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CNN
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An Iranian official says the government wants the United States to stop its "savage attacks" in Iraq before its envoys hold more talks with U.S. and Iraqi officials, Iran's Fars News Agency reported. "Under the current circumstances and given the U.S. wid..
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CNN
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lashed out at the United States during an unprecedented trip to Iraq. He is demanding that major powers leave the region. Ahmadinejad says the foreign presence in Iraq is an "insult to the regional nations and a h..
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New York Times
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The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel.
Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance the..
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Yahoo News
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Americans are concerned about Iran's nuclear program but split on whether the United States should take military action to shut it down if diplomatic efforts fail, according to a USA Today/Gallup Poll released on Monday.
Seventy-three percent of those..
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Washington Post
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The United States has decided to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country's 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a "specially designated global terrorist," according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group's..
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Washington Post
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Al-Qaeda has reestablished its central organization, training infrastructure and lines of global communication over the past two years, putting the United States in a "heightened threat environment" despite expanded worldwide counterterrorism efforts, acc..
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USA Today
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The United States and Iran traded accusations Monday about responsibility for violence in Iraq but agreed that the goal there should be a stable, democratic country at peace with its neighbors.
U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Iranian Ambassador Hassan..
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Haaretz
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Fully 71 percent of Israelis believe that the United States should launch a military attack on Iran if diplomatic efforts fail to halt Tehran's nuclear program, according to a new poll.
The survey, commissioned by Bar-Ilan University's BESA Center and..
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CNN
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The United States urged North Korea on Sunday to invite international inspectors back and begin shutting down a nuclear reactor, but the top U.S. negotiator repeated that Washington would give Pyongyang a few more days.
Pyongyang apparently missed a de..
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News.com.au
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said overnight the United States had no plans to release five Iranians captured in Iraq and accused of supporting Iraqi insurgents.
Mr Gates rejected speculation that the United States was preparing to release the grou..
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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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CNN
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled a planned visit to the United Nations, and Tehran's U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, on Friday blamed a delay in U.S. visas being issued to the crew of his airplane.
Ahmadinejad wanted to speak to the U.N..
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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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news.xinhuanet.com
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Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane recently, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Tuesday as the Islamic Republic was facing increasing military pressure from its arch rival -- the United States...
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New York Times
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With thousands of Iraqis desperately fleeing this country every day, advocates for refugees, and even some American officials, say there is an urgent need to allow more Iraqi refugees into the United States...
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CNN
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The United States could have avoided the post-invasion chaos in Iraq had it listened to, and learned from, the British, Prince Andrew said in comments published in a London newspaper Tuesday. Andrew's interview, published in the International Herald Tribu..
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MSNBC
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit Tuesday to the city that Iraq's Kurds call their Jerusalem, an oil-rich territory claimed by many where the United States says it sees new signs of cooperation and progress.
Rice was seeing..
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SF Gate
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Eight Turkish soldiers captured by a Kurdish separatist group were released Sunday, helping ease a standoff between two of the United States' most trusted regional allies.
The soldiers were captured in an Oct. 21 ambush by the Kurdistan Workers Party,..
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SF Gate
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After keeping quiet for much of the year as Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf suppressed domestic opposition, the United States on Monday issued an unusually harsh rebuke to the government for locking up key political rivals ahead of next week's electi..
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USA Today
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National intelligence director Mike McConnell said Tuesday that U.S. authorities are worried about "sleeper cells" of would-be terrorists inside the United States and are remaining vigilant against any new attacks.
On the sixth anniversary of the attac..
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