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23 Dec 2009

Clashes With Police Reported in Iran

Security forces fought with demonstrators in the central Iranian city of Isfahan on Wednesday and a Web site in Iran reported that many of the protesters had been injured.
Security forces fought with demonstrators in the central Iranian city of Isfahan on Wednesday and a Web site in Iran...
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22 Dec 2009

Throngs of Mourners Attend Funeral of Dissident Cleric in Iran

BEIRUT, Lebanon The funeral of a prominent dissident cleric in the holy Iranian city of Qum turned into a huge and furious antigovernment rally on Monday, raising the possibility that the cleric s death could serve as a catalyst for an opposition movement that has been locked in a stalemate with the authorities.
BEIRUT, Lebanon The funeral of a prominent dissident cleric in the holy Iranian city of Qum turned into a huge and...
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19 Dec 2009

Iran Acknowledges Fatal Beatings

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the country's postelection turmoil were beaten to death by their jailers.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the...
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16 Dec 2009

Credit Suisse to Pay Fine Over Dealing With Iran

Credit Suisse is expected to pay a fine of $536 million to settle accusations by the United States government and New York State authorities that it violated sanctions by helping Iran and other countries secretly funnel hundreds of millions of dollars through American banks, people involved in the negotiations said Tuesday.
Credit Suisse is expected to pay a fine of $536 million to settle accusations by the United States government and New...
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7 Dec 2009

Iranian Student Protesters Clash With Police

Thousands of student protesters gathered at universities in Tehran and other cities across Iran on Monday, chanting anti-government slogans and fighting with the police in the opposition s first major street protests in weeks.
Thousands of student protesters gathered at universities in Tehran and other cities across Iran on Monday, chanting...
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7 Dec 2009

Mothers Arrested Before Opposition Rally in Iran

"They are asking us to forget about the election results as though people are concerned only about the elections," he said. How can we make them understand that this is not the issue? It is not about who the president is or is not; the issue is that they have sold out a great nation.
"They are asking us to forget about the election results as though people are concerned only about the elections," he...
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2 Dec 2009

Iran’s Plan to Phase Out Subsidies Carries Risks

BEIRUT, Lebanon The outside world may be focused on Iran s intensifying confrontation with the West over its nuclear program. But at home, Iranians are more concerned with an ambitious and risky new effort to overhaul the country s troubled economy.
BEIRUT, Lebanon The outside world may be focused on Iran s intensifying confrontation with the West over its nuclear...
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30 Nov 2009

A Defiant Iran Vows to Build Nuclear Plants

WASHINGTON Iran angrily refused Sunday to comply with a demand by the United Nations nuclear agency to cease work on a once-secret nuclear fuel enrichment plant, and escalated the confrontation by declaring it would construct 10 more such plants.
WASHINGTON Iran angrily refused Sunday to comply with a demand by the United Nations nuclear agency to cease work on a...
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24 Nov 2009

Iran Expanding Effort to Stifle the Opposition

DAMASCUS, Syria 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.
DAMASCUS, Syria After last summer s disputed presidential election, Iran s government relied largely on brute force...
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23 Nov 2009

Iran’s Death Penalty Is Seen as a Political Tactic

CAIRO - 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 pockets of ethnic unrest around the nation, human rights groups and Iran experts said.
CAIRO - A flurry of executions and death sentences in Iran has raised concern that the government is using judicially...
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16 Nov 2009

Nuclear Report on Iran Arouses New Suspicions

WASHINGTON International inspectors who gained access to Iran s newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant raised questions in a report released on Monday about whether the country may have also concealed other nuclear factories
WASHINGTON International inspectors who gained access to Iran s newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant...
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4 Nov 2009

Clashes in Iran on Embassy Takeover Anniversary

BEIRUT, Lebanon Iran s beleaguered opposition movement struggled to reassert itself on Wednesday, as tens of thousands of protesters braved police beatings and clouds of tear gas on the sidelines of a major, government-sponsored anti-American rally.
BEIRUT, Lebanon Iran s beleaguered opposition movement struggled to reassert itself on Wednesday, as tens of thousands...
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4 Nov 2009

Iran Clashes on Anniversary of Embassy Takeover

BEIRUT, Lebanon Police firing tear gas and wielding batons clashed Wednesday with anti-government demonstrators in Tehran who sought to turn a rally commemorating the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the American Embassy into a renewed protest against the disputed June 30 election, news reports said.
BEIRUT, Lebanon Police firing tear gas and wielding batons clashed Wednesday with anti-government demonstrators in...
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21 Oct 2009

Iran Agrees To Potentially Export Nuclear Fuel

VIENNA The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday that Iranian negotiators had agreed to a draft of an agreement to ship much of its stockpile of nuclear fuel to Russia, but cautioned that it would have to be approved by Friday in both Tehran and Washington.
VIENNA The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday that Iranian negotiators had agreed to a draft...
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15 Oct 2009

Experts Say Iran May Be Ready for a Nuclear Deal

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Iran says it has no plans to build nuclear weapons. Western nations say they do not believe Iran and periodically release intelligence reports that they say prove Iran has been working on building a bomb.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Iran says it has no plans to build nuclear weapons. Western nations say they do not believe Iran...
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5 Oct 2009

Black Market Shows Iran Can Adapt to Sanctions

President Obama has vowed to keep the pressure on Iran over its nuclear program after last week s meeting in Geneva, and his advisers said the United States was intensively recruiting other nations to join in a harsher economic embargo against Tehran should diplomacy fail.
President Obama has vowed to keep the pressure on Iran over its nuclear program after last week s meeting in Geneva, and...
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4 Oct 2009

Report Says Iran Has Data to Make a Nuclear Bomb

Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable atom bomb.
Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has...
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29 Sep 2009

How to Press the Advantage With Iran

This article is more idealistic rather than realistic, not paying attention to the people and the situation at hand! "Because President Obama assembled a national security team that, for the most part, did not share his early vision for American-Iranian rapprochement, his administration never built a strong public case for engagement. The prospect of engagement is still treated largely as a channel for rewarding positive Iranian actions and punishing problematic behavior precisely what Mr. Obama, as a presidential candidate, criticized so eloquently about President George W. Bush s approach."
This article is more idealistic rather than realistic, not paying attention to the people and the situation at hand!...
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29 Sep 2009

A Nuclear Debate Brews – Is Iran Designing Warheads

When President Obama stood last week with the leaders of Britain and France to denounce Iran s construction of a secret nuclear plant, the Western powers all appeared to be on the same page.
When President Obama stood last week with the leaders of Britain and France to denounce Iran s construction of a secret...
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28 Sep 2009

U.S. Is Seeking a Range of Sanctions Against Iran

The Obama administration is scrambling to assemble a package of harsher economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program that could include a cutoff of investments to the country s oil-and-gas industry and restrictions on many more Iranian banks than those currently blacklisted, senior administration officials said Sunday.
The Obama administration is scrambling to assemble a package of harsher economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear...
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12 Sep 2009

U.S. to Accept IranÂ’s Proposal to Hold Talks

WASHINGTON The Obama administration said Friday that the United States would accept Iran s offer to meet, fulfilling President Obama s pledge to hold unconditional talks despite the Iranian government s insistence that it would not negotiate over the future of its nuclear program.
WASHINGTON The Obama administration said Friday that the United States would accept Iran s offer to meet, fulfilling...
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