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                <language>en</language><item><title>Diplomacy | Europe's undeclared war against Iran (The New York Times, New York)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1444821-europe-s-undeclared-war-against-iran</link><description><![CDATA[Now that the EU has slapped unprecedented sanctions on Iranian oil imports in a bid to thwart its alleged nuclear weapons programme, what are the consequences? asks a Tel Aviv based political scientist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/MAYK-eu-iran.jpg" length="104698" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:49:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Diplomacy | EU raises stakes with Iran</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1436731-eu-raises-stakes-iran</link><description><![CDATA[With their decision to impose an embargo on Iranian oil and to freeze Iranian bank assets in Europe, EU member states are hoping to force Teheran to halt its nuclear program — an initiative which the European press believes is a risky bet. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/Schneider_ahmadinejad.jpg" length="114656" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:15:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands-Iran | Diplomatic anger over secret burial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/494011-diplomatic-anger-over-secret-burial</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Relations with Iran at all time low,&rdquo; headlines Volkskrant  in the wake of news that Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal,  currently on a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Volkskrant-08022011-100.jpg" length="38638" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:26:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iran | Diplomatic crisis after Dutch citizen executed</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/483771-diplomatic-crisis-after-dutch-citizen-executed</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Infamous Iran,&rdquo; on its front page De Volkskrant  reports on the reaction of Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Uri  Rosenthal, in the wake [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/31012011-Volkskrant-100.jpg" length="13295" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:12:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Europe / Asia | Stalin's dream to come true</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/355721-stalin-s-dream-come-true</link><description><![CDATA[Rom&acirc;nia liberă reports that &quot;a Russian-Kazakh working group will shortly announce the launch of a project to build 700-km long canal between the Caspian Sea [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:09:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Iran | Brussels to counter Iranian censorship</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/216451-brussels-counter-iranian-censorship</link><description><![CDATA[EU foreign ministers aim to &ldquo;take action&rdquo; against Iranian censors&rsquo; jamming Western TV and radio satellite broadcasts in the Islamic Republic, reports Le Monde. 70-odd [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/le-monde-24032010.jpg" length="33305" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:41:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy-Iran | Silvio&#039;s Teheran love affair on the rocks</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/187191-silvios-teheran-love-affair-rocks</link><description><![CDATA[Shouting &quot;death to Italy&quot; and hurling stones, a hundred protestors gathered on February 9 in front of the Italian embassy in Teheran. This came in [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/la-stampa-10022010.jpg" length="44934" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:43:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Israel/Palestine | No EU passports for Mossad, asks Hamas</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/182481-no-eu-passports-mossad-asks-hamas</link><description><![CDATA[Hamas has demanded that the European Union prevent Israeli security services from using EU passports to carry out targeted assassinations on its leading members, euobserver.com [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/eu-observer-03022010.jpg" length="35908" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:49:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Gas | All pipelines lead to Ankara (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/106641-all-pipelines-lead-ankara</link><description><![CDATA[Ankara is the neighbour Europeans still won’t let into their club. And yet the country behind the Bosporus is soon to become the communication hub for energy supplies bound for Europe. Die Zeit doubts the EU can go on snubbing the Turks indefinitely. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/carte-pipelines-EN_4.jpg" length="154140" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:31:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Anti-missile shield | Russia inspires fear and foreboding (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/99821-russia-inspires-fear-and-foreboding</link><description><![CDATA[Barack Obama&#039;s decision to abandon plans for a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic - promised by George Bush - has not been welcomed in either country. The European press expresses its concern about the influence of Moscow in the region. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/obama-antimisiles_0.jpg" length="170477" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:17:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | The Afghan odyssey (International Herald Tribune, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/88931-afghan-odyssey</link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of Afghan boys are making their way alone across Europe, a trend that has accelerated in the past two years as conditions for Afghan refugees become more difficult in countries like Iran and Pakistan. Although some are as young as 12, most are teenagers seeking an education and a future that is not possible in their own country, which is still struggling with poverty and violence eight years after the end of Taliban rule. