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| | Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ali Khamenei, as Supreme Leader, is the head of state in Iran. | | | According to the law, all presidential candidates must be approved by the Council of Guardians prior to running, after which he is elected by universal suffrage to a 4-year term by an absolute majority of votes. | | | After his election, the president appoints and supervises the Council of Ministers (the cabinet), coordinates government decisions, and selects government policies to be placed before the parliament. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
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| | Iran News - European parliament condemns Iran |
| | "The situation in Iran with regard to the exercise of key civil rights and political freedom has deteriorated since the parliamentary elections of February this year despite commitments on the part of the government of Iran to promoting these universal values," according to a motion passed by the parliament. | | | They said they were deeply worried by the sentence of death by stoning passed on a 13-year old girl, Zhila Izadi, pregnant by her 15-year-old brother, himself sentenced to 150 lashes. |
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http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView?ArchiveNews=Yes&NewsCode=26520&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs
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| | frontline: terror and tehran: chronology - u.s. iran relations, 1906-2002 PBS |
| | In July, Khamenei is confirmed as Supreme Leader and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of Parliament, is elected president. | | | In August of 1997, Supreme Leader Khamenei confirms Khatami as the fifth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. | | | A showdown between Supreme Leader Khamenei and Parliament delays Khatami's inauguration. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tehran/etc/cron.html
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| | CNN.com - Iran's president asks parliament to back his reforms - May 27, 2000 |
| | TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian President Mohammad Khatami opened the nation's reformist-dominated parliament Saturday by asking legislators to use the majority gained in recent elections to back his liberal agenda. | | | Indicating the new mood in the parliament, two of 11 women deputies defied threats and attended the inauguration dressed in manteaus, long jackets, with their hair covered by scarves instead of wearing the traditional chador. | | | The convening of the 290-seat Majlis, Iran's parliament, came three months after reformist Khatami allies won about three-fourths of the seats in nationwide elections, taking the reins from lawmakers who want no dilution of Iran's Islam-guided laws. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/05/27/iran.parliament.01
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| | Iran: Guardians Council Seen As Having Free Hand To Quash Reforms - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Under Iran's Constitution, the Guardians Council is also assigned the role of checking the compatibility of legislation passed by parliament with Islamic laws and the constitution. | | | The six others are jurists nominated by the head of Iran's judiciary -- who is himself appointed by the supreme leader -- and approved by parliament. | | | The Guardians Council oversees presidential and parliamentary elections, as well as elections for the Assembly of Experts, a constitutional body that chooses the supreme leader, the country's highest authority. |
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http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/01/e000e227-1359-4053-8d53-e670130a8638.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Tense opening session for Iran's new parliament |
| | The parliament met for the first time since February elections that reformists had boycotted and voters largely spurned after the cleric-controlled Guardian Council disqualified thousands of reformist candidates from the ballot. | | | Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message read aloud by a close aide, told the new parliament that lawmakers should "avoid factional disputes." He also called the elections "healthy, free and competitive." | | | In a speech, reformist Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari accused the Guardian Council of acting without justification when it barred candidates — some of them sitting lawmakers — from running in the election. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-05-27-iran_x.htm
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| | Majlis of Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Majlis (مجلس), which means "parliament", was the lower house of the Iranian Legislature from 1906 to 1979, the upper house being the Senate. | | | After the Islamic Revolution, when the Iranian Legislature became unicameral, the Majlis became the sole legislative body. | | | History of Iran: Constitutional Revolution, a history of Majlis from 1906 to 1953 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majlis_of_Iran
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| | gooya news :: english : European Parliament resolution on Iran |
| | The European Parliament, – having regard to its previous resolutions on Iran and its decision of 10 March 2004 (1) to set up an inter parliamentary delegation with Iran, – having regard to the report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Ambeyi... | | | Calls on the Iranian Parliament to adapt the Iranian Press Law and the Penal Code to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and notably to repeal all criminal provisions dealing with the peaceful expression of opinions, including in the press; | | | Demands that the Presidency of the Council and the Member States’ diplomatic representatives in Iran urgently undertake concerted action with regard to the abovementioned concerns, in particular the immediate release of the journalists; |
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http://akhbar.gooya.com/english/archives/018145.php
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| | gooya news :: english : Elections in Iran: European Parliament resolution on Iran |
| | Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the President and Parliament of Iran. | | | Shares the view of the Iranian President and a majority of Majlis Members that the upcoming elections cannot be described as free and fair, primarily due to the exclusion of many candidates, including acting parliamentarians; | | | Regrets that its wish to send an observer mission to the elections did not materialise because of lack of support from the Iranian side; |
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http://khabarnameh.gooya.com/english/archives/006235.php
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Iran reformists denounce judges |
| | A commission of the reformist-dominated parliament in Iran has called for a judicial investigation into the Tehran prosecutor's role in the case of Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian-Iranian journalist who died in July from a blow to the head after being arrested in June. | | | It concluded by referring its own report to the special disciplinary court for judges, calling for an investigation into what it called the violations by the Teheran prosecutor and by other judges who it said had acted illegally in the case. | | | Iran's largely reformist parliament is essentially accusing the judiciary of perverting the course of justice |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3220173.stm
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| | WorldNetDaily: iran |
| | After the defiant parliamentary vote, the Associated Press reported Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Hossein Mousavian, said a compromise could still be reached with European negotiators to avert the risk of U.N. sanctions. | | | A senior Iranian official recently said the country was nearing completion of a uranium-conversion facility in Isfahan. | | | Parliament shouts 'Death to America' in vote to enrich unranium |
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41229
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| | Main contenders in Iran parliament race |
| | Leader Gholamali Haddadadel is parliament member and relative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | | | Member of parliament and Expert Assembly, whose main task is selecting supreme leader. | | | Close ally of late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of 1979 Islamic Revolution. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/19/international1102EST0559.DTL
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| | Iran reformers say parliament vote was a ``historical fiasco'' |
| | More than 67 percent of voters turned out in the last parliament elections in 2000 in a pro-reform landslide. | | | But reformers pointed out that voters' rights had been violated because they could only vote for candidates that had already been chosen by the Guardian Council. | | | Iran reformers say parliament vote was a ``historical fiasco'' |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/23/international0606EST0478.DTL
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| | BBC News MIDDLE EAST Iran Kurds quit parliament |
| | Earlier, they had made it clear they were angry at not being consulted over the ministry's appointment of a new regional governor. | | | They said they had not been consulted over the appointment of a new provincial governor. | | | Many Kurds voted for President Khatami and the reformists in recent presidential and parliamentary elections because of their slogan "Iran for all Iranians" and their stated support for minority rights. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1571000/1571927.stm
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| | Iran's Conservative Parliament Approves Airline Part-privatization |
| | Iran starts new round of uranium conversion: diplomats | | | The MPs' decision has yet to be approved by the Guardians' Council, an unelected conservative-controlled watchdog which has powers to vet all legislation. | | | Iran Air is also known to have a dilapidated fleet, as the airline has been hit by US-imposed sanctions that bar Iran from buying aircraft with more than 10 percent US components. |
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http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=24721
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| | IRAN/PARLIAMENT |
| | From Cairo, Lisa Bryant reports that the opening ceremony Saturday included an appeal by President Mohammed Khatami for lawmakers to focus on economic reforms and social justice. | | | Conservatives had been expecting to nominate him as a candidate for parliamentary speaker. | | | The next challenge facing moderate lawmakers will come in the next few days, as the parliament elects a speaker and a presiding board. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2000/000527-iran1.htm
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| | iranian.com: Elham Gheytanchi, Women in Iran's 7th parliament |
| | The seventh Majlis is not a popular one as reflected in the declining voter participation in the parliamentary elections earlier this year. | | | These candidates, who have not been in the forefront of politics up to this election, used reformist rhetoric in a desperate attempt to win popularity in the eyes of the public. | | | The sixth Majlis (2000-2004) reflected the vote of 84% of the voting population and was comprised of reformists (dovom khordadis). |
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http://www.iranian.com/Gheytanchi/2004/November/Women
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| | Does Iran's Parliament Have Any Clout? By Brendan I. Koerner |
| | The parliament and the president, though democratically elected, are far less powerful than Iran's clerical establishment, which is headed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | | | The parliament is not a Soviet-style rubber stamp for the clerics, but rather a chamber that originates, debates, and passes the nation's laws. | | | It is the religious leaders, however, who ultimately decide which parliamentary laws can stand. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2084947
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| | Women's Gains at Risk in Iran's New Parliament |
