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Rally Against Drones in Pakistan

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thousand people started protest against drones attack by US in all over Pakistan especially in Peshawar and Lahore. About 5000  people start slogans against USA in Lahore.In Peshawar they have blocked the NATO supplies which was coming from Afghanistan and going to NATO countries.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , A political</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> party has also started a big protest against drones</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in Peshawar</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The drone attacks have been started from since 2004 against the Taliban in Pakistan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Pakistan can shot it but are not shouting it why?</span></div>

Rally Against Drones in Pakistan

Thousand people started protest against drones attack by US in all over Pakistan especially in Peshawar and Lahore. About 5000 people star...

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India wants closer relations Sri Lanka.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">India wants close military relations with </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Sri Lanka</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> because of the presence expanding navy bases of China.Indian Navy chief said that we have offered </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Sri Lanka</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to train their sailors at Indian training establishments and to boast the military ties with the </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">southern island nation of </span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Sri Lanka</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">China has also good relations with </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Sri Lanka.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It would be against Indian interests to see Sri Lanka tilting toward China and even allow establishment of a base on the island nation, close to India,” said  by Mahindra Singh, retired Indian Army major general and defense analyst.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> Chittagong in Bangladesh.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> Coco Island in Myanmar.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> Hambantota in Sri Lanka .</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> Gwadar in Pakistan.</span></li>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2c2c2c;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Does India afraid of china that's why India is expanding its Military relation with </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Sri Lanka</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2c2c2c;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> ?</span></span></span></span></div>
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India wants closer relations Sri Lanka.

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Indosneian Leopard 2 contract

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indonesia has acquired 103 Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks (MBTs), 42 upgraded Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicles, and 11 armoured recovery and engineering vehicles from surplus German Army stocks, Rheinmetall Defence confirmed in a 13 November statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The statement said that Rheinmetall would supply the vehicles, "logistical support, and ammunition worth roughly EUR216 million [USD290 million]" under a contract signed in December 2012, which "now comes into full force following the successful completion of all legal formalities".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indonesia approached Germany to purchase the Leopard MBTs in August 2012, but approval of the bid was delayed because of political opposition in Berlin, which cited concerns over Indonesia's human rights record. These concerns also lay behind a preceding Dutch government decision to veto a similar bid from Jakarta in 2012 to purchase surplus Royal Netherlands Army Leopard MBTs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two Leopard 2A4s and two Marder IFVs were reportedly shipped to Indonesia early to take part in Armed Forces Day celebrations on 5 October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once in service with the Indonesian Army (the Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Darat, TNI-AD), the materiel purchased from Germany will be supported through an industrial arrangement signed by Rheinmetall and the Indonesian Ministry of Defence in 2012. The deal will see the German company transfer undisclosed technologies to Indonesian state-owned land systems specialist PT Pindad (Persero) and the TNI-AD's Ordnance Depot and Signal Corps.</span></div>

Indosneian Leopard 2 contract

Indonesia has acquired 103 Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks (MBTs), 42 upgraded Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicles, and 11 armoured recover...

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ASTROS 2020 Joins Brazilian Army

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Brazilian Army's Logistic Command received its first five launching vehicles (Universal Multiple Launcher: AV-LMU) of the ASTROS Mk 6 (Artillery Saturation Rocket System) multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), a key part of Brazil's ASTROS 2020 project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The equipment was delivered as 'pre-delivery inspection' vehicles and final delivery is slated for early 2014, a Brazilian Army spokesperson told IHS Jane's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ultimately, the ASTROS 2020 MLRS is meant to give Brazil's army a high-precision, long-range fire support asset that could notionally bolster deterrence along Brazil's massive borders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first partially equipped battery will be inducted in February 2014 and be outfitted with six AV-LMUs, one ammunition resupply vehicle (AV-RMD), one battalion-level command-and-control vehicle (AV-VCC: for co-ordination of three batteries), and one meteorological mobile station (AV-MET), the spokesperson added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The systems will be operated by a Missiles and Rockets Group to be established in Formosa, State of Goiás, where the three batteries of ASTROS II Mk 3s are based and operated by the 6st Multiple Launchers Rockets Group, which will be renamed as 6st Missiles and Rockets Group. Deliveries are expected to conclude in 2018.</span></div>

