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		<title>Iran holds Islamic humanities congress</title>
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Iran has held the first International Congress on Islamic Humanities hosting experts from different countries in the capital city of Tehran.
Experts from India, Malaysia, Palestine, Pakistan, Lebanon and Turkey discussed approaches to Islamic Humaniti...]]></description>
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<p>Iran has held the first International Congress on Islamic Humanities hosting experts from different countries in the capital city of Tehran.</p>
<p>Experts from India, Malaysia, Palestine, Pakistan, Lebanon and Turkey discussed approaches to Islamic Humanities in the world of Islam and the connections between humanities and natural sciences during the one-day event.</p><p>Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani directed the congress held at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) International Conference Hall on Sunday.</p><p>‘Meaning, nature and features of Islamic humanities,’ ‘philosophy and methodology of Islamic humanities,’ ‘ideas, approaches and theories raised in Islamic humanities,’ and ‘issues and barriers to making Islamic humanities functional’ were among the topics discussed at the congress.</p><p>TE/TE<br /></p></div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" />]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>‘Iran Navy films US aircraft carrier’</title>
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A high-ranking Iranian military official says the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) naval forces have filmed a US aircraft carrier for 50 minutes.
Commander of the IRGC's Second Naval Zone Rear Admiral Ali Razmjou said Saturday that the forces co...]]></description>
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<p>A high-ranking Iranian military official says the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) naval forces have filmed a US aircraft carrier for 50 minutes.</p>
<p>Commander of the IRGC's Second Naval Zone Rear Admiral Ali Razmjou said Saturday that the forces could record the film at a distance of 500 meters (0.31 mile) from the US military vessel.</p><p>He said that the development shows only part of the IRGC’s might and prowess in the Persian Gulf.</p><p>Commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili said on April 10 that Iranian stealth surveillance aircraft flew over US aircraft carriers and other warships in the Persian Gulf, and captured images of them.</p><p>Iranian Army's electronic warfare unit on December 4, 2011, downed with minimum damage the US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft which was flying over the eastern city of Kashmar, some 225km (140 miles) from the Afghan border.</p><p>The RQ-170 is an unmanned stealth aircraft designed and developed by the Lockheed Martin Company.</p><p>MP/HGH/MA</p></div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" />]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Dialogue best solution to problems: Iran</title>
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Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic considers relations with neighbors important and believes that all problems and misunderstandings should be solved though dialogue among regional states.
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<p>Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic considers relations with neighbors important and believes that all problems and misunderstandings should be solved though dialogue among regional states.</p>
<p>In a meeting with the Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah on Sunday, the Iranian minister said meeting people’s rightful demands is the best way out of the ongoing regional problems, a Foreign Ministry statement said Sunday.</p><p>He added that implementing plans which are dictated from outside the region and are against conditions, independence, and sovereignty of regional states, will only make the existing problems more complicated.</p><p>Salehi emphasized that Iran pursues establishment of peace and stability and friendship in the Persian Gulf region</p><p>“The Muslim people of the region have peacefully coexisted in a brotherly manner for many years despite different religious views…the religious differences that we currently see are the result of interventions by ill-wishers and extra-regional states,” he added.</p><p>Salehi said political and religious rationality calls on all regional states to move toward unity and cooperation.</p><p>The Iranian Foreign Minister also extended President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s invitation to the Kuwaiti Emir to take part in the next Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran.</p><p>The Emir of Kuwait, for his part, indicated his interest in taking part in the NAM summit in Tehran, saying that the Islamic Republic is a suitable host for the meeting.