Iran to a new House to House, Karoubi hunting reserves (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters)-Iran's opposition leader Mehdi Karoubi were allowed to seek a new home out of house arrest, where he is under house arrest again, the conservative party website said on Saturday.

"Karoubi has been released temporarily, he and his wife are looking for a new house" Jahan Web site said. "A new House, they would continue to act against the security forces could not confirm, under the supervision of national security."

The opposition also news sites run from Karoubi Adviser, who had told the BBC Farsi service, which is needed for the strict security around Tehran, home to Karoubis was meant to go to neighbouring States, had been.

the 73-year-old cleric stood against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in elections in June 2009. Intercourse with the Democratic Party candidate Mirhossein Mousavi, he became a figurehead post election protests, according to the Iranians, who believed the vote was a means of securing the positioning of the election of hardline farmer.

The Government denied the vote rigging and said the protests were the law of the foreign enemies of the Iranian proposal, which was intended to overthrow the Islamic State, according to the shape of the country.

Karoubi and Mousavi have been arbitrary since they require their supporters onto the streets of February14 rally in support of the Arab countries, the uprisings at the end of the first demonstrations of State-of-the-art-in motion their "green" street protests were crushed by security forces since the end of 2009.

Conservative members of Parliament have called for female dominated tried and hanged, but so far the authorities have decided to isolate the official arrest warrant instead, angering supporters of them Treat them.

(Editing By Jon Hemming)

 

Iran: Ahmadinejad ally from the prohibitions of Fars Province (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters)-Iran has expired, the Court of Mahmud Ahmadinejad ally and the Director of the Office of "infringement" of the previous job, the Fars News Agency, said Saturday the semi-official, President of impact.

Hamid Baqaie, one of eight vice-presidents and seen, such as, in particular, Ahmadinejad, close to the office of the public were banned for four years, the administrative court in the Fars province reported. It said the appeal referred to Baqaie.

"The news conference today (Baqaie) was asked about the judgments of the Court of Justice, and he confirmed the sentence," said Fars.

In case the Tribunal may be deprived of the "responsibility," "this was due to numerous Baqaie violations," he was the Director of the Iranian cultural heritage and Tourism Organization, when it is added to the relevant violations, does not.

Reuters was unable to connect to the comment Baqaie.

The news comes amid criticism of the President of the Conservative elite of the installation of the support of his election in June 2009, the reform movement of the front is popular in different parts. Reformist demonstrators, said the vote was the positioning of instruments, which the Government denies.

Last month, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ahmadinejad overruled the decision of the Minister Heydar Moslehi robbery Intelligence-clip art-an attempt was made to the President of the wings, analysts interpreted as a rare public disturbances.

Fars province on Friday announced that the State of constitutional control programme in the event of a breakdown in the past few days to move the Ahmedinejad caretaker farmers, oil Minister for the 2007-08.

The Government has denied the growing rift between the training centre of Iran's most powerful figures.

Some of the conservative party has criticized Ahmadinejad's aides, consisting of the "Iranian" school, Islam-the ideology that some people inappropriately mixing of religion and nationalism.

Baqaie, another senior aide, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie with Iran Cyrus was instrumental in allowing the attraction of borrow-the British Museum, the cylinder, the number of sales for the year-old clay from ancient references to the attributes of the target, what some of the volume of the Persian Empire is described as the world's first Charter of human rights.

The experience of some conservative unease expressed, with object-add symbol of Iran in the pre-Islamic civilization--was greeted with fanfare Tehran.

Many analysts See as a result of the fight for the conservative parliamentary elections the following year, the State-of-the-art database, in which the leading reformists, is likely to be allowed to stand for-and the presidential race in 2013.

(Reports Of The Mitra Amiri; Robin Pomeroy; writing to editing the Peter Graff)

 

The trial in the United States, Iran claims to have helped plan the September 11 attacks (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters)-11. victims of the September 2001 attacks on the written documents, to the families of the Federal Court this week, in response to a request for subsequent verification, Iran had role in terrorist attacks, even if the u.s. Government, the decision of the Executive Committee of inquiry in 2004.

New documents filed in the current proceedings in the United States District Court, Manhattan, to lay the blame for the Iran and Hezbollah, helping plot the attacks on the al Qaida terrorist ties to Iran, the Lebanese militant group.

"Iran and the upper was in advance of the information on the 9/11 attacks in the planning," said the documents that accuse Iran of direct aid ", and the United States of America and the history of the most deadly act of sponsorship of terrorism."

From a strictly legal point for families, Thomas Mellon Jr., told Reuters on Friday that a new application based on his firm's former Chief of staff of the United States and Iran has drawn up the intelligence officials.

Iran's involvement in the issue examined in the light of the existing 9/11 Commission in its decision to initiate the formal investigation after the terrorist attacks in the United States Government. It was released in 2004, the report found "strong evidence" of Iranian helped some of the 9/11 hijackers and out of Afghanistan to the terrorist attacks. It was found that the "evidence of Iran or Hezbollah was aware of what later became the 9/11 attacks."

Mellon said, the latest legal move is intended to prove that Iran helped the movement, because it was aware of and supported their hijackers.

Mellon said some of his company's testimony gathered showed that Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyah, a senior officer met al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden in 1993 between Iran and al Qaida terrorist attacks served to draw, and traveled to Saudi Arabia to help coordinate the al Qaida terrorist attacks.

MUGHNIYAH, who was killed in 2008, it was for a long time also the 1983 bombing attacks that killed more than 200 Us Marines, Us armed forces from Lebanon terror watch list.

