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Re: Beautiful Iran

2008-08-21T20:44:34Z

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eyewitness accounts 2 - the view from Gori in Georgia

2008-08-16T04:48:38Z

Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to lawyers at the Georgian Human Rights Centre in Tbilisi and Gori in Georgia.

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Former senior CIA official says Georgian cannot join NATO

2008-08-16T04:48:37Z

Afshin Rattansi in Tehran interviews ex-CIA Director of Regional and Political Analysis, Bill Christison about how Washington is headed for war, catalysed by the Georgia crisis.

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eyewitness accounts - georgia

2008-08-16T04:48:38Z

Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to lawyers at the Georgian Human Rights Centre in Tbilisi and Gori in Georgia.

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War Rages In South Osettia, 500m From Tehran

2008-08-16T04:48:39Z

Afshin Rattansi interviews Victor Nadein-Raevskiy about day 4 of the proxy war.

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War between South Ossetia and Georgia - the Green Light

2008-08-16T04:48:39Z

A green light from Washington?

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Afshin Rattansi interviews Guantanamo Lawyer, Gareth Peirce August 2008

2008-08-16T04:48:39Z

After the "verdict" in Occupied Cuba of Osama bin Laden's driver.
Gareth Peirce is the attorney for Moazzam Begg as well as Richard Belmar. Peirce is one of the leading human rights lawyers in Britian. She represented the Birmingham Six and Guilford Four as well as the three other British citizens released from Guantanamo last year known as the "Tipton Three". Actress Emma Thompson played her character in the movie "In the Name of the Father."

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Blair Relative Asks ME Envoy to Break the Blockade of Gaza

2008-08-16T04:48:39Z

Afshin Rattansi interviews Lauren Booth in the Greek Islands as she and other activists try to stop the collective punishment of Gaza.
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Bin Laden's Driver Acquitted for Conspiracy at Guantanamo

2008-08-16T04:48:39Z

Afshin Rattansi talks to Andy Worthington, spokesman for Reprieve about the impending life imprisonment of Samir Hamdan after years of torture at U.S. prison camp Guantanamo Bay in Occupied Cuba.

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Iran's Nuclear Negotiator will talk to Javier Solana

2008-08-16T04:48:40Z

..in a few hours...
Afshin Rattansi summarises the breaking news out of Tehran..

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2008-08-16T04:48:40Z

Afshin Rattansi interviews Symon Hill from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade on :
LONDON: A senior British prosecutor's decision to drop a bribery investigation into BAE Systems Plc weapons contracts with Saudi Arabia doesn't need to be reconsidered, the highest court in Britain ruled.

The House of Lords overturned a lower court and said former U.K. Serious Fraud Office Director Robert Wardle had the authority to call off his corruption probe. Wardle had cited threats to national security as justification.

Wardle "received advice from a number of sources about the threat to national security if the investigation continued," Alan Rodger, one of five judges deciding the case said in the ruling from London. The SFO director had concluded "British lives would be put at risk."

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Afshin Rattansi interviews Palestine's FM, Riyadh Al-Maliki

2008-08-16T04:48:40Z

Riyadh Al-Maliki speaks to Afshin Rattansi at the Non-Aligned Movement Conference in Tehran about divisions within the Palestine movement and accusations that Fatah has been killing Hamas movement members. He also talks about Senator Barack Obama

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Fatah Slams Hamas

2008-08-16T04:48:40Z

fatah abdallah abdallah responds to accusations that Fatah have killed a young girl. Afshin Rattansi talks to Fatah spokesman, Abdallah Abdallah about Fatah telling Israel not to open the Rafah crossing and helping to bulldoze a man to death in the West Bank

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American Torture

2008-08-16T04:48:40Z

Afshin Rattansi on assignment in Tehran asks Executive Intelligence Review in Washington DC whether we should thank Bush and Cheney for codifying American torture.

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Press TV covers the Jerusalem attack

2008-07-25T19:31:45Z

Afshin Rattansi anchors baking news of the latest on one of the worst attacks on Israelis in recent years, in Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM (AP) — A gunman entered the library of a rabbinical seminary and opened fire on a crowded nighttime study session Thursday, killing eight people and wounding nine before he was slain, police and rescue workers said. It was the first major militant attack in Jerusalem in more than four years.

Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip praised the operation in a statement, and thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza to celebrate.

