Iran’s president on Wednesday warned US counterpart Barack Obama of a "tooth-breaking" response, as he condemned Washington’s new nuclear policy.
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/ 21 December 2009
Iran police clashed with protesters after the funeral on Monday of dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, websites said.
Iranian officials defused a bomb planted on a passenger plane, officials said on Sunday, the latest incident of violence ahead the presidential poll.
Iran delivered its response on Tuesday to a deal aimed at ending a nuclear stand-off — but it had already signalled it was likely to defy the international community and refuse to freeze sensitive atomic work. Tehran’s written response was delivered to representatives of the five permanent United Nations Security Council members plus Germany.
Iran has threatened to allow traffickers to flood Europe with narcotics unless its costly border-security operation is given a massive hike in United Nations funding. The Islamic republic’s new anti-drugs head said Iran had asked the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for a hefty -million in order to combat smugglers from neighbouring Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Iran’s press on Tuesday hailed the hard-line regime’s letter to arch-enemy George Bush — with moderate papers hoping for detente and hardliners praising President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s "audacity". "Regardless of the content … such a communication could lead the two sides to direct talks," the centrist <i>Shargh</i> newspaper said somewhat optimistically.
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/ 15 September 2004
Cinemagoers in the Iranian capital were given their first glimpse of Fahrenheit 9/11 this week, but appeared to also enjoy the rare chance to watch an American movie more than its assault on their regime’s arch foe George Bush. On Tuesday night the film was sold out and the theatre packed with close to 380 people, most of them young.