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Report on Israel's theft of U.S. uranium set for Jan. release
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December 26, 2011 08:53 PM
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BEIRUT: A U.S.-based research institute has released on a limited basis a report into Israel’s alleged theft of highly enriched uranium from a nuclear reprocessing plant in western Pennsylvania. The report by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, a non-profit organization, is...
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Israel stole uranium from U.S., report will show
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December 05, 2011 12:51 AM
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WASHINGTON: A U.S.-based research institute will soon publish what it says is “indisputable” evidence that Israel stole weapons-grade uranium for its still-undeclared atomic weapons program from a nuclear reprocessing plant in western Pennsylvania. The Institute for Research: Middle...
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Iran’s elections shaping up as battle between conservatives
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October 04, 2011 01:45 AM
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TEHRAN: Iran’s upcoming parliamentary elections are shaping up to be a battle between rival conservative factions, two political analysts from opposite sides of the Iranian political spectrum told The Daily Star in a joint interview. The March 2012 vote is widely seen as a gauge of public...
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Iran’s culture suffering from state cronyism
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October 04, 2011 01:40 AM
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TEHRAN: “There’s a poem by Rumi that says that anyone who has been in the field can do something about that field,” muses Nader Karimian Sardashti, “which means that one who has expertise is the best suited to do something in his area of expertise. ”A director of...
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Revolutions are an Islamic awakening: Grand Ayatollah
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October 03, 2011 02:23 AM
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QOM, Iran: The protest movements rocking the Arab world are an Islamic awakening that is weakening Israel and strengthening Iran’s regional position, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Ali Alavi Gorgani told The Daily Star. “We worship God, because of his plan and fate; even with all the...
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Iranians divided over effects of Arab Spring
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October 03, 2011 02:23 AM
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TEHRAN: Iranians are divided over the nature of the Arab uprisings that have swept the region, and whether the protests have strengthened or weakened Iran’s position in the Middle East, two analysts told The Daily Star in a joint interview. “The power of the U.S. administration is...
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Nasrallah risks alienating Syrians, Iranian expert warns
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October 01, 2011 02:14 AM
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TEHRAN: Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah risks alienating Syrians in the same way that he drove away many of his supporters in Iran by interfering in their domestic affairs, an Iranian professor told The Daily Star during a joint interview in Tehran with two analysts from opposite sides of the political...
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Iran’s bazaar culture suffering under Ahmadinejad
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October 01, 2011 02:06 AM
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TEHRAN: Until recently, a walk down the narrow covered streets near Tehran’s Sayyed Esmail Shrine was like a journey into Iran’s rich cultural past. In shops all along the tight, teeming alleyways, blade smiths pounded steel bars into daggers and swords, embroiderers carefully stitched...
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Ayatollah: Hezbollah will respond to attack on Iran
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September 27, 2011 02:27 AM
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TEHRAN: Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah has said Hezbollah will destroy Tel Aviv if Israel attacks Iran, an Iranian ayatollah told The Daily Star. Ayatollah Jafar Shoujouni, a senior Shiite scholar and prominent member of Iran’s Combatant Clergy Association, said Nasrallah made the remark during a...
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Ahmadinejad on Al Quds Day: Annihilate Israel
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August 27, 2011 01:45 AM
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TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the Palestinians Friday to adhere to the goal of annihilating Israel and liberating all Palestinian territory, despite their plans to pursue statehood in September. Ahmadinejad was speaking at Tehran University during the annual commemoration...
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Iranian envoy urges Lebanese to unite
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May 24, 2011 01:47 AM
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BEIRUT: Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon urged the Lebanese Monday to unite and engage in dialogue in order to swiftly form a government that meets their own national interests. In a wide-ranging interview with The Daily Star, Ambassador Ghadanfar Rukn Abadi also asserted that the recent protests in...
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America’s wasteful war on inflatable pigs
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October 09, 2010 12:00 AM
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One of the latest and most bizarre twists in America’s “war on terror” is that it targeted the activities of a man who was in 2005 named by the third-oldest surviving US daily newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, as one of three “Citizens of the Year.” Gene Stilp, a...
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Bringing Hizbullah's side of the story to the UK
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March 15, 2008 12:00 AM
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BEIRUT: When Ibrahim Moussawi, the chief editor of the Hizbullah-affiliated newspaper Al-Intiqad, stepped up to the microphone to deliver his speech to a packed lecture hall in Bristol, England, he was promptly interrupted. A young man, wearing a T-shirt bearing a Star of David and the word "Jew,"...
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One man's tussles with the thought police
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December 17, 2007 12:00 AM
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INTERVIEW BEIRUT: Sitting in his office, clad in jacket, button-down shirt and pressed pants, and adjusting piles of books neatly stacked atop his desk, Ibrahim Moussawi hardly looks like a threat to anything, let alone national security. But when Moussawi, editor in chief of the...
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War or no war, children give the South a fighting chance
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October 03, 2006 12:00 AM
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SOUTH LEBANON: "Take a picture of my house," one of Marwaheen's truly senior citizens told two reporters who visited what remains of her home on Saturday. Six weeks after the 34-day war with Israel came to an end under a United Nations-brokered cessation of hostilities, the elderly woman refused...
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