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Mottaki: Israel is a Crazy Country Run by Crazy People
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09/02/2010 10:53
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manchour Mottaki declared Monday that Israel was now weaker than ever before, adding that it was a "crazy country run by crazy people." Mottaki told the Al-Jazeera news agency that Israel was in no position to embark on another military conflict, due to its internal political crisis and its losses over recent years in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. "Therefore, we must prepare for the chance that Israel will do ...
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Ahmadinejad: Enemy Can’t Hinder Iran Progress, ME Determines World’s Fate
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09/02/2010 9:48
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Iran's enemies will not be able to block the country's scientific progress. In an address to the Second National Festival of Innovation and Prosperity in Tehran on Monday, Ahmadinejad said that young Iranian students would continue to attain great achievements in various technological fields. The Iranian president also said the enemy assassinated Iranian particle physicist Massoud ...
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Iran: Defense Missile System more Advanced than S-300 is Underway
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08/02/2010 13:05
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Iran announced on Monday it is manufacturing a home-built air defense missile system which would be better than the Russian S-300, which has been ordered by Tehran but yet to be delivered by Moscow. "Today, we are building all our air defense weapons by ourselves ... the only thing we wanted to import was the Russian S-300 which so far they have not delivered for some unacceptable reasons," senior air force commander Heshmatollah Kasiri ...
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Iran Set to Produce 20% Atom Fuel Tuesday, Plans to Build 10 Plants
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08/02/2010 10:38
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Iran on Monday officially notified the UN nuclear watchdog of its plans to produce 20 percent enriched uranium, Tehran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency told Al-Alam television. "Iran's official letter about commencing the 20 percent enrichment activity in order to provide fuel for the Tehran reactor has been handed over to the IAEA," Ali Asghar Soltanieh told the state-owned channel by telephone from Vienna. "We will hand ...
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Iran Tests Radar-Evading Aircraft, Opens 2 Drones’ Production Lines
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08/02/2010 9:36
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Iran has successfully tested the prototype of its first domestically-built stealth drone, a senior Air Force commander said Sunday. "The drone, due to its physical attributes and the material used in its body, cannot be detected by any radar," Air Force Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, the force's coordination deputy, told reporters as the Islamic republic is marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. He said data from the ...
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“Israel Moving in Downward Spiral, Anniversary a ‘Punch’ to West”
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08/02/2010 9:27
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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei said on Monday that the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution would be a "punch" to the world's "arrogant" powers that would stun them. "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Sayyed Khamenei told a gathering of air force personnel. The ...
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Ahmadinejad Orders Uranium Enrichment To 20 Pct
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07/02/2010 11:34
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered Iran's atomic chief on Sunday to enrich uranium to 20 percent. Ahmadinejad blamed the world powers for the stalemate over a UN-drafted nuclear fuel deal, but left the door open for possible negotiation over the proposal. He also insisted that world powers "unconditionally" accept exchanging Iran's low-enriched uranium (LEU) for high purity 20 percent enriched uranium required as nuclear fuel for the ...
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Iran Unveils Two New Missile Plants
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06/02/2010 13:21
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Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi opened two new missile production plants on Saturday, just three days after Iran fired a missile carrying live animals into space. The plants will produce a ground-to-air missile dubbed the Qaem (Rising) and a surface-to-surface missile dubbed Toofan 5 (Flood). The Qaem is designed to target helicopters at low and medium altitudes. Iran unveiled the new plants as part of its celebrations ...
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Iran Cleric Asks for 'Unity' in Revolution March
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06/02/2010 10:34
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An Iranian cleric on Friday called for the manifestation of “unity” in an annual rally on February 11, which will mark the 31st anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. Tehran's Interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani said those taking part in the upcoming event should distance themselves from those chanting anti-government slogans. "Some individuals may try to infiltrate into the lines of people by ...
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At the Munich Conference: Conflicting Reactions over Iran Deal
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06/02/2010 9:09
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said he is "optimistic" about reaching a deal with world powers on exchanging some of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) for higher-grade fuel. "I personally believe we have created conducive ground for such an exchange in the not very distant future," Mottaki told the annual Munich Security Conference. However, Mottki said it was up to Tehran to set the amounts to be exchanged, based on its needs. ...
