Rafsanjani to Head Key Iran Cleric Body
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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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Former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was quoted as saying Iran has the capability of launching such a missile and remains determined to further improve its military capabilities.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A radical cleric is preparing to hand control of a shrine at the heart of a Shi&#39;ite uprising in Iraq to religious authorities, but still rejects demands by the interim prime minister to disband his militia.
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An influential Iranian cleric said on   Friday that Iran would not halt uranium enrichment work,   calling it an unacceptable precondition set by six world powers   for talks over the country's atomic activities.
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Iran's outgoing nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, will accompany his successor at talks with the EU.
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Spokesman for radical cleric says Sadr is making plans to join Iraq&#39;s nascent political process, and those plans will become known in coming days.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is due to meet Iran's supreme leader in Tehran on the second day of a key visit.
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QOM, Iran -- These are pilgrims of a different kind. Several times a week, Shi'ite Muslim clerics and community leaders from neighboring Iraq climb stairs to a little office in this Iranian city of shrines and Islamic seminaries. There, an aged and hunched figure sits on a swivel chair fitted with an electric blanket.
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Kofi Annan is to meet Iran's president and supreme leader for talks likely to cover Iran's nuclear programme.
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Iran&#39;s powerful former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, vowed Wednesday the Islamic republic would resist international efforts to prevent it from mastering advanced nuclear technology.
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Iran could play a crucial role in curbing Iraq's Shiite militias if the U.S. opens a dialogue with Tehran as recommended by the Iraq Study Group, many in the Mideast say.
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20 August 2004 -- Radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is offering to hand control of the Imam Ali shrine in Al-Najaf to the top Shi&#39;ite religious authorities.
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of Iran&#39;s powerful Expediency Council, said on Friday that the maximum duration of Iran&#39;s suspension of uranium enrichment activities was six months, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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An expert on Shiite Islam discusses the 'Soldiers of Heaven' cult and whether Iran was involved in a plot to seize Najaf.
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TEHRAN -- A former Iranian president wanted in Argentina for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center was leading the race for a seat on a powerful clerical body, according to partial results of elections reported by state-run television yesterday. Hashemi Rafsanjani, considered an opponent of the current hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had more than 1.5 million votes for ...
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Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who dominated Iranian politics for 16 years and tried to improve relations with the United States through a secret arms deal and a lucrative oil development offer, is now the leading candidate to become Iran's next president, according to Iranian politicians and analysts.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 14 -- U.S. officials believe that Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the fiercely anti-American leader of the Mahdi Army militia, has traveled to Iran, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV told reporters at a briefing Wednesday.