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Iran

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Mar 2006Number of suicide bombings known to have been carried out by Iranians: 0
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Robert Pape, University of Chicago

Dec 2004Estimated revenue generated by Halliburton last year through subsidiaries in Iran : $63,506,000
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Halliburton (Houston, Tex.)

Dec 2004Number of times since 2002 the city has filed a shareholders' resolution questioning the risk of doing business in Iran : 3
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Office of the Comptroller (N.Y.C.)

Sep 2003 Percentage of Americans in June who favored U.S. military action to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons: 56
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Washington Post /ABC News poll, 6/24/03

Aug 2003Ratio of Iran's military budget to the amount spent by the Pentagon since last fall for "increased worldwide posture": 1:1
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International Institute for Strategic Studies (London)/U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Jan 2003Number of countries that supplied both sides during the Iran-Iraq war: 10
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Jun 2002Years into his ambassadorship that he was cited for creating illegal "covert propaganda" in the Iran-Contra scandal: 1
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National Security Archive (Washington)

Jun 2002Number of reformist daily newspapers in Iran: 6
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World Press Organization (N.Y.C.)

Jun 2002Percentage of Iranians and Kuwaitis, respectively, who say that the September 11 attacks were "totally justifiable": 8, 18
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The Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

May 2002Number of current Bush Administration officials who were involved in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal: 4
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Harper's research

May 2001Number of pages of documents related to the Iran-Contra investigation that are still sealed: 4,630,000
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National Archives and Records Administration (College Park, Md.)

Mar 2001Number of times Colin Powell said, “I don't recall” or, “I can't recall” during his 1987 Iran-Contra testimony: 56
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Harper's research

May 2000Portion of Iran's current population that was under the age of ten at the outset of the 1979 hostage crisis: 7/10
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U.S. Bureau of the Census (Suitland, Md.)

July 10, 2008 Iran released photos of a missile test that had been doctored to make it look as if four missiles were being launched instead of three.
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NYTimes

May 5, 2008U.S. military reports on the interrogation of four captured Shia militia members concluded that Hezbollah was training small groups of Iraqi insurgents in Iran. John Bolton, ex-ambassador to the United Nations, said that attacking Iran was “really the most prudent thing to do”; the Iraqi government said that it would conduct its own inquiry. “We do not want to start a conflict with Iran,” said Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. “We need our own government documentation of this interference, not from the Americans, not from the media.”
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The New York Times

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Reuters

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The Christian Science Monitor

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Fox via Thinkprogress

October 15, 2007A Kremlin spokeswoman said assassins are plotting to kill Vladimir Putin this week during his visit to Tehran.
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Breitbart

September 26, 2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hailed by his countrymen as the “Socrates of the Third Millennium” for “disarming other speakers through his sharp reasoning,” gave a speech on Monday in which he claimed that Iran had no homosexuals and disavowed reports of his nuclear ambitions. “Let me tell a joke here,” Ahmadinejad said. “I think the politicians who are after atomic bombs, or testing them, making them, politically they are backward, retarded.” On Tuesday he met with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, addressed the United Nations (where he announced that he would disregard any resolutions adopted by the Security Council), and hosted a reception at the Intercontinental Hotel that was attended by Brian Williams and Christiane Amanpour.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News

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Adnkronos International

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Reuters via Yahoo! News

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New York Times

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Time

September 23, 2007 Iran shut its border with northern Iraq after an Iranian national was detained by U.S. troops and accused of being a member of the Revolutionary Guard.
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AFP

September 23, 2007 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended the United Nations in New York City and gave a speech at Columbia University. “There is,” he said in an interview, “no war in the offing.”
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Herald Sun

September 23, 2007Both Iran and mercenary firm Blackwater USA were accused of smuggling weapons into Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking from a Manhattan hotel, criticized the United States for the recent deaths of civilians at the hands of Blackwater. “Success is shared,” he said. “God forbid, failure is also shared.”
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AP

September 22, 2007It was reported that not long ago Vice President Dick Cheney considered asking Israel to launch missiles at an Iranian nuclear site to kick-start a new war.
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Reuters

July 12, 2007 Kurdish guerrillas were fighting Iranian troops.
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IHT

July 1, 2007President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela visited Tehran and praised Iran's nuclear program, calling President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad his “ideological brother.”
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BBCnews.com

May 29, 2007 Iran's telecommunications ministry proclaimed that it will begin filtering immoral messages sent by cell phones.
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Reuters via eweek.com

May 2, 2007The U.N. Refugee Agency reported that more than 36,000 Afghans had been deported from Iran since late April.
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BBCnews.com

April 30, 2007Police in Tehran forbade barbers from giving men Western style haircuts or plucking their eyebrows.
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Reuters

