Iran's leader banned from ground zero
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Iran's controversial President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been denied permission to visit the site of the destroyed World Trade Center, a police spokesman said Wednesday. The U.S. considers Iran a state sponsor of terror. Ahmadinejad's predecessor at the time of the attacks condemned them.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice said on Monday that it would have been a travesty for  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit the &quot;Ground  Zero&quot; World Trade Center site in New York.
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The Iranian President arrives at the United Nations shrouded in controversy
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been banned from leaving the country, her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) says.
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A request by Iran's president to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site next week has been turned down by police and blasted by U.S. diplomats as an attempt to turn ground zero into a "photo op."
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Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Holocaust deniers and raised questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown Monday at Columbia University where the school's head introduced the visitor by calling him a "petty and cruel dictator."
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  has been denied a request to visit the World Trade Center site  of the September 11 attacks, New York police said on Wednesday.
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Iran's supreme leader said on Thursday restoring ties with the United States now would harm the Islamic state, but he did not rule it out in the future.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon says he was "shocked" at comments by the Iranian president about  Israel.
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Iran on Monday suspended sensitive  nuclear activities that could be used to make a bomb in a move  likely to thwart U.S. efforts to report the Islamic Republic to  the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday that it would have been a travesty for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit the "Ground Zero" World Trade Center site in New York.
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been banned from leaving the country, her party says.
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Iran on Monday froze sensitive nuclear  work including uranium enrichment in a move likely to thwart  U.S. efforts to report the Islamic state to the U.N. Security  Council for possible sanctions.
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Iran on Monday froze sensitive nuclear  work including uranium enrichment in a move likely to thwart  U.S. efforts to report the Islamic state to the U.N. Security  Council for possible economic sanctions.
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Iran's former president decried a wave of "Islamophobia" that he said is being spread in the United States by fear and hatred of Islam in response to terror perpetrated by Muslims.
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The Iranian president said on Wednesday Iran's determination to continue its disputed nuclear work had brought major powers "to their knees".
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday accused the United States of destabilizing Iraq through hired "terrorists" and former members of Saddam Hussein's regime.