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Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is in the final stages of negotiations for the purchase of a leading Brazilian defense company, an Israeli daily reported Wednesday.

Revolutions require zeal, energy and fervor - all of which need to be maintained.

Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons and fired tear gas at demonstrations.

Some 271 schools in cities across Tehran Province have been temporarily closed due to the swine flu epidemic, the Tehran Education Departmenta s public relations officer for provincial cities said on Saturday.

THIRTY years ago, the world was mesmerised by pictures of 52 blindfolded Americans being taken hostage in their embassy in Tehran by Iranian students.

Iran's leadership seems frozen in time. Its rulers are still blaming the United States for their countrya s many woes.

AFP/File A picture shows the fuel manufacturing plant in the central province of Isfahan in April 2009.

Students across Iran are planning to lead a huge day of protest this week against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 's regime, in a defiant commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the US embassy takeover by radical students in Tehran.

Speakers at the UTIP Congress, organised by Mowasalat, have stressed the need for Metro rail and similar systems in cities of the Middle East and North Africa facing traffic congestion.

Despite Obama's Concessions, Russia Remains Unhelpful on Iran : U.S. efforts are producing few results on nuclear problem [W]ashington's hopes took a hit last week.

TEHRAN a ' Mohammad-Reza Pouyandeh of the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicraft Organization has said conducting tours for foreign ambassadors and diplomats in Iran has received great attention over the past year.

A group of students from the University of Southern Denmark , paid a visit to the office of the Tehran Times daily and the Mehr News Agency here on Sunday afternoon.

Morris Museum Presents Global Patterns: Architectural Photographs by Daniel Nadler Opens October 21st; Artist Talk October 22nd By Morris Museum 10/15/2009 Sixty-four of Daniel Nadler's photographs are on view in the Morris Museum exhibition Global Patterns: Architectural Photographs by Daniel Nadler.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that it was "too early" to discuss sanctions against Iran, as world powers try to defuse the standoff over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday the international community would not wait indefinitely for Iran to show that it is prepared to meet its international obligations.

The seizure of the U.S. embassy followed the failure of Carter administration talks with Ayatollah Khomeini's regime.

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Iran continues to test missiles in a show of force it says is meant to show it's ready to crush any military threat.

It sounds like a scene from a James Bond movie. Western intelligence agents scouring Iran for a secret nuclear site, big enough to make a bomb but small enough to hide, identified some suspicious tunnels in a mountain complex outside the holy city of Qom.

Iran has revealed the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant, the UN nuclear watchdog has confirmed.