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Iran: Attempt to Silence Lawyer in Assassinations Case
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Human Rights Watch
New York -- Human Rights Watch today condemned the harsh sentencing of prominent Iranian lawyer Nasser Zarafshan after an unfair trial. Zarafshan was sentenced on March 19 to five years of imprisonment and seventy lashes on charges of "disseminating confidential information."
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Senior Hard Line Cleric Warns Against Dialogue With The US
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Iran Press Service
TEHRAN (IPS) Heralding new battles the hard liners intends to wage against the more popular but powerless reformists, senior conservative clerics, in their first Friday sermons in the just started Iranian new year, openly warned them to stop at once talking about dialogue with the United States.
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Majlis deputy welcomes US senator's offer for talks between legislators
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BBC Monitoring Service
Text of report entitled: "In Reaction to a Proposal by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, the Head of Iran's Inter-parliamentary Committee Welcomes the Proposal for Dialogue Between Iranian and American Legislators" by Iranian newspaper Hambastegi on 16 March
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Islamic Dogma Out as Afghan Kids Go Back to School
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Reuters
KABUL -- Afghan children ran, skipped -- and dawdled -- to school on Saturday at the start of a new year with women teachers back in class and everyday subjects like math replacing the Islamic dogma of the ousted Taliban.
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Bush smear rouses Iran's reformers
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Guardian
Hamid Jalaipour points at the masthead of Bonyan, the latest newspaper he has founded. "Issue 26 and we haven't been closed," he says. This is something of an achievement; his last two ventures were shut almost at birth.
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Some filmmakers hope Oscar submissions raise cultural awareness
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AP
LOS ANGELES -- Mention Iran, and most Americans are likely to think of President Bush's "axis of evil." India? Its tense standoff with Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism. Argentina? The financial crisis that has crippled that country's economy.
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Security and law enforcement conference held in Semnan
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BBC Monitoring Service
The regional conference of political-security deputies and commander of the Law Enforcement Force was held in the governor general's office of Semnan Province in the presence of the law enforcement deputy of the Ministry of Interior and Panjehfuladgaran, the governor general of Semnan Province.
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Inside The 'Axis Of Evil,' Iran Writers Taste Freedom
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Pacific News Service
President Bush may list Iran as part of an "axis of evil," but writers and intellectuals on Kish, a dry and weedy coral island 25 miles south of the mainland, say democracy may yet thrive in their country.
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Iran building three new LNG plants
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Gulf-News
Iran is developing three new grassroot liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants, each at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, a top Iranian official said. "LNG export is an alternative for exports to India, other than the gas pipeline which may take more time.
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Executive Focus: Iran focusing on huge gas resources
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Gulf-News
Ahmad Rahgozar, vice-president of National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) and chief executive of NIOC International, exudes quiet confidence. Coax him and you have a soft but forceful person who speaks his mind out.
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Majlis deputies comment on the budget, increasing inflation
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Financial Times
Political Group: The examination of the 1381 [21 March 2002-20 March 2003] national budget nearly two months since it was presented to the Majlis by the president began in the open session of the Majlis from the beginning of this week.
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Jordan walks a tightrope between
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The International Herald Tribune
AMMAN, Jordan This is a nervous little kingdom, picking a careful path through the Arab-Israeli conflict. Just how delicate was well illustrated recently when Jordanian intelligence thwarted a Hezbollah attempt to smuggle Katyusha rockets to the Palestinians - and the smugglers were then quietly allowed to go back to Lebanon.
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Iran: Professor favours using "weapon of diplomacy" against USA
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BBC Monitoring Service
"Now let's imagine that we can stand up militarily to America - this is nothing but naivete, for which in fact we might be forced to pay a heavy price.
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Resalat says American nuclear policy threatening world peace
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BBC Monitoring Service
In September 2000 the US Congress asked the country's Defence Department to outline the status of the country's nuclear arsenal ...
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Cheney on Target With Saddam
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N.Y. Daily News
Dick Cheney visited the Middle East this week to round up support for an attack on Iraq. Instead, the cowardly Arab leaders used their time with the veep to carp about Israel.
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Happy Norooz
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"Iran va Jahan" extends its best wishes for a very happy "Norooz"
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Afghan Ex-King's Return Home Delayed Until April
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Reuters
ROME -- The return home of the ex-king of Afghanistan, originally scheduled for Monday, has been put back until some time in April, a source at the Italian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
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Exiled Afghan King Heads Home
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Associated Press
ROME -- With peace in sight, home beckons; tens of thousands of exiles are rushing back to Afghanistan. One of them once was king. Mohammad Zaher Shah's eagerness to see Afghanistan after nearly 30 years abroad is visible.
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Former Afghan king to head home to uncertain welcome
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Reuters
KABUL -- After 29 years in exile, Afghanistan's former king Zahir Shah is about to return home to a mixed welcome and an uncertain role in his war-scarred nation.
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How to fight and lose the moral high ground
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Guardian
I woke up the other day to find myself, along with Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis, transformed by the British liberal media into a member of "the belligerati", a term coined, to describe those who have supported the US campaign in Afghanistan, by the ex-revolutionary Tariq Ali ...
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