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  • Iran dissidents pay a high price

    Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 09:36
    Iran hanged two opposition protesters on Thursday and sentenced nine more to death for taking part in widespread rallies against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following last June's presidential election. It is a stark reminder to members of the Iranian po...

  • Let Iran have its own revolution

    Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 09:37
    By: Mahmood Delkhasteh - Since the late 19th century, almost every generation of Iranians has seen at least one major upheaval or revolution. The first revolution for democracy in the Middle East took place in Iran in 1905, at a time when Europe...

  • Iranian opposition in protest call

    Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 09:30
    Saturday, 30 January 2010 - Iran's key opposition figures have implicitly called for a public demonstration on February 11, the anniversary of the nation's Islamic revolution....

  • German embassy police ‘recalled from Iran’

    Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 09:28
    Saturday, 30 January 2010 - Two German policemen working at their country’s embassy in Tehran have been brought home after being targeted by Iranian intelligence, according to the weekly Der Spiegel....

  • Iran puts 16 protesters on trial

    Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 09:14
    Saturday, 30 January 2010 - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran put 16 opposition supporters detained during anti-government protests last month on trial Saturday on charges of rioting and conspiring against the ruling system, Iran's state media reported....

  • Iran's Bubble Boys

    Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 23:26
    BY GENEIVE ABDO - Over the last seven months, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's base of support appears to have steadily shrunk: Countless conservative politicians and clerics, such as former Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, have even parted ways wi...

  • Iran’s regime is kicking and punching

    Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:36
    by Dietrich Alexander  - They are being referred to as “Mohareb”, enemies of God. In Iran’s theocracy, this equals a death sentence. Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani (36) and Arash Rahmanipour (19), two young Iranian opposition supporters, were hanged in t...

  • Members of Committee of Human Rights Reporters Under Pressure to Make Forced Confessions

    Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:30
    Friday, 29 January 2010 - Different sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today that the arrested members of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters are under pressure to deliver forced confessions about the Committee’...

  • Iranian cleric: More opposition should be executed

    Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:11
    Friday, 29 January 2010 - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A powerful hard-line Iranian cleric on Friday called for the execution of more opposition activists to silence anti-government protests, praising the hanging a day earlier of two men caught up in the leadersh...

  • Attack on the 'Shark' shakes Iran

    Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 00:06
    By Mahan Abedin - As the Islamic Republic continues to grapple with a profound political crisis, the focus of internal wrangling is steadily shifting to the eye of the storm. There is a widespread belie...

  • 'Shocking' execution of Iran protesters condemned

    Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 00:04
    Amnesty International has condemned the execution of two men arrested during protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election last year. Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour were hanged on Thursday after being convicted in unfair t...

  • 'Reflections on Democracy'

    Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 00:02
    by NADER HASHEMI - Struggles for democracy generally require three critical ingredients for success: effective and incorruptible leadership, a strategy for mass mobilization and a sense of hope that engenders sacrifice. Last year at this time, none of the...

  • Iran Green Movement promising big February protests

    Created: Thursday, 28 January 2010 08:25
    Thursday, 28 January 2010 - The opposition Green Movement in Iran is planning a series of large protests in early February, culminating in an attempt to co-opt a massive pro-regime march to commemorate the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. ...

  • Iran's Karoubi sees early exit of president Ahmadinejad

    Created: Thursday, 28 January 2010 07:33
    Thursday, 28 January 2010 - LONDON (Reuters) - Senior Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi predicted in an interview published on Thursday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be ousted before the end of his four-year term....

  • Iran Continues Focus on Outside Provocateurs, Now Blaming Germany

    Created: Thursday, 28 January 2010 07:31
    Thursday, 28 January 2010 - Iranian officials continued to cast blame for the nation’s recent political crisis on foreign interference on Wednesday, focusing their ire for the first time on Germany, one of the country’s closest trading partners, with ...

  • Iran hangs 2 for allegedly aiming to topple state

    Created: Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:00
    Thursday, 28 January 2010 - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran on Thursday executed two men accused of involvement in an armed anti-government group, as the public prosecutor announced that new death sentences have been issued against opposition activists involve...

  • Huntsman stops sales in Iran on concern for government actions

    Created: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 08:12
    Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - Huntsman Corp., the world’s biggest maker of epoxy adhesives, said its foreign subsidiaries will discontinue sales in Iran due to concern over the government’s handling of protests of last year’s presidential election....

  • Iran official: German diplomats involved in "riots"

    Created: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 08:07
    Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian media reported on Wednesday that two German diplomats were detained last month due to involvement in anti-government protests, but Berlin said it was unaware any of its staff in Iran had been arreste...

  • Siemens to seek no new Iranian business

    Created: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 00:06
    Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - Siemens became one of the first large German industrial companies to bow to pressure from the German and US governments when the group announced on Tuesday it would seek no new business in Iran....

  • Freed Belgians cite fears for U.S. hikers in Iran

    Created: Tuesday, 26 January 2010 23:57
    Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - Paris, France (CNN) -- Two Belgians recently detained in Iran said they had some contact with three U.S. hikers imprisoned there and are concerned about the Americans' well-being....