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4 Nov 2009

IRAN Concern over fate of star student who spoke out to Khamenei

It was near the end of a meeting Wednesday between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a group of university students when the man who is Iran's highest political and spiritual authority asked if there were any other questions.  He spotted a young man in the corner with his hand raised and called on him, asking him to go to the podium to speak through the public address system.  What followed was an extraordinarily candid 20-minute speech by the student, later identified as national math Olympiad winner Mahmoud Vahidnia, in which he publicly and explicitly criticized Khamenei for the government's conduct in the unrest that followed Iran's June 12 elections.
It was near the end of a meeting Wednesday between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a group of university students when...
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1 Sep 2009

IRAN Proposed education minister accused of making up his degrees

Did President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nominee as head of the nation's higher education system fake his university degrees? According to an investigation by a reformist website, Mowjcamp.com, Kamran Daneshjoo, Ahmadinejad's proposed minister of higher education, has lied about his academic credentials by claiming that he obtained British university degrees.
Did President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nominee as head of the nation's higher education system fake his university degrees?...
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1 Sep 2009

Tehran prosecutor ‘promoted’ into obscurity

The naming of the notorious Tehran prosecutor to a new post as deputy prosecutor-general gives him a fancy title and protection from future legal action, but strips him of his power to pursue his hardline political agenda, said two Iranian lawyers.
The naming of the notorious Tehran prosecutor to a new post as deputy prosecutor-general gives him a fancy title and...
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13 Nov 2009

The ‘myth’ of a counter-revolution in Iran

But it is the street protesters who have hammered the last proverbial nail into the coffin of the reform movement. The deeply subversive slogans of the protesters - such as "freedom, Independence, Iranian Republic", which perverts the standard revolutionary slogan of "Freedom, Independence, Islamic Republic" - highlight a considerable gap between the aspirations of an embryonic grassroots movement and the reformists.
But it is the street protesters who have hammered the last proverbial nail into the coffin of the reform movement. The...
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21 Oct 2009

Iran trapped in ring of unrest

Sunday's suicide bomb attack on a conference hall in the Pishin region of Iran's vast Sistan and Balochistan province is by all accounts a major blow against the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the most important military and security institution in the country.
Sunday's suicide bomb attack on a conference hall in the Pishin region of Iran's vast Sistan and Balochistan province is...
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23 Jun 2009

Iran Has Built a Censorship Monster, With Help From Western Tech

When it comes to online censorship and monitoring online activities, the first country that usually comes to mind is China and its Great Firewall. This, however, may soon change, as it seems that Iran has built one of the most advanced systems for monitoring all online traffic, with the help of technology built by Nokia and Siemens
When it comes to online censorship and monitoring online activities, the first country that usually comes to mind is...
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21 Jun 2009

Useful Google Map: Embassies Accepting Injured in Iran

Let s go over some of the ways the Iran situation has affected social media. First, Twitter rescheduled its downtime because it s been instrumental to communication from protesters. Facebook launched a Persian translation to help facilitate discussion. Google Translate released Farsi support so English users could understand Farsi communication easier. And YouTube, Twitter, and the blogosphere have been on fire.
Let s go over some of the ways the Iran situation has affected social media. First, Twitter rescheduled its downtime...
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20 Jun 2009

Iran Election Crisis 10 Incredible YouTube Videos

As we reported earlier this week, thousands of Iran-related videos are being uploaded to YouTube() every day, revealing first-hand accounts of the crisis to the world. Some are incredible, some are eye-opening, and other shock you to your very core. We ve included ten of these incredible videos, in a chronological order that helps provide context to the crisis in Iran. Be prepared, for these videos can evoke some very strong emotions:
As we reported earlier this week, thousands of Iran-related videos are being uploaded to YouTube() every day, revealing...
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19 Aug 2009

