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Iran says it arrests suspected US spy
Iran's Intelligence Ministry said Saturday that its agents have arrested a person of Iranian origin on suspicion of spying for the United States.
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Indian refiners explore replacing Iranian oil - sources
Indian companies have begun talks with alternative suppliers to slowly replace Iranian oil, fearing their current mechanism for payments to Tehran for some 350,000 barrels a day (bpd) via Turkey could soon succumb to sanctions, industry…
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Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant to double capacity in near future
Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant will double its power generation capacity to 1,000 megawatts in the near future, Iranian Deputy Energy Minister said.
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Iran to produce invasive drone aircraft
Iran's military has the ability to build unmanned aircraft and is in the process of doing so, Fars News reported citing country's defense minister Ahmad Vahidi, as saying.
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Iran warns of downing other US drones in its skies
Iran will hunt down more American spy drones if the U.S. continues to violate its air space, a senior Iranian military official warned Friday, the latest in triumphant rhetoric from Tehran over the capture of the unmanned aircraft two weeks…
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Norwegians support Sotoudeh on human rights day
To mark the occasion of Human Rights Day, dozens of Iranians gathered in outside of the location Nobel Peace Prize awarding ceremony in Oslo, demanding the freedom of political prisoners such as Nasrin Sotoudeh.
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Iran to start using own nuclear fuel plates
Iran is to insert its first domestically produced uranium fuel into its Tehran reactor by mid-February, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in comments published by the IRNA state news agency on Thursday.
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Executions for drug crimes surge in Iran: Amnesty
Iran has executed more people for drug-related crimes in 2011 than in the previous two years combined, in "a killing spree of staggering proportions," Amnesty International said Thursday.
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Jailed Iranian Blogger Goes On Hunger Strike
Jailed Iranian blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has issued a letter of protest two days after starting a hunger strike at Evin Prison.
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Iran denies plan to close vital oil-transit strait
Iran on Wednesday deflated a rumor about it closing the Strait of Hormuz -- one of the world's most strategic transit points for oil -- by saying such a move was "not on the agenda."