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By Imran Garda in Americas on February 4th, 2012
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would not yield to the pressure of sanctions imposed by the West. [AFP]

A few months ago I had an email exchange with the former Deputy Director General of The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Bruno Pellaud. 

By Adam Raney in Americas on January 10th, 2012
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shake hands during a welcoming ceremony [Reuters]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad exchanged warm embraces and signed several trade and political agreements on Monday.

Few details were given to the press - other than that the agreements were meant to expand research in science, nanotechnology, industry and politics.

It was more a display of how they were deepening ties on economic development projects and strengthening their political alliance. Chavez touted ongoing projects such as food processing plants, and tractor and bicycle factories - all of which were built in Venezuela with Iran's help.

He even included pre-recorded segments at the press confence where workers gave viewers tours of corn processing plants and milk treatment plants.

For two of the world's most oil-rich countries though, the projects seemed a bit small scale to be highlighted for the international press.

By Alan Fisher in Americas on October 15th, 2011

Even in late October, the heat in Corpus Christi shimmers on the streets, changing the perspective creating that little illusion of things not being quite as they seem.

The south Texas town normally enjoys the last of the summer tourists around now but this week has seen an influx of journalists, keen to find out more about the man at the centre of an Iranian backed plot to kill diplomats in the US.

The federal indictment says the 56-year-old Mansoor Arbabsiar who was born in Iran was recruited by elements of the country's Elite Al Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard to buy the support of a Mexican Drug cartel to carry out an assassination in Washington.

By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on October 11th, 2011
The Massachusetts statesman's presidential ambitions include a plan for his Latin neighbours.

If Mitt Romney becomes president of the United States, he apparently has big plans for Latin America. 

“Neither the Bush administration or the Obama administration really focused on Latin America,” a Romney aide apparently told a conference call of reporters late last week, according to this article in Politico. 

The article quoted an aide who said President Mitt Romney would envision “larger campaigns for economic opportunity in Latin America” and that Latin America would be one of the main regions in the world Romney foreign policy would differ from George Bush or Barack Obama. 

Fair enough.

With that in mind I took great interest when on Friday Romney released his 44-page foreign policy white paper titled: “An American Century - A Strategy to Secure

By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on March 24th, 2011
Celebration after the nuclear accord between Brazil, Turkey and Iran was signed last year. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR

Iran and Brazil. My, oh, my.

By Teymoor Nabili in Middle East on March 23rd, 2011
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The spring equinox, celebrated in Iran and many across Asia as the start of a new year or Nowrooz, is used annually by President Obama as an opportunity to "speak directly to the people of Iran".

This year has been no different and Obama's text, garnished though it is with expressions of "hope" and "promise", again boils down to  the same basic message  - condemnation of the Iranian government.

The government in London and European authorities have also taken the opportunity to resume the rhetoric and up the sanctions pressures.

These message to Iran come in the same week that Israeli forces killed a civilian family in Ga

By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on February 16th, 2011
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By Teymoor Nabili in Middle East on February 7th, 2011
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Iran's clerics, and its Supreme Leader, have mostly been pushing the line that events in Egypt are the ideological stepchild of Iran's 1979 revolution.

At Friday prayers last week, Khameinei declared:

This is what was always referred to as the Islamic awakening created by the victory of the great Islamic revolution of the Iranian nation and is showing itself today.

But as Iran's leaders claim to have successfully exporte

By Rhodri Davies in Middle East on February 4th, 2011
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Claims are still being made that oil, amongst other products such as alcohol, are being smuggled from northern Iraq to Iran.

The accusations that petroleum is consistently being smuggled over the mountainous border in the north at Haj Omran and to the north east of Iraq at Penjuin are denied by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), that is autonomous from Baghdad.

It has been said that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crude oil and refined products are illegally transported over the border to Iran annually.

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