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  • Israeli submarine crosses Suez Canal
    An Israeli submarine crossed through the Suez Canal last month as a part of a military training exercise, defence officials said today. The move is believed to have been made as a warning to Iran of the Jewish state's capabilities and to show that Israel
  • Israeli sub crosses Suez Canal
    An Israeli submarine has sailed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea in a trip that Israeli media are interpreting as a warning signal to Iran. An Israeli defense official said Saturday the Dolphin-class submarine made the passage last month from a
  • McCain: Obama slow to embrace Iran protestors
    Iranians who've protested the results of their country's presidential election are on the 'right side of history' as first established by the Declaration of Independence, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Saturday. McCain took aim at President Obama's
  • Ahmadinejad reportedly wants talk with Obama
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he wants to engage President Obama in "negotiations" before international media, a semi-official Iranian news outlet reported on Saturday.
  • [HARDCOVER: US] When affairs of the heart require courage
    ge 14 In what now reads like an eerie echo of the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, a young Iranian woman cut down by a bullet during this months election protests and captured on video, the Iranian author of this new novel foresees the possible death of his
  • Syria mends US, Arab ties as ally Iran in turmoil
    Syrias leader sent a July 4 message full of praise to US President Barack Obama on Friday and invited him to visit Syria X the latest signs Damascus is hedging its bets in Middle East politics, warming up to its rival the US at a time when its longtime
  • A July 4 Message for President Obama
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Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling shah was forced into exile. Conservative clerical forces subsequently crushed westernizing liberal elements. Militant Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979 and held it until 20 January 1981. During 1980-88, Iran fought a bloody, indecisive war with Iraq over disputed territory. The key current issue is how rapidly the country should open up to the modernizing influences of the outside world.

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