensively in Western negotiations with the regime in Tehran. 

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Spanish MPs rip Iran’s human rights abuses

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Spanish MPs rip Iran’s human rights abuses

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London, 20 Dec – A group of 35 Members of Parliament and Senators from Spain have signed a statement expressing their “deep concern” over “the terrible situation of human rights in Iran,” it was reported over the weekend.

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Iran hangs 3 political prisoners – opposition

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Iran hangs 3 political prisoners – opposition

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Tehran, 20 Dec – Iranian authorities on Saturday hanged three political prisoners in a prison in the south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, the main Iranian opposition coalition reported.

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Iran impounds tens of thousands of cars for women’s mal-veiling

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Iran impounds tens of thousands of cars for women’s mal-veiling

Iran has impounded tens of thousands of cars since March because women inside the vehicles had not properly covered their hair with a headscarf, Tehran’s traffic police said Tuesday.

“Over the past eight months, more than 40,000 cases of bad hijab [headscarf] have been dealt with”, said Brig. Gen. Teymour Hosseini, quoted by the state-run ISNA news agency.

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Russia rejects Iran claim of Putin-Soleimani meeting

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Russia rejects Iran claim of Putin-Soleimani meeting

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London, 17 Dec – Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday the commander of foreign operations for Tehran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) had met Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, but a Kremlin spokesman flatly denied the report.

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