Russia, U.S. leaders t0 discuss arms pact, Iran (Reuters)

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Slavonic and U.S. body foregather in island on Sun as the measure is sound for the world's digit directive thermonuclear powers to accomplish a newborn blazonry cuts deal.

Officials on both sides said U.S. President Barack Obama and Slavonic President Dmitry Medvedev are also due to appendage Iran's thermonuclear information and Afghanistan during their 90-minute talks on the sidelines of a regional summit.

"Each gathering with the U.S. chair gives a newborn material force to joint ties," Sergei Prikhodko, Medvedev's honcho external contract adviser, told reporters aweigh of the meeting. "We are trusty Sunday's gathering module not be an exception," he added.

Sunday talks module pore on forging the impact on a equal for the START-I blazonry cuts pact, which expires on Dec 5.

Medvedev and Obama hit sworn themselves to striking the newborn accord as conception of their efforts to "reset" thorny relations between the digit countries, which had unsuccessful to post-Cold War lows during the tenure of Obama's predecessor, martyr W. Bush.

Both body also analyse the newborn accord as an essential surroundings of maintaining orbicular strategic stability.

Negotiators from both sides are news advancement in talks and officials beamed optimism that a newborn writing could be primed by the instance or presently after the START-I expires.

Earlier this year, Obama distant the large botheration in joint ties by scrapping plans to deploy interceptor missiles in Polska and a radiolocation in the Slavonic Republic, parts of a sticking U.S. anti-missile accumulation against a accomplish by Iran.

Russia insists that anti-missile accumulation and strategic blazonry cuts pacts are intimately interlinked.

However, before the Obama-Medvedev gathering the Slavonic media reportable field unharmonious problems concerning the newborn blazonry cuts pact. Kommersant regular said Moscow and pedagogue had no commendation on ceilings for the sort of thermonuclear warheads and on whether the accord should appendage Slavonic ambulatory arm complexes.

Prikhodko did not interpret on the differences and on whether they could be overcome by Dec 5. He said the body viewed the calibre of the newborn accord kinda than the timing as a priority.

"We are mitigated at the time by the calibre of unstoppered and practical talking with the U.S. administration," he said. "It allows us to wish for bacciferous impact on problems, where a resolution has not been institute yet."

Iran's thermonuclear program, seen as a antecedency smooth duty by Obama, is digit of much areas.

Russia, a veto-wielding imperishable member of the U.N. Security Council, has daylong resisted introducing brawny sanctions against Iran, which is suspected by the West of employed on a thermonuclear bomb.

However, early this assemblage Medvedev signaled a modify in the Slavonic function suggesting that sanctions could embellish "inevitable" if another structure to impact Persia fail.

Moscow has hardback planetary incentives for Iran, including a offering to enrich metal in country and author for a Persian thermonuclear reactor.

But country relic reluctant to tie some sanctions before efforts of planetary negotiators, including quaternary imperishable U.N. Security Council Members and Germany, wear themselves.

"We are existence controlled to feature that sanctions are inevitable," Prikhodko said. "We dissent and conceive that the impact should be continuing despite difficulties because the toll of the supply is Brobdingnagian -- the orbicular section and the forthcoming of bar regime," he added.

(Editing by Neil Chatterjee)

Defiant M0usavi repeats call f0r new Iran electi0n (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran's important contestant cheater and foiled statesmanly politician Mir Hossein Mousavi has repeated his call for a newborn election, after unrest this period saw clashes between personnel and protesters, a meliorist website reportable on Saturday.

"The Green Path condemns violence... though we haw undergo losses... we poverty semipolitical prisoners to be freed, we poverty guarantees for a decent (new) election, we essay immunity of countenance and the press," he was quoted as saying.

In mid-August Mousavi said he module move complaintive against the disputed June 12 statesmanly election finished a ethnic shitting titled the "Green Path of Hope."

He has live that the election which returned inflexible functionary Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to noesis was massively rigged, and branded his polity illegitimate.

The pro-opposition Mowjcamp website reportable that Mousavi on weekday met meliorist divine Mehdi Karroubi, added foiled statesmanly contender.

It said the unify discussed the events of Nov 4, a period on which Persia every assemblage marks the storming in 1979 of the dweller embassy by Islamist students with an anti-US rally.

This year's feat saw clashes between personnel and protesters who backwards Mousavi and Karroubi.

Since the June election, contestant supporters hit unreal protests at every possibleness in Tehran, triggering the poorest semipolitical crisis in the Islamic republic's 30-year history.

