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Iran's Khamenei says big election turnout will frustrate foes
Reuters* Hardliners yet to unite behind single candidate * Moderate cleric could cause upset if turnout high By Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI, June 12 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader urged voters to turn in big numbers for a presidential election on Friday,...Tags: Bashar Assad, Mohsen Rezai, Ali Akbar Velayati, Iran, Saeed Jalili
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Nuclear negotiator Jalili edges ahead in Iranian election race
Reuters* Hardliner staunchly loyal to Supreme Leader Khamenei * Among three prominent conservatives vying for presidency * Rejects any softening in nuclear talks with big powers By Jon Hemming DUBAI, June 12 (Reuters) - Steadfastly loyal to Iran's supreme...Tags: Media Industry, Saeed Jalili, Culture, Twitter, Inc., Iran
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Iran's leading reformist candidate drops out of presidential election
TEHRAN -- Leading reformist candidate Mohammad Reza Aref announced Tuesday that he was dropping out of the race to be Iran's next president, leaving centrist Hassan Rowhani as the sole moderate-leaning candidate in Friday’s election. There had...
Tags: Hasan Rowhani, Iran, Nelson Mandela, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Reza Aref
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RPT-INTERVIEW-Khamenei is erasing Iran's presidency, Bani-Sadr says
Reuters(Repeats Tuesday story without changes to text) * Bani-Sadr says election signals end of presidency's power * Presidential candidates show no desire to oppose Khamenei * Iranian doctrine is to "defend Syria's Assad at all costs" By John Irish...Tags: Bashar Assad, Ruhollah Khomeini, Lebanon, Petroleum Industry, Iran
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PREVIEW-Iran election offers choice, but little change
Reuters* Election ends eight years of Ahmadinejad as president * Reformists back sole moderate candidate * Hardliners stronger but lack unity candidate * Restrictions tight to avoid repeat of 2009 unrest By Marcus George DUBAI, June 12 (Reuters) - Friday'...Tags: Bashar Assad, Ali Akbar Velayati, Lebanon, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Mohsen Rezai
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India offers incentives for exports to Iran, trade body expects jump
ReutersNEW DELHI, June 11 (Reuters) - India has offered incentives for exports to Iran, the trade ministry announced, a step industry officials said on Tuesday could double the country's sales to sanctions-hit Tehran to $6 billion in the current fiscal year that...Tags: Iran, European Union, New Delhi (India), India
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INSIGHT-Ahead of vote, "kidnapped" Iran reformists imprisoned at home
Reuters* Families fear for health of opposition leaders kept locked indoors * Mousavi and Karoubi led "Green Movement" that contested 2009 vote * Sources reveal conditions of captivity, deep isolation By Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI, June 11 (Reuters) - Four...Tags: Police Arrests, Family, Armed Conflicts, Symptoms, Kidnapping
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FACTBOX-Contenders in Iranian presidential election
ReutersJune 10 (Reuters) - Following are brief sketches of the remaining six candidates in Iran's June 14 presidential election. Reformist Mohammad Reza Aref withdrew from the race on Monday evening, and reformists threw their support behind cleric Hassan...Tags: Iran, Iraq War (2003-2011), Iraq, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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S.Korea shippers join overseas rivals in shunning Iran business
ReutersBy Meeyoung Cho SEOUL, June 11 (Reuters) - South Korean container shippers are joining a wave of their international peers in giving up on Iranian business ahead of new U.S. sanctions in July, adding to pressure on Tehran's vital seaborne trade. South...Tags: Iran, South Korea, Shipping Service, Government, National Government
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Iran presidential race down to choice of 2 conservatives
TEHRAN — When Iranians go to the polls Friday, they will bid an unceremonious farewell to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the populist with the zip-up windbreaker who ran afoul of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, even as he became Iran's provocative face...
Tags: Saeed Jalili, News Agency, Iran, Nuclear Policy, Iraq
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COLUMN: Obama's foreign policy reset
The appointment of Susan Rice as national security adviser sends an important signal about the kind of foreign policy President Obama wants to pursue for the remainder of his second term: activist, assertive, occasionally even pugnacious. With three years...Tags: George W. Bush, Arab Spring, National Security, Armed Conflicts, Israel
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Jeannette Walls' Visit Among R.J. Julia Events
The Hartford CourantJeannette Walls, the journalist whose 2009 memoir "The Glass Castle," about growing up poor with brilliant but neglectful parents, has been a New York Times bestseller for five years, has written her first novel, "The Silver Star" (Scribner, $26). It's...Tags: Libraries, West Hartford, Book, Colleges and Universities, Christianity
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