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BBC News
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US President George W Bush says he wants to pursue diplomacy to deal with Iran's controversial nuclear programme, but "all options are on the table".
Mr Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said further sanctions against Iran were possible.
"The f..
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BBC News
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Iran has responded defiantly to new sanctions imposed by the US targeting Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and three state-owned banks.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the sanctions were doomed to failure.
The US move came as a senior Americ..
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CNN
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Iran's Foreign Ministry has said that tougher U.S. sanctions are "doomed to fail" and accused Washington of adopting confrontational policies amid simmering tensions over Tehran's refusal to halt its nuclear program. Washington imposed stiff sanctions aga..
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MSNBC
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The Bush administration plans to roll out an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds..
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USA Today
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday warned against the use of force in Iran and against unilateral sanctions to punish Tehran for its nuclear program.
"We are convinced that no modern problem has a military solution, and that applies to t..
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USA Today
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A senior Iranian official warned Saturday that further U.N. sanctions over Tehran's contentious nuclear program could derail ongoing negotiations toward a settlement.
Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear envoy, said after his latest round of talks with Eur..
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BBC News
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World renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs has condemned the US decision to impose fresh sanctions on Sudan over Darfur.
Mr Sachs said this would do little to address the underlying causes of the four-year conflict, which he said was a squeeze on natural r..
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CNN
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is rejecting new United Nations sanctions as illegal, according to IRNA, the state-run Iranian news agency.
Ahmadinejad, in an interview with France's Channel 2 TV network, warned nations "seeking to impose sanctio..
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Los Angeles Times
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ECONOMIC SANCTIONS have a bad reputation. That's unfortunate, because the kind of sanctions the United States is proposing for Iran are more effective and more humane than sanctions used to be. They also happen to be more realistic than any of the other o..
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New York Times
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Iran’s internal battle over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s defiant rhetoric on Iran’s nuclear program continued to simmer on Sunday, with the president repeating his vow to ignore international sanctions and a moderate daily newspaper warning of Ir..
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BBC News
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Gordon Brown and President George Bush have warned Iran to accept their "offers of partnership" or face tough sanctions and international isolation.
The UK prime minister said he wanted to maintain a dialogue with Tehran, but if Iran ignores UN resolut..
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MSNBC
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In no way, shape of form does it anticipate the use of force,” said Nicholas Burns, the State Department’s No. 3 diplomat.
Instead, officials said they hope the measures will increase pressure on Iran to take a deal offered last year that would giv..
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SF Gate
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Struggling against Burma's stubborn generals and neighboring nations skeptical of sanctions, a U.N. envoy returned to the region Sunday to push for negotiations between the military junta and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Ibrahim Gambari, once fo..
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USA Today
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The Bush administration is moving toward blacklisting Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a "terrorist" organization, subjecting at least part of the entity to financial sanctions in a new move against the Islamic republic, a U.S. official said Tuesday...
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FOX News
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President Bush ordered new U.S. economic sanctions Tuesday to pressure Sudan's government to halt the bloodshed in Darfur that the administration has condemned as genocide.
"I promise this to the people of Darfur: the United States will not avert our e..
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Al Jazeera
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He also said he was barring people found responsible for violence in Darfur from doing business with Americans and would continue to work towards a diplomatic solution through the UN.
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Bush directed Condoleezza Rice, the US secreta..
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BBC News
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US President George W Bush is set to announce fresh sanctions on Sudan over the Darfur conflict, US officials said.
The US will also push for a stronger UN Security Council resolution punishing Khartoum over the ongoing violence, singling out President..
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SF Gate
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has put his personal diplomatic clout on the line to end the bloodshed in Darfur, demanding a cease-fire and fresh peace talks in a letter to Sudan's president, U.S. and Sudanese diplomats said this weekend.
Ban has a..
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BBC News
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The US has said it will press for a new set of sanctions to be imposed on Iran over its continued failure to suspend its uranium enrichment programme.
The call came after the UN's nuclear watchdog said Tehran was stepping up enrichment despite UN Secur..
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SF Gate
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President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe threatened North Korea on Friday with the possibility of new sanctions unless it abides by its promise to shut down its nuclear program, while Bush invited senior lawmakers to the White House next week..
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