August 19, 1953 – The Day Iran’s Democracy Died

On August 19th, 1953, the most genuine democratic government in the history of Iran was overthrown through an Anglo-American coup called "Operation Ajax". The act against the nation had benn plotted and put into action by the CIA, with a helping hand from Iranian co-consipirators.
On August 19th, 1953, the most genuine democratic government in the history of Iran was overthrown through an...
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18 Jun 2009

The Leaders of Iran’s ‘Election Coup’

The rigged presidential election in Iran -- a coup d'etat, according to Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a spokesman for the main reformist challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi, and other analysts -- has prompted protests both inside and outside Iran. There is, however, little understanding about the ideology and motivation behind the operation.
The rigged presidential election in Iran -- a coup d'etat, according to Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a spokesman for the main...
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9 May 2009

Political Prisoners on hunger strike

On May 3rd, prison authorities in Gohar Dasht brutally attacked political prisoners including those affiliated to the People s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), beating and abusing them. Ali Reza Karami (a prisoner on death row), Afshin Baymani and Behrouz Javid-Tehrani were transferred to solitary confinements after being badly beaten by the special prison guards.
On May 3rd, prison authorities in Gohar Dasht brutally attacked political prisoners including those affiliated to the...
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21 Dec 2009

Mullen worries about Iran running out clock on U.S.

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT The top U.S. military officer said Sunday he does not assume Iran's brief seizure of an Iraqi oil well is part of an orchestrated plan in Tehran to threaten its neighbors. Adm. Mike Mullen also said he's worried about "the clock now running" on the Obama administration's efforts at trying to keep the lines of communication open with Iran. The administration had given a rough deadline of the end of 2009 for Iran to respond to an offer of engagement and show that it would allay world concerns about its nuclear program.
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT The top U.S. military officer said Sunday he does not assume Iran's brief seizure of an...
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29 Jul 2008

U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S.

Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the head of a national security panel has warned. In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee and in remarks to a private conference on missile defense over the weekend hosted by the Claremont Institute, Dr. William Graham warned that the U.S. intelligence community 'doesn t have a story' to explain the recent Iranian tests.
Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the head of a...
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29 Dec 2009

Iran Lashes Out at West Over Protests

BEIRUT, Lebanon Iranian authorities continued arresting hundreds of opposition members and accused the United States and Britain on Tuesday of orchestrating the violent demonstrations that rocked the capital and other cities on Sunday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon Iranian authorities continued arresting hundreds of opposition members and accused the United States and...
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30 Nov 2009

Showcase Iran, Beyond Stereotype

Paolo Woods arrived in Tehran in 1999 with a bag full of black-and-white film. Like many photojournalists before him, he headed to the former American embassy, where the hostage crisis had begun 20 years earlier; a landmark of Iran s tumultuous political past.
Paolo Woods arrived in Tehran in 1999 with a bag full of black-and-white film. Like many photojournalists before him, he...
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30 Oct 2009

Iran Rejects Deal to Ship Out Uranium, Officials Report

WASHINGTON Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept a plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send its stockpile of uranium out of the country, according to diplomats in Europe and American officials briefed on Iran s response
WASHINGTON Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept a plan its negotiators...
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29 Oct 2009

Iran Leader Speaks Ahead of Decision on Nuclear Dossier

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not retreat "one iota" on its nuclear rights but is ready to cooperate on issues regarding atomic fuel, power plants and technology, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not retreat "one iota" on its nuclear rights but is ready to cooperate on issues regarding...
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26 Oct 2009

Both Iran and West Fear a Trap on Uranium Deal

Just before international inspectors on Sunday were guided for the first time into an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant whose existence was a state secret until recently, the speaker of Iran s Parliament warned his countrymen to beware of American efforts to cheat Iran out of the nuclear fuel that has become the country s currency in reasserting its power.
Just before international inspectors on Sunday were guided for the first time into an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant...
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24 Oct 2009

Maziar Bahari

Maziar Bahari is a prominent journalist and documentarian. He holds both Canadian and Iranian citizenship and has written for Newsweek since 1998. He was detained in Tehran on June 21, Newsweek said, as part of a crackdown after the re-election of President Mahmoud Admadinejad. Mr. Bahari was picked up at his mother's home in Tehran by government security officials who seized videotapes and a laptop computer.
Maziar Bahari is a prominent journalist and documentarian. He holds both Canadian and Iranian citizenship and has...
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24 Oct 2009

