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Iran in parallel nuclear talks in Vienna, Istanbul

Agence France-PresseMay 15, 2013 08:15
Iran held two sets of talks Wednesday aimed at easing tensions over its nuclear programme, but prospects for any breakthrough were low ahead of next month's elections in the Islamic republic. In Vienna, the UN atomic agency, the IAEA, pressed Iranian officials to grant access to sites, documents and scientists involved in Tehran's alleged efforts to develop atomic weapons.

Iran in parallel nuclear talks in Vienna, Istanbul

Agence France-PresseMay 15, 2013 05:30
Iran held two sets of talks Wednesday aimed at easing tensions over its nuclear programme, but prospects for any breakthrough were low ahead of next month's elections in the Islamic republic. In Vienna, the UN atomic agency, the IAEA, pressed Iranian officials to grant access to sites, documents and scientists involved in Tehran's alleged efforts to develop atomic weapons.

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Agence France-PresseMay 14, 2013 17:30
What's happening around the world on Wednesday: -- TOP STORIES -- + New round of talks on Iran's nuclear programme + Dozens of Rohingya missing in Myanmar as cyclone looms + Cannes film festival opens + US attorney general before Congress on AP phone records

Iran hopes for progress in parallel nuclear talks

Agence France-PresseMay 14, 2013 08:15
Iran is hoping for advancement in talks with the UN atomic agency over Tehran's past activities as well as in negotiations with world powers on current sensitive nuclear work, the foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday. "We hope to see good progress" in the talks scheduled for Wednesday in Vienna between the Iranian mission and the International Atomic Energy Agency, spokesman Abbas Araqchi told reporters.

Iran plays down US snub of UN disarmament body

Agence France-PresseMay 14, 2013 05:00
Tehran on Tuesday played down a decision by the United States to boycott meetings of the UN Conference on Disarmament when Iran takes over the body later this month. "Pressure, presence or their boycott will not be important to Iran," newly appointed foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi told reporters when asked about the planned boycott by US ambassadors when Iran takes over. Iran will take over presidency of the disarmament conference from May 27 until June 23 under an alphabetical rotation among the 65 member states.

Iran ex-president Rafsanjani to stand again

Agence France-PresseMay 13, 2013 16:10
Iran's moderate former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Saturday registered his candidacy to stand for office again, an AFP correspondent witnessed. Rafsanjani filed his papers at the interior ministry. He has been isolated since the 2009 presidential election, which saw massive street protests against the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. mia-mod/srm

Iran nuclear negotiator Jalili enters presidential contest: IRNA

May 13, 2013 12:00
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, has registered to run for president in the Islamic Republic's June 14 election, the state news agency IRNA said on Saturday. Jalili, a veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, has since 2007 headed Iran's Supreme National Security Council and is regarded as a hardline conservative close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Sanctions help to stoke Iran property boom but bubble feared

May 13, 2013 10:46
By Marcus George and Zahra Hosseinian (Reuters) - The Iranian property developer leant back in his chair, drew hard on a shisha pipe and looked down at photographs of a Tehran apartment block on his tablet computer. "I designed it myself," he said proudly as he blew a cloud of scented smoke out into Dubai's night air.

Rafsanjani seeks return to Iran's political limelight

Agence France-PresseMay 12, 2013 21:26
Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who registered on Saturday for next month's presidential election, is disliked among regime hardliners for criticising the crackdown that followed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009. This pragmatic moderate, who in 2011 lost the post of head of the Assembly of Experts that supervises the activities of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has never hidden his intense opposition to Ahmadinejad who beat him in the 2005 presidential election.

CORRECTED: Rafsanjani seeks return to Iran's political limelight

Agence France-PresseMay 12, 2013 21:26
Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who registered on Saturday for next month's presidential election, is disliked among regime hardliners for criticising the crackdown that followed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009. This pragmatic moderate, who in 2011 lost the post of head of the Assembly of Experts that supervises the activities of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has never hidden his intense opposition to Ahmadinejad who beat him in the 2005 presidential election.
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