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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 ...

  • Iran upgrading nuclear program IAEA

    Tehran has reportedly upgraded its nuclear program by adding advanced uranium enrichment facilities and building a plutonium-producing reactor according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA report reflects the increased international concerns about the potential proliferation dangers it represents as the completion date approaches, the Huffington Post reports. According ...

  • 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 ...

  • Convicted Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof bringing banned movie to Cannes

    CANNES, France - Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose movies are banned in his country and who has been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime there, is coming to Cannes for a screening of his latest film, publicists for the movie said Thursday. "Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs - and authorities' attempts to ...

  • Banned Rafsanjani Blasts Irans Leadership

    Ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (center, with white turban) arrived at Iran's Interior Ministry within minutes of the official close of registration for would-be candidates on May ...

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Open Range

Open Range

Kevin Costners Open Range has one of the best Western shootouts ever committed to celluloid. It takes up nearly 20 minutes of the film, and in it Costner depicts with frightening clarity the reality of what it must have been like to exchange rounds with six-shooters and shotguns. The violence is sharp, sudden, and loud. The guns fire with a boom that echoes throughout the empty main street ... ...

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  • Iran Refutes Statements of Bahrain Government

    Tehran, May 23 (Prensa Latina) An Iranian official spokesman today refuted allegations by a Bahrain official claiming that a Persian drone violated the airspace of the kingdom of the Arabian peninsula. The Foreign Ministry of Iran advised the Bahraini government to respect the legitimate rights of its people instead of raising baseless arguments, stated the spokesman, according to IRNA. The ...

  • Iran denies its drone violated Bahrains airspace

    DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran denied on Thursday that one of its drones had violated the airspace of Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, Iranian media reported. Bahrain's Information Minister Samira Rajab told Reuters on Thursday that an unmanned spy drone was found in the Gulf waters between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The incident could further inflame tensions between the two ...

  • Glencore says Iran swap deals not intended to violate sanctions

    Thu May 23, 2013 11:33am EDT * Swiss authorities saw no violations of U.N. or Swiss sanctions * Iran under U.N., EU, U.S. sanctions for atomic work * Tehran insists its nuclear ambitions are peaceful By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 23 (Reuters) - Swiss-based commodities giant Glencore Xstrata said on Thursday that it had done nothing wrong when it engaged in metal swaps with Iran, ...

  • Bahrain finds Iranian drone

    Bahrain said it has found an Iranian drone in the kingdom's north near Saudi Arabia and called for increased cooperation between regional security services to face "threats" from Tehran. The unmanned aircraft "was found in the sea in north Bahrain, mainly between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, two weeks ago", government spokeswoman Samira Rajab said on Wednesday. "It ...

  • IAEA confirms Iran expanding uranium enrichment program

    The UN atomic agency has described "rapid" progress by Iran in developing its uranium enrichment facilities, just weeks after a report suggested the Stuxnet worm that first hit the country in 2009 had increased the country's nuclear ...

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