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Iran film festival scaled down but still fired up - Boston Globe Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:57:42 GMT

Boston Globe
Iran film festival scaled down but still fired up
Boston Globe
It's a sign of the times that for its 20th anniversary, the Boston Festival of Films From Iran can't boast the legendary names of past years, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, or Mohsen Makhmalbaf, whose work has defined modern Iranian cinema.

McManus: Confronting Iran -- again - Los Angeles Times Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:01:23 GMT

McManus: Confronting Iran -- again
Los Angeles Times
It's become an annual event on the diplomatic calendar: The United States and its allies press Iran to stop enriching uranium, Iran says no, Israel warns that its patience is running out, and the United States persuades Israel to stay its hand. That's ...

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American pastor jailed in Iran faces torture - Jerusalem Post Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:58:45 GMT

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American pastor jailed in Iran faces torture
Jerusalem Post
BERLIN – The family of American-Iranian pastor Saeed Abedini released a letter from him on Thursday stating that Iranian authorities have threatened him with death because of his belief in Christianity. “This is the process in my life today: One day I ...
US Pastor Jailed in Iran Tells Family of Death ThreatChristian Post
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Imprisoned American pastor tells family of death threats, torture in IranIran Focus
American Center for Law and Justice (blog)
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Airlines stop Iran flights as sanctions hit economy - Jerusalem Post Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:04:01 GMT

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Airlines stop Iran flights as sanctions hit economy
Jerusalem Post
LONDON - Two European airlines said on Saturday they were halting services to Iran, a sign of the crumbling purchasing power of Iranians as their economy buckles under the weight of Western sanctions. Air France-KLM will suspend its Amsterdam-Tehran ...
KLM to cease flights to Iran in AprilMiamiHerald.com (registration)

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Turkey's time to remove the dirt with Iran - Pravda Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:01:48 GMT

Turkey's time to remove the dirt with Iran
Pravda
The Syrian conflict is worsening diplomatic relations between Turkey and Iran. Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad canceled a visit to Turkey to disagree with Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense of the United States. Panetta traveled to the south ...

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Spanish police say seized items intended for Iran nuclear program - CNN Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:23:12 GMT

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Spanish police say seized items intended for Iran nuclear program
CNN
Madrid (CNN) -- It was not a routine traffic stop. At a toll road booth in northern Spain on Friday, Spanish police swooped in to inspect a trailer truck and seized what they said was material destined for Iran's nuclear program, an Interior Ministry ...
Iran is popular in Pakistan, overwhelmingly disliked everywhere elseWashington Post (blog)
Iran's Fear of 'Regime Change' WarConsortium News
Iran nuclear talks date setFiji Times
Ynetnews -New York Times
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Iran Denies Cyber Attacks on US Banks - ABC News Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:01:30 GMT

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Iran Denies Cyber Attacks on US Banks
ABC News
The Iranian government has officially denied any involvement in the wave of relatively unsophisticated cyber attacks that have struck glancing blows on websites for U.S. financial institutions over the past months. "Unlike the United States, which has ...
Iran May Not Be Behind Bank Cyberattacks, Experts SayYahoo! News (blog)
Iran Denies Responsibility for US Bank Cyber AttacksFox Business
Experts unsure whether Iran is behind bank DDoS attacksComputerworld
New York Times -Aljazeera.com
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Iran plans a movie response to 'Argo' - USA TODAY Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:14:37 GMT

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Iran plans a movie response to 'Argo'
USA TODAY
An Iranian director plans to produceIran's own hostage-release movie in response to Argo, the Oscar-nominated film about a secret operation that extracted six U.S. diplomats from Iran in 1980, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported Friday. "The movie ...
Rejecting 'Argo,' Iran to produce film version of 1979 hostage crisisFox News
Iran to produce film refuting Ben Affleck's 'Argo'Jerusalem Post
Tehran's Hollywood tit-for-tat: Iran to shoot a movie to strike against ...RT
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Iran denies reports it was behind cyber attacks on US banks - Tehran Times Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:44:24 GMT

Iran denies reports it was behind cyber attacks on US banks
Tehran Times
Computer experts told the New York Times in a report published late on Tuesday that the United States government was certain that a recent series of cyber-attacks against U.S. banks had been carried out by Iran in retaliation for sanctions and online ...
Iran denies involvement in cyber attacks against US banksZee News

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If Iran gets the bomb - National Post Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:01:59 GMT

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If Iran gets the bomb
National Post
The odds are that Iran will acquire a nuclear military capacity in the next year or 18 months. The subject has been bandied about for so long that the implications of such a step are now widely accepted with resignation — much as with North Korea ...

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