Ellen Saracini, United Airlines, the pilots were flying the plane, the husband, who was abducted and the World Trade Center crashed, said the terrorist attacks on the participation of the Iranian allegations are not new. They were filed in court this week because the have not made themselves known, the United States Government had fully examined by them.

"It is a little worrying that our Government has taken more responsibility for locating, which has been involved in the terrorist attacks," he said.

(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Greg McCune)

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The Iranian army Gets a new missile system (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters)-the Iranian army got a new State-of-the-art system against ballistic missile on Sunday, it said, shows the country self-sufficiency in producing weapons of mass.

"The new surface, surface missiles Qiyam (Resurrection) was successfully tested, and delivered to the armed forces today," Iranian State television channel in the Arabic language Al-Alam said.

It reveals, the missile area, the elite revolutionary guards are brought to the attention of the aviation wing, but said it was designed in less than older models can easily detect.

"The missile without fins Qiyam-stabilizer for the production of the first mass display of the Islamic Republic of Iran to produce different types of missiles for self-sufficiency," Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi played the semi-official Fars news agency as saying.

Iran has significant powers to loggerheads in the nuclear sector in their work, which it says are peaceful and intended exclusively for the supply of electricity, but which Washington and its allies fear is the objective is to make nuclear bombs.

Israel sees the establishment of nuclear-armed Iran, which refuses to recognize the Jewish State-of-the-art of the State and supports the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah--a major threat, and that it and its ally Washington to rule out military operations to prevent such a scenario.

Iran has said it would respond to attacks by the interests of the United States and Israel.

(Written By Mitra Amiri; Edit By Peter Graff)

 

The victim says Iran may be acidic replacement parts for an attacker to blinding (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters)-Iranian woman, who was blinded acidic attack, he said his assailant spare parts may be the same to him if he raised $ 2 million (EUR 2.8 million dollars) in compensation, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Ameneh Bahrami was blinded in 2004, Majid Mohavedi, pour the acid in his face when he spurned his offers of marriage.

Mohavedi was convicted in 2008 and was blinded by the same method. Last week, penalty, scheduled was postponed without explanation.

In the case of labels around the world, Amnesty International calls on Iran to go to the Islamic law, it meant that the constraints in the form of legal Retributiivinen.

In an interview with the daily Sharq Bahrami said, had not been responsible for the last week of the postponement, but he said he now wanted to be delayed further while he is in the processing of facial surgery.

Bahrami, attack, at 24, he was also said to complete his regret for more information about the compensation for the penalty.

Many people came to ask for either red prisoners Majid or postpone that I asked to find the money already in the implementation of the sentence, but I do not agree, since these years nobody has apologized to me and even took a family of Majid n, for the financing of the costs of my treatment, "he is quoted as saying.

"He is taken away everything from me, and now I am thinking about his penalty. I have to bear in the final in my life, so he should get to understand what I'm blinded by saying, "he added.

Bahrami said, he had to return to Spain to continue to face surgery. "This is the Majid family during the cash for that, I have requested for an extended period of time, which is EUR 2 million. Then I change my mind about retribution, "he said in an interview.

Mohavedi the lawyer thanked his invitation, but a Bahrami, said the family would be a huge amount of money to face difficulties in finding their only asset was a house in Tehran. Some people were lahjoittaneet per payment, he said.

"It is true that Majid was catastrophic, the n," Rabbani told the Sharq al-Mahdi.

"It is Ameneh has the right to require much more than EUR 2 million to improve the safety of his life from an economic point of view. Unfortunately, Majid's family cannot afford this amount. "

 

Palestinians set up at UN statehood bid in September (Reuters)

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters)-the Palestinians will seek recognition as a UN Member State in September, where out of the impasse in the U.S.-mediated peacemaking with Israel, a senior Palestinian official said on Saturday.

Nabil Shaath called on President Barack Obama on Thursday criticized the planned step general Assembly UNITED NATIONS join those countries that have already endorsed a Palestinian State, taking account of the isrælsk-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Another Palestinian official, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said the drive to gain status as a State unilaterally could have same Israel must accept the requirement to extend a freeze of its settlement of the occupied territories, so that negotiations can resume.

But such approximation seen highly unlikely after the isrælske prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hosted in Washington on Friday, sparred with Obama over a new U.S. calls for the future Palestinian State to have an edge approximation in the West Bank border before Israel captured it in the 1967 war.

"Of course we want to go to the United Nations," said Shaath, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Reuters.

"Especially after Netanyahu used old pretext that he must be defended borders you can keep stealing our land, control the Jordan Valley and creating demographic facts on the ground." Diplomats see majority support for the Palestinians in the UN's general Assembly. But State vote would have first to be approved in the Security Council, where the United States--which insists on a negotiated peace agreement--have a veto.

"We urge President Obama to recognize the Palestinian State on the 1967 borders," said Shaath. "We are the United Nations in September, using all non-violent means."

"SYMBOLIC ACTS"

Isrælske defence minister Ehud Barak, who had earlier warned his countrymen that a pro-Palestinian "diplomatic tsunami" would Crest, welcomed Obama remarks on UN lobbying.

"The President has deleted September issue. It is very important, "Barak told channel two tv Isræls.

In February the United States struck down the Security Council proposals that would have branded the West Bank settlements as illegal. Analysts, noting that the other 14 Council members voted for, said the Palestinians seemed to be signaling that Washington was out of step with an international consensus.