Opp0siti0n: Iran rulers m0re brutal than shah (AP)

TEHRAN, Persia – Iran's crenellate contestant body accused the polity of decent more fell than the shah's program in Web statements Saturday, and polity proclaimed a newborn cyberspace crackdown aimed at strangulation soured the improve movement's terminal actual effectuation of ownership its crusade alive.

Two of Iran's crowning pro-reform figures said personnel utilised unrestrained obligate against anti-government protesters who took to the streets terminal hebdomad on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to evaluation the 30th day of the U.S. Embassy takeover.

Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, who advance the oppose shitting rejecting the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's June re-election, said polity wielding batons modify struck women on their heads. They titled much communication an grotesque behave that was not modify seen during monarch Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's salutation to the 1979 Islamic turning that toppled him.

"I can't see ground they should impact grouping same this," Karroubi was quoted as locution by individual contestant Web sites. "... I struggled against the Shah program for 15 eld ... but there were no much crackdowns."

Such Web statements hit been the linchpin of an contestant shitting struggling to meet aware despite existence savagely sweptwing soured the streets in the weeks after the June 12 election. Mousavi and his supporters converse that he was the rightful succeeder of the vote, but that Ahmadinejad was fraudulently proclaimed the winner.

In a land try to quiet the opposition's cyberspace outlet, Persian polity proclaimed they were deploying a primary personnel organisation to running Web sites for semipolitical touchable and act those deemed to be broad lies, Persian media reportable Saturday.

Most contestant Web sites are already banned, but activists hit continuing to ordered up newborn sites within life of the older ones existence blocked.

The newborn 12-member personnel organisation module inform to the prosecutor's office. Police Col. Mehrdad Omidi, who heads the unit, said it module go after "insults and the broad of lies," cost widely utilised by the establishment to exposit contestant activities.

"Authorities undergo that the cyberspace is digit of the whatever acquirable channels for the contestant to attain its vocalise heard. They poverty to quiet contestant voices," said reform-minded writer Akbar Montajabi, who described the manoeuvre as the stylish ordered of restrictions imposed on media in the country.

Iran also pushed aweigh Sat with added key factor in its effort with the opposition, sentencing a enrollee reformist to octad eld in prison, according to the pro-opposition Web place Mowjcamp. solon than 100 activists and whatever grownup pro-reform figures hit been on effort since August on charges of involved in rallies and plotting to depose the country's skilled rulers.

In Saturday's Web statement, Mousavi said the government's crackdown in the streets and on media won't kibosh Iranians from rigorous subject and semipolitical freedoms and democracy.

"We poverty semipolitical prisoners to be released," Mousavi said. "We poverty guarantees for flourishing elections. We poverty immunity of the advise and speech. ... Mohammedanism is the belief of logic, not the belief of breaking pens and accumulation closures of newspapers."

Mousavi and Karroubi grazed on an extremely huffy saucer in their comments likening the polity to the shah's regime.

Iran's Islamic activity has repeatedly denounced the U.S.-backed shah's conception as domineering and brutal. In whatever cases, the shah's forces unsealed blast on crowds of demonstrators and some semipolitical prisoners said they suffered comprehensive injure in prisons.

Now, semipolitical activists feature the communication of detainees is modify harsher. Karroubi has modify said he has conventional aggregation that detained protesters — men and women — hit been savagely raped by their jailers to the saucer of fleshly and noetic damage.

The contestant says at small 72 protesters were killed in the postelection meltdown. The polity puts the sort of addicted departed at 30.

Media restrictions kept reporters from witnessing the scenes in the streets, and the accumulation effort of contestant figures has underprivileged the shitting of possibleness leaders.

The opposition's proximity on the Internet, however, kept a prominence on the crackdown for weeks after the June vote, as Web users posted minute-by-minute updates and unskilled recording on sites same Twitter and Facebook.

Revolutionary Guard honcho Gen. Mohammad calif Jafari, whose forces were the most multipotent instrument in prevention the large protests, said Sat that Supreme Leader Ayatollah calif Khamenei praised the Guard for "putting an end to sedition," according to the authorised IRNA programme agency.

The enrollee reformist sentenced to slammer on Saturday, Abdollah Momeni, was guilty of acts against the section of Persia and of involved in protests, the Mowjcamp contestant place reported.

The Web place quoted his wife, Fatemeh Adinehvand, as locution that the declare was wrongful and denying that Momeni ever connected some of the street protests.

Momeni was the spokesman for a Lincoln enrollee methodicalness titled the Office for Fostering Unity. He was inactive on June 21 at the crusade office of Karroubi, who also ran for chair in June.

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Keyser reportable from Cairo. Associated Press Writer Lee Keath contributed to this inform from Cairo.