Iran's Old Guard Pushed Aside
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A new generation of politicians is replacing older clerics who sought better relations with the West.
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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator has resigned and the man named to replace Ali Larijani could present the West with a harder line in a long-running dispute over Tehran's atomic ambitions.
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Pragmatists in Iran&#39;s clerical regime were under pressure from hardliners on Tuesday who lined up to condemn an agreement to suspend sensitive nuclear activities in line with international demands.
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Iran backs down on its demand to exempt some of its technology from a nuclear freeze, diplomats say.
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TEHRAN -- After eight years of a bold but bungled experiment with reform, Iran's government is in the throes of a takeover by conservatives determined to restore the revolution's Islamic purity, according to Iranian politicians and analysts.
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VIENNA, AUSTRIA - Iran has backed down on its demand to exempt some equipment from a freeze on its uranium-equipment program, diplomats reportedly said Sunday.
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Twenty-five years after its revolution of 1979, Iran has yet again become too big of a problem for Washington to play politics with.
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TEHRAN -- Iran's embattled president, Mohammad Khatami, conceded yesterday that he had failed to implement his democratic reform program, saying he had bowed to the will of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his hard-line allies to avoid riots and preserve the ruling Islamic establishment.
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The Iranian government has decided "at the most senior levels" to rein in the violent Shiite militias it supports in Iraq, a move reflected in a sharp decrease in sophisticated roadside bomb attacks over the past several months, according to the State Department's top official on Iraq.
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A look at Iran's recent crackdown on perceived internal threats:
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Mohsen Kadivar, the charismatic cleric became a hero to Iranian youth during his 1999 trial for challenging Iran's rigid theocracy, is a lonely voice in Iran these days.
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Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday replaced the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, a force U.S. officials have said Washington may label a terrorist group.
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A request from Iranâs Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier this month was denied by the New York Police Department.
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They are the shock troops of Iran&#39;s Islamic Revolution - the men who helped seize the US embassy a generation ago and bore the brunt of their country&#39;s eight-year war with Iraq.
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Clerics picked Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Tuesday to lead a powerful Iranian government body, in a boost for the former president who wants better ties with the West and a blow to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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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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New missiles revealed as Iranian president departs for the UN.