April 19, 2007A senior U.N. inspector revealed that in the past two months Iran has doubled its capacity to enrich uranium.
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Washington Post

April 19, 2007Senator John McCain entertained a crowd at a campaign rally in South Carolina by singing “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” to the tune of “Barbara Ann” by the Beach Boys.
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Georgetown Times

March 23, 2007The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose new sanctions on Iran. Iranian officials claimed that American authorities had prevented President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from attending the Council meeting by delaying his visa.
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AP via Yahoo! News

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BBC

March 23, 2007In the Iraqi territory of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, Iranian forces captured and detained 15 members of the British Royal Navy.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News

March 1, 2007 Senator Joe Biden (D., Del.) boasted that as president he would pull U.S. troops out of Iraq and send them to “take out the janjaweed” in Darfur, which he mistakenly placed in Somalia, not Sudan, where visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a cooperative agreement on the environment and said, “Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan.”
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PrezVid

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Deutsche Presse-Agentur

February 16, 2007President George W. Bush expressed “certainty” that the Iranian government has been supplying Iraqi insurgents with weapons and extended the deployment of 3,200 soldiers so close to the end of their tour that their uniforms and supplies had already been packed for shipment.
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CBS4Denver

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NYT

February 2, 2007Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warned that the White House was looking for an excuse to attack Iran.
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World Socialist Web Site

January 14, 2007In Venezuela, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and President Hugo Chávez embraced. “Welcome, fighter for just causes,” Chávez said.
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New York Times

January 12, 2007Americans in Erbil arrested six Iranians working at a diplomatic office.
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New York Times

January 12, 2007 Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D., Del.) asserted that the authority Congress granted the Bush Administration to invade Iraq did not extend to invading Iran or Syria. “I just want to set that marker,” he said.
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Slate

December 11, 2006 Iran held a conference to examine whether the Holocaust happened.
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AP via CBS

November 29, 2006 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote a letter to the American people claiming that Jews have inordinate control over international finance, media, and culture.
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New York Times

November 28, 2006 Iran's supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that “the continuation of Iraq's occupation is not a mouthful that Americans can swallow.”
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Breitbart.com

November 8, 2006Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned, and to replace him President Bush nominated Robert Gates, a member of the Iraq Study Group and former head of the CIA, who was investigated in 1991 by the office of the independent counsel for his role in the Iran-contra scandal, and was suspected to have passed military intelligence to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
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GlobalSecurity.org

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Mercury News

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The New York Times

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BBC News

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Newsday

November 2, 2006 Iran began offering cash incentives in a program designed to bring in more foreign tourists; travel agents will receive $20 for every Western vacationer but only $10 per Asian.
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CNN

October 4, 2006 Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei announced that intentional masturbation during Ramadan breaks the fast.
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YNetNews.com

September 27, 2006An expert claimed that elements of Iran's atomic strategy appear to have been borrowed from Israel.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News

September 21, 2006 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the United Nations in New York, proclaimed his love for all the world's peoples, and suggested that the United States halt domestic fuel production and buy its energy from him “at a fifty percent discount.”
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BBC News

September 6, 2006Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami predicted that “prudence and wisdom” would prevail and that the United States would not attack Iran.
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Washington Post

September 5, 2006The White House warned of a “WMD-terrorism nexus” emanating from Iran.
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New York Times

August 31, 2006 Iran ignored a U.N. Security Council deadline for suspending its uranium-enrichment activities.
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UPI

August 29, 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged U.S. President George Bush to a televised debate.
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Reuters

August 26, 2006President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the opening ceremony for a power plant that could be used to manufacture nuclear weapons, said his country was “not a threat to anybody, even the Zionist regime which is a definite enemy.”
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BBC

August 14, 2006 Iran was launching missiles at Kurds and cracking down on “decadent” satellite dishes. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed the country would continue to pursue its nuclear program “forcefully,” and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the United States “should be disarmed.”
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Middle East Times

August 13, 2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was writing a blog.
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Times Online

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Reuters via Yahoo! News

July 24, 2006President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran predicted that Israel had “pushed the button of its own destruction.”
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The Australian

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NY Times

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NY Times

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National Post

July 18, 2006Ehud Olmert, prime minister of Israel, said Hezbollah's war on Israel was a ruse to divert attention from Iran's nuclear weapons program. Kayhan, an Iranian news daily, replied that it only “wish[ed] Israel's lies were true.”
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BBC

June 18, 2006It was revealed that in 2003 the Bush Administration refused an offer by Iran to end Iranian support of Palestinian terror organizations and recognize Israel in exchange for an end to sanctions and permission to peacefully develop its nuclear program.
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The Jerusalem Post

June 6, 2006Javier Solana, Europe's foreign-policy director, formally offered Iran a package of incentives designed to persuade the Islamic state to give up its nuclear ambitions; that same day, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran restarted its uranium-enrichment program.
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New York Times