ASTROS 2020 Joins Brazilian Army

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Iran launches new submarine

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Iran has launched a new class of submarine that has never been seen before, satellite imagery obtained by <i>IHS Jane's</i> reveals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the boats can clearly be seen in the water at the Bostanu shipyard on the Strait of Hormuz in Astrium imagery taken on 27 October. It measures 40.5 m long and 4 m wide at the waterline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A second can be seen under construction at the Bandar Anzali Naval Base on the Caspian Sea on 17 September. It is partially shrouded by scaffolding, but is approximately 48 m long and 6 m wide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Senior Iranian officials have previously said that it is building a new class of 500 tonne submarines called the Fateh, although the timeline appears to have slipped repeatedly. In April, Deputy Defence Minister for Industrial and Research Affairs Mohammad Eslami said: "The first Iranian 500 tonne submarine will be unveiled by 31 Mordad [22 August 2013]."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Iran may now be planning to unveil the new submarines during its Navy Day, which is held on 28 November to mark a naval victory over Iraq in 1980.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The launch of the Fateh-class represents a major milestone for Iran's naval industry. The largest submarine previously produced by Iran was the 29 m Ghadir class. While the Ghadir was widely presumed to be based on a North Korean design, the new Fateh class is significantly bigger than the largest submarine known to be produced by the North Koreans: the 39 m K-300 (Sang-O II) class</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div>

Iran launches new submarine

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Israel wants Stronger Military Ties with Russia

