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  • Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race

    TEHRAN - Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of "oppression". He announced plans to take up the case with ...

  • Irans n-power plant to be launched shortly Russian agency

    Iran's first nuclear power plant in Bushehr could start working "shortly", Xinhua reported Wednesday, quoting Russia's state atomic energy agency Rosatom. "I have never announced the exact timing because our absolute priority is safety and the final decision will be made by the customer," Rosatom chief Sergei Kirienko told reporters. He added that Rosatom completely understands Iran's concerns ...

  • Iranian drone spotted in Bahrains airspace

    Bahrain's Interior Minister Wednesday said an Iranian drone was spotted in Bahrain's airspace in the northern part of the country near Saudi Arabia. Lt Gen Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa said Iran was increasingly meddling in the internal affairs of both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, reports Xinhua. He added that Bahrain had uncovered a terror cell linked to Iran. "Iran's continual spying ...

  • Saudi Arabia nabs 10 over spying for Iran

    Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 people on suspicion of espionage for Iran, the interior ministry announced Tuesday. "Following an initial investigation, the security forces arrested 10 more suspects over involvement in the espionage acts for an Iranian espionage cell, reported Xinhua citing a spokesperson for the ministry. The arrestees, comprising eight Saudis, a Lebanese and a Turk, are linked ...

  • Iran urged to withdraw fighters from Syria

    The Friends of Syria alliance called on Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally tonight to withdraw fighters immediately from Syrian territory. It described their armed presence in the country as a threat to regional ...

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Although made on a low budget at a time in which the British horror film industry, after having achieved international heights with the Hammer film series in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s, was almost nonexistent, Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" was a much needed success. Against the odds, Barker produced a unique, imaginative, if not somewhat stomach-churning, work that has s ... ...

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  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Tightens Grip After Disqualifying Two Top Presidential Candidates

    Mohammad Khatami was swept into the president's office in 1997, leading a wave of reformists who challenged the status quo in which Khamenei, as the unelected Supreme Leader of the Revolution, was most heavily invested. In every election cycle since, the self-appointed portion ...

  • Exclusive Glencore Trafigura deals with Iran may have skirted sanctions - U.N.

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Metals swap deals with Iran by Switzerland-based commodities giants Glencore Xstrata and Trafigura could have been a way of skirting international sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program, according to a confidential U.N. Panel of Experts report seen by Reuters on ...

  • Tehran ditches election headache Rafsanjani

    Iran’s most senior clerical authorities have ruled out the one candidate who might have been elected president who could have led reformists: Hashemi Rafsanjani. Not everyone was surprised, but some of the electorate are furious. The election is three weeks away. The powerful Guardian Council of the Constitution have shortlisted eight figures who will be allowed to run for office in the ...

  • Friends of Syria demands withdrawal of Hezbollah Iran fighters

    AMMAN (Reuters) - The Friends of Syrian alliance called on Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally on Thursday to withdraw fighters immediately from Syrian territory and described their armed presence in the country as a threat to regional stability. In a communiqué issued after a meeting in Amman, the alliance said any transitional government in Syria being proposed as a core of a ...

  • IAEA report Iran expands nuclear technology

    Herman Nackaerts, left, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, shakes hands with Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. U.N. nuclear agency officials are meeting with Iranian counterparts in a renewed attempt ...

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