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Iran told: halt work on nuclear plantRussia and China lined up with the US, Britain, France and Germany to censure Iran in a vote by the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), passing the first resolution against Iran in nearly four years by a 25-3 margin. In this article: Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, Uranium, UN, UN Security Council, Geneva, Qom, Vienna, and Allegation |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 4 hours ago
World powers seek Iran nuclear censure
...until recently. Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia and China sponsored the new resolution against Iran to be voted by the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-member board of governors, diplomats said. Diplomats...
In this article: International Atomic Energy Agency, Uranium, Tehran, UN, Qom, Moscow, and Mohamed ElBaradei
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washingtonpost.com | 3 days ago
Iran official warns Russia of legal action over S-300
...will be tested during war games this week. In another possible source of strain in Moscow-Tehran ties, Russia earlier this month announced the latest delay to Iran's first nuclear power station. It said technical issues would prevent its...
In this article: Russia, S-300, Tehran, Moscow, United States, and Hillary Clinton
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AP Online | 2 days ago
Diplomats: Big powers prepare Iran resolution
...further to build a bomb. Under the plan, Russia and France would enrich Iran's uranium to a medium level of 20 percent and produce fuel rods for Iran's research reactor, which is used for medical purposes. The rods cannot be readily...
In this article: Uranium, International Atomic Energy Agency, U.N. Security Council, Russia, Vienna, China, United States, and Allegation
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Russia delays Iran's Bushehr nuclear power station
Russia delays Iran's Bushehr nuclear power station MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Monday said it would not start a nuclear reactor at Iran's Bushehr atomic power station by the end of the year as planned, citing technical reasons. "The launch...
In this article: Bushehr, Russia, Moscow, Tehran, Uranium, Dmitry Medvedev, and Barack Obama
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New Kerala | 2 days ago
Sanctions against Iran still premature: Russia
...quoting an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Tuesday. Russia signed a contract with Iran on the supply of S-300 air defence systems to Tehran in December 2005. However, there have been no official reports on the start of the...
In this article: Russia, Tehran, Uranium, International Atomic Energy Agency, Moscow, United States, Plutonium, and Washington Times
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Iran to launch satellite on its own by late 2011
...rocket for the first time in February. In 2005, its first satellite was launched by Russia, which has been a partner in transferring space technology to Iran along with North Korea and China. The Mesbah satellite was first displayed in...
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ElBaradei: Iran blocking of atom plan disappointing
This would defeat the goal of six world powers -- Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Russia and China -- of cutting Iran's LEU reserves to less than the quantity needed to fashion a nuclear warhead, if refined to high purity.
In this article: Mohamed ElBaradei, International Atomic Energy Agency, Barack Obama, Tehran, Uranium, U.N., and Persian Gulf
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Iran (ایران ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Western Asia. Iran is bordered to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, to the west by Iraq, and by Turkey to the northwest. As Iran is a littoral state of the Caspian Sea, which is an inland sea and condominium, Kazakhstan and Russia are also Iran's direct northern neighbors. Iran has a population of over seventy million. It is the 18th largest country in the world in terms of area at 1,648,195 km². Iran is affected by a wide range of climates, from hot and dry in the eastern deserts to temperate and rainy along the Caspian coast.
The name Iran has been in use natively and came into international use from 1935, before which the country was known internationally as Persia. The name Iran is a cognate of Aryan, and means "Land of the Aryans". Aryan refers the ancient Iranian tribes that settled in the Iranian plateau: Medes, Parthians and Persians, the latter of which and eventually unified the region into one the largest empires in history, the Achaemenid Empire. The Muslim conquest of Persia led to a period of significant spiritual, cultural and scientific exchange between Persians and other Muslims. This period saw the emergence of many Persian scientists, poets and philosophers. Iran was reunified as an independent state in 1501 by the Safavid dynasty—who promoted Twelver Shi'a Islam as the official religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turning points in the history of Islam. in 1906, the Iranian Constitutional Revolution established the nation's first parliament within a constitutional monarchy.
- Name:
- Iran
- Conventional Long Name:
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Local Name:
- جمهوری اسلامی ایران
- Capital:
- Tehran
- Language:
- Persian
- Motto:
- Independence, freedom, Islamic Republic
- Largest City:
- Tehran
- Government type:
- Islamic republic (a "theocratic republic".)
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 0625
- Formations:
- Safavid dynasty
- Area:
- 1,648,195
- GDP (per capita PPP):
- $830.058 billion
- GDP (per capita PPP) Rank:
- 17th
- GDP (nominal):
- $331.757 billion
- GDP (nominal per capita) Rank:
- 87th
- GPD (nominal) Rank:
- 29th
- GDP (nominal per capita):
- $4,477
- Time Zone:
- IRST
- Currency:
- Rial (ريال)
- Demonym:
- Iranian
- Drives On:
- right
- Currency (code):
- IRR
- Country Calling Code:
- +98
- ccTLD:
- .ir
- Anthem:
- National Anthem of Iran²
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