Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- If Israel does something stupid, it will face a shocking response the likes of which it has never encountered before, an Iranian diplomat in Syria said.
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August, 2008
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8 August
Iran to Sell 25% Stake in National Operator
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian government is planning to sell off up to a quarter of the state owned telecoms operator, Telecommunications Company of Iran (TCI).
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8 August
Iraqi President to Pursue Talks with US on Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi president Jalal Al Talabani is in the United States to receive medical treatment, but he will make time during his journey to follow up secret talks with American officials on the Iranian nuclear issue, sources from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed by Al Talabani, said.
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8 August
Terrorist Leader Willing to Talk to Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- The leader of a terrorist group responsible for a string of attacks in southeastern Iran said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that he was ready to enter talks with the Tehran government.
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8 August
India Rejects Permission to N. Korean Plane
TEHRAN (FNA)- India this afternoon withdrew its permission for a North Korean plane to overfly Indian airspace on its way to Iran, just before it could take off from Mandalay in Myanmar where it had made a stopover.
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8 August
Iran Aids Lebanon with Reconstruction
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran sign a grant agreement with the Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction to help the Council repair the road between Naqoura and Marjayoun in southern Lebanon.
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8 August
IAEA Deputy Head Starts Talks with Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- The second man of United Nations nuclear watchdog agency began talks with Iranian officials in Tehran on Thursday over the country’s nuclear program.
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8 August
Iranian President Honors Journalists’ Day
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with a group of journalists and media people here in Tehran Thursday night to honor Journalists’ Day (August 7).
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8 August
Medvedev vows to protect compatriots in South Ossetia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vowed on Friday to defend “compatriots” in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia and promised to punish those responsible for their deaths.
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8 August
Bush and Putin discuss Georgia fighting
BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin discussed the fighting in Georgia, the former Soviet republic that is pushing to join NATO, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said on Friday.
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