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Sabotage: Iran Investigates Foreign Involvement In Saudi Embassy Attack

Iran is continuing to investigate the events surrounding the attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran on January 2 and has discovered evidence of foreign involvement in the incident, the Iranian Parliament Speaker’s Adviser for International Affairs Hossein Sheikholeslam told Sputnik.

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The Iranian authorities are thoroughly investigating the attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran on January, after which Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic relations with Iran, the Iranian Parliament Speaker's Adviser for International Affairs Hossein Sheikholeslam told Sputnik Persian on Tuesday. "We acknowledge that the attack on the Saudi embassy

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UN Hopes Six Months Of Syria Talks To Start Friday

Though no one’s been invited yet, an awful lot of factions have already ruled out attending, or issued enormous demands as a condition of their involvement.

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British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, second right, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, left, talk to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as the wait for Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, not pictured, for a group picture at the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria. Iran sits down with the United States, Russia, Europeans and key Arab states for the first time since the Syrian civil war began to discuss the future of the war-torn country. It will also break ground by bringing President Bashar Assad’s main supporter, Iran, to the same table as its regional rivals, including Turkey and Saudi Arabia, who have been backing many of the insurgent groups. (Carlos Barria, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Long planned for January 25, the UN peace talks on Syria did not begin today in Geneva, Switzerland, though UN officials continued to hype the conference, saying they intend for a “six month process” to begin on Friday. The big obstacle to the talks actually happening on Friday is the same obstacle as there was in recent months, that the

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Chomsky: I’d ‘Absolutely’ Vote For Hillary Clinton

Chomsky said he would support Hillary Clinton over the Republican nomineeas her primary challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, “doesn’t have much of a chance,”

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Noam Chomsky arrives to a conference at the Islamic University in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 20 , 2012. Photo: Hatem Moussa/AP

Noam Chomsky would “absolutely” choose Hillary Clinton over the Republican nominee if he lived in a swing state, but her primary challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, “doesn’t have much of a chance," the MIT professor and intellectual said in a recent interview. Chomsky, who lives in the blue state of Massachusetts, said he would vote for

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Flint All Over Again? Lead Poisoning Scandal Strikes Ohio Town

State Environmental Protection Agency has asked the U.S. EPA to open a criminal investigation into what occurred in Sebring

Deirdre Fulton
بواسطة Deirdre Fulton
Sebring, Ohio, Water Crisis: This Village Could Be the Next Flint, Michigan Inside a community center in Sebring, Ohio Source: Scott Meeker

Schools in Sebring, Ohio were closed for a third day on Tuesday and pregnant women and children have been advised not to drink the water, after tests showed elevated levels of lead in the local water supply. Though the village of about 4,300 in northeastern Ohio is much smaller than Flint, Michigan, the drinking water crises in the neighboring

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Tax Revenue Expected To Reach $125 Million As 2015 Colorado Cannabis Sales Near $1B

That’s a major increase from 2014, when legal marijuana sales hit $700 million, earning $44 million in tax money for the state.

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LivWell store manager Carlyssa Scanlon shows off some of the products available in the marijuana line marketed by rapper Snoop Dogg in one of the marijuana chain's outlets south of downtown Denver. LivWell grows the Snoop pot alongside many other strains on its menu. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

DENVER, Colorado --- Colorado’s legal marijuana business boomed last year, with total sales in the state nearing the $1 billion mark, according to current estimates. Official figures for marijuana sales in December won’t be available until next month, but Ricardo Baca, a staff writer for The Denver Post’s The Cannabist, reported on Jan. 13 that

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Controversy You Can Bank On: British Co-op Bank Closing Pro-Palestine Groups’ Accounts

“Disrupting receipt of these donations will impede our work, even as arms flow unimpeded from Scotland to the Israeli army to commit what Amnesty [International] and others describe as crimes against humanity,” the treasurer of one pro-Palestine NGO tells MintPress.

Billy Briggs
بواسطة Billy Briggs
Co-op Bank claims the decision to close the account of a Pro-Palestinian NGO was standard practice for those operating in "high risk" environments, yet they targeted at least 25 other accounts all affiliated with Palestinian NGOs. (Photo: Twiter)

EDINBURGH --- Groups based in the United Kingdom which support human rights causes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories have expressed fears that U.S. hedge funds pressured a major bank into closing their accounts. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which campaigns for Palestinian rights while opposing Israel’s occupation of disputed

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