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News Source: Gulf News
| 5 months ago
But as tensions over his disputed re-election have escalated, he has kept an unusually low profile. As state media launch an overwhelming propaganda campaign to support the forceful security crackdown on the opposition, it has had little time to...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
Iran's opposition forces appear to be running out of options to challenge the presidential election result. Since the bloodshed and mayhem on Wednesday at Tehran's Baharestan Square, Iran's hardline regime appears to have regained the upper hand. If...
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News Source: The Hindu
| 5 months ago
As the crackdown by the government takes effect, meetings behind the scenes have commenced between pro-regime representatives in Iranian Parliament and the opposition leadership demanding the annulment of the disputed presidential elections. Iran’s...
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News Source: Weekly Arham
| 5 months ago
The government, fearful of a popular uprising, has responded with massive use of force, killing and injuring protesters, arresting activists and politicians, and imposing an information blockade. Analysts repeatedly ask themselves and others, "Is...
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News Source: The Economist
| 5 months ago
Iran's debate over theocracy Why the turbans are at odds Jun 25th 2009 From The Economist print edition A debate rages about the nature of clerical rule THE Koran is the word of God, which every Muslim must follow, but its commands can be hard to...
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News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 5 months ago
Chances of any early start of US-Iran dialogue dimmed further Thursday as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad singled out his US counterpart, Barack Obama, for criticism. Before Iran's disputed June 12 vote, Mr. Obama had made several modest overtures...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
Incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, hit out at criticisms of the police crackdown in Tehran by US President Barack Obama, accusing him of "meddling", according to the state-run Fars news agency. Moussavi, on his website, claimed that...
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News Source: News 24
| 5 months ago
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama on Thursday of behaving like his predecessor towards Iran and said there was not much point in talking to Washington unless the United States president apologised. Obama said on Tuesday he was "...
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News Source: The Examiner
| 5 months ago
In this Monday, June 8, 2009 file photo, reformist Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi speaks during a campaign gathering in downtown Tehran. Mousavi is still nominally the guiding force of the fury over Iran's disputed election.
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News Source: Jerusalem Post
| 5 months ago
Seventy university professors were detained in Iran in a widening government crackdown on protesters, according to a Web site affiliated with Iran's key opposition figure, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who says he was robbed of victory in a rigged...