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  • Zahra Rahnavard chosen by Foreign Policy Magazine as number 3 of the top 100 global thinkers of 2009

    Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 06:34
    Monday, 30 November 2009 -#3. Zahra Rahnavard for being the brains behind Iran’s Green Revolution and the campaign of her husband, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi....

  • Family of slain photojournalist Zahra Kazemi enters legal battle with Iran

    Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 06:22
    Monday, 30 November 2009 - The Canadian PressMONTREAL (CP) — A legal showdown is set to take place in a Quebec courtroom this week pitting the government of Iran against the estate of slain photojournalist Zahra Kazemi....

  • Iran tells Norway to stay out of Nobel medal row

    Created: Friday, 27 November 2009 08:52
    Friday, 27 November 2009 - By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press Writers - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Norway has no right to criticize Iran for confiscating Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, Iran's foreign ministry said Friday....

  • Imprisoned Iranian-American scholar faces new charges of espionage in Iran

    Created: Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:11
    Thursday, 26 November 2009 - By LEE KEATH Associated Press Writer CAIRO (AP) -- Iran brought new espionage charges against an Iranian-American scholar who was already convicted of spying and sentenced to 15 years in prison in the country's crackdown fol...

  • Iran detains scores of students, rights group says

    Created: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:12
    Wednesday, 25 November 2009 - LONDON (Reuters) - Iran has detained scores of students in an apparent bid to prevent new opposition protests during annual Student Day events next month, a Western-based human rights group said....

  • Iran clerics start gaining control of schools

    Created: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 07:58
    Wednesday, 25 November 2009 - By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press Writer - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Islamic religious authorities have begun tightening their grip on Iranian public schools, a report said Wednesday, as hard-liners expand an ideological "so...

  • Iran Sentences Journalist to Jail Time

    Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 08:31
    Tuesday, 24 November 2009 - By NAZILA FATHI - Iran handed down a five-year jail term to Ahmad Zeidabadi, a prominent journalist and former student leader, an opposition Web site reported Monday, as part of a series of jail sentences the government has ...

  • Iran Expanding Effort to Stifle the Opposition

    Created: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 08:27
    Tuesday, 24 November 2009 - By ROBERT F. WORTH - After last summer’s disputed presidential election, Iran’s government relied largely on brute force — beatings, arrests and show trials — to stifle the country’s embattled opposition movement....

  • Iran's opposition defiant in face of crackdown

    Created: Monday, 23 November 2009 08:19
     "16 Reasons For 16th of Azar" ( Dec 7th - the next mass demonstration date) By Fredrik Dahl, Reuters, in TehranIranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said yesterday that the reform movement would not be cowed by the hardline government's har...

  • Iran’s Death Penalty Is Seen as a Political Tactic

    Created: Monday, 23 November 2009 08:15
    Monday, 23 November 2009 - By MICHAEL SLACKMAN The New York Times - A flurry of executions and death sentences in Iran has raised concern that the government is using judicially sanctioned killing to intimidate the political opposition and quell pocket...

  • Iran prez seeks new legitimacy in visit to Brazil

    Created: Monday, 23 November 2009 08:08
    Monday, 23 November 2009 - By ALAN CLENDENNING Associated Press Writer - BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- For Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Brazil provides some sorely needed political legitimacy for his increasingly isolated nation....

  • In Draft Resolution, United Nations Rebukes Iran for Rights Violations Since Election

    Created: Saturday, 21 November 2009 14:17
     By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Published: November 20, 2009 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations criticized Iran on Friday for numerous human rights abuses in the wake of the disputed presidential election in June, including the arrests, intimidation and...

  • Iran Arrests Student Activists Ahead Of Student Day

    Created: Saturday, 21 November 2009 14:04
    Saturday, 21 November 2009 - By Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE/RL Iran has increased its pressure on student activists ahead of the national Student Day on December 7.  Throughout Iran a dozen students are reported to have been jailed this week, including eigh...

  • Iran unrest death sentences "distressing": Clinton

    Created: Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:19
    KABUL (Reuters) - Death sentences imposed by Iran over unrest after disputed elections in June were unfortunate and distressing, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday....

  • U.S. warns Iran of consequences over standoff

    Created: Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:52
    Thursday, 19 November 2009 - By Patricia Zengerle and Manny Mogato SEOUL/MANILA (Reuters) - World powers could have a package of measures against Iran "within weeks," U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday, warning Tehran of consequences for its...

  • Iranian Death Sentences Seen As Intimidation Move Over Postelection Unrest

    Created: Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:48
    Thursday, 19 November 2009 - By Golnaz Esfandiari Five people have been sentenced to death in Iran in connection with the unrest that shook the Islamic republic following President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's hotly disputed reelection earlier this year....

  • US voices 'concerns' as five sentenced to death in Iran

    Created: Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:47
    Thursday, 19 November 2009 - WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States on Wednesday voiced concern over trials in Iran that led to death sentences for five people linked to protests over Iran's June presidential elections....

  • Iranian militia warns of protest confrontation

    Created: Wednesday, 18 November 2009 22:37
    Wednesday, 18 November 2009 - Iran’s Basij militia, who clashed with protesters after June’s presidential poll, will confront any further “street riots”, its commander said on Wednesday, ahead of a ceremony t...

  • Iran sentences 5 to death in postelection turmoil

    Created: Wednesday, 18 November 2009 08:32
    Wednesday, 18 November 2009 - By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press Writer - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential...

  • Iran, Its Hostages and the West

    Created: Wednesday, 18 November 2009 08:29
    Wednesday, 18 November 2009 - Iran's big news yesterday is that the government will formally kill five people who participated in June's pro-democracy rallies. Consider, though, the implications for the West's peace-brokers of the case of Frenchwoman Cl...