| | Immediately after the opening of the parliament four years ago, female legislators formed an active women's caucus, which pushed through the appointment of Shahrbanou Amani, a female legislator for the northwest city Orumieh, as the secretary of the parliament. | | | For almost four years this was how Mehdi Karrubi, president of the Iranian parliament, would announce the passage of a bill related to women's rights by the reformist legislature. | | | Aliya says that the incoming parliament will not question gender-bias laws that are rooted in the Sharia. |
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http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/archives/04_0608_iran_wip.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Iran's parliament passes bill urging uranium enrichment |
| | British Prime Minister Tony Blair said last week that he would support referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council if it breaches its nuclear obligations. | | | Iran suspended enrichment of uranium six months ago under international pressure led by the United States, which accuses Tehran of trying to make nuclear weapons. | | | The Guardian Council, a hard-line body vetting legislation, is widely expected to approve the legislation, making it law. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-05-15-iran-nuclear_x.htm
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| | Iran’s parliament backs nuclear work - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com |
| | Diplomatic sources say senior Iranian negotiators and EU foreign ministers are set to meet in the next 10 days. | | | EU diplomats -- who two weeks ago said they were far from a deal -- were not immediately available to comment. | | | TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s parliament voted on Sunday to oblige the government to develop a nuclear fuel cycle -- an action opposed by Washington, which fears the Islamic Republic is seeking to acquire atomic weapons. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7831998
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| | Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East |
| | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036. | | | News agencies report that the United States - joined by Canada and Australia - has reached agreement on the issue with the United Kingdom, France and Germany. | | | But Iran's ambassador to the IAEA in Vienna, Pirooz Hosseini, said that the draft resolution is the result of US "bullying". |
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| | Iran Parliament OKs Nuke Enrichment Bill |
| | "The message of the absolute vote for the Iranian nation is that the parliament supports national interests," he said. | | | Parliament speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel called Sunday's vote a message to the world. | | | TEHRAN, Iran -- To shouts of "Death to America," Iran's parliament unanimously approved the outline of a bill Sunday that would require the government to resume uranium enrichment, legislation likely to deepen an international dispute over Iran's nuclear activities. |
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/31/131716.shtml
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| | Iran's hardline parliament supports resuming uranium enrichment |
| | Iran Starts New Round Of Uranium Conversion: Diplomats | | | He told reporters that a bill on the issue "would be certain of having a large majority" of deputies voting for it. | | | "The plan to oblige the government to resume enrichment has the support of 238 deputies" out of a total 290, said Allaeddin Borujerdi, the head of the Majlis (parliament) foreign policy and national security committee. |
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http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041003160703.3e0e7l41.html
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| | BigSoccer Boards - European Parliament resolution censures Iran rights violations |
| | But Mr Karimirad said that even if such sentences were passed by lower courts, they were overruled by higher courts and "no such verdicts have been carried out". | | | Ebadi, a lawyer who has riled religious hard-liners in the Islamic state by defending high-profile political dissidents, challenged the legality of the proceeding. | | | Iran's conservative judiciary has ordered Ebadi to appear before a branch of the feared Revolutionary Court, which deals with national security offences, or face arrest. |
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| | Parliament Approves Iran Air Partial Sale |
| | Iran's parliament on Monday approved long-debated plans to reduce government ownership in Iran Air by voting in favor of selling 49 percent of the state airline's assets. | | | After a debate broadcast live on state radio, Parliament Speaker Gholamali Haddadadel asked parliament to vote on leaving the government with a 51 percent stake in Iran Air. | | | Iran's efforts at privatization have mainly entailed selling government sectors to other arms of government. |
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http://news.airwise.com/stories/2004/08/1092683432.html
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| | The GULLY Middle East Queering Democracy in Iran |
| | Family members of 15 liberal Islamist dissidents protest their secret trial in Iran's hardline Revolutionary Court. | | | One of the 11 women in Parliament and a former student activist, Haqiqatjou was charged for libel and slander for daring to read out a letter in Parliament holding Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameinei, accountable for the anti-constitutional actions of his judiciary. | | | Scores of journalists, politicians, and student activists have been jailed, thousands have been harassed by state security forces. |
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http://www.thegully.com/essays/iran/020122_queering_democracy.html
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| | Iran Daily |
| | The delegation will be in Iran between November 19 and 23. | | | 8--A branch office of Iran's National Petrochemical Company will be established in the Algerian capital of Algiers, the commercial manager of the NPC stated Thursday, according to IRNA. | | | "Iran's industry is on the road to development some 40 years after industrialization efforts began," he said, adding that the country could have turned into an industrial country had it made optimum use of its high industrial potentials. |
