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  • Iran denies having forces in Syria

    /enpproperty--> Iran said on Friday it has no forces in Syria supporting President Bashar al-Assad's army, one day after foreign backers of his rebel foes demanded Teheran withdraw its fighters from Syrian territory. "The true enemies of Syria make up these accusations to provoke the people of this country," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi said, quoted by ...

  • Iranian drones over Bahrain and Syria

    ARE we going to experience a new twist in our encounter with Iran? I’m afraid yes. We anticipate a political and militant escalation as we hear the news of a surveillance drone being shot down over the Bahraini airspace. A similar drone was shot down in Al-Qussayr in Syria, according to the opposition claim. If that is true, I mean if the Iranians have the audacity to send drones to ...

  • Iran stacks presidential candidate list with safe Khamenei men

    FILE -- In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 file photo, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, ...

  • U.S. casts doubt on credibility of Iran’s upcoming election

    United States Friday called into question the credibility of Iran’s presidential election next month, criticizing the disqualification of candidates and ...

  • Iranian Filmmaker Presents Secret Film At Cannes

    An Iranian director sentenced to prison in 2010 for antigovernment propaganda has appeared at the Cannes film festival for the screening of a new film about censorship, which he shot in secret in Iran. The circumstances of Mohammad Rasoulof's visit to Cannes on May 24 and the location where he now lives remain strictly confidential. He was arrested with fellow director Jafar Panahi ...

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Man Hunt [DVD]

Man Hunt [DVD]

Set in 1939 just before Germanys world-war-provoking invasion of Poland, Fritz Langs Man Hunt begins with a startlingly provocative image: Adolf Hitler in the crosshairs of a sniper rifle. Seeing one of historys most notorious figures in a position of such vulnerability has an immediatel ... ...

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  • Iran Prepares Itself for June Presidential Vote By Stepping Up Security Measures

    Iranian authorities are doing their utmost to ensure that there is no repeat of the daily unrest that followed the 2009 presidential election. (file ...

  • Iranian candidate vows to resist West

    Tehran, Iran - Iran's top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next month's presidential elections, vowed Friday he will pursue a policy of resistance against the West if ...

  • Iran - Governments actions threaten prospect of free and fair elections in Iran

    Serious electoral flaws and human rights abuses by the Iranian government undermine any meaningful prospect of free and fair elections on June 14, 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. Dozens of political activists and journalists detained during the violent government crackdown that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election remain in prison, two former presidential candidates are under ...

  • Irans clerical leaders cut presidency down to size

    "I think it is not possible to run the country worse than this," said the former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, right, after he became one of 700 candidates barred from standing in the election this week. He is normally reticent in criticising the Iranian authorities. There has frequently between tension between Iranian presidents and Iran's supreme spiritual leader ...

  • Nuclear agencys Iran probe guided by US intelligence

    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 community.Much of the world looks at U.S. intelligence on weapons development with a suspicious eye, given ...

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