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Shiite Cleric killed in Pakistan

Sunday, 07 January 2007

A Shiite cleric was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Pakistan's northern city of Peshawar, media reports said Friday. Syed Ali Imam Jafari, an imam, or prayer leader at a local mosque, was on his way home after a service Thursday when three assailants opened fire on him with automatic weapons before fleeing the scene. The victim died instantly, according to the English-language daily The News. Police launched an investigation into the murder. Other reports said Jafari's relatives and members of the public gathered at the hospital where his body was brought to protest the killing and demand government protection for the minority Shiite community.

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Iran says no truth to rumour of Ayatollah Khamenei death

Saturday, 06 January 2007

Iran's U.N. ambassador denied on Friday reports circulating on the Internet that Tehran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had died."We checked last night and there is no truth to it," Javad Zarif, Iran's chief envoy to the United Nations, told Reuters about the reports, which first appeared on Web sites on Thursday.The Internet rumours were circulating among traders in energy and other financial markets, but had not moved prices.

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Interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Friday, 05 January 2007

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

For a man of such outsize ambition, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tries hard to seem normal. He drives a 20-year-old Peugeot and spends a few nights a week at a modest house in a residential neighborhood of Tehran. When he visited New York City in September, his wife brought dates from Iran to save money on food. And then there is the Jacket the bland beige windbreaker he wears even for affairs of state, projecting the image he prefers for himself as champion of the dispossessed, a global Everyman.

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Britain should integrate into Muslim values

Thursday, 04 January 2007

In 2006 the gloves came off in the fight to define what it means to be British. Whereas the dominant response to the London bombings was confusion over how anyone raised in this country could commit such atrocities, the veil debate detonated by Jack Straw and the teaching assistant Aisha Azmi was notable for its muscularity. Sentiments that might once have been considered too insensitive were openly expressed. "The right to be in a multicultural society," argued the prime minister in a speech last month, "was always implicitly balanced by a duty to integrate, to be part of Britain." Behind these remarks was an assumption that integration is a one-way street. However, there are many things that the rest of the country could learn from Muslims.

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New approach toward Al-Sadr Bloc

Wednesday, 03 January 2007

Sayyid Moqtada Al-Sadr

The leaders of seven political parties of the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) led by Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim recently started a new round of talks to promote consensus among Iraqi Shias. The political parties, which are all represented in the Iraqi parliament, held talks with Shia Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Sistani and Moqtada Sadr, the leader of the Al-Sadr Bloc. Ayatollah Sistani urged all Iraqi political and religious groups to maintain unity during his meeting with the UIA officials. In their three-hour meeting with Moqtada Sadr, the leaders of the Shia political parties said all members of the Al-Sadr Bloc should return to parliament and its ministers should again attend cabinet sessions.

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Interview with Iranian Ambassador to the UN on Sanctions

Wednesday, 03 January 2007

Javad Zarif - Iran's Ambassador to the UN

Iran's UN Ambassador Javad Zarif soberly evaluates the United Nations Security Council resolution leveled on his country last month. In an interview with National Interest Online editor Ximena Ortiz, the ambassador says he does not exclude the possibility of further sanctions, claims that unlike the United States, Iran does not consider the use of force a legitimate foreign-policy option, and rebukes Washington for approaching the people of the Middle East as somehow less than human. The resolution orders all countries to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs. It also freezes assets of related Iranian companies and individuals.

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The End of Saddam

Wednesday, 03 January 2007

Saddam hanged for crimes against humanity

Saddam Hussein was hanged at the end of 2006 for his crimes against humanity. The former dictator of Iraq was led to the gallows in Baghdad's Kadhimiyya, which houses his former detention centre, before being executed without ceremony in front of Iraqi officials. His body was then clad in white cloth and taken away in an ambulance and then a helicopter. It was later taken to a private reception at Iraq’s prime minister’s office where some of his former victims were able to view it.

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