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Names of streets in Tehran

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‘US sheds crocodile tears on Syria’

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Iran probes diplomat’s defection in Norway

Iran said Saturday it is investigating the reported defection of one of its diplomats in Norway, with a spokesman suggesting it was due to personal problems, Mehr news agency said. “Despite completing his mission, an administrative staffer at our embassy in Oslo has not yet returned to Tehran…

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Iran wins FILA Freestyle Wrestling World Cup in Tehran

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Iran will ‘never’ shut down its Fordo nuclear facility – senior legislator

Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran.(AFP Photo / Atta Kenare)Tehran will never shut down its Fordo uranium enrichment plant, Iran’s senior parliament member has said in the wake of world powers’ reported plan to offer lighter gold sanctions in exchange for closing Fordo.­“Our national duty is to defend our nuclear and vital centers against an enemy threat,” head of Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee chief Alaeddin Boroujerdi told Iran Students’ News Agency (ISNA) Sunday.World powers are honing in on
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Iran’s nuclear program, and on Friday it was reported that they plan to offer easing on gold sanctions against Iran in exchange for the closure of Fordo. If the plant is not closed, Britain, China, Germany, France, Russia, and the US (the P5+1) will uphold gold sanctions against Iran, Reuters reported on Friday citing unnamed officials.“This suggestion is meant to help the Zionist regime,”Boroujerdi said in regards to the trade-off, adding that “Fordo will never be shut down.”Iran secretly started construction of the underground plant in 2006.In November, Iran’s nuclear chief, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani announced Tehran was set to sharply boost the number of centrifuges they used to produce nuclear fuel.The US and its nuclear equipped allies want to shut down Fordo to curb Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program. Tehran is refining uranium at concentrations of 20% and it insists that its program is entirely peaceful.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted at military force against Iran for the past year if the Islamic state fails to curb its nuclear ambitions, raising worldwide anxiety of an Israeli-Iranian stand-off.The P5+1 and Iran are expected to meet February 26 in Almaty, Kazakhstan for further nuclear proliferation talks. Read More

Iran’s Nuclear Upgrade Confirmed By Diplomat

VIENNA — Adding weight to its announcement of a nuclear upgrade, Tehran has shown high-level U.N. officials high-tech equipment positioned at its main uranium enrichment site meant to vastly accelerate output of material that can be used for both reactor fuel and atomic arms, a senior diplomat said Thursday.

The diplomat spoke to The Associated Press shortly after the officials returned from Tehran, acknowledging that their latest in a series of trips to the Iranian capital that began over a year ago again failed to reach a deal to restart an investigation into suspicions that Iran is pursuing nuclear arms.

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Nuclear agency talks with Iran fail again

The chief UN atomic inspector said Thursday that talks with Iran had failed again to reach a deal on agreeing enhanced inspections of Tehran’s nuclear programme, and that no new meeting had been set. “We had discussions on the structured approach document but could not finalise the…

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