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  • Iranian Authorities Arrest Everyone in Tehran Church

    The Farsi Christian News Network reports that Islamic security agents entered the church premises, arrested everyone present, and confiscated church materials. The detained are being held in an undisclosed location. The raid came just days after church elders asked authorities for information about another pastor and his wife who are being detained. They were told the two would be released if ...

  • Website Detailing Iranian Disinformation Campaigns Targeting Government Officials NGOs and the Media Published Today

    PARIS, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new website - MOISdisinformation.com - was published today to provide details on the vast network of attack websites, publications, and use of covert agents by Iran's Intelligence Ministry to discredit the NCRI and People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). "The Iranian mullahs are expending huge resources to undermine the NCRI and ...

  • Iran Dispute Shows Hurdles to Syria Peace Negotiations

    Syria is complicating the effort by the U.S. and allies to present a unified front against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emerged without an agreed position on Iran from May 22 talks in Jordan with representatives from 10 nations including Saudi Arabia, ...

  • UN nuke agencys Iran probe driven by US-led intel

    VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency's efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international ...

  • Kerry blasts Iranian election maneuvering

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative ...

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Jurassic Park III [DVD]

Jurassic Park III [DVD]

Everyone who worked on Jurassic Park III was obviously well-aware that the novelty of seeing realistic, computer-generated dinosaurs on the rampage has lost its novelty by the third go-round. This is not to say that there is not still giddy, guiltless fun to be had, but they wisely dispense with the build-up and get right to the meat of the thing. Within 20 minutes, we're right in the hear ... ...

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  • U.S.casts doubt on credibility of Iranian election

    TEL AVIV (Reuters) - The United States on Friday called into question the credibility of Iran's presidential election next month, criticizing the disqualification of candidates and accusing the government of disrupting Internet ...

  • Kerry says Iranian election manoeuvring stands in the way of real democracy

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, Israel, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The US and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from Kerry's two-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. (AP Photo/Jim Young, ...

  • US lauds India for reducing Iranian oil imports

    A senior official praised India for reducing oil imports from Iran and said the U.S. government will decide soon on New Delhi's request to renew a waiver from sanctions on ...

  • U.S. official hints at renewed Iranian sanctions waiver for India

    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has made "tremendous progress" in reducing oil imports from Iran, a senior U.S. government official said on Friday, in a sign the South Asian nation is likely to get a third waiver from sanctions imposed by Washington against Tehran's nuclear programme. "All of the data is certainly pointing in a positive direction," U.S. Under Secretary for ...

  • Iranian Council Declares Ex-President Rafsanjani Unfit To Run Again

    The Iranian presidential election is just weeks away, and voters are faced with a very narrow range of pro-regime candidates to choose from. All the high-profile or independent candidates have been eliminated by the Guardian Council. One man considered unfit to run has already held the post of ...

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