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A Hamas Ceasfire? Fawzi Barhoum grilled by Afshin Rattansi

2008-07-25T19:31:39Z

AMMAN, March 11--Palestinian Authority chief Mahmud Abbas says that the Israeli occupying regime and the resistance movement Hamas are "agreed in principle" on a truce that will end the crisis in the occupied territories.

The Israeli regime and Hamas appeared Monday to be abiding by a tacit agreement to hold fire in and around the Gaza Strip, amid Egyptian efforts to secure a broader truce deal after a bloody explosion of violence there.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh appreciated "what Egypt is undertaking".

He said Hamas "will help the Egyptian leadership to reach a reciprocal and simultaneous truce that will at the same time lead to the lifting of the blockade imposed on the Palestinian people".

After talks with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman, Abbas said: "Hamas also wants to protect its leaders and those of Islamic Jihad from the Israelis, and I think Israel agrees on that or has already agreed."

"With the developments in Egypt, I think there is an agreement in principle on that and a deal might be reached in the coming few days," Abbas said in a statement.

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Afshin Rattansi on telephone and email bugging in the U.S.

2008-07-25T19:31:33Z

Afshin Rattansi, in Iran, examines the secret congressional session - there have only been eight in more than a century and a half - as President Bush vetos a House Bill to make telephone companies liable for illegal bugging of email and telephone calls.

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Press TV on U.S. Submarine-launched missiles against Somalia

2008-07-25T19:31:30Z

Afshin Rattansi examines U.S. views about the ongoing bombardment of Somalia by the U.S. Military

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Dick Cheney meets President Abbas - Press TV Coverage

2008-07-25T19:31:27Z

RAMALLAH, West Bank, March 23 (UPI) -- Security lined the West Bank streets of Ramallah where U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was meeting Sunday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Cheney's visit to the West Bank is part of his tour of the Mideast, which he began Saturday with strong support for Israel on security matters.

"America's commitment to Israel's security is enduring and unshakable, as is our commitment to Israel's right to defend itself - always -against terrorism, rocket attacks and other threats from forces dedicated to Israel's destruction," Cheney said during a late Saturday news conference in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

After meeting with Abbas, Cheney was scheduled to talk with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, the BBC reported.

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Afshin Rattansi in Iran interviews Fatah's Abdullah Abdullah

2008-07-25T19:31:24Z

Fatah ratchets up the pressure on Hamas after the world's wire agencies report agreement in Yemen.

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The 4,000th U.S. Death in Iraq - Press TV, Tehran & Baghdad

2008-07-25T19:31:21Z

Afshin Rattansi interviews Press Tv's correspondent, Amanda Lindhout in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, March 24 (Reuters) - The number of U.S. soldiers to die in Iraq has reached 4,000, the U.S. military said on Monday, just days after the fifth anniversary of a war that President George W. Bush says the United States is on track to win.

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Violence in Iraq Rages as President Bush hails the surge.

2008-07-25T19:31:13Z

Afshin Rattansi in Tehran in Iran interviews Press TV's Amanda Lindhout in Baghdad.

Spinning the Bloodshed in Basra
Washington Post
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, March 27, 2008; 1:43 PM

As fighting rages in Basra, the White House is unleashing a forceful spin campaign to frame the Iraqi government's offensive there as a positive outcome of the U.S. troop surge and a symbol of better days to come.

Speaking to an invitation-only audience at an Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio, this morning, President Bush argued that the Basra incursion "shows the progress the Iraqi security forces have made during the surge" and "demonstrates to the Iraqi people that their government is committed to protecting them. . . .

"The enemy, you know, will try to fill the TV screens with violence," he scoffed. "But the ultimate result will be this: Terrorists and extremists in Iraq will know they have no place in a free and democratic society."

But is the bloodshed in Basra an example of a unified central government asserting itself and the Iraqi army standing up? Or is it further evidence of the internecine strife ravaging the country? Will Basra become a symbol of the restoration of the rule of law? Or will it turn out to be a step toward heightened violence?

There is plenty of reason to doubt the White House spin.

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Bush Administration Renews Blackwater Contract

2008-07-25T19:11:37Z

Afshin Rattansi talks to Danny Schecter of Media Channel.org about the renewal of the Blackwater contract despite an FBI investigation of the firm. Aired on Press TV from Tehran in Iran.

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Blackwater Contract Renewed

2008-07-25T19:11:34Z

Press TV covers the renewal of the Blackwater contract in Iraq.

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Moqtada Al Sadr's Man In Baghdad on General Petraeus

2008-07-25T19:11:28Z

Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Moqtada Al Sadr's spokesman in Baghdad about Congressional testimony from General Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker.

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