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• Saudi Arabia warns against Iran's nuclear program

  its neighbors since countries in the region harbor no ill-intentions to the Islamic Republic."We stress the danger of the Iranian nuclear program to the security of the whole region," Prince Saud said Saturday in a joint news conference with Indian External 5/25/13 Read more »

• Maller: Sanctions alone won't stop Iran's nuclear push

  is no shortage of ideas for increasing such engagement. A plan to re-establish full diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran over time, starting with direct talks between high-level officials, would be a good first step. Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann   Read more »

• Report: Rafsanjani blasts Iran's rulers

  -- An Iranian pro-reform website is reporting that former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has strongly criticized the policies of the country's ruling clerical establishment, days after a constitutional watchdog disqualified him from running in the June   Read more »

• Iran's Ahmadinejad looks to outsider options

  aide Mashaei is an extension of internal power struggles launched by Ahmadinejad that tried to challenge the structure of how Iran is run: All major powers and policymaking is reserved to Khamenei, the supreme leader. The president's portfolio mostly involves   Read more »

• House committee passes Iran sanctions legislation

  and other world powers fear Iran's production and stockpiling of uranium enrichment is aimed at developing a nuclear weapon. Iran insists its work is for peaceful purposes. Congress has slapped penalties on Iran four times since June 2010.The committee's Nuclear   Read more »

Around the web

• Iran Today: Presidential Election --- Focus On The Economy

  Presidential candidate Mohammad Gharazi (credit: PressTV) Iran's ailing economy has fast become the focus of election campaigning, with candidates putting forward various proposals for dealing with rampant inflation and escalating unemployment. Candidate 38 m ago from Enduring America Read more »

• Growers boost pistachio output to meet China demand

  California's pistachio growers have made a bullish bet on the future: They've planted so many trees over the past few years that the state's production of the greenish nut is expected to more than double, hitting in excess of a billion pounds by 2020. Th 3:48 AM from Sacramento Bee Read more »

• Iran slams US, French criticism of electoral vetting

  Iran accused the United States and France of "interference" for criticising it for barring hundreds of would-be candidates in next month's presidential election, media reports said on Sunday. Tehran is "highly sensitive" about comments targeting its inte 3:44 AM from Voice of Russia Read more »

• Iran fields 'massive' number of missile launchers

  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country has fielded a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers. The Sunday report by Fars quotes Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying the new weapons enable Iranian 3:37 AM from NWCN.com Read more »

• 'Concessions, not tougher sanctions will stop Iran'

  Tougher sanctions won't convince Iran to stop enriching uranium, former American diplomat Ryan Crocker told the Los Angeles Times on Saturday. Instead, Crocker maintains US President Barack Obama should step up diplomacy and consider concessions to the I 3:13 AM from Jerusalem Post Read more »