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  • Irans most-reform minded candidate blocked from running for presidential election

    One of Iran's most reform-minded presidential candidates has been barred from contesting next month's presidential election. The conservative Guardian Council barred Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from contesting election leaving just eight men on the ballot paper, all of whom are considered hardliners. Rafsanjani, 78, served as president between 1989 and 1997, and according to the Guardian Council ...

  • 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 Bars Candidacies of Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad Aide

    IA conservative body in Iran has barred two prominent figures from competing in next month's presidential election: moderate former president Hashemi Rafsanjani and a leading conservative allied to current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian interior ministry said Tuesday the Guardian Council of clerics and jurists excluded the two politicians from a final list of eight candidates ...

  • Kerry Mideast Talks on Syria to Include Russian Call for Involving Iran

    STATE DEPARTMENT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the Middle East this week for talks to promote an international peace conference on Syria. Russia wants Iran to be part of the process. In this fight for control of Syria, Iran is one of the biggest backers of embattled President Bashar al-Assad. So Russia says Iran should be part of the peace process. "Iran has ...

  • Iran allows eight contenders for presidential election

    Iranian legislative body has approved eligibility of eight presidential candidates for the June 14 poll in the country, Xinhua reported Tuesday. The candidates, including the country's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and former foreign minister Ali-Akbar Velayati -- for the presidential election have been approved by Iran's Guardian Council of Constitution, semi-official Mehr news agency ...

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The Illusionist [DVD]

Like a great stage trick, The Illusionist casts an effective spell, drawing you into its gold-toned world of spiritualism and sleight-of-hand, where questions about what is real and what is trickery melt into each other like dissolving puffs of smoke. Director Neil Burger, who ... ...

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  • Iran’s Ahmadinejad to contest poll barring of his ally

    Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will contest the disqualification of his ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from next month’s presidential ...

  • Iran’s Ahmadinejad says he’ll challenge ally’s ban from election

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a media conference on the sidelines of the 67th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sept. 26, 2012. (BRENDAN ...

  • Iran Ahmadinejad to contest bar on ally

    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hit out at a decision to disqualify a close ally from a vote to elect his successor, while former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had no objections to his own omission. The conservative-dominated Guardians Council on Tuesday eliminated both Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie and Rafsanjani from a list of eight candidates for the June 14 poll, and those ...

  • Diplomats Iran expands nuke 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 ...

  • Armenian government conducts talks with Russia and Iran over gas price

    Armenian government conducts talks with Russia and Iran over gas price, said Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, APA-Economics reports. ‘Armenia is using its leverage to get a low price for imported gas and is holding negotiations with Iran and our strategic ally Russia. We are holding high level political talks with Russia to find ways to lower or subsidize the price’, ...

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