OPEC’s members have expressed interest in converting their cash reserves into a currency other than the depreciating U.S. dollar, referred to by the President of Iran as a “worthless piece of paper.”
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Archive for the ‘iran’ Category
OPEC considers converting cash reserves out of concern for falling dollar
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007UN chief: No proof Iran building nukes
Monday, October 29th, 2007UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday he had no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding “fuel to the fire” with recent inflammatory rhetoric.
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US steps up campaign against Iran with new sanctions
Saturday, October 27th, 2007The Bush administration intensified its campaign against Iran with a new round of sanctions against its military and leading companies.
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US Senate says Iranian force is terrorist group
Thursday, September 27th, 2007The US Senate urged the Bush administration Wednesday to declare Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group to help the United States roll back Iranian influence in Iraq.
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France: Brace for war with Iran
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007The Foreign Minister of France said the world should brace for a war with Iran.
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Iraq war update
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007The Bush administration prepared to ask Congress for an additional fifty billion dollars for the war in Iraq, a military jury exonerated the only officer facing trial for abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib, shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Wednesday ordered a six-month shutdown of his militia in what his aides described as an attempt to reform the organization, President Bush said Tehran’s atomic ambitions could put the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust,” Iran rejected US accusations it was fomenting instability in Iraq, and northern Iraq was hit by major cholera outbreak.
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Iran’s Jews: Our identity is not for sale
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Iran’s Jews refused cash offers by Israel in exchange for migration to Israel.
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US accuses Iran of training Iraqi militants
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007The US accused Iran of training Iraqi militants.
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Iran cracks down on dissent
Sunday, June 24th, 2007Iran is in the throes of one of its most ferocious crackdowns on dissent in years, with the government focusing on labor leaders, universities, the press, women’s rights advocates, a former nuclear negotiator and Iranian-Americans, three of whom have been in prison for more than six weeks.
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Iran tightens government control
Sunday, June 10th, 2007The government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in the midst of one of the most intensive crackdowns on domestic dissent in the last two decades, targeting groups as diverse as banks and labor unions, students and civic organizations.
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U.S., Iran end 27-year diplomatic freeze
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007The United States and Iran talked to each other.
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US and Iran to discuss Iraq
Sunday, May 13th, 2007The United States and Iran decided to talk about Iraq.
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Iran: legal refugees can stay
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Iran said they were only deporting illegal afghan refugees; the legal ones can stay.
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Iran willing to help with Iraq withdrawal plan
Thursday, May 10th, 2007Iran is willing to help the United States develop an “exit strategy” from Iraq, the country’s deputy foreign minister said.
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Iran mass-deporting Afghan refugees
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007More than 36,000 Afghans have been deported from Iran in the past 10 days.
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McCain sings “bomb Iran”
Friday, April 20th, 2007Senator John McCain entertained a crowd at a campaign rally in South Carolina by singing “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran†to the tune of “Barbara Ann†by the Beach Boys.
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Iran seizes 15 British navy officials
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Iranian forces seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel who had searched a merchant ship on Friday, Britain said, triggering a diplomatic crisis at a time of heightened tensions over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
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US viewed negatively by the majority of everyone
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007A majority of people believe that Israel, the United States and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
The three countries are closely followed by North Korea.
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Bush Admin. implements “kill or capture” Iranian policy in Iraq
Friday, January 26th, 2007The Bush administration authorized US troops to kill or capture Iranian operatives in Iraq.
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Cheney warns Iran to stay out of Iraq
Sunday, January 14th, 2007US Vice President Dick Cheney told Iran not to fish in troubled waters.
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