January, 2007

• 23 January

  Iran, Belarus Ink Agreement on Defense Cooperation

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following their second round of talks, Iranian and Belarusian defense ministers here on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of defense.

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• 23 January

  IRGC Missile Test Starts in Central Iran

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) began missile war games in Garmsar region, 100 kilometers east of Tehran on Sunday.

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• 23 January

  Hegemonic Policies Fail in Mideast

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a meeting with Syrian Minister of Telecommunications and Technology Amir Nasir Salim here on Monday stressed that the policies of the hegemonic system for the Middle-East region have all been wrong and ended up in failure.

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• 23 January

  Ahmadinejad Confers with Belarus Defense Minister

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with the visiting Belarusian Defense Minister, Leonid Maltsev, here on Monday.

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• 23 January

  10 Foreigners Arrested in Southern Iran

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Law Enforcement agents arrested 10 foreign nationals, including one Iraqi, 4 Afghans and 5 Bangladeshis, for illegal entry into the Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday.

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• 23 January

  US Strives to Sow Discord among Shiites, Sunnites

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Islamists’ leader in the Republic of Azerbaijan said that the US and Israel are endeavoring to sow seeds of discord between the Muslim Shiites and Sunnites in that country.

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• 23 January

  Ahmadinejad Meets Qatari FM

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with the visiting Qatari Foreign Minister, Hamad bin Jasim bin Jabir al-Thani, here on Sunday.

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• 23 January

  Barrezani Promises to Help Release Iranian Diplomats

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The leader of the Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barrezani on Sunday promised Islamic Republic’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Kazemi Qomi not to spare any efforts in releasing the Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the US troops in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.

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• 23 January

  Argentina Stresses Expansion of Cultural Ties with Iran

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Argentine Ambassador to Tehran called for the boosting of cultural and scientific relations between the two countries.

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• 23 January

  100 killed in Iraq market blasts

  BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber crashed his car into a busy central Baghdad market Monday just seconds after another car bomb tore through the stalls where vendors were hawking DVDs and used clothing, leaving behind a scene of torment, pools of blood and at least 100 people dead.

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