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The article reports on the reactions of Iranians to U.S. President Donald Trump's decisions to order and then suddenly abort a military strike against Iran in June 2019.

The article discusses controversial remarks on Iran by French President Jacques Chirac that are to be published February 1, 2007, in "Le Nouvel Observateur." Chirac said that a nuclear-armed Iran would not pose a great danger. France joined the U.S. and other nations in moving to punish Iran for refusing to halt enriching uranium, as demanded by the International Atomic Energy Commission and the United Nations Security Council. INSET: France Tells U.S. to Sign Climate Pacts Or Face Tax.

The article reports on the release of a British-Iranian woman Ghoncheh Ghavami who was detained by the Iranian authorities for attending an all-male volleyball match in Iran wherein she paid the bail worth $30,000 for her freedom.

The article reports on the statement from the U.S. State Secretary John Kerry who presses Iran to demonstrate that its nuclear program was for peaceful purposes during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2014.

The article states that, French and German leaders consider Iran a danger and will keep up the pressure over its nuclear weapons program, despite a U.S. intelligence report mentioning that Tehran, Iran was no longer building a nuclear weapon. French President Nicolas Sarkozy mentioned that, United Nations sanctions against Iran's nuclear program have worked and that they should be continued to keep up the pressure.

The article focuses on the remarks made by Bernard Kouchner, France's foreign minister, on the country's policy towards Iran. Kouchner stated that there would possibly a war against Iran for which the world should be prepared. It is stated that Kouchner's comments were criticized by Iran and the members of his own government in France. After the criticism, Kouchner manipulated his statements and started talking about holding negotiations with Iran and to avoid the possibility of war.

The article discusses French President Jacques Chirac's views on Iran's nuclear program. He issued a statement on February 1, 2007, saying that France would prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The statement was issued as a damage-control exercise after the publication of his interview in which he understated Iran's nuclear ambition. He had said in the interview that if Iran had one or two nuclear weapons, it would not pose a danger as its use would lead to the destruction of Tehran.

The article reports that the Holocaust denial has cost dearly the Institute for Political and International Studies, a policy group of the Iranian Foreign Ministry. A conference organized by the group in Tehran, Iran, featuring Holocaust deniers prompted some of the world's leading policy institutes to snap ties with the Iranian group. The institutes which have cut ties include Great Britain's International Institute for Strategic Studies and Germany's Aspen Institute.

Iran's leadership has once again equivocated after agreeing to a deal that would ease its nuclear standoff with the West. But this time, that may be as much a product of the nation's smoldering political crisis as it is a negotiating tactic, political analysts and Iran experts said. Tehran has yet to state publicly why it objects to the deal, in which it would ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country for additional processing and eventual return as fuel rods for a civilian reactor. But Iran experts say the very caustic, and very public, nature of the debate in Iran over the proposed nuclear deal suggests that the deep divisions cemented by the summer's disputed presidential election have complicated, if not undermined, the ability to resolve such a major issue. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]