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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
Following reports from Iran that members of the Basij militia have used excessive force against demonstrators--and in light of the history of abuses committed by this unaccountable branch of the security forces--Amnesty International calls on the...
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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: 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: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Tehran's prosecutor general's office said on Monday that some armed vandals opened fire on civilians and killed people in Saturday's violence in Tehran, local English-language Press TV reported. "A number of Tehrani citizens were shot dead by...
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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: Leader Post Online
| 5 months ago
A picture A picture obtained on Sunday shows Iranian riot police on a street of Tehran. Thousands of Iranians clashed with police as they defied an ultimatum from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for an end to protests over last week's disputed...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Iran's police have arrested 457 people in the post-election violence that erupted Saturday in Tehran despite warnings against illegal gatherings, local English-language Press TV reported on Monday. "Iran's police arrested 457 people who have...
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News Source: The Mercury News
| 5 months ago
Rafsanjani, one of the republic's founding fathers, the man who made (Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei Supreme Leader, is now in the opposition." Rafsanjani, who leads two powerful state institutions, has been working behind the scenes to find a compromise to...
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News Source: International Business Times
| 5 months ago
Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Mousavi made a veiled appeal to the security forces to show restraint in handling demonstrations -- a move likely to be...
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News Source: The Sunshine Coast Daily
| 5 months ago
The opposition has stepped up its challenge to the country's Islamic rulers, with defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi firing off an unprecedented criticism of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after a day of deadly violence in...