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  • Obama welcomes Iran's election of moderate president Obama welcomes Iran's election of moderate president

    WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged Iran's newly elected president to prove to the world that the Islamic republic was not pursuing a nuclear weapon programme as the White House welcomed election of a moderate leader as a hopeful sign. "I think it says that the Iranian people want to move in a different direction," Obama said of the election results in Iran that saw a surprising ...

  • Israel wants Iran to halt uranium enrichment

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that his country would not accept anything less than the total halt of Iranian uranium enrichment. "We cannot accept anything less than a total cessation of all enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels, removal of all enriched nuclear material and a closure of Iran's illicit nuclear facilities," reported Xinhua citing Netanyahu during ...

  • Moderate Iranian president Rouhani promises to enhance mutual trust with West

    Newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has promised to reduce tensions with the West. Rouhani has also promised to show more transparency on its nuclear front and bring moderation back to the forefront of Iranian politics. According to the Guardian, Rouhani has presented himself as a moderate politician willing to enhance mutual trust between Tehran and the international community, ...

  • Venezuelan President to Meet Iranian President Elect

    Caracas, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Head of State Nicolas Maduro announced today he World meet soon Iranian president elect Hassan Rowhani. I just talked to the Iranian new president. I congratulated him and we agreed to meet soon to continue our alliance, said Maduro, who is visiting Portugal, in his Twitter account. Rowhani was announced on Saturday as winner of the presidential ...

  • Iran plans national fleet expansion

    Iran's National Development Fund has announced the allocation of 5% of its assets to buy new aircraft, Mehr news has reported. A number of aircraft will be added to the national fleet in the current year, while 25 planes with over 30 years of service are to be removed from the fleet, most of which are Boeing 707 and Boeing 727 models, said head of the country's Civil Aviation ...

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Jules and Jim [DVD]

Jules and Jim [DVD]

Franois Truffauts Jules and Jim opens like a narrative bum rush as jaunty, carnivalesque music plays against a rapid montage of images and on-screen credits before moving into a narrators rapid description of how the eponymous characters met and became friends. It feels rushed, ... ...

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  • Obama Putin express cautious optimism over Iran

    ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed "cautious" optimism on Monday that the election of a moderate cleric in Iran's presidential poll would open up dialogue with Tehran over its disputed nuclear program.In a private meeting following the press conference, however, the presidents said they would sign an agreement ...

  • Iran’s president-elect is an odd ‘moderate’

    Mainstream Western media praising Hassan Rowhani, Iran's president-elect, as a "voice of moderation" and a "reformist" no doubt please the radical clerics who actually rule in Tehran. The more he's seen as something other than what he is -- one of the mullahs' own -- the more easily they can continue developing nuclear weapons by stringing along an America ...

  • BP classes Iran as top gas reserves holder in world

    BP classes Iran as top gas reserves holder in world BP classes Iran as ...

  • Iran and U.S. New hope on nukes

    >Editor's note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com. He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Follow him on Twitter.(CNN) -- It would be easy to dismiss Friday's election of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran as little more than a sham -- a rigged election that ...

  • India snubs US backs Iran

    Iran took over the presidency on May 27. Declaring it "an honour to speak during the presidency of Iran", foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai said in a statement in Geneva, "Questioning the relevance and authority of established multilateral disarmament frameworks is misplaced when in fact the current impasse is more due to the obstacles placed in its path rather than any inherent ...

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