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| | GN Online: Bill sparks storm of protest in Iran parliament |
| | Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karroubi emphasised that before the bill can become law, it must be vetted by the conservative-controlled Guardian Council, which reviews all legislation to make sure it accords with Islamic Sharia law. | | | The head of Iran's parliament yesterday sought to defuse a storm of protest by hardline clerics over a bill to improve women's rights, insisting that it will not be adopted if it contravenes Islamic law. | | | But parliament's decision angered hardline clerics who staged protest marches in the holy city of Qom on Friday and Saturday. |
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http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=94465
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| | GN Online: Reformists, conservatives scuffle in parliament |
| | Conservative and reformist legislators scuffled in Iran's parliament yesterday after a reformist lawmaker called on a panel of clerics to examine the performance of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | | | The Assembly of Experts, a body of around 86 senior clerics which began an annual meeting in Tehran yesterday, appoints Iran's supreme leader and is empowered to dismiss him if he is deemed to be performing badly or is unfit to hold the office. | | | "The assembly should examine if the leader and the council's moves were based on justice and expedience," he told a parliament session, broadcast live by state radio. |
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http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=113159
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| | Iran's parliament ratifies expuslion of illegal foreign workers |
| | The draft resolution was raised up by the work committee affiliated to the parliament, but it was not included in the framework of discussing the fifth draft plan presented by the government. | | | The parliament ratified the decision yesterday during discussions of the third plan for economic development suggested by President Mohamed Khatami's government. | | | Iran for maintaining solidarity among Arab, Islamic states |
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| | Search Results for iran - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Iran was deeply affected by the state of the union address by Pres. | | | Mohammad Khatami survived a difficult political year in 1999, during which conservative Islamic hard-liners attempted to discredit reforms and remove Khatami supporters from... | | | George W. Bush on Jan. 29, 2002, in which he denounced Iran's leading role in an “axis of evil.” Senior officials in the Bush... |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=iran&ct=&fuzzy=N
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com EU Parliament urges Iran improve human rights |
| | Premier Silvio Berlusconi scored a victory Thursday when legislators approved a government-backed bill that would change rules for electing parliament _ a reform the center-left opposition contends will return Italy to political instability. | | | Mexican authorities detain secretary in investigation of radio journalist's slaying | | | Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi told The Associated Press that his government, which has yet to take control of the country, does not have the resources to protect shipping along Somalia's coast More details... |
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| | NPR : Outlook for Iran's New Parliament |
| | NPR's Mike Shuster in Tehran reports on what can be expected from Iran's right-wing, which gained control of the legislature in last week's disputed election after thousands of reformist candidates were barred from the running. | | | Morning Edition, February 26, 2004 ·; There is a long list of issues that have to be dealt with by Iran's newly elected conservative majority parliament, but there is no consensus on the best way to solve the problems. |
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| | Parliament Speaker: Iran's deadline will end at 1700 hours Monday |
| | Asked about the possibility of discontinuation of talks with the EU-3 (France, Germany and Britain), he stressed, "We have made no decision to halt the negotiations. | | | The US is opposed to Iran's independence and the nuke issue is just a pretext." | | | Haddad-Adel urged Europe to adopt a policy independent from the US in its talks with Iran. |
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http://www.payvand.com/news/05/aug/1004.html
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| | European Parliament welcomes Iran's efforts on human rights |
| | MEPs, however, urge Iran to move towards greater democracy, to promote the measures needed to establish a democratic and open society and to implement the legal and administrative reforms needed to bring about real equality of the sexes and guarantee the practical application of fundamental rights and freedoms, added the press release. | | | Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran | | | Gahler's report calls for a 'critical dialogue', under which increased cooperation between the EU and Iran would be closely linked to the question of human rights. |
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http://www.payvand.com/news/01/nov/1072.html
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| | Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - European Parliament supportive of Iran-India pipeline |
| | The European block and India signed the strategic partnership during the fifth EU-India summit in The Netherlands last year in November. | | | The EP said it takes "note of the rapprochement between Iran, Pakistan and India, as a result of which consideration is being given to the building of a gas pipeline from Iran to India passing through Pakistani territory." | | | The EP considers that "support should be given to projects of this kind, which are essentially peaceful in nature, benefit the peoples of the region and create a network of mutual interests deterring the prospect of conflict between them, and encourage regional stability." |
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