Delivers a greater Middle East policy speech on Thursday, Obama warned Palestinians against "efforts to delegitimise Israel." He added: "symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations in September may not be able to create an independent State".

Obama questioned power-share deal forged last month between Abbas's Fatah faction and armed, rival Hamas Islamists who control Gaza and spurn the Jewish State viability.

But Palestinians, who long have complained about isrælske unilateralism, was encouraged by Obama's vision of borders ", based on 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps".

Israel denies Palestinian claims to the whole of their territory, which was previously held by Jordan, and now is peppered with Jewish settlements. Gaza, second half of the Palestinian polity, was evacuated of isrælerne in 2005.

Abbas spokesman Abu Rdainah said Palestinians preferred to pursue peace with Israel looks rather to the United Nations.

"Our position is to allow until September, to go back to the negotiating table based on a halt to the settlements," he said. "It would be our first choice."

(Written by Dan Williams; Editing by Alison Williams)

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Top Jewish Americans think about support for Obama (Reuters)

CHICAGO (Reuters) — some prominent Jewish Americans are rethinking their support for President Barack Obama 2012 re-election bid after he effectively called on Israel to give back territory it has occupied since 1967 to the Palestinians.

Setback after Obama Keynote on the Middle East have democratic party operatives scrambling to heard the Jewish community as the President prepares to seek another term in the White House.

Obama on Thursday called for any new Palestinian State to respect the borders as they were in 1967, prompting isrælske prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to tell him frankly that his vision of how to achieve Middle East peace was unrealistic.

"He has in effect sought to reduce the Isræls negotiation power and I condemn him for," told former New York mayor Ed Koch Reuters.

Koch said he could not campaign or vote for Obama if the Republicans appoint a calm candidate offers an alternative to the latest tough budgetary measures supported by the Republicans in Congress.

Koch donated $ 2300 Obama campaign in 2008, according to Filings with the Federal Election Commission.

"I trøde to then-Senator Obama would be as good as John McCain based on his statements at the time, and based on its support for Israel. It turns out was wrong, "he said.

Despite the stormy reaction to Obama remarks mentioned some commentators talk about the 1967 borders were nothing new.

"It has been the basic idea for at least 12 years. This is what Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat was talking about in Camp David, and later at Taba, "wrote Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic homepage.

"This is what George w. Bush spoke with Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert. So what are the huge treat here? "

Exit polls from the 2008 elections showed 78 percent of Jewish voters chose Obama over his Republican rival Senator McCain.

"I have spoken with a lot of people in the last few days--former supporters--as very upset and feel alienated," said billionaire real estate developer and Publisher Mortimer Zuckerman.

"He gets less political support, fewer activists for his campaign, and I am sure, will include financial support."

Zuckerman supported Obama during his 2008 presidential run and the newspaper he owns, the New York Daily News, endorsed President.

Obama's Chicago-based re-election campaign tried to downplay the reaction to the Shift in U.S. stance against Israel.

"There is no doubt that we have reached the Jewish donor community, as we have many other communities, which strongly supported the President in 2008," said a campaign spokeswoman Friday.

"Continuing the grassroots organizing and fundraising efforts of many prominent leaders in the Jewish community makes it clear this will remain a strong base support in 2012."

Texas-based real estate developer Kirk Rudy, who is a Vice-President of finance for the Democratic National Committee, said he exchanged phone calls and messages with a large network of supporters since the President's speech "is trying to take people's pulse" and have not seen a strong setback.

"I have seen very clearly, and robust support--and financial support--from the Jewish community," said Rudy, add Obama received "significant financial participation from the Jewish community" on the two charitable organizations in Austin before the speech, the Middle East, which brought in approximately 2 million dollars.

Since the speech, Rudy has received e-mails from angry voters, but the overwhelming majority of his network will continue to donate and not crossing party lines, he said.

But Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America, wrote an open letter to the American isrælske Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, encourages it to cancel a scheduled address by Obama to lobby group Sunday.

(Editing by John Josep O'Callaghan-Martínez)

 

IAEA: Iran N probes possible hacking: diplomats (Reuters)

Vienna (Reuters)-the International Atomic Energy Agency is investigating whether its inspectors to Iran to hacked computers and phones, according to the United States Census Bureau, the senior Western diplomats to be heard by the reports.

If confirmed, it would still be on the basis of the position of the relations between the of Vienna, and Iran, said the food the next IAEA Chief Yukiya Amano: the previous accusations Tehran was the development of their work by blocking some of the experienced inspectors in the country.

"It would be dramatic, and the obligation of the IAEA: a troubling indication N resolve it the nuclear program of Iran on issues relating to cooperation with disdain," one diplomat said, adding he believed the media story, possible hacking was true.

Another Western diplomat said: "Had I heard that there had been some sort of way this kind of interference in portable computers and mobile phones, and so on."

Palpation of the inspectors has been mentioned in the Iranian year, which may be more than a suspicion of seeking to develop nuclear weapons--the opposition Tehran denies.

In Brussels, diplomats said, the Union is expected to expand the bloc will make an important contribution to the sanctions, Iran on Monday, reflecting growing frustration in the development of the Western powers in the nuclear talks with Tehran to the lack of progress.

Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, said the nuclear monitoring program examined whether Iran had succeeded in hacking computers, and the inspectors of the IAEA: the N, when they were visiting Islamic State on the physical protection of nuclear installations in the phones.

