April, 2007

• 19 April

  Row over Afghan TV station raid

  BBC News – Staff at an Afghan television station in the capital, Kabul, have protested against a raid by armed police who allegedly assaulted workers there. Dozens of journalists and Members of Parliament demonstrated outside parliament against the raid. They accused President Hamid Karzai of smothering freedom of speech during …

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• 19 April

  U.S. eyes Iran in Afghanistan

  By CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press The U.S. will keep a close eye on Iran’s involvement in Afghanistan following reports that Taliban insurgents used Iranian-made weapons against NATO forces, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. Richard Boucher, Assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, told reporters that Washington would …

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• 19 April

  Ban distressed by UN deaths in Afghanistan

  AFP – UN chief Ban Ki-moon expressed distress Tuesday over the deaths of five UN contractors in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, as well over mounting civilian casualties in the country. “The secretary general was deeply distressed to learn of the fatal incident which occurred earlier this morning, when a …

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• 19 April

  Afghanistan’s Hazaras still await their due

  By Raju Gopalakrishnan, Reuters When U.S.-led forces defeated the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in 2001, the Hazaras, a tribe living in the central mountains, cheered the loudest. The mostly Shi’ite Hazaras had been oppressed by the Sunni rulers in Kabul through centuries of tumultuous Afghan history. But when the strictly …

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• 18 April

  Iran Keeps Equipment of 15 British Marines

  Equipment and weaponry of the 15 British marines were not returned to London, an informed source said here on Wednesday.

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• 18 April

  Iran’s Powerful Army Aims to Strengthen Regional Peace

  Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said his country’s powerful, efficient and well-equipped army is fully prepared to defend Iran while it merely seeks to reinvigorate sustainable peace, stability and security in the region.

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• 18 April

  Ahmadinejad Blasts West for Portraying a Belligerent Image of Iran

  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said those whose histories are filled with aggressions, oppressions and cruelties are indicting Iran for aggression and belligerency.

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• 18 April

  Iran Ready for Joint Cultural Cooperation with Armenia

  President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Ezzatollah Zarqami, in a meeting with Armenian Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosian, voiced Tehran’s preparedness to launch joint cultural cooperation with Yerevan.

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• 18 April

  VP: Foreign Investment in Iran not Affected by US Pressures

  Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Dawoodi said that the pressures exerted by the US and certain countries on foreign investors to prevent them from investing their capitals in Iran have all proved unfruitful.

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• 18 April

  Speaker Calls on Bush to Improve US Domestic Security

  If Mr. Bush has any power, he’d better spend it on the establishment of security and freedom inside his country, Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said pointing to the recent manslaughter at Virginia Tech University.

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