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US expects little from Iran on world problems
May 14 - The United States expects little from proposals that Iran presented in Brussels to resolve world problems, including nuclear energy, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Tuesday.
"Given the track record, if they continue on the trend and pathway that they've been on, I don't think anybody's going to hold their breath," McCormack told reporters when asked about proposals it presented to the European Union.
"But one, again, would hope that they decide to change course in the face of mounting costs to Iran for its behavior that is clearly outside the lines of acceptable behavior in the international system, as defined by three Security Council resolutions," McCormack said.
Iran must in any case yield to UN Security Council resolutions, which demand it halt the enrichment of uranium, McCormack added.
"And in terms of the Iranian proposal, they know what the requirements are. It's been clearly stated in the Security Council and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors' statements and resolutions," he said.
"They know what the bar is. Thus far they have not even come close to getting over the bar. But we shall see," McCormack said./-
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Iranian journalist hospitalised in jail: report
May 12- An Iranian journalist and rights activist has been hospitalised in jail in Tehran after returning to prison from sick leave, a press report said on Monday.
"Emadeddin Baghi has once again been taken to Evin prison infirmary," the reformist newspaper Kargozaran said, without giving details about the condition of the anti-death penalty and prisoners' rights campaigner.
Baghi had returned to jail in April after a three-month sick leave to serve out a one-year sentence imposed in 2003 on security charges over a series of articles published 10 years ago.
Lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said Baghi had returned to Tehran's Evin jail despite his illness not being completely cured, adding that physicians had not been able to make an accurate diagnosis./-
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Australia mulls court action against Iran president over Israel: PM
May 14 - Australia is considering taking Iran's president to the International Court of Justice for inciting violence against Israel, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Wednesday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had threatened to eliminate the Jewish state and the government was taking legal advice on launching a case against him at the international court in the Hague, Rudd said.
"The Iranian president's repeated extraordinary statements, which are anti-Semitic and expressing a determination to eliminate the modern state of Israel from the map, are appalling by any standards of current international relations," he told Sky News.
"They are an incitement of international violence and what we have said in the past is that we will take legal advice, which the attorney-general is currently doing, on whether there is a profitable way forward here through the appropriate international legal mechanisms and we'll study that advice carefully."/-
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Iran says reviewing oil output, no decision yet
May 13 - Iran is reviewing its crude output but no decision has been taken yet on any changes, Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said on Tuesday following a report it planned cuts of up to 1 million barrels per day (bpd).
Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency had quoted an informed source as saying the world's fourth-largest oil producer would start reducing output next month, probably by 400,000 to 1 million barrels per day, "in line with preventing selling of crude."
Asked about the report, an official at the Oil Ministry's public relations office told Reuters: "The oil minister said that Iran is reviewing its crude output but reports on any decision are not correct."
"No decision has been taken yet," he quoted Nozari as saying./-
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