Was not clear if Iran was successful in gaining any of the information, but the paper said, the IAEA's officials feared that it will not be able to read confidential documents, which would help it to identify and possibly punish persons assisting the inspectors or participating agency probes.

"IS NOT AN EASY TASK"

Amano in the news conference in Brussels, asked if he could confirm the reports, said: "For me, you will be asked for your specific question, I can't talk right now."

"Generally, the IAEA's inspections should be carried out without interference in the country, which receives the inspectors. We must be able to inspect all ... without interference. "

The journal said, the IAEA's investigation focused on whether the inspectors will not be able to use the phone to the SIM cards or other components had to be manipulated or replaced so that discussions can be monitored.

Iranian officials were not available for comment.

In September of last year, Iran said two IAEA inspectors: prohibited from entering the country, it had supplied false information about his work in the field of nuclear energy. Amano, the claim was rejected and accused of hindering the work of the Agency in the country of Iran.

"In some areas of our inspection (inspection) goes smoothly, in other contexts, we have difficulties, so it is not an easy task," Amano said in Brussels on Thursday. "The inspectors ' refusal was one of the difficulties."

IAEA: n. Western intelligence reports examined, that Iran has been adapted to the efforts to deal with the uranium, at the time of the test the explosives and the spatial planning arrangements in order to be able to take the cone ballistic missile nuclear warhead. The IAEA inspectors to visit Iran: keep track of Atomic activities on a regular basis.

Iran denies that it retrieves the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, saying the European product of the Western accusations of Atomic activities aimed at generating electricity, so it takes up more of its oil and gas.

(Reports by David Brunnstrom, Vienna, Brussels and Fredrik Dahl; Editing By Kevin River Liffey)

 

Iran says U.s. spied arrests 30 people (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters)-Iran has been arrested, said an official in the United States, were spying, the media reported on Saturday to 30 people.

"The Intelligence Ministry, the active and devout sets ... with CIA agents arrested 30 people in confrontations with gold, which were the American spies," a State TV announced a lunchtime News.

According to the semi-official Fars News Agency, the suspects had passed information to the officials of the United States ' embassies or consular offices in third countries, including Malaysia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

It said Iran had identified 42 Us intelligence officers in such countries, saying: "they are engaged in the collection of information on Iran's nuclear industry, aviation, defense and bio-technology," and "as available" basis, inter alia, the benefit.

Iran's espionage can carry the death penalty.

Washington did not have any diplomacy in Iran since the 1979 revolution, when the backup is complete, the šaahi of the United States, and was followed by the US Embassy long occupation.

In the United States showed the WikiLeaks Web site published by the diplomatic cables are data collection offices of the countries neighbouring Iran, where the diplomats would aim to glean intelligence on the way to the Iranians.

Arrests after the two days of the date on which the notification becomes the US President Barack Obama's speech on the Middle East, reiterating Tehran is sponsoring terrorism in the view of Washington, and is seeking nuclear weapons, charges Iran denies,.

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U.s. visa policy agent adjusts the Iranians (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters)-Some of the Iranian students may apply for two years, several U.s. visas, Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday, giving them greater freedom to travel to the United States to improve business ties between the people.

The latest in a series of stage is the President of the people of Iran, the administration of Barack Obama, and in particular young people, regardless of the length of the Iranians made it clear to reach between the two countries.

Students from Iran, which the United States accuses of sponsoring terrorism, nuclear weapons, and its people, brutally torture were previously eligible only in the three months, one of the entry visa.

New guidelines for the Iranians and their successors to the investigation ", nonsensitive areas the range of" those who promote is the Iranian nuclear weapons, missiles or other related activities, a US official said.

In accordance with the amended policy on visas can be valid for two years and that the Iranian students can come and go as often as they wished in that period without a visa.

Whether he actually comes from the United States, and exactly how long they may be decided, in accordance with the immigration of their arrival, Us officials said.

Video address to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear to US-the aim of the motion of the Iranians, many young people turned out in mass protests against the disputed 2009 presidential reelection, as well as reach out to Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

These protests, the biggest challenge since the 1979 revolution in Iran, which ended the authoritarian rule of the šaahi Islamic State was crushed by security forces, who was imprisoned in the Iranian demonstrators scores.

"We want more dialogue and more exchanges in the future to those who are shaping with Iran," Clinton said in a message, in which the Foreign Ministry said was posted on YouTube in English and Farsi.

"Because as long as the Iranian Government will continue to stifle the potential, we are posting the way with you," he adds. "We must continue with the actual change in Iran, the more opportunities for new ways to search for the share of flight costs represented by fuel."

One Us official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the change of the visa, which is designed to make good a pledge to carry on the ordinary Iranians.

Obama's efforts to persuade Iran's suspected nuclear weapons drive has so far failed, and he led the push to tighten Us sanctions in the Teheran, and international.

Iran says its nuclear program is to generate electricity, to produce any weapons.

In his annual "nowruz" the Persian new year, not later than the mark messages to Obama, March 20, Iran accused a two-year "campaign of intimidation and abuse" against my people.

"The strength of These options do not demonstrate;"They show the fear, he said, his message to young Iranians. "Even if the times sounds like the dark, I want you to know that I am with you."

(Editing By Paul Simao)

 

Iran's Ahmadinejad says the monitoring programme, the Ministry of oil to Move illegal (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters)-the Iranian constitutional watchdog has found the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in accordance with the decision to appoint caretaker farmers oil Minister illegal, semi-official Fars news agency said Friday.

"The Guardian Council, said the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was illegal, the Ministry of oil, caretaker farmers," Fars province reported.