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New York Times

June 4, 2006An earthquake in Iran killed one little girl.
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Daily Times

June 2, 2006The United States announced that it would join 5 other nations in demanding that Iran immediately suspend uranium-enrichment activities, although the country would in the future be allowed to develop some civilian nuclear technologies. Iran said it would refuse to engage in talks unless all conditions were dropped, and Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the United States could endanger its oil supply if it makes a “wrong move” toward Iran.
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The Washington Post

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AP

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The Daily Star

May 31, 2006 Iran's military was reported to have planned a campaign of decentralized guerilla warfare in the event of a U.S. invasion.
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The Washington Times

May 19, 2006 Iran, despite reports to the contrary, was not making non-Muslims wear badges.
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The National Post

May 12, 2006The International Atomic Energy Agency found evidence that Iran possesses highly enriched uranium.
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AP via Yahoo! News

May 8, 2006 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to President Bush seeking to improve relations between Iran and the United States; the White House denounced the letter but would not confirm whether the President had read it.
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BBC News

May 8, 2006The head of the Iranian Physical Education Organization banned effeminate-looking athletes.
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Breitbart.com

May 1, 2006 Iran, under criticism for its nuclear program, accused the United States of using "illegitimate and open threats to use force against the Islamic Republic of Iran."
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BBC News

April 17, 2006The Iranian government promised to give $50 million to the Palestinian Authority, now controlled by Hamas, which let it be known that it would recognize Israel's right to exist if the Jewish state were to withdraw from the entire West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
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CNN.com

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Democracy Now!

April 11, 2006 Iran announced that it had successfully produced low-grade enriched uranium; to celebrate, men in traditional dress danced with uranium samples.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News

April 10, 2006The Bush Administration continued to plan a major air attack on Iran; a highly placed government consultant said that President George W. Bush believes that "saving Iran is going to be his legacy."
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The New Yorker

March 31, 2006Earthquakes in western Iran damaged 330 villages and killed 70 people.
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Reuters

March 8, 2006The U.S. State Department issued a report criticizing human rights abuses in China, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. It also criticized the rights records of Jordan and Egypt, two countries where the United States has sent detainees to be interrogated. The report noted that the United States' "own journey towards liberty and justice for all has been long and difficult," and is "far from complete."
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The New York Times

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The Independent

February 12, 2006 Iran, said security analysts, will be ready to retaliate with commando squads, global terrorist attacks, and long-range Shahab 3 missiles if its nuclear facilities are attacked.
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The Boston Globe

February 10, 2006Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
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Arab News

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Al Jazeera

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BBC News

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Channel 4

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ReviewJournal.com

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CBC News

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Al Jazeera

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ABC News Online

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Bloomberg News

February 5, 2006Riots erupted over newspaper cartoons, printed first in Denmark and subsequently throughout Europe, that caricatured the prophet Muhammad. Demonstrators rallied in Syria, where they attacked the Danish and Norwegian embassies, and in Lebanon, where they set the Danish embassy on fire. "They should have respected our religion," said a Lebanese protester. Iran recalled its ambassador from Denmark, and protesters outside the United Nations in New York City chanted, "shame, shame."
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BBC News

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Newsday

February 4, 2006The IAEA voted to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council because of Iran's nuclear program; Venezuela, Cuba, and Syria voted against the measure. Prior to the vote, Egypt proposed to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, but that proposal was rejected by the United States because it would interfere with Israel's weapons program.
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BBC News

January 15, 2006 U.S. senators insisted that attacking Iran must remain an option.
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Boston.com

December 19, 2005 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered that all western music be banned from state-controlled radio and TV stations.
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AP

December 14, 2005 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust was a myth.
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BBC News

December 6, 2005In Iran a military plane crashed into an apartment building, killing at least 115 people, most of them journalists.
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The New York Times

December 4, 2005 Russia confirmed plans to sell $1 billion worth of surface-to-air missiles and other weapons hardware to Iran.
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The Sydney Morning Herald

November 28, 2005 Earthquakes struck Iran and China.
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The Arizona Daily Star

October 29, 2005 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the face of the map." Iran later said that it did not intend to invade Israel. "Westerners are free to comment," clarified Ahmadinejad, "but their reactions are invalid."
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BBC News

October 5, 2005 Britain accused the Iranian Revolutionary Guard of providing Iraqi Shiite groups with the technology to carry out bombing attacks.
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BBC News

September 5, 2005Fifty-five countries offered aid to the United Stateswith the disaster created by Hurricane Katrina. Cuba offered 1,100 doctors, Iran offered humanitarian aid, China offered $5 million, and Venezuela offered fuel at a reduced cost. The United States was performing a “needs assessment” to decide whose help to accept.</