A Lone Cleric Is Loudly Defying Iran’s Leaders

Canadian-Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari freed on bail from Iranian ...

By: northsunm32

The release was probably on humanitarian grounds as Bahari's wife is having a baby and experiencing complications. Bahari works for Newsweek. Iran rounded up many foreign journalists, especially those who covered the opposition demonstrations against Ahmadinejad and charged them with espionage. Several years ago a female Canadian Iranian ...

about 1 month ago

Iranian commanders assassinated

By: BiodunIginla

Sunday, October 18, 2009 by Sunita Kureishi for the BBC's Biodun Iginla Gen Shooshtari

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Group behind deadly Iran bombing based in Pakistan

By: MrFkas

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Tuesday stepped up pressure on Islamabad, saying the group accused of launching a deadly suicide attack in the country is based in Pakistan.Mottaki said members of the group regularly violate the Iran-Pakistan border and launch attacks inside the Islamic republic."They cross into Iran illegally. They are ...

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Iran: Overturn Death Sentences, Other Unfair Convictions

By: chnarendra

The Iranian Judiciary should immediately quash the convictions that have been handed down by the Revolutionary Court in Tehran since the end of September against defendants accused of inciting post-election unrest, Human Rights Watch said today. The convictions all stem from unfair trials in which the accused were denied access to lawyers. The ...

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