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. | Iran says the economic sanctions would not stop it from pursuing nuclear energy development and says the Baghdad talks must be based on the recognition of rights of the Iranian nation to do so.
“Talks for cooperation, |
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. | Lincoln Mitchell, an associate research scholar specializing in the Caucasus at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, believes that Georgia’s ties with Iran do not have too “much salience” in Washington for now, but notes that that “may change, if push comes to shove on Iran.”
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. | North Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has responded to the latest anti-Azerbaijani protest held in the city of Tabriz, Iran. Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan, Elman Abdullayev, today expressed official Baku’s concern.
The Azerbaijani authorities are convinced that forces hostile to Azerbaijan |
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. | On the 26th of May, 2012. Sabina’s performance at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Baku will take on a new dimension with the news that she will be joined by the mugam’s legend Alim Qasimov on stage in the final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. |
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. | Turkish security is investigating whether or not the bird was a possible secret agent of the Israeli secret police and had an embedded surveillance device. In the most obvious denial ever, Israeli wildlife |
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. | Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, was convicted of killing Professor Massoud Ali Mohammadi by detonating a bomb outside his home in January 2010.
Fashi was also accused of being a spy for the Israeli intelligence |
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. | An informal summit of CIS leaders holds in the capital of Russia, Moscow. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev attends at Summit organized by the initiative Russian President Vladimir Putin, APA’s Moscow correspondent reports. |
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. | “Iran has nothing to do with what happens between the two countries, even if it develops into a unity,” al-Faisal said.
GCC leaders agreed to allow time for further discussions over the proposed Gulf union, Saud said. Iranian MPs earlier on Monday condemned the planned union between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. |
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. | Police violently dispersed the protesters of the Public Chamber in the center of Baku, close to the Nizami monument park and the surrounding area.
The opposition had intended meeting at 13:00, to make a procession to the |
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. | that the quake occurred in 10 km west of Sheki at 17.56. 3-magnitude was felt in the epicenter, and 2-magnitude in the residential areas near the epicenter. |
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. | Scientific Council of Muslims Department made a statement condemning the anti-Azerbaijani speech in Iran.
Recently, some religious leaders of Iran are doing anti-Azerbaijani statements, insult national symbols of Azerbaijan, and it has cause concern, the statement reads. |
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. | The first forum of World South Azerbaijani Turks, which had been planned to hold in Ankara today, was not allowed holding in the beforehand announced address, head of Organization Committee of Forum, chairman of Azerbaijan Culture Centre Jamal Mammadkhanoglu told APA. |
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. | Shahin Najafi is a harsh critique of Islamic sharia used by clerics to abuse the power over people. He makes fun of those policies, also criticises the baseless stand over Persian Gulf’s name, he also brings in light the policy of Iranian regime to drying out the Lake Urmu (Urmia). Mr Najafi clearly is against the idea of Arianism which is another base for chauvinist clerics in Iran to abuse youths in general. Farsi media is against him too, because he does not accept the Arianisim and Persian Gulf battle with the world. |
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. | Members of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset), Faina Kirshenbaum and Orit Zuarets, will arrive in Baku on May 13 for official meetings. the deputies will be received by Nazim Ibragimov, the head of the State Committee for Diaspora of North Azerbaijan,
On the night of May 16, the deputies will leave for Tbilisi. There they will meet with Deputy Secretary of the Georgian National Security Council, Tamara Kintsurashvili, and Vice-Speaker |
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. | “Azerbaijan condemned and will condemn the anti-human activity of Armenia and the steps of Armenia, which hamper and complicate the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict,” said head of the public policy department of the Presidential Administration Ali Hasanov while speaking about the 20th anniversary of the occupation of Shusha. |
