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Iran to hold war games to protect nuclear sites

will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, a senior military commander said Saturday, reflecting the country's concern that Israel could make good on...

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Interview: Conflict In Yemen Widens Amid Charges Of Iran Involvement

A decades-old conflict in Yemen between the government and northern rebels from the country's Shi'ite minority is heating up. As it does, Yemeni officials are charging Iran with supporting the rebels in a conflict that is also...

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Prayers answered as Christian Apostates From Islam set free from Iranian prison

After millions of prayers and numerous petitions from around the world, two Iranian women jailed for no other reason than being Christian have been released from a Tehran prison today. Maryam Rustampoor, 27, and Marzieh...

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UN calls for Iran prisoner release

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A U.N. committee says Iran should release political prisoners arrested during protests over the country's disputed presidential election in June. The General Assembly's Human Rights Committee...

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Iran refinery to issue bonds worth $250 million

Iran's largest refinery will start issuing bonds on Sunday worth a total of 2.5 trillion rials (about $250 million) to help finance expansion of gasoline production, state broadcaster IRIB reported on Saturday. Iran is the...

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Newsweek Reporter's Ordeal in Iran

On June 21, reporter Maziar Bahari was rousted out of bed and taken to Tehran's notorious Evin prison—accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, Mossad…and NEWSWEEK. This is the story of his captivity—and of an Iran whose rampant...

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Iran: $4B For Yadavaran Jofeir Development

The Iranian government approved the development of Yadavaran and Jofeir oilfields as buy-back schemes worth $4.071 billion by China's Sinopec and Belarusian Belarusneft in order to produce 110,000 barrels of oil per day.

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Barack Obama's Chump Diplomacy

Oh, how the international community loves Barack Obama -- loves to stiff him, play him along, and manipulate him. He's the world's celebrity ingenue, the slender naïf perpetually undone by the recalcitrance of foreign leaders.

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Reality Check: The Hajj

It's the greatest yearly pilgrimage on Earth. BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 20, 2009 This month, hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the globe are converging upon the Saudi Arabian holy cities of Mecca and...

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Piaget Building Could Go to Auction

Real Estate in Recovery: What Can Be Done to Prepare for a Turnaround Presented By: Schulte Roth & Zabel and GlobeSt.com The troubled real estate market has created a buyers’ market for mortgage loan portfolios, RMBS and CMBS,...

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