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Tehran is positioning a hard-line cleric to replace Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, heightening fears that Iran's long-term goal is to transplant its Islamic revolution to Iraq. As the top spiritual leader in the Shiite Muslim world, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has instructed his followers on what to eat and how to wash, how to marry and how to bury their dead. He has championed Iraqi democracy, insisting on direct elections from the earliest days of the occupation and warned against Iranian-style clerical rule.
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A new poll shows that the percentage of the Arab world that thinks a nuclear-armed Iran would be good for the Middle East has doubled since last year and now makes up the majority. The 2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll found that 57 percent of respondents not only believe that Iran's nuclear program aims to build a bomb but also view that goal positively - nearly double the 29 percent who thought so in 2009. The percentage of those who view an Iranian nuclear bomb negatively fell by more than half, from 46 percent to 21 percent.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli officials said on Friday that a new United Nations report adds credibility to their warnings about Iran, as tensions grow between the Jewish state and its allies over how to tackle Tehran's suspect nuclear program.
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By KEN BALLEN and PATRICK DOHERTY THE ELECTION results in Iran may reflect the will of the Iranian people. Many experts are claiming that the margin of victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the result of fraud or manipulation, but our nationwide public opinion survey of Iranians three weeks before the vote showed Ahmadinejad leading by more than a 2-to-1 margin - greater than his apparent margin of victory in Friday's election.
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The Human Rights Council, voting 22 to 7 on Thursday, approved a resolution co-sponsored by the United States and Sweden to appoint special rapporteur on Iran. The human rights body of the United Nations voted on Thursday for the appointment of an investigator to monitor and report on Iran in response to its harsh crackdown on political dissent.
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During debate on the fiscal year 2007 defense authorization bill, the Senate on a 99-0 vote backed a nonbinding "Sense of the Senate" amendment by Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DeI.), the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Though Mitt Romney laid out no detailed policy plans, the strongest portion of his speech dealt with preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. Speaking before a crowd full of donors and supporters here, Mitt Romney on Sunday asserted his belief that Israel should be able to protect itself against the threat of a nuclear Iran.
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DENVER - Colorado's largest public pension fund will divest itself of investments in companies that have invested at least $20 million in Iran's energy sector, Gov. Bill Ritter said Tuesday. The board of the Public Employees Retirement Association approved the new policy unanimously Friday, and Ritter announced it Tuesday at a news conference with Republican lawmakers who had planned to require the divestment through legislation this year.
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S., North Korean officials wrap up unofficial talks SAN DIEGO -- U.S. and North Korean officials wrapped up unofficial talks Tuesday with other northeast Asian countries about regional security, but no major breakthroughs were expected. The two-day meeting in San Diego was designed to be "frank but friendly" and was not preparation for a resumption of official multilateral talks, said Susan Shirk, a UC San Diego professor and founder of the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue. North Korea carried out nuclear and missile tests earlier this year, but North Korean leader Kim Jong Il recently said his country could rejoin international disarmament talks, depending on the status of direct talks with the U.S. North Korea and the United States do not have diplomatic relations. North Korea'...
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VIENNA -- A top Iranian negotiator praised a plan Wednesday that would ship most of his country's uranium abroad for enrichment and limit its ability to build a nuclear weapon. There was no guarantee, however, that Tehran's leaders would accept the idea. In seven years of back-and-forth diplomatic wrangling, Iran has appeared to accept previous proposals meant to ease fears it might be seeking weapons capability -- only to later reject those same proposals. The West says that has given the country time to build its civilian nuclear program and its capacity to generate fissile warhead material.
