Iran reformist regains influence
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Iran's moderate ex-President Rafsanjani wins election to Iran's powerful clerical body, marking a surprise comeback.
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14 December 2004 -- A senior Iranian official has spoken of Iran and the European Union opening a &quot;new chapter&quot; in their relations after talks on benefits Iran is to receive for suspending its uranium-enrichment activities.
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Iran Saturday overturned a key plank of the  constitution to allow large-scale privatizations in a bid to  overhaul the lumbering economy, over which many hard-line  parliamentarians have been trying to maintain state dominance.
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Nothing in the office of Iran's sole Jewish lawmaker calls attention to his faith &#151; no Star of David, no menorah or other symbol of Judaism. But like nearly every public building in Iran, it has a portrait of the Islamic Revolution's patriarch, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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seated alongside his Iranian counterpart in the most extensive, high-level contact between the countries in years. relations but occasionally over the past few years their senior envoys have crossed paths at international meetings.
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message to Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, described the group's resistance against Israel's military onslaught a "victory" for Islam.
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More than 180 Iranian MPs sign a letter in support of former top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani.
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Iran on Wednesday released liberal intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, who was accused of working with the U.S. to overthrow the government, a human rights activist said.
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TEHRAN, Sept. 4 -- Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked Tuesday to head a key clerical body empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader, state media reported, in a vote seen as a setback for hard-liners in Iran's ruling establishment.
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TEHRAN, Iran  -- Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked Tuesday to head a key clerical body empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader -- a vote seen as a victory for Iran's moderate conservatives, state media reported.
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Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji, in the U.S. to gain support for his reform movement, strikes a chord among the celebrity set
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As Iran announces it is resuming its nuclear program, we speak with Iranian-born author and former diplomat Mansour Farhang about the increasing tensions in the United States towards Tehran.
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TEHRAN -- After Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's followers toppled a U.S.-backed autocracy in Iran, he brought to power a coterie of politically engaged clerics who sought to create the world's first Islamic republic. Nearly 30 years later, a new generation of politicians is sweeping aside those...
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Whatâs really driving the Iranian presidentâs Western charm offensive?
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Iran is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown that both Iranians and U.S. analysts compare to a cultural revolution in its attempt to steer the oil-rich theocracy back to the rigid strictures of the 1979 revolution.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have gained greater short-term power with the resignation of Iran's top nuclear negotiator, but the departure appears to have further damaged the president's standing among many conservatives in the Islamic republic.
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Iran&#039;s most prominent dissident said Sunday that the war in Iraq has hurt his country&#039;s reform movement by giving its regime an excuse to stifle dissent.