More Iranian Injustice

The journalist Maziar Bahari joined his pregnant wife in London this week after being freed from an Iranian prison where he had been held for five months. That is welcome news, but it would be a mistake to think that the mullahs who run the government had been seized with humanitarian spirit. If anything, they seem more determined to shift the blame for the unrest that followed the fraudulent June 12 election to America and other foreigners.
The journalist Maziar Bahari joined his pregnant wife in London this week after being freed from an Iranian prison where...
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23 Oct 2009

Lone Cleric, Mehdi Karroubi, Emerges to Defy IranÂ’s Leaders

A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in Tehran in recent months as his aides have been arrested, his offices raided, his newspaper shut down. He himself has been threatened with arrest and, indirectly, the death penalty.
A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his...
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10 Sep 2009

U.S. Says Iran Has Ability to Expedite a Nuclear Bomb

WASHINGTON American intelligence agencies have concluded in recent months that Iran has created enough nuclear fuel to make a rapid, if risky, sprint for a nuclear weapon. But new intelligence reports delivered to the White House say that the country has deliberately stopped short of the critical last steps to make a bomb.
WASHINGTON American intelligence agencies have concluded in recent months that Iran has created enough nuclear fuel to...
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28 Aug 2009

Ali Larijani News

Ali Larijani was elected speaker of Iran's parliament on May 28, 2008. Defeated in the 2005 presidential elections by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he had been the country's chief nuclear negotiator until he was replaced in October 2007.
Ali Larijani was elected speaker of Iran's parliament on May 28, 2008. Defeated in the 2005 presidential elections by...
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28 Aug 2009

Ahmadinejad Urges Prosecution of Political Rivals

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at his chief political rivals on Friday, calling on judiciary officials to decisively and mercilessly prosecute them for challenging the legitimacy of his electoral victory and tarnishing the image of the state.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at his chief political rivals on Friday, calling on judiciary officials to...
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16 Jun 2009

FiveThirtyEight Politics Done Right

A most strange storyline has emerged with regard to the provincial vote totals for the Iranian election. Around 1600 GMT Sunday, the ministry of Interior released the official vote totals by province. As others have mentioned, by law candidates have three days following voting to contest the result, before the final totals are approved by the Supreme Leader. As such, it is notable that both the aggregate totals and provincial totals were certified, approved and released before the three day deadline.
A most strange storyline has emerged with regard to the provincial vote totals for the Iranian election. Around 1600 GMT...
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14 Feb 2009

Mr. Obama and Iran

President Obama has set a constructive new tone for trying to engage Iran. He told an Arabic-language TV network: "If countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us." And he showed refreshing humility after the Bush administration's arrogance: "Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes."
President Obama has set a constructive new tone for trying to engage Iran. He told an Arabic-language TV network: "If...
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23 Dec 2009

Bin Laden Children Reportedly Held in Iran

A Saudi-owned newspaper based in London reported on Wednesday that six of Osama bin Laden s children have been under house arrest in Iran since they escaped Afghanistan in late 2001. According to an article posted on the English-language Web site of Asharq Al-Awsat, the Saudi newspaper, Mr. Bin Laden s 17-year-old daughter Iman has sought refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Iran after succeeding in escaping Iranian guards watching over her. The newspaper added: Iman disclosed in a telephone call to her brother Abdullah who lives in Syria that she and five of her brothers and sisters have been detained by the Iranian authorities since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan at the end of 2001.
A Saudi-owned newspaper based in London reported on Wednesday that six of Osama bin Laden s children have been under...
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20 Dec 2009

Top Iranian Dissident Cleric Dies

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, his grandson said Sunday. He was 87. Nasser Montazeri said his grandfather, who was seen as the spiritual father of Iran's reform movement, died in his sleep overnight
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, his grandson...
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16 Dec 2009

2 Pages in Persian on Iran Nuclear Work Puzzle Spy Agencies

For many months now, American and European intelligence agencies have been trading theories about a spare, two-page document written in Persian that, if genuine, would strongly suggest that scientists in Iran were planning some of the final experiments needed to perfect an atom bomb.
For many months now, American and European intelligence agencies have been trading theories about a spare, two-page...
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27 Oct 2009

Iran Hints at Changes to Uranium Plan Backed by U.N.

