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Demonstrators protesting against caricatures of Islam's Prophet Mohammed set fire to a building housing the Danish mission in Beirut. Security forces shot tear gas into the crowd and fired their weapons in the air to push the protesters back. Some 2,000 army troops and riot police were deployed around the embassy building in the district of Ashrafieh, close to Beirut's commercial district. Unbridled violence Thousands of demonstrators took part in the protest against publication of caricatures of Islam's revered prophet in European newspapers. The protest quickly degenerated into violence when groups of Islamic extremists tried to break through the security...

The US State Department had directly ordered the US media to raise hues and cries against Iran's head of state, said an Arab scholar in Europe Adnan Bin Adam here late Thursday. Adam told IRNA that western media reaction to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent statements, which were in fact the repetition of Muslims' opposition against Israeli regime's injustices over the past few decades, was surprising and open to ample questions and ambiguities. He took his reliable sources in the BBC testified coordination between the Corporation and Reuters to build up purposeful onslaught on Iran's President due to his defense of...

Israel should be "wiped off the map": Iran president Agence France-Presse | October 26, 2005 Posted on 10/26/2005 2:44:55 AM PDT by HAL9000 Original Article on FRKHALID MASHALThis cult is dangerous and should be dealt with now

LONDON, September 22 (IranMania) - EU military attaches walked out in protest at a parade in Tehran Thursday after ballistic missiles were rolled past carrying vitriolic anti-US and Israeli slogans, diplomats told AFP. "There was a common position among the European Union members that, if the military parade included any slogans that attacked our allies, we would leave," said a diplomat. "The military attaches from the embassies of France, Italy, Greece and Poland were present at the parade, and when they saw the slogans they promptly left," said another diplomat. At the parade, Iran showed off six of its Shahab-3...