s ex-president and Muslim Brotherhood figurehead could face capital punishment if found guilty of espionage An Egyptian prosecutor on Sunday accused the ousted Islamist president of passing state secrets to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the first such explicit detail in an ongoing espionage trial. If convicted, Mohamed Morsi could face capital punishment. He already stands accused of a string of other...
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s body to Iran at his family's request, after a postmortem in Papua New Guinea. The Australian embassy in Port Moresby conveyed the sympathies of the Australian government. Papua New Guinea is one of two South Pacific nations where Australia operates camps to house thousands of asylum seekers, mostly from the Middle East, who have tried to enter the country illegally after dangerous sea journeys from...
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ingredients for success' are an early step forward in Vienna talks Three days of talks between Iran and six world powers in Vienna have ended to "a good start" as diplomats negotiating for a final nuclear deal, agreed on a mutual framework before they could discuss details in future sessions. "We have had three very productive days during which we have identified all of the issues we need to address...
s embassy in London on Thursday as the UK and Tehran restored direct diplomatic contacts through non-resident chargé d'affaires rather than via third-country intermediaries. As Iran and six world powers including Britain agreed on a framework for further nuclear talks in Vienna, the foreign office announced that Sweden will cease to represent the UK interest section in Iran because London and Tehran...
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tremendous' Iran's queen of pop, Googoosh, has released a video in support of the country's gay and lesbian community, becoming the first prominent Iranian to speak out against homophobia. The video for her latest song Behesht (Heaven), released on her Facebook page on Valentine's Day, portrays a lesbian couple in a relationship banned both by society and by their families. Navid Akhavan, who wrote...
s foreign minister and senior negotiator say only nuclear issues will be discussed as next round of talks begins in Vienna Iran has made clear that it will only discuss nuclear issues and not its military programme as negotiations start for a comprehensive agreement aimed at settling a decades-long dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Iran's negotiating team, led by its foreign minister Mohammad...
s largest banks, whose ban from trading with the UK over alleged links to Tehran's nuclear programme was quashed by the supreme court last year. The claim by Bank Mellat, which is more than double the size expected , is being demanded as compensation for losses it says it incurred as a result of sanctions "negligently" imposed in 2009. The UK Treasury alleged that the Tehran-based bank financed firms...
but I am not opposed either' Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said that Tehran will remain committed to the interim nuclear agreement with the west while insisting that he was not optimistic about the upcoming talks. On the eve of a fresh round of negotiations in Vienna aimed at reaching a comprehensive nuclear deal, Khamenei, who has the final say in all state matters, reiterated...
s State of the Union assertion that US pressure rolled back Tehran's nuclear programme called 'delusional' Full coverage of Obama's State of the Union address Iran has said comments in Barack Obama's State of the Union speech about how sanctions linked to its nuclear programme had forced Tehran to the negotiating table were "unrealistic and unconstructive". "The delusion of sanctions having an effect...
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m not thinking about it." Clinton is widely considered the presumptive Democratic nominee for president in 2016. Given the atavistic chaos that afflicts the Republicans, many view her as the virtual president-elect. Time magazine ran a cover story this month headlined " Can Anyone Stop Hillary ?" The New York Times Magazine followed with a cover story of its own, the latest in a stream of media coverage...
s gesture, copied by his entire class of more than 20 pupils, stops bullying and attracts praise from all over country When Iranian schoolteacher Ali Mohammadian noticed that one of his students was being bullied after going bald as a result of a mysterious illness, he decided to show solidarity and shave his own hair. In no time, his entire class shaved their heads and the bullying stopped. Now, Mohammadian,...
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