Iran's election overseers removed potential wild-card candidates from the presidential race Tuesday, blocking a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a former president who revived hopes of reformers.
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Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people.
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Local motorists are continuing to get hammered at the gas pump, with fuel prices rising 52 cents in the past month in San Francisco. A gallon of gas now goes for $4.43 on average, according to the latest reports from AAA. That’s seven cents more than the state average and 62 cents more than the national average.
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President Barack Obama is now taking credit for ending the U.S. war in Iraq when the reality is that President George W. Bush did so in 2008 by approving the Status of Forces Agreement arduously negotiated between the U.S. and Iraqi governments.
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"In Tehran, the Iranians arrested an American press man,” Ronald Reagan recorded in his presidential diary on Feb. 1, 1987. “Took his passport, accused him of being Zionist spy & threw him in jail. He’s a Roman Catholic. I’m ready to kidnap the Khomeini.”
In these, his private thoughts, Reagan expressed what it took to deal with the mullahs of Iran — and playing nice was not it.
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By:
Dale McFeatters
10/13/11 10:30 PM
Even though an alleged co-conspirator has confessed to U.S. authorities about the plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States by blowing him up in a Washington restaurant, there are still significant unresolved questions.
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When President Barack Obama addressed the U.N. on Sept. 21, he knew he would be followed on the dais the next day by Iran’s madman president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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WHAT: Bloomberg News alleges it has “internal company records” showing that Koch Industries used subsidiaries in Germany and Italy to sidestep a U.S. trade ban barring American companies from selling to Iran.HOW: The Bloomberg report claim Koch Industries took elaborate steps to ensure that its U.S.-based employees weren’t involved in the equipment sales, which helped Iran build the world’s largest methanol plant.
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Two UC Berkeley graduates who have been detained in Iran on espionage charges for more than two years were finally released today, according to their families.Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, both 29, and a third UC Berkeley graduate, Sarah Shourd, were arrested on July 31, 2009, after embarking on a hike in Iraq’s Kurdistan region near the Iranian border.Iran accused all three of them of espionage and last month Bauer and Fattal were sentenced to eight years in prison.
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“Circumstance” follows two schoolgirls who joyfully party and dare to love each other in today’s Iran, a treacherous place for the rebellious-teen psyche aching to thrive.
Focusing on the oppression of women by theocratic authorities, the film is too lacking in depth and boggy with melodrama to be able to explore its themes powerfully. But the scenarios it presents are interesting, its heroines are impressively sympathetic, and its surfaces are heated and enticing.
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