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Iran turns heat on Britain ahead of key meeting in London

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 26 – Iran’s senior officials and state-run media kept up a barrage of propaganda against the British government ahead of the meeting in London on Monday of the foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany to discuss joint action on the Iranian nuclear stand-off.

Iran trumpets Hamas victory in Palestinian elections

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 26 – Iran trumpeted on Thursday the victory of the Islamist group Hamas in the Palestinian elections as a vote by the people to “resist the Zionist regime”, the official state-run news agency reported on Thursday.

Iran trumpets Hamas victory in Palestinian elections

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 26 – Iran trumpeted on Thursday the victory of the Islamist group Hamas in the Palestinian elections as a vote by the people to “resist the Zionist regime”, the official state-run news agency reported on Thursday.

China opposes sanctions to resolve Iran dispute

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Reuters: China opposes sanctions against Iran’s nuclear ambitions and urges countries to consider a Russian compromise, a Chinese spokesman said on Thursday, as Tehran’s nuclear negotiator held talks in Beijing.

US warns India to back Iran UN referral or lose nuclear deal

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Financial Times: Washington yesterday raised the stakes in the confrontation over Iran when it warned India that Delhi’s own nuclear deal with the US could be ditched if the Indian government did not vote to refer Tehran to the United Nations Security Council.

US warns India to back Iran UN referral or lose nuclear deal

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Financial Times: Washington yesterday raised the stakes in the confrontation over Iran when it warned India that Delhi’s own nuclear deal with the US could be ditched if the Indian government did not vote to refer Tehran to the United Nations Security Council.

U.S. repeats claim of support against Iran

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AP: The Bush administration renewed its claim Wednesday that the United States and European allies have enough support from other countries to take Iran before the U.N. Security Council but also indicated some key nations have not committed to that course.

British arrests of police strain relations in Basra

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Los Angeles Times: Tensions continued to simmer Wednesday between local Iraqi officials and British troops in the Shiite-dominated southern city of Basra, where the British this week arrested 14 law enforcement officials, including two senior police intelligence officers, allegedly linked to political corruption and assassinations.

Blair says Iran claim that U.K. backed bombing is `ludicrous’

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Bloomberg: Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected Iranian claims that British soldiers were involved in two bombings that killed at least nine people in the city of Ahvaz, describing the accusation as “ludicrous.”

Iran’s chief justice rips Chirac’s nuke warning

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 25 – Iran’s top Islamic judge said on Wednesday that the European Union was losing ground in its push to refer the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program to the United Nations Security Council after French President Jacques Chirac threatened that France might use its nuclear might to respond to a major terror attack on its soil.