TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) — A senior Iranian lawmaker on Monday threatened to downgrade Iran’s economic ties with France over the dispute of Tehran’s nuclear program, local ISNA news agency reported.

Iranian lawmaker threatens to downgrade economic ties with France over nuclear dispute_English_Xinhua

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Russia says it has made its eighth and last fuel delivery for Iran’s nuclear power plant at Bushehr.

VOA News - Russia Completes Nuclear Fuel Deliveries to Iran

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Jihadi outfits armed with ‘dirty bombs’ — basically radiological dispersal devices combining radioactive material with suitable explosives — are what ‘nightmare scenarios’ are often made up of.

‘A jihadi dirty bomb will be of Pak origin’-India-The Times of India

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VIENNA (AFP) — The head of the UN atomic watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, is to visit Tehran at the end of this week to try and clear up some of the outstanding issues surrounding Iran’s disputed nuclear programme, an agency spokeswoman said Monday.

AFP: IAEA chief to visit Tehran later this week

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Al-Qaeda’s American spokesman Adam Gadahn called on the terror network’s fighters to greet US President George W. Bush with “bombs and booby-trapped vehicles” when he visits the Middle East later this week, according to a new video posted Sunday.

Arab Times :: Greet Bush with bombs: Qaeda

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In 2005, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a fatwa denouncing the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons, claiming that these actions are forbidden by Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire such weapons; hardly anyone in the West paid any attention to the message. He was not only warning the radical elements within the Islamic Republic, who do not hide their desire to have nuclear weapon capabilities, but also assuring the Western world that Iran is not pursuing the development of a nuclear bomb.

Are Iran and the U.S. ready to bite the bullet?

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