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Nonviolent resistance ousts a dictatorship
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
At a time when the United States is threatening military action against the "axis of evil," the idea of using nonviolence to unseat tyrants seems positively quaint.
Peaceful marches against Saddam, Kim Jong Il, and hard-line ayatollahs? Surely, the blood of thousands of civilians would flow. Yet a new PBS documentary about the student movement that spearheaded the ouster of Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic insists that nonviolence can work.
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Reza Pahlavi's Next Revolution
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The New Republic
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Iranian shah, closes his speeches about Iranian democracy with a signature flourish: "This is a cause I believe in and am committed to see to fruition, even if it were at the expense of my own life."
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Iran calls for an end to Zionist atrocities in occupied
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IRNA
Vienna -- Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations
Headquarters in Geneva
Ali Ashraf Mojtahed Shabestari here Wednesday
urged the international community to devise serious measures to stop
the atrocities that are now being committed by the racist Zionist
regime against Palestinians.
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Iran expresses support
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Daily Star
(AFP)
A visiting Iranian vice-president pledged support Tuesday for the success of the Arab summit, due to begin in Beirut on March 27, but said his country was unlikely to send an observer delegation to the summit.
Mohammad Ali Abtahi called for the Palestinian issue to take top priority for both the Arab and Muslim worlds and at the summit.
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Iran Says Imported Mutton. Carries Viruses of Man-Animal Diseases
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Asia Pulse
TEHRAN, March 27 Asia Pulse - Iran's Veterinary Organization (IVO) has said 20,000 tons of mutton, already imported from Saudi Arabia, were polluted with viruses of man-animal common diseases such as the foot-and-mouth and Crimea Congo.
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Heshmatollah Tabarzadi granted of Holliday Leave
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SMCCDI Information Committee
Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, head of the banned Iran's People Democratic Front, has returned to his family based on an undetermined Holliday Leave.
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Bush 'Deeply Concerned' About Iraqi Threats
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VOA
President Bush is repeating his position that he will not allow Iraq to develop weapons of mass destruction. The president wants Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to allow U.N. weapons inspectors to return to his country.
President Bush said all options are still on the table regarding Iraq.
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Nuclear reactor in Iran will be built by '05
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The Washington Times
MOSCOW — Russia will finish building a nuclear power plant reactor in Iran despite U.S. opposition and is considering a tentative North Korean request for a similar plant, Russia's top nuclear official said yesterday.
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Shiite leaders converge to demand Musa Sadr's return, 'dead or alive'
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Daily Star
Officials suggest summit address imam's disappearance.
Shiite leaders on Tuesday stressed the need for the Arab summit to discuss the issue of Imam Musa Sadr, who disappeared in Libya in 1978 with two of his companions.
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Report Cites Unaccounted Plutonium
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Washington Post
Amounts Sufficient to Create 'Dirty Bomb,' Official Says
The Energy Department cannot fully account for small amounts of potentially dangerous plutonium provided under a 1954 Atoms for Peace program to 33 countries including Iran, Pakistan and India, according to an inspector general report released yesterday.
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Iran Shipping Exec Calls for More Work on North-South Corridor
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Asia Pulse
MOSCOW, March 28 Asia Pulse - The managing director of Iran's Khazar Shipping Company, Mohammad Kamali, has called on the international community to put more effort into developing the North-South corridor.
Kamali told the seventh international conference on transportation and logistics that implementation of the North-South project would cut short to a large degree the time and expanses required for transportation of goods.
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Iran-P.A. alliance prompts calls for reassessment of U.S. relations
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JTA
(IDF)
WASHINGTON, March 26 (JTA) — As details emerge of a burgeoning alliance between Iran and the Palestinian Authority, pro-Israel activists are urging the United States to reassess relations with both entities.
