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Madness in the Middle East!
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Iran va Jahan
By Shaheen Fatemi
What we are witnessing these days in Middle East is sheer madness. Very few people can make any sense out of this ever-escalating cycle of violence on both sides.
It seems as if sensible and peaceful people have been pushed out of the scene and their place has been occupied by those who only know the language of violence.
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Turkmenistan Has Surprise Plan For Dividing Caspian Sea
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Dow Jones News Wires
TASHKENT -- Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov has prepared a "surprise" solution to the festering dispute over how to divide the oil-rich Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan's ambassador to Uzbekistan said Wednesday.
Aydyn Azimbekov said Niyazov would reveal his plan at a summit of the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Kazakhstan to be held in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, on April 23-24.
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Iran: Israel has declared war on all religions
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Reuters
Iran said yesterday Israel had declared war on religion by surrounding Christianity's holiest sites in its invasion of the West Bank biblical town of Bethlehem.
The Islamic Republic has repeatedly called for the destruction of the Jewish state as the only solution to the Middle East conflict and backs militant Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad in their fight with Israel.
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Bush administration needs to screen terrorist supporters from Muslim outreach programs
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Center For Security Policy
The State Department has designated the Palestinian group Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization – yet Secretary of State Colin Powell met April 3 with Hamas supporters during an outreach meeting with American Muslims.
The meeting is just the latest instance of the administration failing to screen terrorist supporters out of its Muslim and Arab outreach programs – even though some of the individuals and groups are tied to organizations that are under state or federal investigation or have been raided for allegedly financing terrorism.
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Arab Frustration With U.S. Grows: Powell Discusses a Wider U.S. Role
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The Wall Street Journal
President Bush's strong backing for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is reinvigorating Arab hard-liners, Islamists and leftists.
In Jordan, Egypt and Turkey -- America's closest allies in the region -- anti-American street protests are raging and government leaders are under strong pressure to split with the U.S.
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Turkey Urges Iran To Handover Top PKK Figure - Official
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Dow Jones News Wires
ISTANBUL -- Turkey has asked the Iranian government to extradite a leading Kurdish rebel after reports that he had been detained in Iran, a Turkish news agency reported Wednesday.
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Gulled
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The National Review
While we dither on and on, the brave and the innocent are being murdered throughout the Middle East by the enemies of freedom and democracy.
These deaths, from Israeli hotel dining rooms and public markets, to the Arab and Iranian streets, are our responsibility.
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The Enemy Within
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The National Review
By Amir A. Afkhami
Victims of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut filed a $5 billion-dollar lawsuit against Iran on March 7 accusing
Tehran of sponsoring the attack.
Their lawsuit follows two years after Terry Anderson's successful $341 million judgment
against Iran in March of 2000 for his treatment during his nearly seven years of Beirut captivity at the hands of
Iranian-supported Hezbullah
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Turkey: Economy Spells Trouble For Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan
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RFE/RL
Turkey's latest economic estimates may spell trouble for several natural gas suppliers, including Russia, Iran, and Azerbaijan. All have relied on growth in the Turkish market, and despite plans for a connection to neighboring Greece, there are signs that forecasts there have also been overblown.
Boston -- New economic figures from Turkey are raising some old questions about energy planning that could soon cut into gas exports from Russia, Iran, and Azerbaijan.
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Oil prices cooled by sharp rise in US fuel stocks
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FT
SINGAPORE : Oil prices took a step back on Wednesday as a sharp rise in US fuel stocks put the brakes on this week's rally, although crude stayed above $27 a barrel on jitters of Middle East unrest disrupting oil flows.
Benchmark US light crude slipped 27 cents to $27.44 a barrel in Asia as fresh industry data showed a sharp increase in crude and gasoline inventories in the United States.
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Condom as a Problem Word: Iran Grapples With a Surge in AIDS
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The New York Times
An AIDS poster at a blood center in Tehran, where a small group of physicians is trying to raise awareness of a surge in the disease.
TEHRAN - How to teach teenagers about safe sex without even whispering the word condom is one of the delicate questions facing the Islamic Republic as it grapples with a surge in AIDS cases.
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Iranian foreign minister arrives in Russia, hopes to see Putin
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BBC Monitoring Service
Moscow, 4 April -- Russia and Iran can and should play a positive role in resolving regional and a number of important international issues, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said upon arrival in Moscow on Thursday 4 April.
Kharazi gave a high evaluation to relations between Russia and Iran both in the technical and economic sphere and in the sphere of political collaboration.
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Russia's delicate liaison with Iran
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BBC
The Iranian Foreign Minister, Kamal Kharazi arrives in Moscow on Thursday.
The visit has been delayed for nearly two months, largely because of Russian uncertainty as to how it might affect Moscow's relationship with Washington.
The Americans have cited Iran as a potential enemy, which is seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction.
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Islamic Rites, Why Muslims need a pope.
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National Review
The Organization of the Islamic Conference is wrapping up its meeting of the world's 57 Muslim nations. Who among us has not slept more soundly knowing that these titans of world peace are on the job in Kuala Lumpur?
Alas, the conference floundered on the dagger-edged conundrum of whether blowing up children in pizza parlors constitutes terrorism. These heroes of history finally decided that, like that of the proverbial angels dancing on the head of a pin, this was simply too difficult and too pointless a question to answer.
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Who are Hezbollah?
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BBC
Hezbollah - or Party of God - emerged in Lebanon in the early 1980s and became the region's leading radical Islamic movement, determined to drive Israeli troops from Lebanon.
In May 2000 - due partly to the success of the party's military arm - one of its main aims was achieved. Israel's battered and bruised army was forced to end its two-decade occupation of the south.
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Ex-smuggler describes Iraqi plot to blow up US warship
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The Christian Science Monitor
Saddam Hussein was allegedly planning nine terrorist operations.
SULEIMANIYEH -- Iraq planned clandestine attacks against American warships in the Persian Gulf in early 2001, according to an operative of Iranian nationality who says he was given the assignment by ranking members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle.
The alleged plan involved loading at least one trade ship with half a ton of explosives, and – sailing under an Iranian flag to disguise Iraq's role – using a crew of suicide bombers to blow up a US ship in the Gulf.
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ICTSI sets its sights on Iran and Poland
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Lloyds List
INTERNATIONAL Container Terminal Services Inc is eyeing new opportunities in Poland and Iran, having sold a clutch of its international port management contracts to Hutchison Ports last year.
The Philippines-based global port development firm is bidding to manage Poland's Port of Gdynia and eyeing opportunities in the growing Iranian market, says Dubai-based Tom Falknor, ICTSI senior vice-president for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Top of ICTSI's list is Bandar Abbas in Iran. "Bandar Abbas is very interesting, and we have submitted a management proposal," Mr Falknor says. "It has a strategic location, not just for feeding cargo to and from Iran, but also serving markets such as Afghanistan and the Central Asian Republics via the Caspian Sea."
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