BEIRUT, Lebanon A high-ranking Iranian official said that even if the country agreed to a United Nations-sponsored plan to ship its enriched uranium abroad for further processing, it would not send it all at once, Iranian news media reported Tuesday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon A high-ranking Iranian official said that even if the country agreed to a United Nations-sponsored plan...
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4 Jun 2009

Iran President and Challenger Clash in Debate

A moderate politician who is considered the strongest challenger to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran accused him on live television on Wednesday of undermining the nation s interest by constantly questioning the Holocaust and by engaging in an adventurist foreign policy. The sharp attacks by the candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, came during a fierce 90-minute debate with Mr. Ahmadinejad that was broadcast throughout Iran. The two candidates clashed repeatedly during the one-on-one debate, with each accusing the other of radicalism and undercutting the country s interest.
A moderate politician who is considered the strongest challenger to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran accused him on...
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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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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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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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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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20 Dec 2009

Moderate Cleric Montazeri Accuses Iranian Authorities of Defaming Revolution Leader

Ayatollah Montazeri, the most outspoken critic of the Iranian government condemned what he called the "strategic use" of tearing Ayatollah Khomeini's picture by the establishment. "By doing this you are defaming him (Ayatollah Khomeini) and saying that people would tear Imam Khomeini's picture. If anything, you should have kept it silent! "he maintained.
Ayatollah Montazeri, the most outspoken critic of the Iranian government condemned what he called the "strategic use" of...
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26 Jun 2009

Ahmadinejad won. Get over it

Without any evidence, many U.S. politicians and Iran experts have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s reelection Friday, with 62.6 percent of the vote, as fraud. They ignore the fact that Ahmadinejad s 62.6 percent of the vote in this year s election is essentially the same as the 61.69 percent he received in the final count of the 2005 presidential election, when he trounced former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The shock of the Iran experts over Friday s results is entirely self-generated, based on their preferred assumptions and wishful thinking.
Without any evidence, many U.S. politicians and Iran experts have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s...
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21 Oct 2009

Time To Man Up, Barry

The Iranian mullahs continue their crackdown on those who demonstrated against their fraudulent election. Today they announced that Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American scholar and an American citizen, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison:
The Iranian mullahs continue their crackdown on those who demonstrated against their fraudulent election. Today they...
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5 Sep 2009

Student Leader Says Tehran Isolating Activists

A student leader in Iran, Abdollah Momeni, has told Radio Farda the Iranian government is trying to prevent the country's intellectuals and activists from having ties with the outside world.
A student leader in Iran, Abdollah Momeni, has told Radio Farda the Iranian government is trying to prevent the...
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4 Nov 2009

Khamenei And The Student

Several Iranian websites, including the official site of Iran s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have published details of an unusual encounter between Khamenei and a student who publicly criticized the Iranian establishment. The encounter took place in an October 28 meeting between Khamenei and students in Tehran, during which the supreme leader said that questioning the disputed June 12 vote was the "biggest crime."
Several Iranian websites, including the official site of Iran s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have published...
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30 Aug 2009

Creative Opportunism’ on Iran

What I'm arguing for is an Iran policy of "creative opportunism." We should take advantage of the fact that our biggest adversary in the Middle East has just had a political crackup. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vote-rigging putsch has backfired. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's attempt to squelch protest has only revealed his weakness. In the post-election turmoil, even Ahmadinejad and Khamenei have been squabbling.
What I'm arguing for is an Iran policy of "creative opportunism." We should take advantage of the fact that our biggest...
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10 Dec 2009

