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Chavez's Anti-US Imperialism Tour Rolls On

(Oct. 21) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in Syria for talks with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, the latest stop on a foreign tour intended to counter what he calls U.S. "imperialism." Chavez flew to Damascus on Wednesday night after a two-day visit to Iran. During his stay in the Islamic...

Ayatollah Khamenei Tells Iranians to Forswear Music

(Aug. 3) -- Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday added an odd foe to the enemies list of the Islamic republic: music. "Although music is halal [permissible under Islam], promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic," Khamenei said....

Report: CIA Paid Iranian Scientist $5 Million

(July 15) -- Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist who claimed to have been kidnapped by the U.S. and returned to the Islamic Republic to a hero's welcome today, was handed more than $5 million by the CIA to provide intelligence on the regime's atomic program, according to intelligence officials interviewed by The...

Report: Iranian Scientist Says He's Escaped US Agents

(June 30) -- Iranian state television has broadcast a video of a man who purports to be an abducted Iranian nuclear scientist, and he now claims that he has escaped from U.S. custody. Shahram Amiri -- an expert in radioactive isotopes at Tehran's Malek Ashtar University, which has close ties to the Revolutionary Guard --...

Background on islamic republic

Islamic republic is the name given to several states in the Muslim world including the Islamic Republics of Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Mauritania.

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