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MarketWatch
| over 1 year ago
There was an unintentional showdown Thursday between the U.S...After weeks of mounting tension over Iran's rogue nuclear program, Iran finally cried uncle. Reports from Tehran indicate President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is willing to resume talks to...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Speaking Thursday on a visit to the southern province of Kerman, Ahmadinejad accused the West of creating obstacles to negotiations. Iran and six world powers held their last round of nuclear talks one year ago and have been unable to agree on terms...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Israel must prepare credible military option on Iran' Former IDF chief of staff Ashkenazi says "everything that can be done under the radar" must be done, alongside "painful, crippling sanctions." Israel needs to prepare a credible and viable...
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Herald News
| over 1 year ago
Iran Iran is ready to revive talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, as toughening sanctions aim at forcing Tehran to sharply scale back its nuclear program. Even so, he insisted that the pressures will not force...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 1 year ago
The European Union rather than Iran will lose out under new EU sanctions banning Iranian oil, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday as lawmakers said they might cut supplies to EU countries ahead of a July 1 deadline. "It is the West that...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Iran announced an 8 percent devaluation of the rial on Thursday and said it would enforce a single exchange rate, aiming to stamp out a black market where dollars have soared due to fears over new sanctions imposed by the West. "I announce it right...
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Newyork Times
| over 1 year ago
Mr. Ahmadinejad told students in the southern city of Kerman that he is ready for new talks, The Associated Press reported. But he added that the new sanctions, which target its oil industry , would not force Iran to give in to demands by the Western...
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National Public Radio
| over 1 year ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that his country is ready to talk with the West about its nuclear programs. "They have this excuse that Iran is dodging negotiations while it is not the case," he said. "Why should we run away from the...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Ahmadinejad, however, says sanctions won't force Iran to capitulate to Western demands. The United States and allies want Iran to halt uranium enrichment, which they worry could lead to weapons-grade material...Ahmadinejad made the remarks in Kerman,...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that Iran is ready to sit down with world powers for talks on its nuclear program as he brushed off the harmful effect of newly imposed sanctions. "They have this excuse that Iran is dodging...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that his country's economy would not be damaged by newly imposed Western sanctions, AFP reported. At one point our trade with Europe was around 90 percent but now it is only approximately 10%, and...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the Islamic republic will not be hurt by newly imposed Western sanctions, the state television website reported. "Once our trade with the Europe was around 90 percent but now it has reached...
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International Herald Tribune
| over 1 year ago
The decision by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , was an unusual about-face for the Iranian hierarchy, which has maintained a public stance of stoicism on the building sanctions, imposed in response to Iran's suspect nuclear energy program . On...
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Reuters
| over 1 year ago
Topics President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks with journalists at Tehran's Mehrabad airport after his visit to Latin American countries January 14, 2012. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad agreed to increase bank interest rates on Wednesday, hoping...
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Israel National News
| over 1 year ago
Hamas spokesman Tahir al-Nunu told reporters in Gaza on Tuesday that Ahmadinejad sent Haniyeh a letter congratulating him on the anniversary of Hamas' bloody 2007 putsch in Gaza and inviting him to visit Tehran.
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| over 1 year ago
Ahmadinejad approved a decision by Iran's Money and Credit Council to raise interest rates on deposits to 21 percent. (AP)
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Zawya Political
| over 1 year ago
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned that Iran will respond to any threat and aggression accordingly. Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a recent interview with Mexican television network Televisa. Commenting on the threats issued by the United...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
The European Union has agreed a boycott of Iranian oil, and the US Navy has sent a carrier group back into the Gulf in defiance of Iranian threats. As so often during the last decade, the name of the game is pressure, and the strategy is designed to...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has attacked western sanctions as 'the heaviest economic onslaught on a nation in history'...But the decision is one of the toughest steps yet taken internationally to apply pressure over Tehran's nuclear...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
Oil industry experts suggest Europe will review its proposed embargo on Iranian oil before it comes into force this July. Jorge Montepeque, the director of global market reporting at energy agency Platts speaking to RT says, I don't thing Europe is...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
President Michel Sleiman met on Monday with Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghadanfar Roken Abadi and discussed the reported statements by the head of Iran's elite al-Quds Force Qassem Suleimani, the National News Agency reported. In the light of the...
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Israel National News
| over 1 year ago
Earlier in the day, Iran withdrew on its threats to take action if American ships travel in the area.
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Belleville News-Democrat
| over 1 year ago
Amid heightened tensions with Iran, an American aircraft carrier has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf...Cmdr. Amy Derrick-Frost said the USS Abraham Lincoln entered the Gulf on Sunday without incident to conduct scheduled...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
A U.S. aircraft carrier sailed through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Gulf without incident Sunday, a day after Iran backed away from an earlier threat to take action if an American carrier returned to the strategic waterway. The carrier USS...
