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  • Obama welcomes Iran's election of moderate president Obama welcomes Iran's election of moderate president

    WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged Iran's newly elected president to prove to the world that the Islamic republic was not pursuing a nuclear weapon programme as the White House welcomed election of a moderate leader as a hopeful sign. "I think it says that the Iranian people want to move in a different direction," Obama said of the election results in Iran that saw a surprising ...

  • Israel wants Iran to halt uranium enrichment

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that his country would not accept anything less than the total halt of Iranian uranium enrichment. "We cannot accept anything less than a total cessation of all enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels, removal of all enriched nuclear material and a closure of Iran's illicit nuclear facilities," reported Xinhua citing Netanyahu during ...

  • Moderate Iranian president Rouhani promises to enhance mutual trust with West

    Newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has promised to reduce tensions with the West. Rouhani has also promised to show more transparency on its nuclear front and bring moderation back to the forefront of Iranian politics. According to the Guardian, Rouhani has presented himself as a moderate politician willing to enhance mutual trust between Tehran and the international community, ...

  • Iran’s president-elect is an odd ‘moderate’

    Mainstream Western media praising Hassan Rowhani, Iran's president-elect, as a "voice of moderation" and a "reformist" no doubt please the radical clerics who actually rule in Tehran. The more he's seen as something other than what he is -- one of the mullahs' own -- the more easily they can continue developing nuclear weapons by stringing along an America ...

  • BP classes Iran as top gas reserves holder in world

    BP classes Iran as top gas reserves holder in world BP classes Iran as ...

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Jules and Jim [DVD]

Jules and Jim [DVD]

Franois Truffauts Jules and Jim opens like a narrative bum rush as jaunty, carnivalesque music plays against a rapid montage of images and on-screen credits before moving into a narrators rapid description of how the eponymous characters met and became friends. It feels rushed, ... ...

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  • Iran and U.S. New hope on nukes

    >Editor's note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com. He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Follow him on Twitter.(CNN) -- It would be easy to dismiss Friday's election of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran as little more than a sham -- a rigged election that ...

  • India snubs US backs Iran

    Iran took over the presidency on May 27. Declaring it "an honour to speak during the presidency of Iran", foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai said in a statement in Geneva, "Questioning the relevance and authority of established multilateral disarmament frameworks is misplaced when in fact the current impasse is more due to the obstacles placed in its path rather than any inherent ...

  • Austria May Delay Troop Withdrawal From Golan Heights

    Turkish police detained dozens of people at their homes and raided two media offices on Tuesday in a coordinated operation across the country to clamp down on nearly three weeks of mass anti-government unrest, lawyers and local reports said. Officers raided the homes of around 90 members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), a small leftist group that has been active in Istanbul's ...

  • Russia urges West to soften Iran sanctions

    Russia Tuesday urged the West to consider relaxing sanctions against Iran, saying there was unprecedented hope of a breakthrough in the nuclear standoff ...

  • World Cup 2014 qualifiers Iran and South Korea join Socceroos and Japan in Brazil

    The Socceroos confirmed their qualification with a 1-0 win over Iraq in Sydney thanks to an 83rd minute goal from Josh Kennedy.Later Jordan's 1-0 win over Oman in Amman meant Australia would have qualified even with a draw to Iraq or a loss due to a superior goal difference to Jordan.Irate South Korean fans hurled water bottles and other debris after Iran booked their ticket with a 1-0 ...

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