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The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution imposing sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program. Soon after Saturday's vote, a spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, called the resolution "illegal." He called Iran's nuclear programs "peaceful" and said they will continue.
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution imposing sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program.
A new study says politics -- rather than religion -- is at the heart of a growing divide between the West and the Muslim world.
Sensational Resolution of the Scholars' Conference at Azhar University in Cairo on 22 and 23 November, 2006
The Iraqi government is enforcing a daytime curfew in Baghdad to curb possible confrontations between Shi'ite and Sunni worshippers in the wake of the 22 February bombing of a key Shi'ite mosque. The bombing has also sparked a major political crisis.
Kathleen
Ridolfo
25/02/2006
Political and religious leaders across Iraq have condemned the 22 February attack on two Shi'ite shrines in Samarra. As they grappled to come to terms with what is seen as a heinous assault on all of Islam, leaders began laying blame on their co-religionists and on the U.S. military.
Kathleen
Ridolfo
23/02/2006
Russia's atomic agency chief, Sergei Kiriyenko, is travelling to Tehran today for talks on Moscow's proposal aimed at easing Western fears that Iran may be seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
Golnaz
Esfandiari
23/02/2006
Sectarian tensions in Iraq took a turn for the worse on 22 February when armed men detonated explosives inside the Golden Mosque in Samarra, home to a revered Shi'ite shrine, blowing the roof off the building.
Kathleen
Ridolfo
22/02/2006
Iran has launched a diplomatic offensive in what appears to be a last-ditch attempt to avoid action by the UN Security Council over its nuclear activities.
An Iranian delegation is due to travel to Moscow on 20 February to discuss a Russian proposal aimed at breaking the deadlock over Tehran's controversial nuclear activities.
The Israeli cabinet has overwhelmingly approved a range of sanctions against the Palestinian Authority Sunday, after the militant group Hamas assumed control of the Palestinian parliament.
Tehran today welcomed a reported proposal made by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to allow for small-scale uranium-enrichment activities on Iranian territory under certain conditions.
Hamas' surprise victory in last month's parliamentary elections ousted Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, giving militant group control of 74 seats in 132-member legislature.
A high-ranking Iranian official says the Islamic republic has injected uranium gas into a small number of centrifuges, a step in the process of uranium enrichment.
The United States and other Western nations are concerned that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons under the cover of a peaceful energy program.
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