Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980) was king of Iran and second in the Pahlavi dynasty. A revolution, led by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, forced him into exile.Mohammad Reza was born on Oct. 27,...
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Teheran (dpa) - Iran was determined to normalize ties with Egypt
and was just waiting for Cairo's reply to do so, Iranian Foreign
Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday. ...
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Ryszard Kapuscinski, a Polish writer and journalist who gained international acclaim for his books chronicling the unrest in Africa and the Middle East, died in Warsaw on Tuesday, his publisher sai...
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Tehran (dpa) - Iran would be ready to reopen its embassy in Cairo
at the earliest term, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said
Wednesday on state television.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski, a Polish writer and journalist who gained international acclaim for his books chronicling wars, coups and revolutions in Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world, d...
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Iranian police and plainclothes security agents broke up a sit-in marking Monday's anniversary of a bloody raid on a Tehran university dormitory, then stormed the offices of the country's main pro-...
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A man convicted of adultery was stoned to death last week in a village in northern Iran, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday, the first time in years that the country has confirmed such an execution...
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Washington (dpa) - US President George W Bush urged the world to
stop looking away from human rights abuses in Cuba and get tough with
Fidel Castro's regime, but analysts do...
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Cairo (dpa) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit said
Wednesday he would meet the former secretary of Iran's National
Security Council, Ali Larijani, who is in Cairo...
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Cairo (dpa) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit met
Tuesday with the former secretary of Iran's National Security
Council, Ali Larijani, and described their talks a...
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For Iranians across the political spectrum, delays in construction of the country's first nuclear reactor have strengthened their resolve to master their own nuclear technology and resist U.N. effo...
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