Ahmadinejad took control in the Ministry earlier this week as he sought to combine the energy, the Ministry of the Government try to slim down.

It was not immediately clear if the Guardian Council's judgment would renounce the post but hard Ahmadinejad the President to ignore the important body of sound.

the 12-Man Guardian Council are appointed by the State-of-the-art six-the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and six Islamic Jurists-a-must ensure all laws in Parliament on the experience of Islamic law under the boosters and the Iranian Constitution.

If confirmed, would be a blow for Ahmadinejad, his fresh power struggle with the other members of the Iranian conservative communities, in particular, the appointment of the Elite, and the exclusion of key Cabinet Ministers.

According to the law, the Chairman shall, within three months from a Minister--in this case, the oil Minister Massoud Mirkazemi--enable new candidates to the Parliament. During this time he is caretaker farmers, themselves or appoint someone to the post.

The oil Ministry Move to put the direct control of the hardline President, on the one hand, and the exploitation of Iran's huge oil and gas fields to export.

Also, he participates in the petroleum exporting countries in Vienna on 8 June, set up your organization's next meeting.

THE SECOND DEFEAT

Oil analysts said the presence of Ahmadinejad: OPEC next meeting the objectives of all the potential production of denim, with a view to reducing the price of oil would contain a reference to the Chairman of the home of the hawkish stance of Iran to drive the price higher.

If Ahmadinejad should be forced to the back of a defeat device is the second ministerial appointments in just a few weeks of taking the mind, and Add Some analysts believe that the power of his correspondence is weakening.

Last month its Minister Heydar Moslehi robbery Intelligence was overruled by Khamenei, an attempt was made to the President of the clip the wings of analysts interpreted as a rare public disturbances.

The Government was willing to oppose the growing rift between the training centre of Iran's most powerful figures.

Khamenei has the discretion to deal with the oil, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Interior and intelligence ministries and the Ministry of oil on top of the line, the result is likely to be a manifestation of the point.

It will also say a lot about Khamenei: n relationship, he backed his contested the election of the sydämestään, 2009, after the President.

The vote triggered massive street demonstrations of Klimaflüchtlinge request, it was the positioning of the instruments in favour of the incumbent. According to the force repressed protests in Iran, the communities, the biggest challenge was the elite since the 1979 Islamic revolution that overthrew the reigning.

The Government says the protests were, according to Iranian Law, the proposal of the foreign enemies.

Ahmadinejad has also been in the Parliament about his dispute with the Ministry of the options, evaluated by impeaching his legislators in February, and only one sound is stopped by the energy ministers of ryöstely objects.

In recent weeks, Parliament and Government, through the mail without the approval of the oil and energy and the legislators inter-ministerial dispute has intensified.

The Iranian media reported that a meeting last week to resolve the dispute and the speaker of the Parliament of the Ahmadinejad Ali Larijani, the President of the economic policies of the suorapuheinen critic.

(Zahra Hosseinian Reports; Robin Pomeroy; Writing Editing Jon Boyle)

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Palestinians seek Arab consultation on Obama speech (Reuters)

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters)-Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked the Arab League Saturday to call for a discussion of President Barack Obama's vision of peace with Israel, a Palestinian official said.

The meeting will probably take place monthly at the end, said the official. Abbas has previously consulted with the Arab League on when designing Palestinian strategy vis-à-vis Israel, with which negotiations have been stalled since last year.

(Reporting by Ali Sawafta)

 

Turkey's Gul: Hamas must recognise the Isræls right to exist (Reuters)

ISTANBUL (Reuters)-Turkey's President Abdullah Gul has urged the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas to recognise Israel's right to exist, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

In an interview a day after the United States's President Barack Obama gave a speech on the Middle East, yellow also hailed Obama's reference to the creation of a Palestinian State based on the Isræls the pre-1967 borders as "a very important step."

Turkey has considered Hamas as a key factor in the Middle East peace process, when it won the Palestinian elections in 2006.

Yellow said President Obama "has a point" when he said in his speech that Israel could not be expected to negotiate with a body that does not recognize Israel's right to exist.

Asked if he was willing to press Hamas on this issue, Gul said, "I have already advised them."

In a meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Ray in Ankara in 2006 Yellow said he told Ray, "you must be a rational" about recognise Israel's right to exist.

Gul said he believed Hamas was prepared to recognise Israel in pre-1967 borders, but want to happen at the same time with Isræls recognition of a Palestinian State.

Ankara's ties with former close ally Israel broke over its military operation in the Gaza Strip in 2008 and hostility was fueled by a isrælsk commando raid on the aid flotilla, which killed nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists in May last year.

Turkey has demanded that Israel end its blockade of the Gaza Strip and its aggressive stance on the Palestinian issue has created tensions between Ankara and Washington.

The paper said Obama speech was interpreted by Turkish officials as a significant if nuanced change.

Yellow also welcome Obama promise on debt relief and aid to Egypt and Tunisia as they struggle in the wake of popular revolutions. But he said much larger scale "Marshall Plan" for the Middle East was necessary.

Such a fund should be run by the World Bank and drawing on contributions from countries in the region, as well as from traditional donors in the West, say yellow.

(Writing by Daren Butler)

 

Isrælske reprimand of Obama Viewer gap in the Middle East (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – isrælske prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly told President Barack Obama Friday his vision for how to achieve Middle East peace was unrealistic, exposing a deep rift could doom any U.S. bid to revive peace talks.

