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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has vowed to resist pressure to end his challenge to the result of Iran's presidential election. In a statement Thursday on his newspaper Web site, Kalameh-ye Sabz, Mr. Mousavi said he will...
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News Source: United Press International
| 5 months ago
A press freedom group Thursday condemned the showing on Iranian state-run TV videotapes of people saying they had protested at the request of foreign media. Reporters Without Borders said in a statement the penitents made their confessions using the...
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News Source: United Press International
| 5 months ago
Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi told his supporters Thursday he plans to continue the fight against the "election fraudsters." In a statement published on his Web site, Mousavi criticized government controlled broadcasters and news...
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News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| 5 months ago
Iran 's embattled opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi , today kept up the pressure on the government and blamed those behind the "rigged" presidential election for the bloodshed during two weeks of mass street protests. Mousavi's statement on his...
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News Source: AKI
| 5 months ago
Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has warned of more protests while expressing concern about the number of people who have "vanished" or been targeted by authorities since the presidential election. In a statement on Thursday,...
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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: The Examiner
| 5 months ago
This photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office shows Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during his meeting with Iranian parliamentarians, unseen, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, June 24, 2009. Iran 's...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
Shoppers walk past a defaced poster of leading challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tadrish bazaar in northern Tehran. (Ben Curtis, File/Associated Press) Seventy university professors have reportedly been detained in Iran as...
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News Source: The Examiner
| 5 months ago
AP Photo/Demotix Images, Hamed) Iranian security forces are seen sitting near the parliament building Wednesday, June 24, 2009 in Tehran, Iran. Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the...
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News Source: National Public Radio
| 5 months ago
Morning Edition , June 25, 2009 · Around the Arab world, reactions to the Iranian election have ranged from street demonstrations to Internet protests. But Arab leaders, many of whom are wary of the regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,...