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Iranian vendors sell old banknotes with the last Shah of the Iranian monarchy, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, next to rings in the bazaar in Qazvin province, 91 Miles west of Tehran, Iran on October 26, 2007. An imaginary picture of saint Mary and Jesus Christ is seen on left. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah).
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The author says he finds it far from amusing to see a U.S. president naively falling victim to such monstrous hostile intent as threatened by Iran
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and U.S. President Obama will not meet Tuesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. officials said.
U.S. President Obama, in New York for talks at the United Nations, promised help to Kenya and Nigeria, two nations struck by terror in the last few days.
The White House is open to a direct exchange between President Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations, senior U.S. officials said.
President Obama doesn't intend to meet with Iran's new president at the U.N. General Assembly, the White House said Monday.
Israel's military is planning to hold a bargain basement sale of aircraft, tanks and navy missile ships that are being made redundant under a revolutionary, multi-year program to restructure the Jewish state's armed forces to meet new challenges.
Egyptian Princess Fawzia Fuad, the first wife of the late shah of Iran, has died, her family announced on social media. She was 92.
With the Revolutionary Guards poised to crash down on any political protests, Iran goes to the polls Friday in a presidential election in which the real winner will be the Islamic Republic's dour supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
If 2012 turned out to be the year of the "Cliff Hanger," what will 2013 bring? Consider the "Iranian cliff."
UPI Almanac for Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008.
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