Iran to hit Israeli nuke sites if attacked minister

TEHRAN (Reuters) Iran would strike back at Israeli weapons manufacturing sites and nuclear installations if the Jewish state attacked the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities, Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi was quoted as saying Wednesday.
TEHRAN (Reuters) Iran would strike back at Israeli weapons manufacturing sites and nuclear installations if the Jewish...
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30 Oct 2009

Iran proposes big changes to draft atom deal report

TEHRAN (Reuters) Iran proposed changes to a U.N.-drafted nuclear fuel deal on Thursday, Iranian media said, making demands that appeared to challenge the basis of the agreement with the United States, France and Russia.
TEHRAN (Reuters) Iran proposed changes to a U.N.-drafted nuclear fuel deal on Thursday, Iranian media said, making...
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27 Oct 2009

Iran hints at acceptance of atom deal with powers – Yahoo! News

TEHRAN (Reuters) Iran said on Monday it could endorse a U.N. deal for it to send potential nuclear fuel abroad for processing, the first official indication that Tehran could respond positively to the outline agreement.
TEHRAN (Reuters) Iran said on Monday it could endorse a U.N. deal for it to send potential nuclear fuel abroad for...
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31 Dec 2009

Change Iran at the Top

Nothing could better symbolize Iran s 30-year-old regime at the limit of its contradictions. A supreme leader imagined as the Prophet s representative on earth Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini s central revolutionary idea now heads a militarized coterie bent, in the name of money and power, on the bludgeoning of the Iranian people. A false theocracy confronts a society that has seen through it.
Nothing could better symbolize Iran s 30-year-old regime at the limit of its contradictions. A supreme leader imagined...
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18 Dec 2009

The Inertia Option

I hope Iran policy makers in Washington and Europe are reading histories of that world-changing year, 1989. I hope so because the time has come to do nothing in Iran.
I hope Iran policy makers in Washington and Europe are reading histories of that world-changing year, 1989. I hope so...
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6 Nov 2009

Bunkers or Breakthrough

NEW YORK In his last month as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei finds himself at the explosive crux of the world s nuclear politics, ferrying messages between the Obama administration and Tehran. They are talking through me, he says.
NEW YORK In his last month as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei finds himself at the...
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3 Nov 2009

The Hinge of History

What if the vast protesting crowd of perhaps three million people had turned from Azadi (Freedom) Square toward the presidential complex? What if Mir Hussein Moussavi, the opposition leader, had stood before the throng and said, Here I stand with you and here I will fall? What, in short, if Azadi had been Prague s Wenceslas Square of 20 years ago and Moussavi had been Vaclav Havel?
What if the vast protesting crowd of perhaps three million people had turned from Azadi (Freedom) Square toward the...
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28 Sep 2009

The U.S.-Iranian Triangle

France and Germany fought three wars in 70 years before the bright idea dawned of enfolding their problem into something larger: the European Union. The United States and Iran have not gone to war but have a relationship of psychotic mistrust. The answer can only be the same: Broaden the context.
France and Germany fought three wars in 70 years before the bright idea dawned of enfolding their problem into something...
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10 Sep 2009

New Tweets, Old Needs

LOS ANGELES - Two mullahs gaze out on a crowd of protesters in Tehran. The one says, "Arrest the correspondents." To which the despondent reply is: "But they re all correspondents!"
LOS ANGELES - Two mullahs gaze out on a crowd of protesters in Tehran. The one says, "Arrest the correspondents."...
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9 Apr 2009

Israel Cries Wolf

"Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear bomb, whereas the Iranians are trying to perfect a nuclear option.". Benjamin Netanyahu 2009? Try again. These words were in fact uttered by another Israeli prime minister (and now Israeli president), Shimon Peres, in 1996. Four years earlier, in 1992, he d predicted that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1999.
"Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because...
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israel, nuclear issue, warmongering
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11 Aug 2008

