Iran hails elections as message to West
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Iran hailed nationwide elections to local councils and a powerful clerical body as a success on Saturday and said healthy voter turnout would help the Islamic Republic confront its Western foes.
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Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Wednesday for clean campaigning during for March parliament elections, urging candidates and their supporters to abstain from mud-slinging.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled out even a brief halt in Iran's nuclear program, saying Thursday it would hand a victory to the country's enemies and undercut the Islamic state's goal of becoming a world power
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IRAQâS national election campaign kicked off yesterday with angry accusations that Iran was masterminding the continuing insurgency in an effort to undermine democracy and bring about clerical rule.
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Iranian officials like to portray U.S. presidential elections as a choice between bad and worse but there is little doubt they would prefer Democratic challenger John Kerry to win next week.
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Iranians started voting on Friday for local councils and a powerful clerical body in the first electoral test for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his allies since he swept to office in 2005.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad   on Friday welcomed a world power overture to defuse a standoff   over Tehran's nuclear activity as a positive step but gave no   sign when an answer would come.
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World leaders, including French President Jacques Chirac and other leading opponents of the war in Iraq, heaped praise on Iraqi voters Monday for their strong turnout in landmark elections, saying terrorists were the losers.
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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 President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad accuses Western nations of using the UN Security Council for their own ends.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi on Sunday welcomed the decision of his country&#39;s parliament to back the resumption of uranium enrichment.
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The leaders of Iraq and Jordan warned yesterday that Iran is trying to influence the Iraqi elections scheduled for Jan. 30 to create an Islamic government that
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called a nuclear deal reached with European nations a &quot;great victory&quot; but said Wednesday that Tehran won&#39;t respect its commitment if Europeans fail to support his country at a UN nuclear watchdog meeting
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LONDON -- The day after Iraqis defied the threat of violence and voted by the millions, world leaders from Europe to the Middle East, many of whom had opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, said yesterday the national election was a step forward.
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Iran's president said on   Thursday his country gave cultural and spiritual support to   Lebanon but sidestepped questions about whether Tehran would   obey a U.N. arms embargo imposed on Hizbollah guerrillas.
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A resounding Shiite victory in next month's elections will bring Iraq closer to Tehran, forming a "Super Iran" that could change the face of the Middle East, critics say.
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Iran&#39;s top nuclear official Hassan Rowhani hailed Monday a &quot;new chapter&quot; in relations between Tehran and Europe, after talks with key EU ministers on rewards Iran is to receive for suspending uranium enrichment to show it is not making atomic weapons.