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U.S.-led forces detained six Iranians yesterday at a government office flying an Iranian flag, Iraqi officials and witnesses said.
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Israel vehemently denied Sunday a report by a British newspaper which claimed that it plans to attack Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities using nuclear weapons.
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The UN Security Council has approved a resolution imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear enrichment program.
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The New York Times has published a controversial, White House-censored article critical of US policy towards Iran.

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The Bush administration issued another public rejection of the Iraq Study Group’s call to open talks with Syria and Iran, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying the cost of reaching a deal with Iran and Syria would be too high.
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The U.S. government agreed to pay two million dollars and apologize to Brandon Mayfield. Mayfield is the Muslim attorney in Oregon jailed two years ago after the FBI mistakenly tied him to the Madrid train bombings.
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The CIA has reportedly found no conclusive evidence Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
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The President of Iran said he loved everyone, which one could only assume included President Bush.
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A recent House of Representatives committee report on Iran’s nuclear capability is “outrageous and dishonest” in trying to make a case that Tehran’s program is geared toward making weapons, a senior official of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said.
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A senior U.S. general said there is clear evidence that Iran is funding, training and arming Shiite militants. Brig. Gen. Michael Barbero accused Iran of promoting the destablization of Iraq.
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President Bush said Monday that Israel defeated Hezbollah. Syria and Iran praised Hezbollah for what both describe as the group’s defeat of Israel.
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The president of Iran started a blog.
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The U.N. Security Council passed a weakened resolution Monday giving Iran until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions.
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The Iranian government announced today that president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent a letter to President Bush via the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.
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Iraq has accused Iranian forces of entering Iraqi territory and shelling Kurdish rebel positions in the north. Iranian troops bombed border areas near the town of Hajj Umran before crossing into Iraq, the defence ministry in Baghdad said on Sunday.
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Iran vowed on Wednesday to strike at U.S. interests worldwide if it is attacked by the United States.
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Dog walking is now illegal in Iran.
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Americans are divided over the prospect of U.S. military action against Iran if the government in Tehran continues to pursue nuclear technology — and a majority do not trust President Bush to make the “right decision” on that issue, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
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Under direction by Dick Cheney’s office, and opposed by Condaleeza Rice and the State Department, the Pentagon is reportedly sponsoring the terrorist organization Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) in order to use them to incite sectarian violence in Iran. The MEK were previously sponsored by Saddam Hussein as both a police force against non-Sunni Muslims and military forces in the Iraq-Iranian war. The MEK also has a history of anti-Western violence. According to a 2002 State Department report,

During the 1970s, the MEK killed US military personnel and US civilians working on defense projects in Tehran and supported the takeover in 1979 of the US Embassy in Tehran.

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Western nuclear analysts said yesterday that Tehran lacked the skills, materials and equipment to make good on its immediate nuclear ambitions. The United States government has estimated it will taken Iran 5 to 10 years to develop nuclear weapons, and some analysts have said it could come as late as 2020.
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