News Source: South Africa News
| about 1 month ago
Shojaie was "said to have been hanged by the victim's parents" in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, said the agency. Former Iran judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi had agreed in June last year to suspend Shojaie's death sentence to...
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| about 1 month ago
Iran announced yesterday that two people have been sentenced to death for joining the nationwide uprising following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in June, when hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters clashed for weeks...
News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 month ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, on Tuesday with worries about Iran's nuclear ambitions at the top of the agenda. Clinton, who began a five-day European trip...
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
The news service quoted an unnamed spokesman for the Tehran prosecutor’s office saying that the three were sentenced to be hanged and that they had been part of what Iran considered terrorist organizations. The death sentences are the first to be...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Iran — Three defendants in Iran's mass trial of opposition figures accused of fueling the country's postelection unrest have been sentenced to death, an Iranian news agency reported Saturday...The three are the first defendants to be sentenced to...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 month ago
Iran needs up to 300 kg of nuclear fuel to cover the requirements of a reactor in Tehran for a year and a half, an official was quoted as saying on Saturday. Western diplomats say Iran agreed in principle at October 1 talks in Geneva to send about...