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Tens of thousands of civil defense volunteers held a rally Wednesday in Iran&#39;s capital city in a show of force designed to deter possible US or Israeli attacks on Iran&#39;s nuclear installations.
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Iran's president defiantly refused to compromise as a U.N. deadline for his country to stop enriching uranium arrived Thursday, saying Tehran would not be bullied into giving up its right to nuclear technology.
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Iran defied the Olympic spirit of sport  without frontiers on Sunday by refusing a judo fight against an  Israeli at the Athens Games, insisting on putting political  solidarity with the Palestinians before gold medals.
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Tens of thousands of Protestant hard-liners marched without trouble through Belfast and other Northern Ireland cities and towns Thursday in an annual event that used to involve conflict with Catholics but now shows the effects of a succeeding peace process.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told Iranians on Friday that Palestinians would never bow to pressure to recognize Israel and would keep fighting thanks in part to support from Iran.
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Around 150 Iranian women demonstrated in front of the French embassy in Tehran Saturday protesting the ban on the Islamic headscarf in French state schools.
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Iran has closed its five entry points with Iraq's Kurdish region, in protest against the recent incarceration of an Iranian by the U.S. military, an Iraqi Kurdish official said Monday
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Thousands of Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists marched toward the center of Yangon Wednesday in defiance of the military government's ban on public assembly.
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TEHRAN -- The Palestinian prime minister vowed his Hamas-led government will never recognize Israel and will fight for Jerusalem, telling a crowd at an Iranian mosque yesterday that he will resist US pressure to moderate.
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Opposition activists in Zimbabwe vow to stage a rally despite an official ban on political protests.
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Iran defied the Olympic spirit on Sunday  by refusing to contest a judo bout with an Israeli at the  Athens Games, making no effort to hide the fact it was putting  solidarity with the Palestinians before gold medals.
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In his outward persona at least, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to this country to lessen hostility toward himself and to defend Iran, not to rabble-rouse and provoke hatred. Whether he succeeded remains an open question.
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Iran marks the 28th anniversary of its revolution on Sunday seeking to show a nation united over its nuclear policy, but Western pressure and cautious voices at home dampened prospects for a big statement on atomic progress.
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The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was under pressure to perform a U-turn on petrol rationing today after the restriction prompted violent protests at filling stations across the country this week.
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Thousands of Iranians rallied near the site of a European Union summit Thursday to demand that the nations comply with a court ruling and remove an exiled Iranian resistance movement from its list of terrorist organizations.
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Pragmatists in Iran's clerical regime were under pressure from hardliners who lined up to condemn an agreement to suspend sensitive nuclear activities in line with international demands.
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A day before flying to New York to speak directly to the American people, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a confrontational tone Saturday with a parade of fighter jets and missiles and tough warnings for the United States to stay out of the Mideast.