Tag: iran

Bahrain women protesters (file photo) AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH
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Women’s revolution in the Middle East could be sooner than expected

Saudi women allowed to travel within Gulf without guardians’ approval, while Iranian…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili meets with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton at the consulate of Iran in Istanbul, during talks on Tehran's disputed atomic programme AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC
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Ashton to consult UN partners on Iran

EU's foreign policy chief meets with Iran's nuclear negotiator

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
Syrian rebels help a wounded comrade who survived a Syrian army strike outside a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo on 18 September AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
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Reward offered for capturing Al-Assad

Meanwhile Syrian army reported to have tested chemical weapons

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr (centre), Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (right), and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attend a joint press conference after their first high-level meeting on the Syria conflict in Cairo AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI
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Egypt, Iran, and Turkey in high level talks over Syria

Saudi Arabia did not send its foreign minister

Connor Molloy
Connor Molloy
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks to the press in Costa Mesa, California AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM
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Romney: peace in Middle East “unthinkable”

Republican presidential candidate caught on camera

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari holds a press conference in Tehran AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE
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Members of Iranian Special Forces present in Syria and Lebanon are only ‘counsellors’

Iran confirms the presence on Iranian forces in Syria

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Iranian military personnel place a national flag on a submarine during the "Velayat-90" navy exercises in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on 3 January 2012 AFP PHOTO / EBRAHIM NOROOZI
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Israel and Iran usual War Dance

Multinational armada in the Arab Gulf while Iran tests its defences

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
Iranian president Ahmadi Nijad speaks during a press conference (File Photo) AFP Photo
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US waivers 11 nations complying with Sanctions placed on Iran

Nations complying with Iranian sanctions are granted waivers to aid them in…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Palestinian Islamists shout slogans during a demonstration against a film mocking Islam in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh near the southern Lebanese city of Sidon AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYYAT
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Reactions to Innocence of the Muslims

Egypt, US, and UN call for calm, while Iran and Al-Qaeda threaten

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
United States President Barack Obama signs the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act in the White House in Washington, DC (photo: AFP /Mandel Ngan)
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Obama and Netanyahu apparently still friends

Obama’s refusal to meet Netanyahu denied after media circulated split over Iran

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy