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A community portal about Iran with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and formerly known as Persia in the West, is a southwest Asian country located in the Middle East. Iran borders Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, and Turkey and Iraq to the west. In addition, it borders the Persian Gulf, across which lie Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Shi'a Islam is the official state religion and Persian the official language.

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Iran to hold drills for protecting atom facilities

From: www.reuters.com

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will stage large-scale air defense war games next week to help protect its nuclear facilities against any attack, a senior commander was quoted as saying on Saturday. Brigadier General Ahmad Mighani also suggested Iran could itself produce an advanced missile defense system which Russia has so far failed to deliver to the Islamic Republic and which Washington and Israel do not want Tehran to have. Iran believes Russia's delay in supplying high-grade S-300 missiles was due pressure by Israel, not technical problems as cited by Moscow, Mighani said. "We are hopeful the Russians would ignore the pressure of the Zionist ... Read Full Story

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Iran to hold aerial defence war games

From: www.afp.com

Iranian air defence forces will conduct five days of manoeuvres involving simulated attacks on the country's nuclear sites, a senior air defence commander said on Saturday. "From tomorrow (Sunday) we will start a big aerial defence manoeuvre that will last for five days ... covering an area of some 600,000 square kilometres in north, southwestern Iran and parts of south and central Iran," Brigadier General Ahmad Mighani, the army air defence chief was quoted by the Fars news agency as saying. The aim of the exercises is to thwart the aerial threat posed by an imaginary enemy on Iran's nuclear facilities -- from reconnaissance ... Read Full Story

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Iran's Ahmadinejad urges Turkey to boost trade ties

From: www.afp.com

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday urged Turkey's visiting Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to increase trade ties between the two countries, the president's office said in a statement. "Iran and Turkey could become each other's number one trade partner," he was quoted as telling Davutoglu in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz. The statement quoted Davutoglu as saying: "Iran and Turkey, with common planning, can aide one another in boosting relations." It stopped short of mentioning Iran's ongoing nuclear fuel controversy with the West. On Thursday, Turkish media reported that Davutoglu's talks in Iran would focus on efforts to resolve tensions over Tehran's controversial ... Read Full Story

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Iran has 'not responded positively' to nuclear offer

From: www.afp.com

Major world powers expressed disappointment Friday that Iran has "not responded positively" to a plan for resolving the standoff over its nuclear programme or agreed to new talks. "We are disappointed by the lack of follow-up" to understandings reached when the six powers met with Iranian officials in Geneva on October 1, they said in a statement after a meeting in Brussels. "Iran has not responded positively to the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) proposed agreement for the provision of nuclear fuel for its Tehran research reactor," they said. "Iran has not engaged in an intensified dialogue and in particular has not accepted to ... Read Full Story

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Major world powers meet to discuss Iran nuclear snub

From: www.afp.com

Major world powers met in Brussels Friday to discuss Iran's rejection of an international nuclear fuel deal, after US President Barack Obama warned Tehran must face the consequences. Representatives of the five permanent UN Security Council members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany met behind closed doors as part of their long-running goal of persuading Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions. Officials declined to say whether the six would respond to Tehran's move, with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana's spokeswoman saying only that "the meeting is to review the latest developments on the Iran nuclear issue." Many ... Read Full Story

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