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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
He said this might be due to Iranians being able to vote wherever they want, as well as other factors. He said inspectors would look into the issue. "However, the total votes in these constituencies do not exceed 3 million and consequently will not...
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News Source: Baltimore Sun
| 5 months ago
Riot police attacked hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas and fired live bullets in the air to disperse a rally in central Tehran Monday, carrying out a threat by the country's most powerful security force to crush any further opposition protests...
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News Source: Open Democracy
| 5 months ago
The degree of support given by Iran's supreme leader to the president will influence the outcome of the political crisis, says Hossein Bastani. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered his first public speech since Iran's tenth presidential election at...
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News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 5 months ago
Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned on Monday it would crush further demonstrations over the disputed presidential election after the opposition defiantly vowed to press on with its protests. The Guards -- an elite force set up to protect the Islamic...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
In a statement, the guards vowed to react in a "revolutionary" way to suppress unauthorised demonstrations. The Revolutionary Guards, Iran's elite security force, have close ties to the country's supreme leader. On Friday Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
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News Source: Telegraph India
| 5 months ago
State media put death toll at 17, sound of gunfire heard in Tehran Tehran, June 21 (Agencies): Irans government today said it arrested the daughter and four other relatives of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the countrys most...
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News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 5 months ago
State television said 10 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Tehran on Saturday, blaming "terrorists'' with firearms and explosives, bringing the overall toll reported by state media in a week of violence to at least 17. Struggling to...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Ahmadinejad insisted that last week's presidential elections proved that the Iranian nation still loved its Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic system. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday accused some Western...
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News Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 5 months ago
At least 10 people were killed in the latest unrest to shake Tehran, state television said on Sunday, as the opposition kept up its defiance of Iran's Islamic rulers over the disputed election. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi fired off an...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
Tehran is bracing for another day of tension after Iran's capital descended into the worst violence since the country's disputed presidential election. After warnings against protesting from Iran's Supreme Leader, security forces have been using...