December, 2006

• 31 December

  Tehran to Host ECO Agriculture Meeting

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Third Meeting of Agriculture Ministers of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) member states will be held here in Tehran from March 5-7.

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• 31 December

  US, Zionists Feel Islamic Vigilance

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stressed in a message to the Hajj pilgrims that the United States’ administration and system of capitalism and the corrupt Zionist activists now feel the vivid truth of Islamic Vigilance.

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• 31 December

  Kidnapped Iranian Diplomats Released

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The two Iranian guests of the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani who were kidnapped by the US troops were released Friday morning.

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• 31 December

  MP Stresses Iran’s Progressive Movement in N. Field

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Chairman of Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission underlined here on Friday that his country would continue nuclear progress relying on domestic capabilities and potentials.

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• 31 December

  Enemies’ Plots Defused by Iranian Nation

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Emami Kashani stressed here today that the Iranian nation is vigilant and resolute in defending its rights, adding that enemies’ plots will be of no efficiency since the Iranian people will make them fall flat.

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• 31 December

  FM Meets Afghan President

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Thursday conferred with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on bilateral ties and the latest developments in the region.

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• 31 December

  Egypt sends weapons to shore up embattled Abbas

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — With Israel’s blessing, Egypt has delivered a large arms shipment to forces loyal to the embattled Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, officials said Thursday, in the latest Israeli attempt to boost Abbas in his bloody conflict with Hamas.

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• 31 December

  Olmert open to ‘murmur of peace’

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — In a gesture to Syria, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday said he is open to “any murmur of peace” from Israel’s enemies. Syria has recently signalled that it would like to reopen peace talks with Israel, which broke down seven years ago.

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• 31 December

  ‘Saddam may not hang within month’

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraqi officials backed away on Thursday from suggestions they would hang Saddam Hussein within a month, amid speculation the government is divided over whether to execute the ousted leader quickly.

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• 31 December

  3 million pilgrims begin Hajj

  MOUNT ARAFAT — In his tent in the desert outside the Holy City of Mecca, Suleiman Ibrahim still couldn’t believe his luck. His wife, sitting nearby, broke down in tears of joy Thursday as he recounted the day they learned they would be performing Hajj.

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