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Iraq panel reinstates election ban amid Shi'ite ire
Baghdad   Defence   Election   Iraq   Photos		  The Star 
Iraq panel reinstates election ban amid Shi'ite ire
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi appeals panel that angered Shi'ite leaders by suspending a ban on candidates accused of links to Saddam Hussein's Baath party until after an election reversed its decision... (photo: WN / Kamaran Najm)
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki addresses a news conference in Berlin, Wedenesday, July 23, 2008.
Baghdad   Election   Iraq   Photos   Politics		  The Boston Globe 
For Maliki, a difficult road to reelection
BAGHDAD - Almost four years after his accidental rise to power, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is trying to retain his job without the allies who made him Iraq's ruler the first time around. Maliki... (photo: AP / Markus Schreiber)
Secretary of Defense nominee Robert Gates responds to a question regarding his confirmation during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington  Samachaar 
US unsure of Iran's nuclear shift, still mulling sanctions
Washington: The US said Wednesday it was waiting for clearer signs from Iran that it was serious about taking up an offer by the international community to exchange nuclear fuel. Defence Secretary... (photo: Public Domain / Blueag9)
Gates   Iran   Nuclear   Pentagon   Photos
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks, during a news conference, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 14, 2009.  Samachaar 
US rejects prisoner swap with Iran for detained hikers
Washington:The US Wednesday rejected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's offer of releasing three American hikers held in Iran in exchange for Iranian citizens held in US prisons. "We're not... (photo: AP / Kamran Jebreili)
Ahmadinejad   Iran   Photos   Prison   US
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a speech on nonproliferation before the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 The News & Observer
Clinton says no prisoner swap with Iran
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday ruled out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's suggestion that three detained American hikers in... (photo: AP / Evan Vucci)

Detention   Iran   Photos   Prison   Washington
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton responds during a question-and-answer session at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, after speaking about the Obama Administration's agenda for the upcoming United Nations General Assembly meetings. USA Today
Clinton rules out Ahmadinejad's exhange for U.S. hikers
Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | | WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State ruled out on Wednesday Iranian President 's suggestion that three... (photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite)

Clinton   Photos   Politics   US   World
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, waves as he stands with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the Itamaraty palace in Brasilia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Denver Post
Ahmadinejad proposes prisoner swap for US hikers
Click photo to enlargeFILE -This combination of undated file photos released by freethehikers.org shows, from left; Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer, and Sarah Shourd. Iranian... (photo: AP / Eraldo Peres)

Iran   Photos   Politics   World   Nejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addresses the crowd, Monday, Feb. 11, 2008, during a rally to celebrate the 29th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution at Azadi Square, Tehran, Iran. In 1979, more than five million people lined the streets of the nation's capital, Tehran, to witness the homecoming of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. His return led to the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the regime of the pro-US Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought the hard-line clerics to power. Denver Post
Ahmadinejad suggests exchange for jailed US hikers
TEHRAN—Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested in a television interview Tuesday that Iran would release three jailed U.S. hikers in exchange for Iranians... (photo: AP Photo / Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Ahmadinejad   Exchange   Hikers   Photos   Tehran
An Iraqi police officer stands at the border crossing with Iran near Basra, southern Iraq, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Middle East Online
Iran border breaches reveal Iraq’s internal rifts
An Iranian crackdown on smuggling along the Iraqi border has uncovered fissures and confusion in Baghdad’s policy towards perceived threats to its sovereignty. Iraqi... (photo: AP / Nabil al-Jurani)

Border   Diplomacy   Iran   Iraq   Photos
Incremental Steps in Iraq To Let Kurdistan Oil Flow The New York Times
Incremental Steps in Iraq To Let Kurdistan Oil Flow
ERBIL, Iraq - The semiautonomous region of Kurdistan is the one place in battered Iraq that promised economic boom times, but some of the foreign oil companies that... (photo: WN / Julie Adnan)
Baghdad   Defense   Iraq   Kurdistan   Photos
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Britain's Justice Secretary Jack Straw arrives to speak at the Iraq Inquiry in London,Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Blix: Straw 'gave incorrect answers' to Iraq inquiry BBC News
A British Chaplain, 12 Mechanized Brigade, speaks to British Soldiers standing in formation for the St. George's Day ceremony at the Shat Al Arab Hotel in Basrah, Iraq. Saint George is the Patron Saint of England. The British Soldiers are part of the coal Jack Straw to face Chilcot Iraq inquiry again BBC News
Britain's former International Development Secretary Clare Short leaves after giving testimony at a hearing of the Iraq Inquiry, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center, London Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010. 'Something profound has been lost' The Guardian
Blast in crowd kills at least 41 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq Blast in crowd kills at least 41 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq Daily Star Lebanon
Religion
Supporters of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gather in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City to denounce a visit by Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Al-Sadr urges US forces to leave Iraq at once The Siasat Daily
Special police force take up positions near the fabled Blue Mosque, in the background, during the visit of President Barack Obama in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Obama wrapped up his first European trip as president with a request for other nations to look past his nation's stereotypes and flaw Turkey Arrests 120 With Suspected Qaeda Ties The New York Times
Baghdad, Iraq (Dec. 18, 2004) - An investigative hearing is held for Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as "Chemical Ali", in Baghdad, Iraq. The hearing is part of the on going process held by the Iraqi Special Tribunal to bring former regime lead Chemical Ali: Four death sentences The Guardian
** FILE ** Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as ´Chemical Ali´, a co-defendant with former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, as he appears during their trial on genocide charges at the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, in this Wednesday, Sep Hussein Aide Gets Death Sentence The New York Times
Oil & Gas
Iranian oil workers work at Tehran's oil refinery, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007. Iran's president said Saturday that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is "under heavy economic and political pressures" and that the oil prices are below its real value, state-run-news agency reported. Iran creates national fund for energy projects The Siasat Daily
An Iranian technician walks through the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007. Diplomats from the Nonaligned Movement, Arab League and Group of 77 Iran says to start work on 20 pct nuclear fuel The Star
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in Vali Asr square in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 14, 2009. Protesters set fires and smashed store windows Sunday in a second day of violence as groups challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities but Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest, the worst in a decade in Tehran, as "not important." Iran Is Ready for Nuclear Deal, Leader Says Wall Street Journal
File - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his speech on Iran's fifth development plan at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. Iran ready to send enriched uranium abroad Khaleej Times
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