</p><p>“We all live in the same region and are undoubtedly affected by its problems. The solution to all these problems is interaction, cooperation and brotherly treatment of the existing problems,” he said.</p><p>The Kuwaiti Emir also expressed hope that the forthcoming talks between Iran and P5+1 - the US, Britain, China, Russia, and France plus Germany - in Iraq's capital city, Baghdad, will be constructive.</p><p>SS/HGH/MA</p></div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" />]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8216;No obstacle to closer Iran-Pakistan ties&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) talks to the visiting Pakistani Minister of National Regulations and Services Firdous Ashiq Awan in Tehran on May 20, 2012.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says relations between Iran and Pakistan are rapidly deve...]]></description>
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<p>President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says relations between Iran and Pakistan are rapidly developing in all fields and there is no obstacle in the way of stronger relations between the two neighboring countries.</p>
<p>In a meeting with Pakistan’s Minister of National Regulations and Services Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday, the Iranian president said relations between Iran and Pakistan are deep-rooted, cultural, and based on the interests of both countries.</p><p>Ahmadinejad also called for the strengthening of relations in all areas and exchange of experiences in order to meet the mutual demands of both states.</p><p>“There are many grounds for cooperation in the cultural fields as well as health and treatment…between the two countries and their officials should take effective steps for further expansion of cooperation in these fields,” Ahmadinejad said.</p><p>The Pakistani official, for her part, said the government and nation of Pakistan welcome the expansion of ties with Iran because the Islamic Republic not only defends its own rights, but also the rights of other Muslim nations.</p><p>“The [recent] successful tripartite meeting in Pakistan [between Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan] sent a clear message to those who seek discord among regional nations, especially [among] Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Ashiq Awan added.</p><p>The Pakistani minister expressed hope that by taking advantage of the two countries’ existing capacities, relations between Iran and Pakistan will become an example for other regional countries to follow.</p><p>SS/HGH/MA</p></div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" />]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Iran to unveil 3 petrochemical projects</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[File photo shows the Mahshahr Special Economic Zone.
Iran is set to officially inaugurate three important petrochemical industry projects in the country’s Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Economic Zone.
The projects include the polyvinyl chloride (PVC)...]]></description>
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<p>Iran is set to officially inaugurate three important petrochemical industry projects in the country’s Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Economic Zone.</p>
<p>The projects include the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production line at Arvand Petrochemical Complex, the oxygen and nitrogen production line at Maroon Petrochemical Plant and the second liquids loading pier at Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Economic Zone.</p><p>All three enterprises are due to be inaugurated in the presence of senior Iranian officials on Monday, May 21, to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Khorramshahr from Iraqi occupation during the eight-year imposed war (1980-1988).</p><p>Arvand, the fourth petrochemical complex to produce PVC in Iran, will increase the country's annual production capacity by 340 thousand tons.</p><p>The output will fully satisfy Iran's domestic demands and even turn the country into a PVC exporter. It is estimated that the Islamic Republic will hold 25 to 30 percent of the global market following the export of the product.</p><p>Bandar Imam Khomeini, Abadan and Qadir are the three other petrochemical complexes producing PVC in Iran with an aggregate production capacity of over 405 thousand tons per year.</p><p>The Arvand Petrochemical Complex produces 2.834 million tons of various petrochemical products each year, which are used as feedstock in the downstream sector; the detergent, paper, textile and healthcare industries; as well as solvents for resins and waxes.</p><p>HMV/HGH/MA</p></div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" />]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>IAEA chief &#8216;positive&#8217; about Iran nuclear talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 19:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano said Sunday that he was adopting a "constructive spirit" and positive attitude as he headed to Tehran for talks over Iran's contentious nuclear programme.
