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Iran has increased its pressure on student activists ahead of the national Student Day on December 7. Throughout Iran a dozen students are reported to have been jailed this week, including eight student activists arrested in Tehran on November 19.

Just a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged that respect for women's rights is among his top agenda items, Afghan diplomats at the United Nations will oppose a Canadian-led bid to highlight serious human rights abuse in Iran.

The Iranian Armed Forces and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps's (Sepah) Air Force will hold joint military trainings next week, the İRNA news agency reported.

Tehran's Azadi lake situated in the heart of one of Asia's largest sports centers has been qualified to host the world dragon boat racing championship in 2013, Press TV reported.

The Kuwaiti delegation headed by Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheikh Naser Mohammed al-Sabah will pay a visit to Iran today, Irna reported.

Iran claimed effective victory over Canada at the United Nations on Friday as a majority of world countries refused to support a Canadian-led bid to censure the Islamic republic over its human rights record.

"It will be just like Syria," said the strategic scholar just back from Israel and speculating about the much-debated question of whether Israel will eventually bomb Iran's nuclear installations.

Obama administration is shifting the focus of its Iran policy from talk to sanctions, but the prospect of winning early international support for toughened new penalties appears dim.

Friday, November 20, 2009 at 6:40 a.m. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit.

"The opening of the Bushehr Nuclear Station was postponed several times," Iranian Parliamentary Energy Commission Chairman Hamid Reza Katouzian said today.

Iran's specialists will launch the Misbah satellite into the Earth's orbit by late 2011, Iranian Communications Minister Rza Tagipur was quoted as saying today by the Iranian Fars news agency.

The head of the UN atomic watchdog has urged Iran to accept a deal over its nuclear programme by the end of the year, and "move beyond sanctions", BBC reported.

Tomorrow, The Turkmen parliamentary delegation led by parliamentary speaker Akja Nurberdiyeva will visit Iran, Iranian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Mohammad Rza Furgani was quoted as saying by the Iranian Fars news agency.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu arrived in Tabriz, Iran on Thursday to have several talks, Anadolu reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, November 19 / Trend News, K.Zarbaliyeva /

The persons engaged in drugs smuggling from Iran to Azerbaijan were defused. Over 104 kg of drugs was withdrawn from these persons, the Center for Public Relations of Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security told Trend New on Nov. 19.

A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier.

MANILA a ' More than a hundred people supported a charity bazaar held in Iran to help Pinoy victims recover from the devastation wrought by several typhoons in the Philippines.

In the last few weeks, there has been a flurry of unsubstantiated accusations against Iran.

Russia on Thursday said Iran had still not given its final answer to the international community on a proposal to send enriched uranium abroad for reprocessing, Reuters reported.