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  Conservatives ahead as Iran polls results trickle in

  Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 01:42am on February 23, 2020

  Conservatives appeared to be in the lead as the first results of Iran’s parliamentary election came in Saturday, amid expectations of a low turnout after...

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  Voting underway in Iran parliamentary election

  Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 11:52am on February 21, 2020

  Iranians began voting Friday in a parliamentary election which conservatives are expected to dominate, capitalising on public anger against moderate conservative president Hassan Rouhani over...

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  Iran unveils ballistic missile, ‘new generation’ engines

  Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 10:43pm on February 09, 2020

  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveiled Sunday a short-range ballistic missile that they said can be powered by a ‘new generation’ of engines designed to put satellites...

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  Iran must become strong to end enemy threat: Khamenei

  Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 10:41pm on February 08, 2020

  Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that the Islamic republic must become strong enough to ward off the ‘enemy’s threats’ and prevent a...

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  Iranians must have right to choose at polls: Rouhani

  Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 12:34am on February 03, 2020

  Iranians must have the ‘right to choose’ between different political movements, president Hassan Rouhani said Sunday, as controversy grows over the disqualification of thousands of...

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  Iran accuses Europe of ‘racism’ over nuclear deal move

  Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 10:08pm on January 27, 2020

  Iran’s foreign minister on Monday said Britain, France and Germany had shown ‘racism’ by activating a dispute mechanism in the 2015 nuclear deal. In a...

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  Iran MP offers $3m ‘to anyone who kills Trump’

  Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 10:44pm on January 22, 2020

  An Iranian lawmaker on Tuesday offered a $3-million reward to ‘anyone who kills’ US president Donald Trump to avenge the assassination of a top general,...

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  Iran confirms two missiles fired at Ukraine airliner

  Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 10:28pm on January 21, 2020

  Iran has confirmed two missiles were fired at a Ukrainian airliner brought down this month, in a catastrophic error that killed all 176 people on...

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  Iran says it may pull out of nuclear treaty over Europe dispute

  Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 02:08am on January 21, 2020

  Iran said Monday it will consider withdrawing from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons if a dispute over its atomic programme goes before...

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  Khamenei defends military over plane disaster

  Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 12:34am on January 18, 2020

  Iran’s supreme leader called the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner a ‘bitter’ tragedy Friday but said it should not overshadow the ‘sacrifice’ of a...