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Iran

Ahmadinejad under fire from Iran's clerics IRAN'S president has alarmed the nation's conservative clerics with remarks suggesting he believes a mystical Shiite religious leader backs his government.

Tehran postpones youth's execution IRAN'S judiciary has ordered a month's postponement of the execution of Behnoud Shoja, who was sentenced to death for a murder committed three years ago when he was 17.

Toys threat to Iran's society IMPORTS of Barbie dolls and other western toys and characters such as Harry Potter will have destructive cultural and social consequences in Iran, the Islamic Republic's top prosecutor was quoted as saying yesterday.

Pakistan's missing ambassador being held by Taliban PAKISTAN'S ambassador to Afghanistan, who went missing in February in the Khyber region, appeared on Arabic television yesterday saying he was being held by the Taliban and urging Islamabad to meet their demands.

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