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  • Iran prosecutor warns against New Year protests

    Created: Sunday, 28 February 2010 08:46
    Sunday, 28 February 2010 - TEHRAN, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Iran's security forces will stop opposition supporters using the Iranian new year in March to stage more anti-government protests, a leading judicial official said on Sunday....

  • Call to stop execution of Iranian-Kurdish Activist

    Created: Sunday, 28 February 2010 08:44
    Sunday, 28 February 2010 - Over two thousand Iranian human rights and social activists have called for the annulment of the preliminary sentence of execution which was issued for Shirin Alam Huli....

  • Member of Ahmadinejad Entourage in New York is Suspect in Attack on a Young Woman

    Created: Sunday, 28 February 2010 08:36
    Sunday, 28 February 2010 - A New York court has pressed charges against a man accompanying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his September 2009 trip to United Nation’s General Assembly in New York...

  • Pulling the Strings of the Net: Iran's Cyber Army

    Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 08:26
    Saturday, 27 February 2010 - During the past few months, the activities of Iran's Cyber Army have attracted growing notice in the Iranian and international media....

  • Iran accused of murder campaign against Kurds

    Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 08:23
    Iran's religious leadership is orchestrating a campaign of killings and arrests in Kurd provinces as it seeks to prevent pro-democracy protests from spreading to the country's ethnic minorities, an Iranian Kurd leader has said....

  • Opposition leader: Dictatorial "cult" rules Iran

    Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 08:17
    Saturday, 27 February 2010 - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's opposition leader said Saturday that a dictatorial "cult" was ruling Iran in the name of Islam - his strongest attack to date on the country's clerical leadership....

  • Karroubi: My Family And I Are Ready To Pay Any Price

    Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 00:00
    Saturday, 27 February 2010 - Mehdi Karroubi in an in interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera said that both the Islamic and the Republic foundations of the Islamic Republic system have been damaged and although he is not looking for the c...

  • From Berlin Wall to Firewall

    Created: Friday, 26 February 2010 08:11
    Those of us who grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, before the disaster of the Soviet adventure in Afghanistan became clear, lived in a different world. The USSR loomed as a monolithic empire with a prodigious Cold War army that had never suffered defea...

  • Iran's fight for press freedom

    Created: Friday, 26 February 2010 08:10
    More than 100 journalists and bloggers have been imprisoned in Iran since the disputed election last June, making it the world's leading enemy of free expression. At least 65 remain in jail – more than any single country has imprisoned since 1...

  • Deciphering Rafsanjani

    Created: Thursday, 25 February 2010 08:22
    Iranians are a complex people. Talking in riddles and metaphors is a cultural thing that everyone learns from a young age. Iranian politicians have mastered this 'art of riddle-talk.' Most foreign journalists reporting on Iran do not realize that in ord...

  • Not Defeated

    Created: Thursday, 25 February 2010 08:21
    The month of Bahman, the 11th in the Iranian calendar, has ended. Politics will pause for a moment while Iranians turn their attention to their beloved Norouz, the New Year, which starts March 21st. Stores will advertise holiday sales, housewives will tur...

  • Jailed Iranian Academic In 'Critical Condition'

    Created: Thursday, 25 February 2010 08:18
    Thursday, 25 February 2010 - The first chancellor of Tehran University after the 1979 Islamic Revolution remains in jail despite what his wife says is his deteriorating health, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports....

  • Iran leader says opposition has lost credibility

    Created: Thursday, 25 February 2010 08:15
    Thursday, 25 February 2010 - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader said the opposition has lost its credibility and the right to participate in politics by not accepting the June presidential elections, state TV reported Thursday....

  • Bombard Iran ... with broadband

    Created: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 08:22
    Washington and other western capitals seem to lack an efficient policy to support Iran's protest movement. They wish that the so-called green movement could replace the current military-messianic alliance at the country's helm with a more reason...

  • The Mousavi Mission

    Created: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 08:20
    Traditional Iranian husbands, the sort found in the highest ranks of the Islamic Republic, sometimes refer to their wives as “the house.” For them, this is not just an expression of their understanding of gender relations. It is viewed as a necessary ...

  • The More Pressure They Put On Us, The More We Will Endure and Stand

    Created: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 08:09
    Fatemeh Karroubi in an Interview with Rooz – “The more pressure they put on us, the more we endure and with stand.” In an interview with Rooz, Fatemeh Karroubi announced that she and her family continue to stand for the rights and aspirations of th...

  • Iran’s ‘Excruciating’ Human Rights Record

    Created: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 08:05
    Interviewee:Rudi Bakhtiar, Director of Communications, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Interviewer:Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, CFR.org The UN Human Rights Council this week issued its first review of Iran’s human rights record...

  • Iran's Rafsanjani backs Supreme Leader Khamenei

    Created: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 08:01
    Tuesday, 23 February 2010 - TEHRAN (Reuters) - Veteran politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a key figure in Iran's ruling elite, expressed support for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday over turmoil following a disputed election last year....

  • Mansour Osanloo Survives Attempt on His Life in Rajai-Shahr Prison

    Created: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 07:59
    Tuesday, 23 February 2010 - RAHANA – Mansour Osanloo was assaulted today in Rajai-Shahr prison by an inmate who is said to be a former IRGC member. ...

  • Iran Arrests Sunni Militant Leader

    Created: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 07:57
    Tuesday, 23 February 2010 - TEHRAN, Iran—Iran said Tuesday that its security forces have captured the leader of an armed Sunni group whose insurgency in the southeast has destabilized the border region with Pakistan....