Eurasia Press & News
European Parliament (EP) President Hans-Gert Poettering said Friday (June 22nd) that the EU remains committed to resolving the case of six medics – five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who has been granted Bulgarian citizenship – who face death sentences in Libya for allegedly infecting hundreds of children with …
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June, 2007
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25 June
No progress on new Kosovo resolution at UN Security Council, Russia to skip consultations Monday
The ambassadors of countries on the UN Security Council failed to agree on a new draft resolution on Kosovo, presented by the EU members and the United States, during closed-door talks Friday (June 22nd).
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25 June
Flawed Presumptions of the Proponents of Engagement with Iranian Mullahs
The argument for negotiating with Tehran’s mullahs rests upon several flawed presumptions: 1. Iran’s regime is stable and the Iran’s rulers have sufficient power to suppress opposition. 2. The West is willing to offer to Iran something that Iran wants. 3. Iran’s ayatollahs are willing to compromise their ideological aspirations. …
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25 June
Iranian Quds Force meddling in Afghanistan is unfolding
Yesterday, the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, was outraged at his people getting killed in the streets of Kabul and other cities by what he called foreigners.
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25 June
Why Isn’t Iran Like the Poland of Solidarity?
Norman Podhoretz, Editor-at-Large of Commentary Magazine, published an essay in the June 2007 issue of Commentary Magazine and republished it in the Wall Street Journal on May 30, 2007 (“The Case for Bombing Iranâ€), in which he declared his fervent prayer that President George W. Bush would choose to bomb …
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25 June
Massive crackdown against dissent under way in Iran: report
Iranian authorities have launched a ferocious crackdown on dissent, targeting labor leaders, universities, the press, women’s rights advocates and Iranian-Americans, The New York Times reported on its website late Saturday.
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25 June
Rice cool to any partial nuclear suspension by Iran
The United States dismissed on Sunday the idea of a partial suspension of uranium enrichment by Iran, saying that Washington and its allies still insisted on a full suspension.
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25 June
Iran supplied missile that hit UK helicopter
A ROYAL NAVY helicopter that crashed in flames in Basra last year, killing all five on board, was shot down by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile supplied to Iraqi militants by Iran, according to US officials.
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25 June
Palestinian Intelligence : Iran played big role in Gaza Seizure
Iran played a “big role” in Hamas’s seizure of Gaza from Palestinian security forces earlier this month, Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfiq al-Tirawi charged on Sunday.
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25 June
Mosul journalist shot to death on her way home from work
A 35-year-old Iraqi journalist was shot to death Sunday on her way home from work in Mosul, officials said, the second female journalist to be killed in the northern city this month.
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