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/jeunes-afghans.jpg" length="134180" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:47:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Middle East | Moving closer to Syria (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/85201-moving-closer-syria</link><description><![CDATA[Britain’s recent call to bring Syria into the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is part of a wider western strategy to tempt the previously isolated Ba&#039;athist regime away from Iran and continue co-operation with the west in Iraq and Lebanon. Chris Philips at the Guardian wonders whether we are witnessing another example of human rights and democracy being sacrificed for political expediency. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/damascus-poster.jpg" length="34105" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:30:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkey | Go East (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/79961-go-east</link><description><![CDATA[The EU rose out of the ashes of war. Perhaps, with a little patience and pragmatism, a Middle Eastern Union is not such a distant fantasy. And Turkey, as East-West linchpin, is well-placed to be that unifying force. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/turkey-arab_4.jpg" length="135053" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:17:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | More Tariq Ramadan controversy</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/77091-more-tariq-ramadan-controversy</link><description><![CDATA[Three political parties are demanding the resignation of a Swiss Islamologist, who is an &quot;integration adviser&quot; for the local government in Rotterdam and the&nbsp;visiting Professor&nbsp;of&nbsp;Identity [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/volkskrant-090814.jpg" length="7682" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:43:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>ENERGY | Nabucco out to gas up</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/52951-nabucco-out-gas</link><description><![CDATA[To connect Western Europe up to Central Asia so as to lower our dependence on Russian gas is the object of the future Nabucco gas [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:32:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | A personal fight, through pipelines</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/46941-personal-fight-through-pipelines</link><description><![CDATA[The political tandem once formed by Gerhard Schr&ouml;der &ndash; the former German Chancellor &ndash; and Joschka Fisher &ndash; his former minister of Foreign Affairs &ndash; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:21:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iran | Nokia-Siemens and the Mullahs</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/40471-nokia-siemens-and-mullahs</link><description><![CDATA[In June, it was revealed that in 2008 Nokia-Siemens Networks sold Iran technology the regime has since used to analyse and censor information on the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Die-tageszeitung-290609.jpg" length="10595" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:32:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iran | Not just a physical gulf (ABC, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/38261-not-just-physical-gulf</link><description><![CDATA[For several years now the EU has sought to negotiate between Tehran and the West. But the Iranian regime’s current crackdown shows the limitations of this soft-diplomacy approach and belies all hope of democratic change in view of the deep divide between political cultures. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/solana-larijani.jpg" length="39855" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:27:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ruben, Dagblad De Limburger (Maastricht) | Ahmadinejad wins election beyond the shadow of a doubt | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/37831-ahmadinejad-wins-election-beyond-shadow-doubt</link><description><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad wins election beyond the shadow of a doubt (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/ruben-ahmadinejad.jpg" length="27867" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:19:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iranian Elections | Nokia-Siemens accused in censorship row</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/36411-nokia-siemens-accused-censorship-row</link><description><![CDATA[Now that Iran has activated its digital arsenal to prevent the free circulation of news, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) finds itself at the centre of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:19:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Media | This is Radio Free Iran (Die Welt, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/35841-radio-free-iran</link><description><![CDATA[While the regime in Teheran cracks down on national media, Iranians broadcasting from abroad become increasingly important. In Prague, Radio Farda is reporting on events in Iran on a daily basis despite attempts to silence it. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Iran-where-is-my-vote-paris.jpg" length="72239" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:22:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iran | Come the hour, come the Mujahideen (Rue89, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/34241-come-hour-come-mujahideen</link><description><![CDATA[At an unlikely political gathering on the outskirts of Paris that smacks of a giant village fair, the People’s Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI), opposed to the Tehran regime, have made a bid to co-opt the current uprising in Iran. This Saturday afternoon thousands of people from all over Europe gathered to acclaim the leader-in-exile of the “National Council of Resistance of Iran” (NCRI), Maryam Rajavi. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/moudjaihidines-rassemblement-villepinte.jpg" length="80682" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:18:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>International | What&#039;s the deal with Iran? (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/31491-whats-deal-iran</link><description><![CDATA[Even after a week of protests disputing incumbent President Ahmadinejad’s landslide victory in the Iranian election, the EU still keeps a low diplomatic profile. Several newspapers across the continent are suggesting that this might have something to do with European economic interests in the Islamic republic. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/iran-protest-germany.jpg" length="40355" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:15:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
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