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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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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. 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 ...

  • Iran denies it has forces in Syria

    Tehran 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 state television. At a meeting in Jordan on Thursday, the Friends of Syria grouping of Western and Arab governments called for the immediate withdrawal from Syria of Iranian ...

  • Two Mossad CIA spies executed in Iran state TV

    TEHRAN, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Two Iranian spies working for the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad were hanged in Iran on Sunday morning, the state IRIB TV said. Mohammad Heidari, one of the executed men, had prepared information in a number of security issues of the country and had given them to the Israeli Mossad in several meetings outside of the ...

  • US slaps new sanctions on Iran over weapon programs

    The US government on Thursday slapped new sanctions on Iran's 20 individuals and entities for their involvement in Tehran's nuclear and missile programs. In a written statement, the Department of Treasury accused these individuals and entities of "moving supplies and providing essential services to Iran's clandestine nuclear and weapons programs." The Treasury said ...

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