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Over 65 reporters face spying charges in Iran: rights group

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ImageAFP: More than 65 journalists, bloggers and writers have been detained in Iran since last June's disputed presidential polls and could be tried on charges of "spying" for the foreign media, a New York-based media rights group said Tuesday.

Britain fuelled unrest in Yemen: Iran

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ImageAFP: Iran's foreign ministry charged on Tuesday that Britain fuelled the military showdown since last August between Shiite rebels and the Yemeni government but was trying to pin the blame on Tehran.

U.S. encounters limits of Iran engagement policy

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ImageNew York Times: For two days this month, Gen. James L. Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, and Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister, were in the same place at the same time, attending a high-level security conference in Munich with a number of high-ranking officials from around the world. And yet the two made no plans to meet with each other.

New US sanctions will target Tehran ‘dictatorship’

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ImageThe Times: Iran is becoming a military dictatorship, Hillary Clinton said yesterday, as the US prepared fresh sanctions against the Islamic republic that would specifically target the Revolutionary Guard.

Hillary Clinton warns of Revolutionary Guard’s growing influence in Iran

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ImageWashington Post: Iran is increasingly acquiring the attributes of a "military dictatorship," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asserted repeatedly Monday, pointing to how the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has grabbed ever-larger chunks of the country's economic, military and political life.

US joins France, Russia in denying new Iran nuclear offer

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ImageAFP: The United States joined France and Russia on Monday in denying an assertion by Iran that it had been offered a new nuclear proposal from the three major powers.

Western powers challenge Iran over ‘bloody repression’

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ImageAFP: Western powers accused Tehran of waging "bloody repression" since elections last year as they challenged Iran to open up to international scrutiny during a UN human rights meeting Monday.

France denies giving Iran new nuclear proposals

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ImageReuters: France denied on Monday suggestions that Iran had been given new proposals for a nuclear fuel swap following Tehran's announcement last week that it was stepping up its own uranium enrichment.

Clinton fears Iran headed for military dictatorship

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ImageAFP: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that she feared Iran is moving "toward a military dictatorship," with enterprises controlled by the Revolutionary Guard "supplanting" the government.

Powers have made new enrichment offer: Iran

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ImageAFP: Major powers have made a new offer to Iran for the supply of nuclear fuel in return for it shipping out of most of its stocks of low enriched uranium, atomic energy organisation chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying on Monday.