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Iran Gets New President Amid Tension With the West

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Washington Post: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the conservative son of a blacksmith, became Iran’s president yesterday in the midst of the biggest confrontation with the West since the seizure of the U.S. Embassy a quarter of a century ago, this time over Tehran’s long-term nuclear ambitions.

Can eurocrats stop the Iranian bomb?

Washington Times – EDITORIAL: As the new Iranian president prepares to be sworn into office, the Islamist regime in Tehran has been stepping up its campaign of threats and brinksmanship directed at the European Union.

U.S. calls Iran backtracking on nuke threat positive

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Reuters: The United States welcomed news Iran had backed away from a threat to restart work at a uranium conversion plant on Wednesday, a move that averted an immediate crisis over the Islamic republic’s nuclear program. Faced with repeated warnings in recent days from the West not to resume nuclear fuel activities, Iran said it now hoped to do so by early next week.

Iranian hardline weekly seeks ‘martyrs’

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AFP: An advertisement appeared in a conservative-radical Iranian weekly Wednesday seeking people to register for “martyrdom seeking operations” against Islam’s foes. “Central command of martyrdom lovers is to prepare one division from every province among the martyrdom seekers to receive specialized training, making them ready against the enemies of Islam and the sacred regime of the Islamic republic,” the advertisement in Parto Shokhan (Light of speech) read.

11 die in northwest Iran clashes

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Heavy clashes which
broke out between protesters and State Security Forces on Wednesday in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran,
have claimed 11 lives, according to Kurdish sources.
Witnesses reported that agents of the SSF fired lethal rounds on protestors from helicopters in the air.

11 die in northwest Iran clashes

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Heavy clashes which
broke out between protesters and State Security Forces on Wednesday in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran,
have claimed 11 lives, according to Kurdish sources.
Witnesses reported that agents of the SSF fired lethal rounds on protestors from helicopters in the air.

Hardliner takes over as Iran’s new president

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was confirmed on Wednesday as the sixth President of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad, a former Revolutionary Guards commander and mayor of Teheran who won the June elections amid allegations of massive electoral fraud, has pledged to restore an “Islamic government” in Iran, implying that the previous administrations of Ali-Akbar Hashemi …

Hardliner takes over as Iran’s new president

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was confirmed on Wednesday as the sixth President of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad, a former Revolutionary Guards commander and mayor of Teheran who won the June elections amid allegations of massive electoral fraud, has pledged to restore an “Islamic government” in Iran, implying that the previous administrations of Ali-Akbar Hashemi …

Iran to postpone nuclear work until next week

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Facing a barrage of international criticism, Iran announced that it would start work
at its uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, central Iran, early next week, backtracking on earlier threats to restart the
program on Wednesday.

Iran to postpone nuclear work until next week

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Facing a barrage of international criticism, Iran announced that it would start work
at its uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, central Iran, early next week, backtracking on earlier threats to restart the
program on Wednesday.