In an unusually strong rebuke to Isræls closest allies insisted Netanyahu Israel would never pull back to the 1967 borders--which would mean major concessions occupied land--that Obama had said should serve as a basis for negotiations on the establishment of a Palestinian State.

"Peace based on illusions will down to the end of the Cretaceous rocks of the Middle East reality," said a round of Netanyahu as Obama listened carefully beside him in the Oval Office after they met for talks.

Netanyahu insisted that Israel was willing to make compromises for peace, but made clear he had major differences with Washington over how to move long-stand in the peace process.

Netanyahu's opposition raises the question of how difficult Obama will press for concessions he is unlikely to get, and whether the vision U.S. leader established on Thursday to resolve the conflict in decades old will ever get off the ground.

Despite assurances of friendship, both leaders appeared this week's events also to herald tense months ahead for U.S.-isrælske relations, even as the Arab world must pass through the Centre of the political tumult and Palestinians prepare a unilateral bid this fall's General Assembly to seek recognition for the State.

For journalists after the meeting, Obama said he reiterated to Netanyahu peace "principles" he offered on Thursday in a policy speech on the Middle East upheaval.

Goal, he said, "must be a secure isrælske State, a Jewish State living side by side in peace and security with a coherent, efficient and effective Palestinian State.

Obama on Thursday embraced a long-sought goal of the Palestinians: the State they seek in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip should largely be drawn along the lines that existed before the 1967 war, Israel captured these areas and East Jerusalem.

Netanyahu, who heads the right-leaning Coalition, reacted with what amounted to a history lecture on vulnerability to attack Israel faced with the old borders. "We cannot go back to these irresponsible lines," he said.

Picking a fight with Israel could be politically risky for Obama at home as he seeks re-election in 2012.

CRISIS IN THE RELATIONSHIP

Brewing crisis in U.S.-isrælske relationships dimmed even further prospects for resuming peace talks that collapsed late last year when the Palestinians walked away in a dispute over the isrælske settlements building in the West Bank.

Obama and Netanyahu, meanwhile, appears to have reached a stalemate after two and a half years of rocky relations. Obama White House was enraged when Netanyahu refused a U.S. demand to stop building Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Some isrælerne have never felt very comfortable with Obama, unnerved by his early attempts to reach out to Iran and his support for the popular Arab revolutions which has alarmed Israel.

In a pointed comment clearly aimed at Obama new approach to the long-standing conflict, Netanyahu said: "the only peace that will endure is, is based on the reality on the Kindle facts".

Netanyahu, isrælske officials said, was determined to push back hard because the reference to the 1967 borders was a red flag that will attract more international pressure on Israel for concessions. A senior isrælske official said Netanyahu felt he had to speak bluntly that he would be "heard around the world."

"There is a feeling of Washington does not understand the reality does not understand what we are facing," official on board the aircraft under Netanyahu to Washington, told journalists.

Nevertheless, Obama first statement of his position on the contested issue of boundaries helps ease doubts in the Arab world about his obligation to act as an impartial broker and increase its outreach to the region. Another unsuccessful peace efforts, however, could fuel further frustration.

In line with Netanyahu's position reflected Obama opposition to the Palestinian plan to search's recognition of the State in September, in the absence of renewed peace talks.

The Democratic President is quickly come under fire from Republican critics who accuse him of betraying Israel, the closest U.S. allies in the region. Pushing Netanyahu could offend the U.S. supporters of Israel, as Obama seeks re-election.

Obama can get a chilly reception in a speech to an influential quietly lobbying group on Sunday. Netanyahu is expected to be celebrated when he deals with the same audience on Monday and then Congress Tuesday.

POINTERS TO COMPROMISE

Obama, in his speech on Thursday, laid down its clearest markers yet on the compromises he believes that Israel and the Palestinians must do in order to resolve a conflict that has long been seen as a source of Middle East tensions.

But he is not a formal U.S. peace plan or timetable for an agreement he once promised to clinch in September.

In Thursday's speech, Obama said: "we believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps" soil. While this has long been the private view in Washington, Obama went further than U.S. officials have in recent times.

Agreed swaps would allow Israel to keep the settlements in the West Bank in exchange for giving the Palestinians other than agricultural land.

Go in the negotiations, Netanyahu said, he wanted to hear Obama reaffirms commitments to Israel in 2004 by then-President George w. Bush suggests that it can keep some large settlement blocks as a part of any peace Pact.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday that Obama had said something that "contrary to these letters."

Obama on Thursday also delivered a message to the Palestinians, they should answer "some very difficult questions" about a lot of reconciliation with Hamas, Islamic groups to run Gaza and the United States, regard as terrorist groups.

(Additional reporting by Alister Bull, Patricia Zengerle, Jeff Mason, Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Ori Lewis and Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Paul Simao)

 

Iran to confirm the report, returned to Egypt Ties (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters)-Iran has refused to confirm the News report, on Tuesday, will be appointed Ambassador to Egypt, which diplomatic relations after the restoration of the mark by more than 30 years.

"The appointment of Ambassadors is guesswork on the news and is a busy," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in his weekly news conference.

Egypt's Foreign Minister said earlier this month, the Cairo was ready to restore diplomatic ties with Iran, the policy of the President of the exchange of Signaling Hosni Mubarak since.

Iran's Press TV's website announced that Tehran had already ordered the appointment of the Special Envoy Ali Akbar Sibuyeh, her career diplomat, who is the son of a top cleric.

