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2010-07-31: Headlines

• PBS: The Drumbeats of War with Iran are getting Louder 2010-07-31

  Dire signs in ramping up of rhetoric, military preparations. | It is the end of July now, but the propaganda campaign to prepare the public for possible military attacks on Iran is already in high gear.

• Stock Markets Review: More Than 200 Injured As Two Quakes Rock Iran 2010-07-31

  A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Bardsir region in Iran's southeastern province of Kerman Saturday morning, according to the Iranian Seismological Center. No casualties have been reported yet. | Earthquakes are frequent in Iran, which is located on seismic fault lines. | A massive 6.6-magnitude quake devastated the city of Bam in December 2003, killing at least 30,000 people. | US stock market daily report (July 29, 2010, Thursday)

• allvoices: NORTHERN IRAN HIT BY 5.7 QUAKE 170 REPORTED INJURIES 2010-07-31

  An earthquake with a 5.7 magnitude hit northeastern Iran, injuring somewhere in the range of 170 people, state radio reports Saturday. | The tremor hit the city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh, located 435 miles east of Tehran, at 6:20 p.m. (9:50 a.m. ET) Friday, it's epicenter somewhere in and around 4 miles outside of the city.

• swissinfo.ch: Families demand release of US hikers in Iran 2010-07-31

  The mothers of the three detained hikers at a vigil in New York (swissinfo) | The families of three American hikers detained in Iran have demanded their immediate release outside the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York. | The protest vigil began a weekend of some 30 events around the world — from India to Spain and throughout the United States — to "send Iran a message"

• Vancouver Sun: Canadian hero of Iran hostage crisis cant get long-term care bed 2010-07-31

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• AFP: Iran filmmaker accuses FBI of using pressure in US custody 2010-07-31

  An Iranian documentary filmmaker who returned home after reportedly spending two months in US custody has said the FBI held him in solitary confinement and put "pressure" on him, state media reported Saturday.

2010-07-30: Headlines

• Todays Zaman: Feza Gazetecilik A.S. Bilgi Teknolojileri: US welcomes Turkeys efforts over Irans nuclear issue 2010-07-30

  Keywords: aturl += '&pub=oezlems'; | "We believe the government of Turkey shares our objective of preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons. We appreciate the hard work that Turkey has put in in trying to persuade Iran to adopt a more reasonable position," Robert J. Einhorn, special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, told on Thursday a session at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

• Tolerance: Iran/Iraq: ICRC helps repatriate remains of two Iranian soldiers 2010-07-30

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• Haaretz: US hikers detained in Iran are like three Rachel Corries, says friend 2010-07-30

  Shon Meckfessel says he and his friends have spent their life fighting injustice in the Middle East.

• Al-Ahram Weekly: Amani Maged: Greater EU sanctions against Iran 2010-07-30

  News of a new round of EU sanctions against Iran this week has provoked a defiant response from Tehran, writes Amani Mage...

• Inside Higher Ed: ETS Resumes Registrations in Iran for TOEFL and GRE 2010-07-30

  The Educational Testing Service has announced that it is resuming registrations in Iran for the Test of English as a Foreign Language and the Graduate Record Examination. New United Nations sanctions against Iran led ETS to cut off registrations as the testing service could not process funds coming from the country. Now, ETS has a new arrangement in place to process credit and debit cards in Iran in ways that do not violate U.S.

2010-07-29: Headlines

• Kyodo News: Australia imposes strict new sanctions against Iran 2010-07-29

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• Las Vegas Sun: Petrochemical factory blast kills 4 in Iran 2010-07-29

  Iran's official news agency says an explosion at a petrochemical factory on Iran's largest oil terminal has killed four people. | The Sunday report said high pressure in the central boiler of the factory led to an explosion and fire at the facility on Kharg island in the Persian Gulf. | So far the bodies of three of the victims have been found and the blaze is under control. Several other workers were injured.

• Iranian: Is Obama Cooking the Intelligence on Iran as Bush Did with Iraq? 2010-07-29

  Ad Dimension: Skyscraper (160x600) | Ø³Ø±Ø²Ù…Û Ù Ù…Ø±Ø¯Ù… Ù Û Ú© (2) | "Shah & People Revolution" | While there are individuals in the Obama administration who are flirting with the possibility of military action against Iran, they are fewer in number than existed in the Bush administration.

• Straits Times: Australia tightens Iran sanctions 2010-07-29

  AUSTRALIA on Thursday tightened its sanctions on Iran in a fresh bid to convince Teheran to allay international concerns over its nuclear drive. | Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said the new measures target more than 100 Iranian groups and companies, and restrict Australian business dealings with the country's oil and gas sector.

The spectre of Operation Ajax

Britain accused him of violating the company's legal rights and orchestrated a worldwide boycott of Iran's oil that plunged the country into financial crisis. The British government tried to enlist the Americans in planning a coup, an idea originally rebuffed by President Truman. But when Dwight Eisenhower took over the White House, cold war ideologues - determined to prevent the possibility of a Soviet takeover - ordered the CIA to embark on its first covert operation against a foreign government. [more]