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News Source: Associated Press
| 5 months ago
Iran's violence-tinged election dispute has pushed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the state's most powerful figure, into the high-profile role of political referee. The 70-year-old cleric reigns over Iran's Islamic system as part pope, part...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
An Iranian photographer on the scene Monday said that armed members of a pro-government militia opened fire on the crowd, killing at least one demonstrator. The photographer's account has not been independently confirmed. The incident took place...
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News Source: Leader Post Online
| 5 months ago
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians turned out for a mass opposition rally in Tehran on Monday, an Agence France-Presse correspondent said, with one policeman saying the figure could be as many as two million. "Between 1.5 million to two million...
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News Source: CNN
| 5 months ago
With an apparent political coup in Iran by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters over the weekend, the ruling mullahs have dispensed with all democratic pretense and joined the ranks of traditional dictators in the Middle East. The...
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News Source: Truthout
| 5 months ago
Amid violence in the streets, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has called for investigation into voter irregularities. (Photo: AFP) The turmoil following Iran's disputed presidential election intensified today, after the...
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News Source: United Press International
| 5 months ago
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Monday ordered an investigation into fraud allegations surrounding the country's troubled election, state-run media report. Khamenei also urged Mir Hossein Mousavi to pursue his challenge of election fraud through legal...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that the country's disputed nuclear issue belongs in the past. "Iran's nuclear issue belongs in the past...Now we want a global disarmament of nuclear weapons," Ahmadinejad told a press...
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News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| 5 months ago
Protesters set fires and smashed store windows Sunday in a second day of violence as groups challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities. Anti-riot police lashed back and the regime blocked Internet...
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News Source: Truthout
| 5 months ago
A woman holds rocks gathered for throwing at police in Tehran, Iran. A second day of protests is currently underway. (Photo: Reuters) Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen 1. It is claimed that...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 5 months ago
Iranian election officials declared yesterday that incumbent hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won Iran's hotly contested presidential election in a landslide, prompting riots in Tehran from voters alleging election fraud and raising fears in Washington...