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Blair supports campaign against 'Axis of Evil'
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ABC
ABC Europe correspondent Matt Peacock gained a world-exclusive personal interview with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on the eve of his visit to Australia for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
In the half-hour interview, Mr Blair spoke of his support for the US campaign against terror
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Body of killed Fire Festival "celebrator" returned to his family
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SMCCDI Information Committee
The Islamic republic regime has returned the body of a Fire Festival celebrator to his family in order to be buried.
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Investing in terror
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Washington Times
The terrorist pipeline accepts all who are vulnerable, both young and old, creating a culture around the people it attracts to foster not only terrorists' goals, but also a sense of security in them.
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U.S. Prepares For Return To Yemen
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U.S. Prepares For Return To Yemen
A U.S. military delegation has been conducting talks and inspections in Yemen in an effort to arrange for the return of naval ships to the port of Aden. Aden served as a refueling port for U.S. warships until nearly 18 months ago when the USS Cole was bombed.
Officials said the Bush administration believes Yemen has taken sufficient measures to warrant a review of Aden in the hope that the port can be deployed by U.S. warships by the fall. They said the U.S. delegation in Yemen is discussing technical details to ensure greater security for visiting naval vessels.
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Iran Court Imprisons Lawyer For Speech On Disssident Deaths
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Dow Jones News Wires
TEHRAN (AP)--A lawyer in the trial of 18 intelligence agents accused in the 1998 killings of several dissidents has been sentenced to five years in prison, his attorney said Wednesday.
Naser Zarafshan was given a two-year term on charges of divulging state secrets and another three-year sentence for possessing an illegal gun, said his attorney, Mohammad Ali Jedari Forouqi.
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Arab summit must support intifada: Rafsanjani
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IranMania
TEHRAN -- Iran's former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has urged the Arab summit in Beirut to adopt a collective support for the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israel, Tehran Radio said Thursday.
"We hope that the Beirut summit will be able to reinforce the intifada and take realistic decisions that serve the interests of the world and the Muslim countries," Rafsanjani said on Wednesday evening, the radio said.
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Afghanistan's last two Jews still feuding, still searching for missing Torah
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Associated Press
From living quarters at separate ends of the same Kabul synagogue, Afghanistan's last two Jews are still feuding and still searching for their most sacred treasure -- a Torah confiscated by the now ousted Taliban.
The two men glare at each other when they pass in the decaying synagogue's concrete courtyard. They planned to celebrate Passover as they do every other Jewish holiday -- alone.
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Pakistan, Iran to boost co-operation in agriculture
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Financial Times
ISLAMABAD : Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock Khair Muhammad Junejo said on Wednesday that Pakistan and Iran have agreed in principle to boost bilateral co-operation in the field of agriculture in future.
In a panel interview with "IRNA" here at his office, the minister spoke about his discussions with Iranian authorities to find ways and means to promote mutual co-operation between the two countries in the agriculture field during his recent visit to Iran, where he also attended an FAO moot.
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Kurds ready to be next N. Alliance
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The Christian Science Monitor
(Getty Images)
SALAHUDDIN AND SULAYMANIYAH, NORTHERN IRAQ – High on a spring-green escarpment in northern Iraq, elite Kurdish forces decked out in camouflage and maroon berets are training for the day they hope they realize their dream: helping US forces topple Saddam Hussein.
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Nanterre killer commits suicide
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The Telegraph
THE 33-year-old loner who killed eight councillors in a Paris suburb, killed himself this morning by leaping from a fourth-floor police station window.
Richard Durn was being held at the police detention centre on the Ile de la Cite in the centre of Paris where he was being questioned. He was due to face a judge this afternoon.
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Narco-Feudalism Still Rules
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The Moscow Times
General Tommy Franks, the U.S. commander of the war in Afghanistan, came to Moscow last week to pay a courtesy visit.
Franks commands the war via satellite from his central command staff complex in Tampa, Florida, but he told reporters in Moscow that he and his wife were on the move for a week, going to Africa, visiting troops in Afghanistan and finally coming to Russia.
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