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Israel, increasingly confounded by Washington’s Mideast policy, is mulling ways to enhance security cooperation with Moscow without jeopardizing its pre-eminent partnership with the US.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Acknowledging a shared frustration with Saudi Arabia and other US allies in the gulf over Washington’s perceived wavering on Iran and diminishing regional influence, Israeli officials are seeking to cultivate additional sources of support for its diplomatic and security agenda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The Americans have a lot of problems and challenges around the world that they need to solve and they have problems at home. We need to understand them and how that affects our place in the global arena,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An outspoken and controversial political ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Lieberman was reinstated as Israel’s chief diplomat after being cleared last week of longstanding corruption charges. Speaking Nov. 20 as Netanyahu traveled to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lieberman said Israel should strengthen ties with other powers as a means of advancing critical security interests in the region.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Israel’s foreign policy for decades has focused on one direction — toward Washington. But my policy is multi-directional,” the Moldovan-born, Russian-speaking minister told a gathering in Sderot near Israel’s border with Gaza.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While expressing gratitude for traditional US support, Lieberman alluded to growing anger with Washington over its willingness to ease sanctions against Iran without a clear commitment from Tehran to dismantle its nuclear program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Our foreign policy needs to focus on finding allies and not just complaining and saying, ‘Come support us,’ ” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since clashing publicly with Washington over what it perceives as a precipitous rush to conclude a nuclear disarmament deal that fails to satisfy Israel’s security concerns, Israel has intensified diplomacy with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany involved in ongoing so-called P5+1 talks in Geneva.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prior to Netanyahu’s Nov. 20-21 visit to Moscow, he hosted French President François Hollande in a high-profile state visit profuse with praise for Paris’ insistence on greater concessions from Tehran in exchange for preliminary sanctions relief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But Israeli officials say diplomatic outreach is principally focused on Moscow, which Jerusalem views as the ultimate source of leverage on Iran in the P5+1 talks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After more than four hours at the Kremlin, Netanyahu used words normally reserved for Israel’s relations with Washington. Speaking to reporters here Nov. 20, Netanyahu emphasized shared values, common interests and his personal “friendship” with Putin, which are steadily resulting in “closer, warmer, more intimate and productive” bilateral ties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While Israel is under no illusions that Moscow will significantly alter its stance toward Tehran, it aims to augment its capacity to influence the scope and timing of arms sales to Iran and Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Specifically, Israel hopes to forestall for as long as possible Russian deliveries of S-300 long-range air defense systems that would significantly complicate potential Israeli strikes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In interviews here, Israeli sources said S-300 sales to Iran and Syria were a major agenda item at the Netanyahu-Putin talks. Sources declined to provide details, yet indicated Russia will continue to wait to implement contracts signed nearly seven years ago with both countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In joint public remarks at the Kremlin, Netanyahu admitted that Israel and Russia “don’t always agree.” Nevertheless, he insisted, “On the main things, we have a partnership.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the issue of Iran, Putin remained publicly noncommittal about Russia’s willingness to harden its stance in the P5+1 talks. He stood poker-faced as Netanyahu insisted that both countries share a common goal in not wanting to see Iran with nuclear weapons, and that lessons from a recent Moscow-led agreement to rid Syria of chemical weapons should be applied in a nuclear disarmament deal with Iran.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Israel’s attitude is that the international community must stand by positions expressed in the UN Security Council. Namely, to cease all enrichment, to remove all enriched material, to dismantle the centrifuges and to halt construction at Arak,” Netanyahu said, referring to Iran’s heavy water reactor and research complex suspected of supporting a separate plutonium track toward nuclear weapons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No Substitute for the US</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Israeli initiatives aimed at strengthening security cooperation with Moscow will be pursued with extreme caution so as not to jeopardize ties with Washington, which officials insist has been, is and will remain Israel’s closest friend and ally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“There is no substitute to the United States,” Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev told Defense News.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That said, Israel has agreed to cultivate cooperation in aviation, space, pharmaceutical, agricultural and energy sectors, and is considering expanded defense and dual-use exports to Russia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking to reporters following his meeting with Netanyahu, Putin said the two leaders “made plans for the future development of our relations.” He noted that in 2012, bilateral trade reached $3 billion and increased by 29 percent in the first eight months this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This may not be an outstanding figure, but it is a positive trend in spite of global economic problems,” Putin said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Russian leader cited an intergovernmental commission “working actively” to broaden cooperation associated with the export of natural gas from Israel’s offshore energy sites. He also flagged the successful Sept. 1 launch of the Israeli-built Amos-4 communications satellite by a Russian Zenit launch vehicle and “common plans” to cooperate in joint development of two additional space vehicles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An official here later explained that Putin was referring to Russian participation in Space IL, a nonprofit Israeli organization competing for a $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize to land a small unmanned spacecraft on the moon. As for energy cooperation, a source said Netanyahu invited Russia’s Gazprom to Israel to explore Russian proposals associated with maritime shipping of liquefied natural gas culled from Israel’s strategic offshore sites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite resistance by some Israeli agencies to opening Israel’s energy market to Russia, an Israeli source accompanying Netanyahu noted that changes in the world are prompting a rethinking of its multilateral ties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Our ties with the US are strong and steadfast and persistent. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t open other avenues with other countries, like Russia, when there is a convergence of interests,” the source said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for expanded defense trade with Russia, sources said any easing of existing export restrictions would have to involve consultations with Washington and end-use assurances from Moscow that prospective arms transfers would not find their way into the hands of Israel’s enemies in the region.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Iran and world powers locked horns in an intense second day of nuclear talks Thursday, with Tehran saying “no progress” was made towards clinching a long-awaited breakthrough deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both sides, seeking to end the standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme after a decade of rising tensions, stressed however that the talks in Geneva were detailed, serious and constructive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speculation swirled that US Secretary of State John Kerry and other top diplomats were gearing up to fly to Switzerland to join the talks for the second time in two weeks but this was not confirmed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Raising the pressure, US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in Washington that lawmakers would move to impose new sanctions on Iran in December if there is no deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany — the so-called P5+1 — want Iran to freeze parts of its nuclear programme for six months in return for relief from painful sanctions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This hoped-for “first phase” deal would ease tensions while Iran and the six powers hammer out a final accord to put an end to fears that Tehran is seeking to build an atomic bomb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Iran’s delegation chief said after meetings lasting a total of four and a half hours between Foreign Minister Mohammad Jarad Zarif and P5+1 head negotiator Catherine Ashton that “no progress” had been made in narrowing differences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abbas Araqchi, quoted by the Mehr news agency, did not elaborate, but a European source gave a more upbeat assessment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We are making progress. There fewer points in brackets (in the draft agreement),” the source said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But obviously the remaining issues are the hardest ones… Tomorrow (Friday) will be important.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Numerous attempts to resolve the nuclear impasse have failed over the last decade, but the election this year of relative moderate Rouhani as Iranian president has raised hopes that this time a deal can be struck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The proposed accord includes suspending uranium enrichment to 20 percent purity — close to weapons-grade — as well as measures reducing uranium stockpiles and tighter UN inspections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For Israel, which refuses to rule out military action against Iran, the proposal does not go far enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the complete and permanent dismantling of all of Iran’s nuclear facilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yesterday, Iran’s supreme leader, (Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei, said ‘death to America, death to Israel’, he said that Jews are not human beings,” Netanyahu said in Moscow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ashton’s spokesman, declining to comment in detail, said that the talks, due to resume at 0800 GMT had so far been “useful” and “very good”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It has been very detailed it has been very substantial,” Michael Mann said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Similar talks two weeks ago came close to succeeding, prompting Kerry and other foreign ministers to jet into Geneva ready to sign a deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But they failed to reach an agreement after France insisted that the proposed deal did not go far enough in securing guarantees on Iran’s uranium enrichment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Thursday that the text being debated with the Iranians was “supported by all six” world powers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">US Senate warns of new sanctions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Western powers say that the relief from painful sanctions that Iran would get in a deal would be minor, and that the main oil and banking sanctions would stay during this period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">US President Barack Obama’s administration has leaned heavily on Congress to hold fire on new sanctions legislation in order to give the negotiations a chance to succeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But US Senator Reid said that while he supported Obama’s “diplomatic effort”, shortly after the Thanksgiving recess next month he would act on a new bipartisan sanctions bill if the nuclear talks do not bear fruit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If Rouhani, meanwhile, fails to secure quick and substantial relief from the sanctions, he risks losing the support of arch-conservatives and the supreme leader, experts say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sticking point is Iran’s insistence that its “right” to enrich uranium is recognised by the P5+1, even though this is not explicitly set out in the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Enrichment is a dual-use activity, it can be used for peaceful purposes or for making weapons fuel,” Mark Hibbs from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace told AFP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If at this stage of the negotiations the powers acknowledge Iran has a ‘right to enrich’, Iran can pocket that right and from there on refuse to accept any limitations on its enrichment programme on that basis.”</span></div>

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