Author: By David Usborne, US Editor

The finding, leaked from a report to be released next month, is certain to stoke concerns that time is running out to take firmer action against Tehran, which has played a game of cat-and-mouse with the West for years, claiming its nuclear activities are civilian in nature while ignoring UN resolutions demanding that it cease its uranium enrichment activities.

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Author: Reuters

Montazeri, who branded Iran’s disputed election in June fraudulent, was an
architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution who fell out with the present
clerical leadership and spent five years under house arrest until 2002.

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Author: By Ian James, Associated Press

The Venezuelan president praised Carlos ? whose real name is Ilich Sanchez
Ramirez ? during a speech last night, saying: “I defend him. It doesn’t
matter to me what they say tomorrow in Europe.”

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Author: By Andrew Woodcock, Press Association

Colonel Gaddafi accused the international community of “double standards”
because Israel is allowed to maintain a barely-hidden nuclear capability
while Iran comes under massive pressure not to develop its own.

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Author: By Guy Adams

The Venezuelan President has once more managed to upset his American
counterparts, this time by using a televised Cabinet meeting to crack
knockabout jokes about helping Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to develop weapons of
mass destruction.

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Author: By Andrew Woodcock, Press Association

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told worshippers at Friday prayers at Tehran University
the state of Israel was founded on “a false and mythical claim” and
expressed doubts over whether the Nazi murder of around six million Jews
during the Second World War was “a real event”.

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