Iran gives mixed signals over nuclear

Islamic republic could be provoked into action "by an isolated, and perhaps seemingly unimportant event." Winnefeld is the commander of the sixth fleet in the Mediterranean and its missile boats have practised intercepting Shahab-3 missiles from ...

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Stark choice in Iran policy battles Two parallel, and extraordinarily open, battles over policy are being fought out within the administrations in Washington and Tehran...What seems to have provoked the latest heart-searching is a recent Israeli ...

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Iran's Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, expressed conciliator words during a press conference on Thursday at the U.N., giving a sign that a diplomatic solution to Iran's Nuclear Arms program seems more possible. Speaking through an interpreter, ...

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Admiral James Winnefeld, commander of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. In recent years, the missile boats of the Sixth Fleet practiced intercepting Shahab-3 missiles from Iran aimed at Israel, along with the Arrow batteries of the air force and ...

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Two days after Ali-Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said Tehran should consider -taking up aspects of an offer made by world powers last month, he appeared on television to clarify the interview he ...

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Iran is keeping the world guessing about its response to the latest offer to suspend its nuclear programme in return for international incentives, as its leaders send out mixed signals in the face of warnings from Israel and the US. Nearly three ...

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Those odds subsided after the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), the co-ordinated view of US intelligence agencies, concluded in December that Iran had halted its weapons programme in 2003. But now the betting is back on. As Tehran has ...

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