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<p class="first">UN atomic watchdog chief <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337543190_1">Yukiya Amano</span> said Sunday that he was adopting a "constructive spirit" and positive attitude as he headed to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337543190_6">Tehran</span> for talks over <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337543190_0">Iran</span>'s contentious nuclear programme.</p>
<p>"Nothing is certain but I stay positive and I go there with constructive spirit," said Amano at Vienna airport before boarding his flight for Iran.</p>
<p>"There has been good progress during the recent rounds of discussions between Iran and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337543190_2">IAEA</span>. So I thought that now is the right time ... to visit Iran and have direct talks with high officials of Iran," he added.</p>
<p>The visit is Amano's first to Tehran as director-general of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337543190_3">International Atomic Energy Agency</span> and is expected to give clues on Iran's intentions ahead of Wednesday's talks with world powers in Baghdad.</p>
<p>Both events follow earlier rounds, in the IAEA's case last week and for the P5+1 -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany -- in Istanbul last month, that found enough common ground to have a further meeting.</p>
<p>Amano said however he did not expect this trip to include a visit to Parchin, where inspectors believe Iran is conducting activities relevant to nuclear weapons development.</p>
<p>"This visit is very short, and I'm not an inspector," said Amano, who is accompanied by the UN agency's chief inspector, Herman Nackaerts, and the IAEA's number two Rafael Mariano Grossi.</p>
<p>He is scheduled to meet Iranian top officials including <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337543190_7">Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi</span>, lead nuclear negotiator Said Jalili and nuclear programme chief Fereydoun Abassi Davani.</p>
<p>Iran's envoy to the IAEA, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337543190_8">Ali Asghar Soltanieh</span>, will also be present.</p>
<p>Ahead of the Baghdad meeting, Russia said it is planning to propose imposing a 20 percent <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337543190_4">uranium enrichment</span> limit on Iran in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337543190_5">Deputy Foreign Minister Serguei Riabkov</span> said.</p>
<p>"As a first step, we want Tehran to take measures to stop uranium enrichment at 20 percent," said Riabkov, according to state news agencies.</p>
<p>"If there is movement in this direction, then the six (P5+1) should in turn offer Iran tangible signs that the situation is improving.</p>
<p>"Russia hopes that the joint efforts of the six (P5+1), based on the very serious results... at Camp David, will allow us to stop the situation from deteriorating," he said.</p>
<p>Group of Eight leaders meeting at Camp David in the US' Maryland this week said they were "hopeful" and had a "unified" approach about talks with Iran.</p>
<p>Iran's nuclear programme, including its uranium enrichment to 20 percent, has been condemned through six UN resolutions that impose sanctions on Tehran.</p>
<p>At low enrichment levels of between 3.5 to 20 percent, uranium can be used as fuel in nuclear power stations or for scientific purposes, but any enrichment above 90 percent qualifies it for atomic arms production.</p>
<p>Iran has always insisted that its nuclear programme is purely civilian and peaceful.</p>
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		<title>U.N. nuclear chief hopeful on Iran deal before Baghdad meet</title>
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<p class="first">VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear supervisor flies to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337520074_4">Tehran</span> on Sunday looking for a deal to inspect suspected weapons sites - a potential breakthrough that <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337520074_0">Iran</span> may hope could persuade the West to start lifting sanctions and deflect threats of war.</p>
<p>But though <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337520074_1">IAEA</span> chief <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337520074_2">Yukiya Amano</span> scheduled Monday's talks with Iran at such short notice that diplomats said agreement on new inspections may be near, few see Tehran convincing Western governments to ease back swiftly on punitive measures when its negotiators meet big power officials in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337520074_3">Baghdad</span> on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Amano, director general of the U.N.'s Vienna-based <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337520074_5">International Atomic Energy Agency</span>, meets Iran's chief nuclear negotiator <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337520074_6">Saeed Jalili</span> on Monday, two days before Jalili sits across a table in the Iraqi capital from Catherine Ashton, the senior EU official heading a six-power coalition comprised of the five U.N. Security Council permanent members plus Germany.</p>
<p>By promising cooperation with U.N. inspectors, diplomats say Iran might aim for leverage ahead of the broader negotiations, where the United States and its allies want Iran to halt works they say are cover for developing nuclear weapons. Western sanctions on Iran's energy exports, and threats by Israel and Washington of military action, have pushed up world oil prices.</p>
<p>Details on Amano's hurried mission were scarce.</p>
