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Iran set for year of living dangerously

... high of $147 in July, could cost him dearly in the run-up to the June election.Iran is OPEC's second largest producer, and half of the country's budget ... the conservative split.Ahmadinejad has yet to officially announce his bid for re-election in 2009, and Tehran's conservative mayor Mohammad Baqer ...
Iran president congratulates Obama on victory

... question now is how the new man in the Oval Office will handle the clerical regime in Iran, a key political and economic player in the Middle East.Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all key policy issues, has not yet commented on the result of the US election. ...
Watch Obama's election victory speech

... United States, ranging from officials in Russia and Iran to Islamist groups in the Middle East, called for clear changes in policy.Obama took command of the election race in the last month as the financial crisis deepened and as his steady performance in three debates ...
Iran denies finance minister to quit

... to become more vocal in its criticism of Ahmadinejad's economic management ahead of next year's presidential election.Iran has reaped windfall gains in recent years from the high oil price on world markets and says its economy grows by about 6% annually, despite ...
Ayatollah appeals for calm as election heats up

... Iranian politics in favour of blunter attacks on opponents.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called his opponents "traitors" for pressuring the government over Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, while rivals have hit back with explicit criticism of his policies.Prominent figures such as former ...
Iran scoffs at French war cry

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday comments by French government officials suggesting possible war over Iran's nuclear programme were intended for the media and should not be taken seriously.France, which strongly opposed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, has taken a lead since ...
Oil nears $63 as Iran tensions intensify

... develop nuclear weapons.Although the West has been locked in a protracted dispute with Iran over its nuclear ambitions, the latest developments have renewed market ... and renewed an economic and technological incentive package offer.Iran's capture of British navy personnel last week has also heightened ...
Iran GTL project very much on track, Sasol tells OGME

... Iran until “next year or so.” Iran is expected to be Sasol’s third GTL plant after Qatar and Nigeria, where projects are nearing completion. The election of conservative ... GTL project is being undertaken in association with the state oil company. Iran’s South Pars field has the world’s largest gas ...
BBG works to overcome Iran's jamming of Persian satellite news

... to overcome jamming of Persian-language news broadcasts during Iran's election period. The broadcasts affected included Voice of ... on the Eutelsat Hotbird satellite and Telstar 12. "That the government of Iran would jam Persian television and other US international broadcasts illustrates how ...
Revealed: How Blair interfered in Iraqi election

... we could to get more votes for Allawi. I don’t think anyone seriously thought we could actually get him elected, but he was looking at just getting a few hundred thousand votes before this election. So it was a case of re-branding him and getting the message out to the Iraqi people that this guy ...
Bush administration plans media initiative in Iran

... planning to expand its Persian-language satellite-television broadcasts to Iran as part of an initiative to press for democratic reforms in the Islamic ... government of the people?" says Tomlinson, who expects the expanded TV format to include close coverage of Iran's presidential election in June ...
Ahmadinejad compares Obama to Bush

... is informed of it," Ahmadinejad said.Iran's reformist opposition leaders have vowed to press on with legal challenges to an election they say was rigged.The wife ... Relations Committee, told Reuters.The best US option for pressuring Iran, the world's fifth biggest oil producer, was to drive down crude ...
France's Sarkozy raises Iran sanction threat

... is aimed at civil nuclear energy but the standoff has been fuelled by Western criticism of its disputed June presidential election."It is the same leaders in Iran who say that the nuclear programme is peaceful and that the elections were honest. Who can believe them?," Sarkozy said.He said the issue ...
Iran puts leading reformers on trial over unrest

... of acting against national security, a crime which can carry the death sentence, in Iran's fourth mass trial of moderates since a disputed ... -reform politicians, journalists and activists, have been detained since the election. Many are still in jail.Iran rejects vote rigging accusations and accuses ...
Iran announces largest oil find for five years

... nuclear programme continues to be a barrier of entry for these firms.The West says Iran is working to develop nuclear bombs, but Tehran insists nuclear power is needed to produce electricity.The outcry following the June election, which stirred the biggest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic ...
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