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  • British MPs express solidarity with Iranian protesters

    Created: Thursday, 31 December 2009 08:06
    Thursday, 31 December 2009 - Cross-Party MPs and Peers on Thursday declared their solidarity with the brave millions of Iranians demanding regime change. Global Arab Network has received a press release issued by the British Parliamentary Committee f...

  • Iran Opposition Says Troops, Vehicles Moved To Tehran

    Created: Thursday, 31 December 2009 07:12
    Thursday, 31 December 2009 - TEHRAN (Reuters) -- An Iranian opposition website said today the government was moving troops and armored military vehicles to the capital on the day supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Musavi planned to hold a rally....

  • Iran Opposition Leaders Face Threat of Prosecution

    Created: Thursday, 31 December 2009 07:08
    Thursday, 31 December 2009 - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's opposition leaders faced new threats Thursday with the state prosecutor warning they could be put on trial if they do not denounce this week's anti-government protests -- the worst unrest since the ...

  • Iran hard-liners back government in mass rallies

    Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 08:25
    Wednesday, 30 December 2009 - By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer_TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Tens of thousands of hard-line government supporters turned out for state-sponsored rallies Wednesday, some of them calling for the execution of opposition l...

  • Iranian Police Chief: We'll Show 'No Mercy' In Crushing Protests

    Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 08:21
    Wednesday, 30 December 2009 -TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's police chief threatened Wednesday to show "no mercy" in crushing any new opposition protests and said more than 500 demonstrators have been arrested in the wake of this week's deadly clashes....

  • Iran opposition leaders face execution: Khamenei aide

    Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 10:53
    Tuesday, 29 December 2009 - TEHRAN (Reuters) - A representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday opposition leaders were "enemies of God" who should be executed under the country's sharia law....

  • "Hit squad shot Mousavi's nephew"

    Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:34
    Tuesday, 29 December 2009 - In recent days Seyed Ali Mousavi, the nephew of Iran’s opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, had apparently received several death threats and his family were concerned for his safety....

  • Iran accuses West of fomenting violent protests

    Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:29
    Tuesday, 29 December 2009 - By NASSER KARIMI , Associated Press Writer - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran on Tuesday accused Western countries of fomenting deadly anti-government protests in the capital this week and said it was summoning Britain's amb...

  • Iran's parliament speaker calls for 'harshest punishment'

    Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:26
    Tuesday, 29 December 2009 - (CNN) -- Iran's influential parliament speaker Ali Larijani said Tuesday that authorities should mete out "the harshest punishment" to protesters who disrupted Ashura observances....

  • Iran detains Nobel laureate's sister

    Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:23
    Tuesday, 29 December 2009 - (CNN) -- Iranian intelligence officials have detained the sister of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer and human rights activist said....

  • Iran protests: opposition politician detained

    Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 08:24
    Wednesday, 28 December 2009 - Iranian opposition politician Ebrahim Yazdi has been detained one day after pro-reform protesters clashed with security forces in Teheran, according to an opposition website....

  • German and European leaders condemn Iran crackdown

    Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 08:20
    Wednesday, 28 December 2009 - After a Sunday in Tehran in which protestors were met with violence from security forces, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her foreign minister have spoken out against the crackdown....

  • Iran opposition figures arrested as protests continue

    Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 08:17
    Wednesday, 28 December 2009 - Clashes between the Iranian authorities and the reformist movement continued today following yesterday's crackdown which that left at least nine dead, including the nephew of the main opposition leader....

  • Several killed, 300 arrested in Tehran protests

    Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 08:12
    Wednesday, 28 December 2009 -Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Several people were killed and more than 300 were arrested in anti-government protests in Tehran Sunday, Iran's Deputy Police Chief Ahmad Reza Radan said on state television station IRINN....

  • Updates on Ashura Clashes in Iran

    Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 00:00
    Death toll in Tehran street battles rises to 15From Times Online At least fifteen anti-government protesters, including a nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran’s opposition leader, were shot dead yesterday as the smouldering confrontation between the re...

  • Death Toll Rises to 10 as Clashes in Iran Intensify

    Created: Sunday, 27 December 2009 18:47
    Sunday, 27 December 2009 - By ROBERT F. WORTH and NAZILA FATHI - BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iranian police officers opened fire into crowds of protesters on Sunday, killing at least 10 people, witnesses and opposition Web sites said, setting off a day of chaoti...

  • Leading Iran cleric condemns Ashura deaths

    Created: Sunday, 27 December 2009 17:47
    Sunday, 27 December 2009 - TEHRAN (Reuters) - An opposition leader criticized Iran's hardline rulers on Monday for killing innocent people during a religious festival, a reformist website reported....

  • Fears of bloody endgame in Iran as five are killed in street battles

    Created: Sunday, 27 December 2009 16:20
    Sunday, 27 December 2009 - At least five anti-government protesters, including a nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran’s opposition leader, were shot dead yesterday as the smouldering confrontation between the regime and the so-called Green Movement final...

  • Deaths reported in Iran clashes

    Created: Sunday, 27 December 2009 08:33
    Sunday, 27 December 2009 - Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Fresh clashes broke out between demonstrators and security forces in Tehran on Sunday as large crowds gathered for Ashura, a major religious observance....

  • Mir Hossein Mousavi's nephew 'killed' in Tehran clashes

    Created: Sunday, 27 December 2009 08:26
    Sunday, 27 December 2009 - At least four Iranian protesters were reported to have been shot dead in Tehran today - including a nephew of Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi - during the fiercest protests seen in the capital since the immediate after...