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  • Iranian Wrestlers Abruptly Leave US Early

    The U.S. State Department has denied Iranian media reports that the United States deported the Iranian wrestling team ahead of a Sunday meet in Los Angeles. A State Department official tells VOA's Persian News Network that U.S. authorities had nothing to do with their departure. The wrestlers abruptly returned home after beating the American team in an exhibition Wednesday at Grand ...

  • Iran council cleric says woman on ballot not approved by law

    Iran's constitutional body, the Guardian Council, has ruled out women's participation in presidential elections as candidates. The final list of candidates will be announced on Tuesday, with only few names expected on the ballot, the BBC News reports. A clerical member of the Guardian Council Mohammad Yazdi has said that the constitution rules out any participation of women in elections, ...

  • Syrian president starts meeting with Iranian FM

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Tuesday evening with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi who arrived earlier in the capital Damascus for talks about the recent development in the region following the Israeli attack on Syria earlier this week. Details about the talks were not made available yet. Coming from a visit in Jordan, Salehi is expected to express Iran's ...

  • U.S. Quiet On Iran Women President Bar

    The United States has declined to take a firm stand after a member of Iran’s electoral authority said women will be barred from standing in Iran’s June presidential election. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington would not comment on specific candidates. She also noted that Iranian authorities must approve all candidates. The spokeswoman said that, broadly, the ...

  • IAEA chief says Iran refuses to cooperate

    Iran has refused to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its controversial nuclear program, Yukiya Amano, director-general of the UN nuclear watchdog, said here on ...

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The Curse of the Fly [DVD]

The Curse of the Fly [DVD]

The Curse of the Fly is an intriguing follow-up to 1958's The Fly and its 1959 sequel Return of the Fly primarily because it is so different from its predecessors. Although it marked the return of Robert L. Lippert, a theater owner-turned-producer who had produced th ... ...

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  • Iran president escapes attack

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escaped an assassination attempt on Wednesday when a blast hit one of the vehicles of his cavalcade, a media report said. Iran's Press TV, however, denied the report. Al Arabiya TV reported the blast took place in the western city of Hamadan as the president was about to address a crowd. The attacker was arrested on the spot. The bomb hit a car carrying ...

  • Nuclear Iran Unlikely to Tilt Regional Power Balance – Report

    - A nuclear-armed Iran would not pose a fundamental threat to the United States and its regional allies like Israel and the Gulf Arab monarchies, according ...

  • France opposes Syria conference if Iran attends

    Iran is invited, clouding the prospect for a U.S.-Russian initiative to end the 2-year-old war. No date has yet been agreed for the international meeting, which appears to face growing obstacles, including the announcement by a top U.S. military officer Friday that a Russian shipment of advanced missiles to Syria could embolden Assad. Western leaders have been cautious about the prospects of ...

  • Iran presidential nominees seeking U.S. ties risk ban

    Ahmad Jannati announced that some nominees may hope that international sanctions over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program will end if the country restores relations with the United States. "Some hopefuls say, ‘I will hold talks with the U.S. and solve the issue of sanctions," Jannati told worshipers in remarks carried by state TV and other Iranian media. "Indeed, we ...

  • Ex-Iran President Seeks Comeback Against Odds

    Now, from the fringes of Iran's closed circle of power, Mr. Rafsanjani, 79, is attempting a comeback, entering his name last Saturday for the June 14 presidential elections. Though once widely reviled, his reputation as an economic pragmatist and modernizer -- by Iranian standards, anyway -- seems to be hitting a responsive chord with the ...

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