Stop Torturing us

This is about systematic torture in Iran. Mental torture with horrible savage events like stoning, mass executions and so on while we are not being detained; and physical and mental torture while we are in detention.
This is about systematic torture in Iran. Mental torture with horrible savage events like stoning, mass executions and...
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human rights, stoning
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10 Oct 2009

Yahoo didn’t sentence 200,000 Iranians to death, and other misadventures in online journalism

In one of those wonderful ironies of scheduling that make columnists weep with joy, Larry Dignan spent yesterday at a Yahoo! hack day in New York. This is the same Larry Dignan who is Editor in Chief of ZDNet, which is the same ZDNet that yesterday published a blog post accusing Yahoo of passing the names and email addresses of thousands sorry, hundreds of thousands - of bloggers to the Iranian authorities during the country s recent election.
In one of those wonderful ironies of scheduling that make columnists weep with joy, Larry Dignan spent yesterday at a...
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27 Jan 2007

Tehran Pollution Kills 3,600 In A Month

Air pollution has killed 3,600 people in just a month in the Iranian capital Tehran, an official said Tuesday, describing the city's environmental situation as a "collective suicide". "Pollution has directly or indirectly caused the deaths of 3,600 people in the month of Aban (October 23 to November 23)," said Mohammad Hadi Heydarzadeh, director of Tehran's clean air committee, quoted by Kargozaran newspaper.
Air pollution has killed 3,600 people in just a month in the Iranian capital Tehran, an official said Tuesday,...
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5 Apr 2008

Israel’s Tehran connection

"Israel imports Iranian oil on a large scale even though contacts with Iran and purchasing of its products are officially boycotted by Israel. Israel gets around the boycott by having the oil delivered via Europe. A reliable Israeli energy newsletter, EnergiaNews, reported this last week
"Israel imports Iranian oil on a large scale even though contacts with Iran and purchasing of its products are...
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13 May 2009

Iran plans to air US-style TV election debate

It is the ultimate slice of political Americana an unscripted no-holds-barred sparring contest between candidates pitting their wits, chutzpah and political virility before an audience of millions. Now the televised debate, a long-established hallmark of US presidential elections, could be given an airing in an unlikely setting: Iran, which for 30 years has denounced America as the "great satan" and spurned its cultural innovations
It is the ultimate slice of political Americana an unscripted no-holds-barred sparring contest between candidates...
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4 Aug 2009

Iran’s Next Supreme Leader

People in the know in Iran report that the hottest subject of discussion among Iranian conservative leaders these days is the issue of who is to succeed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is said to be suffering from leukemia. The same individuals report that the person most likely to take Khamenei's mantle is Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the powerful chief of the Judiciary, whose tenure is scheduled to end within weeks.
People in the know in Iran report that the hottest subject of discussion among Iranian conservative leaders these days...
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10 Dec 2009

Iran steps up crackdown, assaults protesters at University of Tehran

TEHRAN -- Iran intensified its crackdown on demonstrators Tuesday as thousands of pro-government militiamen stormed the grounds of the country's most prominent university and assaulted students who had gathered in protest.
TEHRAN -- Iran intensified its crackdown on demonstrators Tuesday as thousands of pro-government militiamen stormed the...
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22 Dec 2009

West should allow Iran to solve its own problems, says opposition leader

President Ahmadinejad has betrayed the Iranian Revolution, violated the country s Constitution and may be unable to serve his full term, his most vocal opposition rival has told The Times. In a surprising twist, however, Mehdi Karroubi warned the West against exploiting the regime s weakness to strike a deal to halt a nuclear programme that was, he insisted, for peaceful purposes.
President Ahmadinejad has betrayed the Iranian Revolution, violated the country s Constitution and may be unable to...
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11 Aug 2009

ranelection

A large percentage of the Iranian population disputes the election of President Ahmadinejad, believing the election rigged. A "Sea of Green" took to the streets (and internet) to protest.
A large percentage of the Iranian population disputes the election of President Ahmadinejad, believing the election...
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