<p>The IAEA said only that he and Jalili would discuss "issues of mutual interest". Western diplomats say he would only make a rare visit to Tehran if he believed a framework deal to give his inspectors freer hands in their investigation was within reach.</p>
<p>"We regard the visit by the agency's director general as a gesture of goodwill," Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by the Iranian student news agency on Saturday. He hoped for agreement on a "new modality" to work with the U.N. agency that would "help clear up the ambiguities".</p>
<p>The nuclear watchdog wants access to sites, officials and documents to shed light on activities in Iran that could be used to develop the capability to make nuclear weapons, especially the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran.</p>
<p>Two meetings between Iran and senior Amano aides in Tehran in January and February failed to make any notable progress. But both sides were more upbeat after a new round of talks in Vienna last week, raising hopes they were making headway.</p>
<p>SKEPTICISM</p>
<p>Yet while an Iranian agreement on a so-called "structured approach" outlining the ground rules on how to address the IAEA's questions would be welcome, it remains to be seen how and when it will be implemented in practice, they say.</p>
<p>"We'll see if the Iranians agree to let the agency visit Parchin. I have my doubts, no matter what any agreement says on paper," said one Western envoy ahead of Amano's visit to Iran and the meeting with world powers, the P5+1, in Baghdad.</p>
<p>Such a deal would also not be enough in itself to allay international concerns. World powers want Iran to curb uranium enrichment, which can have both civilian and military purposes.</p>
<p>Iran, to general incredulity from its Israeli and Western adversaries, insists its nuclear program is intended only to generate electricity and other civilian uses. Unlike Israel, assumed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, Iran is a signatory to treaties that oblige it to work with the IAEA.</p>
<p>"We are not going to do anything concrete in exchange for nice words," another diplomat said of the Baghdad meeting, the arrangement of which stemmed from a P5+1 meeting with Iran in Istanbul last month that ended over a year of not talking.</p>
<p>"Presumably, we will get a flavor of what the Iranians are prepared to do," the diplomat said. "It sounds like they are interested in making progress."</p>
<p>Another Western diplomat said: "Cooperation with the IAEA is important but it takes some time to yield results.</p>
<p>"What we need now, with the situation in the region, are urgently concrete steps. So our talks will focus on something that can be implemented very quickly."</p>
<p>ISRAEL SCEPTICAL</p>
<p>Leaders of the Group of Eight, worried about the effect of high oil prices on their faltering economies, raised the pressure on Iran on Saturday, signaling their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Tehran threaten to strain supplies.</p>
<p>"All of us are firmly committed to continuing with the approach of sanctions and pressure in combination with diplomatic discussions," U.S. President Barack Obama said.</p>
<p>Israel, convinced a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a mortal threat, has - like the United States - not ruled out air strikes to stop Iran's atomic progress if it deems diplomacy has failed.</p>
<p>The Jewish state has made clear its skepticism about the prospects for diplomacy, saying Iran is just trying to buy time.</p>
<p>"We don't see any readiness from the Iranian side to give up their nuclear ambitions and for them all the engagement, from our point of view, it's clear deception," Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday.</p>
<p>An Israeli official told Reuters: "There is no doubt that the Iranians believe progress with the IAEA will improve their position in the Baghdad meeting."</p>
<p>BAGHDAD GOALS</p>
<p>In Baghdad, the powers' main goal is to get Iran to stop the higher-grade uranium enrichment it started two years ago and has since expanded, shortening the time needed for any weapons bid.</p>
<p>Iran says it needs the uranium enriched to a fissile concentration of 20 percent for its medical research reactor.</p>
<p>An adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said there were hopes the Baghdad meeting would be successful.</p>
<p>But Iran will not "tolerate any pressure and it decides about its destiny in the nuclear issue with full authority," Mehr News Agency quoted Ali Akbar Velayati as saying.</p>
<p>The IAEA wants Iran to address issues raised by an agency report last year that revealed intelligence pointing to past and possibly ongoing activity to help develop atomic arms.</p>
<p>Iran says the intelligence is fabricated, and has so far resisted requests for inspectors to visit Parchin.</p>
<p>Western diplomats say they suspect Iran is cleaning the site to remove incriminating evidence, a charge Tehran dismisses.</p>
<p>"I hope Amano asks for his people to see Parchin," one Western diplomat said. "But it seems a wild guess to me."</p>
<p>Diplomats say the six powers will probably aim to extract an offer from Tehran to implement some limited curbs and begin a long-term process of gradual concessions from all sides.</p>
<p>Their hope is that economic sanctions imposed by Western nations in the last year, targeting Iran's vital oil revenues and ability to trade with international partners, would be enough to force Iran to take that first step, one diplomat said.</p>
<p>Immediate confidence-building measures that Iran could offer are "not all that complicated," said former senior U.S. State Department official, James Dobbins, now with the Rand Corporation's International Security and Defense Policy Center.</p>
