Gaddafi attacks his own people with warplanes

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TEHRAN,Feb.23 (MNA)-- The Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi used tanks, helicopters and warplanes to fight a growing uprising, witnesses said on Tuesday, as the Libyan strongman scoffed at reports h

Iranian poet Kiumars Mahdavi dies

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TEHRAN,Feb. 23 (MNA) -- The Iranian poet, Kiumars Mahdavi, died of a heart attack on Saturday.

Dubbed as “Khadiv”, he was the managing director of the Iran Poet Association since 1980.

Iran sees 53% rise in development budget

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TEHRAN, Feb.23(MNA) -- Some 475 trillion rials (about $46 billion) has been allocated to the development projects in the budget of the next Iranian calendar year (to start on March 21).

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