Ties to the countries-the largest and most influential of the Middle East--were among the carriage return/line feed after the Islamic of Iran in the 1980s to the mechanical revolution and the recognition of Israel in Egypt.

Cairo has long been in the United States and Israel, the ally but because Mubarak was a popular uprising toppled was mainly Sunni Muslim signs of warming from Egypt and mainly Shi'ite Iran.

Robin Pomeroy (Reports; Edit By Peter Graff)

 

Hamas unit bids on Netanyahu's European agenda (Reuters)

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – isrælske prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to use a visit to the United Kingdom and France to produce the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Unit deal with Hamas Islamists as a blow to the already dim prospects for peace.

Netanyahu is due to hold talks in London with British Prime minister David Cameron on Wednesday and now French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Thursday.

It will be the isrælske leader first trip abroad since the surprise announcement last week that Abbas and his long time rival Hamas had agreed to a unity Pact that foresees the formation of a transitional Government and the Palestinian elections this year.

"This is a major problem and raises all kinds of questions, and that the question will be very much on the table," said isrælske government official Tuesday.

"If (the Palestinians) want for a unity Government with Hamas, there is no doubt, is a step in the wrong direction--a very negative steps."

Hamas, which seized the Gaza Strip from the Fatah movement Abbas's in 2007, calls for the Isræls destruction in its founding Charter, although it has offered a long-term truce in exchange for a Palestinian State.

Israel refuses to negotiate with Hamas, and the United States and the European Union also shun group over its refusal to renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept the existing temporary isrælsk-Palestinian peace agreements.

"Of course, we want to process with the Palestinians to move forward, but until now was their refusal to engage in a problem and now their decision to bring in Hamas, antithesis peace, further exacerbated a negative situation," the official said isrælskeprovides an overview of Netanyahu's position.

In Paris, Sarkozy told L'Express weekly, he will press for the launch of a new isrælsk-Palestinian peace process until Palestinian leaders would ask the UN's general Assembly in September to recognize State on all the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

"We will take an initiative before the summer with the Europeans, to restart, together with the Americans, the peace process," said Sarkozy. "France wants the peace process must be restarted before the difficult's meeting in September."

Sarkozy said he hoped he would hear back Netanyahu the Palestinians ' right to State.

"My whole life has been a friend of Israel, but there will be no security for Israel without a viable, democratic and modern Palestinian State."

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday that the United Kingdom welcomed the deal to end the feud between the factions.

"Of course, plenty of detail must be drawn up and we will judge all by their actions and intentions. We will continue to work closely together on this, "said Håg during a visit to Cairo.

TALKS FIZZLE

U.S.-supported isrælsk-Palestinian negotiations on a lasting peace agreement was revived in September, but quickly became less likely after Netanyahu refused to extend a limited moratorium on construction in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-isrælske war and wanted by the Palestinians as part of a future Member State.

Palestinian leaders have defended unit agreement, said reconciliation with Hamas, reflects a deep-seated public wants to end the internal differences.

The new Government, they said, would be composed of a Europe of Nations and the peace negotiations with Israel would remain Abbass Palestine Liberation organisation, as Hamas does not hear the responsibility.

On Sunday, blocked in response to the step unit Israel transfer of 105 million dollars in customs duties and other charges which are collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, a Abbass probably will be raised in the British and French conversations Move.

Palestinian unit also could help bolster an expected bid by Abbas to win's recognition of a Palestinian State in September, Washington had set a deadline for a peace agreement when negotiations was revived briefly eight months ago.

Israel has mounting a diplomatic drive against any UN statehood ratification.

Netanyahu is due to address a joint meeting of the United States's Congress in three weeks, and is designed to focus on the regional upheaval, Iran's nuclear programme and the Palestinian question. He gave no specific details about what he will say.

(Additional reporting by Catherine Bremer in Paris; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

 

Iran's Khamenei rejects Minister's Resignation: report (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters)-Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected the resignation of Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said on Sunday, the ISNA news agency saw as a rare political consensus on Iran's rulers to move to the top.

"Heydar Moslehi will continue his work after the Supreme Intelligence Minister rejected his call," the student news agency ISNA reported, give any further details.

The official IRNA news agency reported earlier Moslehi is resignation had been accepted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Semi-official Fars News Agency also quoted an unnamed source as saying the Minister was published.

The Iranian system of velayat-e faqih or religious rule supreme Director of the legal Scholar should continue the policy of the day-to-day political fray.

But Khamenei herättämiseen has supported Ahmadinejad of Iran, in particular because of the disputed 2009 presidential vote, to secure the election of the President of the hardline.

Analysts believe that Khamenei's Move to set up a display manager Moslehi, may be the last, i.e., the key positions. Key ministers in the appointment book, such as intelligence, defence and Foreign Affairs traditionally should be adopted in accordance with the Supreme Leader.

Ahmadinejad Khamenei share the stance of the nuclear row n in the West, which fears Iran's nuclear work is the cover to build the bombs. Tehran denies it.

But analysts believe that despite his hardline support for Khamenei, the President has never let any group, even among the conservative camp, receive enough power to challenge his '

"It is a serious blow for Ahmadinejad. The rejection show who is boss in Iran, "said political analyst, who requested is anonymous.

Earlier this month Ahmadinejad used controversial aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, whose unorthodox views about the role of the powerful priests and Iran over the importance of cultural values in Islam outraged hardliners plant.

Moslehi, a mid-ranking cleric, was criticized for missing have the experience necessary in 2009 when the action proposed by Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad, who crushed street protests greeted his disputed victory in 2009, but the vote has created a deepening rift in the hardliners, which again increases among economic and political power.