<p>"It is essentially, 'Stop enriching to 20 percent, ship out what you've already done ... and then let's last start talking about more comprehensive measures'."</p>
<p>But European diplomats say any corresponding changes to their further oil embargo plans are out of the question for now: "The EU oil sanctions are a very big card and a very big step," one said. "Just because they have been applied last doesn't mean they will be the first to be taken off."</p>
<p>(Additional reporting by Justyna Pawlak in Brussels, Marcus George in Dubai, Patrick Markey in Baghdad and Ori Lewis and Dan Williams in Jerusalem; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)</p>
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		<title>Russia says West still considering military action on Iran</title>
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<p class="first">MOSCOW (Reuters) - <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538551_2">Russia</span>'s deputy foreign minister said on Sunday that military action against <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538551_0">Iran</span> over its <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538551_3">nuclear program</span> was being considered in some <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538551_5">Western countries</span>.</p>
<p><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538551_1">Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov</span> was speaking to reporters on a plane on his way back from the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538551_4">G8 summit</span> in Camp David, where the G8 leaders signaled their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Iran threatened to strain supplies.</p>
<p>"It is one of many various signals coming from various sources that the military option is considered as realistic and possible," he said. "We are receiving signals, both through public and intelligence channels, that this option is now being reviewed in some capitals as more applicable in this situation".</p>
<p>"We are very worried about this. We do not want the region and the world to fall into...new divisions and bitter political arguments," he said.</p>
<p>Western countries suspect Iran's nuclear program is aimed at making a nuclear bomb, a charge Tehran denies.</p>
<p>A European Union embargo of Iranian crude takes effect in July and tough new U.S. sanctions come into force in late June. Iran's oil exports have fallen by more than a fifth this year.</p>
<p>Russia has adamantly urged Western nations not to attack Iran to neutralize its nuclear program, saying that threats would only encourage Tehran to develop such weapons.</p>
<p>Ryabkov dismissed suggestions that Russia, the world's biggest oil exporter, sought to keep tensions around Iran on the boil in order to benefit from higher global <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538551_6">oil prices</span>.</p>
<p>"It would be a simplification and possibly even a deliberate distortion of Moscow's position to believe that based on some wild, egoistic intentions, we want oil to cost $200 per barrel," Ryabkov said.</p>
<p>He said Russia wanted to keep oil prices stable at a level acceptable to consumers and suppliers. He said that any gains from the oil price spike would be short-lived.</p>
<p>A meeting between Iran and six world powers - Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany - is scheduled to take place in Baghdad on May 23.</p>
<p>Ryabkov said Russia had drafted a set of proposals for the Baghdad talks, saying negotiations needed to produce evidence of progress to the international community.</p>
<p>Proposals included suggested steps for Iran to restore international confidence as well as incentives on cooperation, said Ryabkov, adding that any followup round of talks should take place within weeks in order to maintain the momentum.</p>
<p>"Practical results are needed that can be shown to the international community as evidence that we are moving forward," Ryabkov said.</p>
<p>TENSIONS OVER SYRIA</p>
<p>Much like with Iran, Moscow has long urged Western powers not to intervene in Syria over bloodshed in which the United Nations says more than 9,000 people have been killed.</p>
<p>At a G8 summit in France in May 2011, Russia successfully managed to water down a statement on Syria removing calls for action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.</p>
<p>Ryabkov said that this time part of the G8 statement which concerns Syria, which called for a "political transition leading to a democratic plural political system", fully satisfied Russia.</p>
<p>"Anything that will be a product of the process of national reconciliation and dialogue will satisfy the Russian side. We are nobody's advocates in this process," he said.</p>
<p>Ryabkov said Assad's departure from power in a scenario similar to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had been granted immunity from prosecution, was discussed at the G8 summit, but Russia opposed the idea.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Gleb Bryanski, editing by Maria Golovnina and Diana Abdallah)</p>
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<p class="first">The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538272_5">government of Bahrain</span> condemned on Sunday <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538272_1">Iran</span>'s continued "flagrant meddling" in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538272_3">Gulf affairs</span> after the Islamic republic slammed plans for union between the Shiite-majority kingdom and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538272_2">Saudi Arabia</span>.</p>