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Iran Denounces Recent Israeli Threats, Urges Proper Response
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05/02/2010 13:34
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Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has denounced Israeli's recent instigating rhetoric against Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. “The Zionist Israeli officials' threats against the people and governments of the region are nothing new, but the persistence of Israeli officials' essential nature over the past six decades. We strongly condemn such threats which we believe are aimed at blackmailing regional nations,” Mottaki told reporters ...
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Russia Guarantees Delivery of S-300 System to Iran
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05/02/2010 10:10
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Iran's ambassador to Russia says Moscow has guaranteed that it will deliver the S-300 missile defense system to Iran. "Iran is ready to receive this system and our Russian colleagues have assured us that they will meet their obligations," Ambassador Sayyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi said at a press conference at the main office of RIA Novosti in Moscow on Thursday. "Several technical issues [in the contract's implementation] have ...
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Iran: US Fighting 'Psychological War' in Gulf
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04/02/2010 17:34
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Iran accused the United States on Thursday of launching a "psychological war" in the Gulf region by presenting Tehran as a threat to Gulf Arab states to convince them they needed US protection. US officials said on Sunday the United States had expanded land-and sea-based missile defense systems in and around the Gulf - a waterway crucial for global oil supplies - to counter what it sees as Iran's growing missile threat. The US ...
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Petraeus: Attack on Iran Could Backfire; Israel Threatens Force
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04/02/2010 10:18
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Chief of US Central Command Gen. David Petraeus says any military action against Iran could backfire by increasing “nationalist tendencies” in the country. "It's possible (a strike) could be used to play to nationalist tendencies," Reuters quoted Petraeus as saying on Wednesday. "There is certainly a history, in other countries, of fairly autocratic regimes almost creating incidents that inflame nationalist sentiment. So that could be ...
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Iran Develops Weapon that Brings down Apache Copters
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03/02/2010 10:59
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A senior Iranian military official says Iran has developed a special weapon that can bring down Apache helicopters. Col. Nasser Arab-Beigi, the director of the self-sufficiency organization of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), told the Fars news agency on Tuesday that the “special weapon” can also target advanced tanks. He noted that the new weapon will put an end to the battlefield supremacy of the United States' Apache ...
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Sayyed Khamenei: Iran Target of “Modern Injustice”
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03/02/2010 10:47
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The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that the "negligence" was the main factor behind the country's post-election violence in June. "I am always optimistic, and that is why I believe that some of the recent unfortunate incidents have come about through negligence committed by some [people]". Addressing a group of lectures from the prestigious Tehran University, Ayatollah Khamenei urged academics ...
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Ahmadinejad Hails Iran’s Successfully Firing of Satellite Rocket
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03/02/2010 9:42
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Iran successfully fired on Wednesday a home-built satellite rocket, Kavoshgar 3, carrying an "experimental capsule," state-owned Al-Alam television reported. “Projects that we inaugurated are mostly on the very edge of modern technology… each one of them call for a national celebration,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday, while addressing a gathering of scientists and state officials. “Those individuals whose contributions ...
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Iran Slams US Missile Deployment in Gulf
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02/02/2010 15:34
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Iran parliament speaker Ali Larijani Tuesday slammed plans by the US to beef up defenses in the Gulf against potential Iranian missile attacks, insisting the Islamic republic is no threat to its neighbors. "America's new puppet show for protecting and implementing security in the region is nothing but a new political trick to pave the way for its presence at others' expense," Larijani said in comments to the house carried by the ...
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Iran: Assassination Was Zionist Terror
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02/02/2010 13:17
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Iran blamed Israel on Tuesday for the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month, labeling it "Zionist terrorism". The Israeli government has declined official comment on the Jan. 20 death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, which Hamas on Friday announced as an assassination, but Israeli security sources linked him to rockets and other arms that reach Gaza from Iran. "This is another indication of the existence of state terrorism by the ...
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