The opposition says the vote was positioning instruments. The authorities deny the claim.

(Editing by Sophie hares)

 

Palestinian Unity Pact is a blow to peace: Israel PM (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) – isrælske prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday condemned a new device Pact between Hamas and Fatah Palestinian factions.

"What happened today in Cairo is a huge blow to the peace and a great victory for terrorism," he told journalists during a visit to London.

(Reporting by Adrian Croft: editing by Stefano Ambrogi)

 

Palestinian leaders in Cairo too much face hitch (Reuters)

CAIRO (Reuters) – the Palestinian President who heads Fatah and the leader of the Islamic group Hamas was in Cairo on Wednesday to endorse a deal to end four years of Division, but last-minute hitch cast doubt on the durability of the agreement.

The Egyptian-brokered deal, denounced by Israel, calls for forming an interim Government to run the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip and prepare for a general election within a year.

The Palestinians see this vote as crucial for their drive to establish an independent State in the areas captured by Israel in the 1967 war.

But the ceremony was delayed by a disagreement over the protocol shortly before it began over whether Hamas leader Khaled Ray should sit on the podium with President Mahmoud Abbas or down among other Palestinian delegates in the Hall.

"There is a dispute in the Protocol of seating of the leaders," said a Palestinian source, who declined to be named.

"The difference is on how Ray would sit, whether he should be on the scene or among the leaders of the factions."

Officials from all the Palestinian factions had previously signed it to Ray and Abbas were expected to join the ceremony. It was not immediately clear why they would not put their own signatures.

"The signing is done, all signed. Today is the coronation of this result, ' said senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath, speaking shortly before the ceremony.

ISRAEL ANGRY, WASHINGTON COOL

A spokesman for Abbas, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said the deal was signed on behalf of Fatah of Azzam al-Ahmad and of Hamas by Mousa Abu Marzouk. Palestinian officials said on Wednesday the ceremony was a "feast".

Isrælske prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the deal and stopped transfers Palestinian tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, said Fatah must choose between Israel and the Islamic Group, which he says is an enemy of peace.

United States has reacted coolly reconciliation agreement. State Department spokesman said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke Monday with Netanyahu and Palestinian Prime minister Salam Fayyad on trade.

Mark Toner told a news briefing in Washington, as the United States would look at the formation of a new Palestinian Government before step on future assistance.

"If a new Palestinian Government is announced, we will assess, based on its composition," Toner said. "Hamas needs to comply with the principles of the Quartet to play a role in the political process".

Egypt has set up a Committee to monitor the implementation of the agreement, which calls for the creation of an intermediate unit Government for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip instead of the administrations led by Fatah and Hamas, which currently running each area.

(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza and Ali Sawaftah in Ramallah; Writing by Sami Aboudi and Edmund Blair; Editing of Crispian Balmer)

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The Iranian cell planned attacks in Kuwait, Minister says (Reuters)

KUWAIT (Reuters)-the Foreign Minister of Kuwait, said: last year, the Gulf Arab State were complemented by the Iranian spy cell to monitor the US military presence and resources explosives to bomb the "strategic" facilities. "We are talking about the cell, which was only to keep track of and store (u.s.) military presence, which is in their opinion, the hostile forces, State-of-the-art-American presence in Kuwait of a catch are landed either in-but it exceeded," Sheikh Mohammad al-Salem al-Sabah told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television.

"They had explosives and the intention to explode vital facilities in Kuwait. They were the names of the officials and had very sensitive information. This indicates a bad intentions to harm the security of Kuwait ".

OPEC-Member Kuwait hosts Camp Arifjan, a vast Us base in the desert capital logistics services, which shall act in accordance with the licensing of neighboring Iraq, the Us forces for staging point on the South side.

United States is in the air and naval installations in the Gulf Arab States, some of which are little more than 200 km (120 miles) to the coast of Iran. The US central command forward headquarters to keep, although the Qatar Bahrain hosts the Us Navy Fifth Fleet.

The Court last month convicted two Kuwaiti Iranians and Kuwaiti was sentenced to death in a case that has strained Kuwait and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the relations between the of the alleged spy ring, as part of the State-of-the-art.

Earlier this month Iran expelled three Kuwaiti diplomats from tit for tat Move after the Gulf emirate, it said the three diplomats from Iran, the throw away line in the spy allegations.

The move came after the three Iranian diplomats expelled from Kuwait, Kuwaiti officials had said.

Kuwaiti media said may 2010 that the authorities had arrested number of people, Kuwaitis and the metropolitan area of espionage for Iran in the fisheries sector. Media reports said they were accused of gathering information on the Kuwaiti and US armed forces sites in the Iranian revolutionary guards.

But Sheikh Mohammad said Kuwait still wants good relations with Iran. "We fully reject the severing ties with (Iran)," he said, although he added that Iran needs to deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council States, "sovereign" and not "the subject".

Iran's relations with its neighbours, the United States allied Gulf Arab, who provide the US forces in the different modes, has soured because of popular uprisings were limited to Government forces.

Sunni Muslims ruled the Gulf Arab States accused Iranian Shi'ite power interfering in their affairs, when Tehran was opposed to the sending of Saudi Arabia and u.a.e. in any of the American Bahrain protests in March, the Shi'ite majority.

(Reports, Mahmoud Habboush; WRITTEN By Eman Goma; Editing Mark Heinrich)