<p>The cabinet "stresses that Iran's continued flagrant meddling in the internal affairs of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538272_0">Gulf Cooperation Council</span> is categorically rejected at official and public levels," a statement carried by BNA state news agency said.</p>
<p>Iran's interference represents a "disregard to the GCC's ongoing efforts to achieve integration," it added, referring to plans to strengthen links within the six-nation bloc to form a union likely to start with Bahrian and Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>The Bahraini government condemned Iranian "statements and actions that violate good-neighbourly rules and all international conventions and agreements," the statement said.</p>
<p>Thousands of Iranians took to the street on Friday answering a call by authorities to protest against a Saudi-Bahrain union.</p>
<p>On Thursday, Tehran's foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said "the proposed union or annexation of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337538272_4">Bahrain</span> to Saudi Arabia" would lead to the "disappearance" of the Gulf archipelago.</p>
<p>Tensions have escalated between Iran and its Gulf Arab neighbours since a Saudi-led Gulf force rolled into Bahrain in March 2011 to boost the Sunni-ruled kingdom's security forces, which then crushed a month-old Shiite-led uprising against the regime.</p>
<p>Iran has repeatedly voiced support for the protests in Bahrain and strongly condemned the deployment of Saudi-led forces.</p>
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<p class="first">MOSCOW (Reuters) - <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337537585_2">Russia</span>'s deputy foreign minister said on Sunday that military action against <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337537585_1">Iran</span> over its <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337537585_4">nuclear program</span> was being considered in some <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337537585_5">Western countries</span>.</p>
<p><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337537585_0">Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov</span> was speaking to reporters on a plane on his way back from the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337537585_3">G8 summit</span> in Camp David, where the G8 leaders signaled their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Iran threatened to strain supplies.</p>
<p>"It is one of many various signals coming from various sources that the military option is considered as realistic and possible," he said. "We are receiving signals, both through public and intelligence channels, that this option is now being reviewed in some capitals as more applicable in this situation".</p>
<p>"We are very worried about this. We do not want the region and the world to fall into...new divisions and bitter political arguments," he said.</p>
<p>Western countries suspect Iran's nuclear program is aimed at making a nuclear bomb, a charge Tehran denies.</p>
<p>A European Union embargo of Iranian crude takes effect in July and tough new U.S. sanctions come into force in late June. Iran's oil exports have fallen by more than a fifth this year.</p>
<p>Russia has adamantly urged Western nations not to attack Iran to neutralize its nuclear program, saying that threats would only encourage Tehran to develop such weapons.</p>
<p>Ryabkov dismissed suggestions that Russia, the world's biggest oil exporter, sought to keep tensions around Iran on the boil in order to benefit from higher global <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1337537585_6">oil prices</span>.</p>
<p>"It would be a simplification and possibly even a deliberate distortion of Moscow's position to believe that based on some wild, egoistic intentions, we want oil to cost $200 per barrel," Ryabkov said.</p>
<p>He said Russia wanted to keep oil prices stable at a level acceptable to consumers and suppliers. He said that any gains from the oil price spike would be short-lived.</p>
<p>A meeting between Iran and six world powers - Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany - is scheduled to take place in Baghdad on May 23.</p>
<p>Ryabkov said Russia had drafted a set of proposals for the Baghdad talks, saying negotiations needed to produce evidence of progress to the international community.</p>
<p>Proposals included suggested steps for Iran to restore international confidence as well as incentives on cooperation, said Ryabkov, adding that any followup round of talks should take place within weeks in order to maintain the momentum.</p>
<p>"Practical results are needed that can be shown to the international community as evidence that we are moving forward," Ryabkov said.</p>
<p>TENSIONS OVER SYRIA</p>
<p>Much like with Iran, Moscow has long urged Western powers not to intervene in Syria over bloodshed in which the United Nations says more than 9,000 people have been killed.</p>
<p>At a G8 summit in France in May 2011, Russia successfully managed to water down a statement on Syria removing calls for action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.</p>
<p>Ryabkov said that this time part of the G8 statement which concerns Syria, which called for a "political transition leading to a democratic plural political system", fully satisfied Russia.</p>
<p>"Anything that will be a product of the process of national reconciliation and dialogue will satisfy the Russian side. We are nobody's advocates in this process," he said.</p>
<p>Ryabkov said Assad's departure from power in a scenario similar to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had been granted immunity from prosecution, was discussed at the G8 summit, but Russia opposed the idea.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Gleb Bryanski, editing by Maria Golovnina and Diana Abdallah)</p>
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